" Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood ?" I rate Morsi a Zero.
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| WaPo: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood appears at risk of falling apart |
| 2013-08-21 |
| CAIRO -- The world's most influential Islamist movement is in danger of collapse in the land of its birth -- its leaders imprisoned, its supporters slain and its activists branded as terrorists in what many are describing as the worst crisis to confront Egypt's 85-year-old Muslim Brotherhood. Analysts worry that its members, bitter and angry after the deaths of more than 1,000 Morsi supporters in the past week, could abandon the Brotherhood's decades-long commitment to nonviolence, WTF? Isn't the Brotherhood's motto: Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope. Allahu akbar! particularly as its leadership loses its grip on them. Some pro-Morsi demonstrators have been spotted with weapons, and attacks against security forces in the volatile Sinai Peninsula have intensified since Morsi was deposed July 3. Meanwhile, the movement is battling a level of popular hostility perhaps unprecedented in its history. The Brotherhood's strategy of confronting the government with sit-ins and marches in recent weeks seems only to have inflamed public opinion. "Our only option is the peaceful method," Khaled Hanafi, secretary general of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party.... An organization that just two months ago was governing the Arab world's most populous nation is at risk of falling apart, said Diaa Rashwan, an expert on Islamist movements at Cairo's al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. "They are facing a really critical moment. They could disappear. And alternatives already exist," Rashwan said...what's different now, analysts say, is that it's battling not only a military-backed government but also the disdain of a broad swath of society. Many Egyptians are irate at Morsi for the country's economic slide and the rise in crime during his one-year rule. Others complain that the Brotherhood tried to grab power by excluding minority political groups and trying to insulate its decisions from judicial review. "It's the first time to see the Muslim Brotherhood in conflict not only with the state -- but with the whole of the state, [including] the bureaucracy, and the political elite, and an important part of society. It's not a limited confrontation," Rashwan said. With Egypt becoming increasingly polarized, the Brotherhood's opponents are cheering signs of the group's possible demise. Newspapers and television stations have been waging a sustained campaign against the group, labeling the Brotherhood as terrorists and predicting its collapse. On Tuesday, the headline in the liberal Tahrir newspaper, named for the revolution that unfolded more than two years ago in Cairo's central Tahrir Square, trumpeted: "The End of the Brotherhood." The Tamarod movement, which led the massive street demonstrations that culminated in the coup that toppled Morsi, on Tuesday repeated its call to ban the Brotherhood. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #2 Most Perts seem to think that, ina worse-case scenario, the MusBros in Egypt will copy post-OBL, Ayman-led "Core" Al-Qaeda + intentionally decentralize their org, network to live + fight another day. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-08-21 23:18 |
| #1 Muslim Brotherhood is going full circle and it is going to be more painful for the holders-on: " Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood ?" I rate Morsi a Zero. |
| Posted by: Beldar Sloluth4754 2013-08-21 12:41 |