What Did The Muslim Brotherhood Moderate From The 1980 ' S 2000?

The Muslim Brotherhood played a major role in the January revolution and has boldly condemned the SCAF’s actions. The US, who has previously opposed the Muslim Brotherhood, has now tried to develop a friendship with the organization in anticipation of its power over Egypt.

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‘Temptations OF Power’ is an impressive scholarly work that illustrates the contemporary circumstances of Islamist and Illiberal, uprising movements in the Middle East and North Africa. The book packs Hundreds of interviews with officials of Islamist and illiberal organizations, to advance a new understanding of their political ideologies. Nevertheless, the book gives many stories and details about the political movements in the Arab Nations encountering repression by totalitarian regimes. Moreover, it analyzes the reasons of democratization consequences on other parts of the world excluding Arab Nations. Also, explains various challenges met by the Muslim Brotherhood through different political epochs.

The latter half of the 20th century was an incredibly turbulent time for Egypt as regimes cycled in and out every couple decades and the country seemed to always be at war. “The Yacoubian Building”, a 2002 film, illustrated how the resulting corrupted government and abysmal economy affected Egypt’s population, especially the lower classes. Additionally, the viewer saw how these two factors led to both the appalling treatment of women and the rise of violent insurgency groups.

An examination of the Arab Spring reveals the role that Islamic discourse played in inspiring, motivating, and sustaining activists. Activists gathered in mosques and the Islamic factions mobilized networks and resources as they all belonged to a tight knit group that shared ideological ideals. Knowing that religious group are often the most-tight knit groups, the Islamic people all came together, forgetting their differences in class and status. After prayer services at mosques, the activists used the platform in order to gain new supporters for their cause and spread the message. The impressionable people listened to the religious leaders and maintained belief in the

As we get farther into the book, I become more intrigued into the events that took place in America in regards to Islam. I never actually knew the broader history behind the enlargement of Islam in the United States. The formation of different Islamic organizations post World War II was very interesting, because it created a society where Muslim immigrants can unite; such as the Nation of Islam and the FIA. I found that the sociological, and political aspects of these religion-based communities and organizations were very relevant to the issues that many Muslims had to deal with. However, some of the organization’s teachings and actions seemed questionable. Also, the book is very difficult to understand as it gets very in depth with fact after fact but not much background information, which makes it hard to follow the points that author, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri is trying to get across. That being said, I would like to focus on the chapter 6 readings, and the author’s style of writing.

Usually throughout the world, tensions can take years to produce any serious actions, but this was not the case following the Arab Spring. In Egypt, this boiling tension only increased during 2012 with a parliamentary election around the corner; Mohamed Morsi of the Freedom and Justice Party of Egypt won presidency that summer, but just one year later was violently removed via a military coup endorsed by Nour (as known as the Party of Light) and led to the deaths of many of the FJP’s supporters and the imprisonment of many of its members (Kurzman and Kürkoğlu 103). And even after coup, many revolutionary Islamic groups have derided Islamic political parties for following and being a part of democratic processes due to the lack of jihad, even going so far as to attack and kill Islamic leaders who are supportive of democracy (103-104). This violent behaviour speaks ill of what could happen under a heavily conservative Islamic government, especially considering how damaging autocracies and non-liberal democracies can be even outside of major areas such as human rights, women’s rights, minority rights, religious rights, and the many manner of freedoms liberal democracies

Terrorist organizations across the globe have adapted to how the world views them, and are learning how to deter their actions from looking like anything more than political movements. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is a prime example of this, as it has won the opinions of many diplomats and state leaders to believe that ideologies and actions supported by the Brotherhood come up short of what it means to represent terrorism. The struggle to determine whether or not organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood are in fact terrorists arises when they claim that their ideologies are equal and opportunistic for all, and that violence and horrid actions are not representative of the whole group, but the simple act of deterrence does not alter the truth; however hard the group tries to claim ignorance to violence and reverence to peace, when historical evidence and

