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The story behind the U.S. support to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
The author reports on a seminar on the problems facing democratic change and the involvement of religion in politics.
A review of the election coverage, with a special emphasis on the Muslim Brotherhood and possible implications of their potential rise to power.
‘Abd al-‘Azīm Ramadān states that an outlawed group is now acting as if it were legitimate, and is imposing itself on the people and the state.
Lawyer Muntasir al-Zayyāt has said that the Brotherhood wants to monopolize Islam and politics, noting that the group wants to deny other Islamic currents any representation in parliament.
Everyone is calling for change, particularly since there is a growing social anxiety that stability is turning into total paralysis. Yet should democracy be stifled to prevent worse alternatives?
The Muslim Brotherhood’s rapprochement with the political parties was said by the Brotherhood to have been a discussion to bring views on domestic policies closer, while reality suggests that the Brotherhood were just looking for a springboard to political power.
The lesson no one seems able to learn is that the Brotherhood only makes true alliances with the Brotherhood, and when they play with the powers and political currents it is for the group’s own sake.
The outlawed Muslim Brotherhood finances its activities based only on small and medium ones businesses, yet in fact, such activities are highly profitable, and give the Brotherhood access to the grassroots of society.
A journalist writing in The Washington Post has said that the American vision of a democratic Egypt does not mean Islamic governance.

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