(Gatestone Institute) Irfan Al-Alawi - Regardless of its honeyed words and the slick, updated, Westernized vocabulary of its traveling exponents, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood cannot, in its middle sectors, its base, and its fundamental outlook, change. It is a thoroughly Islamist party with a profoundly retrograde vision of a state based on religious dictates. Sooner or later, as soon as it thinks it is strong enough to prevail, the mask will fall, and the promises it made in Washington and elsewhere will be shrugged aside. Like the Turkish AKP, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood will be exposed as a party working toward the installation of permanent clerical authority. The writer is executive director of the Islamic Heritage Research Foundation and international director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism in Washington.
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