This scholarly interest has resulted in a spate of research output from multiple disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. There are two ubiquitous trends in the literature on extremism and terrorism. First, a majority of the conversations locate the causes of contemporary extremism and radicalization in the religious edicts of one religion namely, Islam (Parent and Ellis, 2011). Second, a large number of

To begin, the documentary “The Square” provided in depth insight on the protestors’ lives and their journeys through Egypt presidents’ problematic rise of power. During the beginning of the documentary, Ahmed Hassan, Magdy Ashour, Khalid Abdalla and Ramy Essam as well as various protestors are followed throughout the demonstrations to show viewers the atrocities that Egypt underwent in 2011 and the years following. As well, the documentary provides different points of views by interviewing military officials and people in higher political power. Not only did the documentary provide insight in the revolution but, it provided an insight on Egypt’s culture and society through the views of Christian and Muslim followers.

Egypt was a nation under British rule until a young colonel name Gamal Abdel Nasser took power. He became a national hero by leading a coup that became a revolution. He was the first leader to defeat Britain. During Nasser’s years in power, Egypt led the Arab world. Nasser’s biggest error was his failure with democracy. The people in Egypt are still paying for that mistake. To this day his revolution remains unfinished. Many people would attribute all Egyptian problems to Nasser and many people would say if only somebody like Nasser would come back. Nasser’s coup wasn’t just about ceasing power for himself and his colleagues, but about modernizing Egypt and changing its political culture so that Egypt could keep up with the west.

An assumption presented by government analysts is that leaders of terrorist organizations recruit “naïve” and vulnerable people (especially young people) to be radicalized and perpetrate terrorist acts. In the case of Islamic groups, many scholars and analyst inaccurately blame Islam and the Quran as the origin or radicalization. The origin of political violence is not Islam; it is the description of Islamic terrorist groups’ ideology and subsequent deceptive assertion that fighting enemies (or infidels) is a way (if not the only way) to go to heaven .

The novel Ashes of Hama: The Muslin Brotherhood in Syria attempts to bridge the gap of knowledge towards the Syrian Muslin Brotherhood through an objectively comprehensive examination of the political, historical, and ideological evolution of the party. Raphaël Lefèvre attempts to rectify the lack of concrete knowledge through accessing the memoirs of two former Syrian jihadists (Mutafa Setmarian Nasar and Ayman al-Shorbaj) and creates a clear narrative of the events in chronological order. This novel is essential for anyone seeking to understand the current Syrian conflict through the lens of the development of the Muslim Brotherhood. Ashes of Hama: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria explores the internal dynamics of the Syrian Brotherhood

Moderation is the only manner of compromise and non-violence in a reality which encourages division and extremist tendencies. The ability to rationalize and interpret the desires of both sides of an argument is essential in both higher order diplomacy and day to day leadership. Becoming a radical in any sense blinds one to the perspective of an entire side of a spectrum, and turns them into a diluted amalgamation of evil - something to be destroyed, not discussed with. The only true outcome of radicalism is either the complete destruction of one side or the a stalemate, in which no progress can be made. Both extremism of culture and politics are equally dangerous, for the sake of both life and economic policy. Moderation is not the opposite site of the spectrum of extremism, it is the rejection of extremism at all, considering it to be a waste of effort. A push towards the middle, away from the growing concentration of the extremes in all political and cultural spectrums is the most pragmatic means of reaching a zenith of peace and

Catalyzed by the Egyptian-born Wael Ghonim, who in June 2010 created a Facebook page in response to a picture of “28-year-old” Egyptian Khaled Mohamed Said, “who had been beaten to death by the Egyptian police”, young people in Egypt unleashed a social and political revolution against Hosni Mubarak’s repressive regime. Within months of setting up the page, called ‘We Are All Khaled Said’, over 250,000 people followed it. Inspired by Ghonim’s call to action, demonstrators protested against torture and other regime-led human rights abuses, high unemployment, poverty, and corruption, which “led to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak and the dissolution of the ruling National Democratic Party.” Seeing how Egypt’s masses were able to affect political and social change, young pro-democracy advocates in other Arab countries—including Tunisia, Yemen, and Morocco—were encouraged to followed suit.