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| Muslim Brotherhood's Twitter Star Gets Arrested |
| 2013-09-18 |
[WORLD.TIME] An English-speaking front man for Egypt's embattled preeminent Islamist organization, the Moslem Brüderbund, was tossed in the slammerPlease don't kill me! Tuesday amid an ongoing crackdown on the Brotherhood and its political affiliates. I actually signed up for a Twitter account. Then I discovered that everything I have to say, I say either here or over the breakfast table. Apparently millions of other people haven't made that discovery. Gehad Haddad, the son of an adviser to former President Mohamed Morsi, has been to some extent the face of the party to the English-speaking world, garnering on Twitter a following of 72,500 people (Arabic and English-speakers) and routinely appearing on international news channels. The immediate response on Twitter is testimony to Gehad Haddad's influence--respected by some, spurned by others--in the virulently divided country. |
| Posted by:Fred |