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Source: http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blogs/michael-j-totten
Getting the Muslim Brotherhood Wrong
(World Affairs) Michael J. Totten - Political liberals were right when they warned the rest of us that the Muslim Brotherhood would transform Egypt into a theocratic dictatorship. The idea that the Brotherhood is a moderate and democratic party became an article of faith here in the U.S., particularly among academics and journalists who should have known better. The group was founded in 1928 and its ideology has been documented exhaustively. Not for even five minutes has it been a democratic or moderate party. It has been struggling for theocracy since the day it was born, sometimes peaceably and sometimes by force. Every Sunni Islamist terrorist organization in the region is a spin-off of the Brotherhood or of one of its spin-offs.