Originally published by World
Watch Monitor.
[Note: The following essay, commissioned
and written nearly a year ago but only recently published, has, in light of the
June 30 Revolution and ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, been slightly
updated with additional bracketed text.]
The Muslim Brotherhood is the most
important Islamic organization in the world, with tentacles of influence
everywhere, both in the Islamic world but also in the West, wherever its
purpose—the establishment of a Sharia-enforcing caliphate—can be achieved. The
efficacy of this group can be seen in the fact that, less than a century ago,
when it was founded, it consisted of very few members; it was violent and
eventually crushed and outlawed; today in Egypt, a MB leader, Muhammad Morsi,
sits on the throne of the Middle East’s most strategic nation, ironically in
the name of democracy, where he is trying to enable the totality of Sharia law
in Egypt, even as many resist.
History and Approach.............
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