12-01-2011, 06:46 PM
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Football Atheist
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Re: Muslim Brotherhood
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Originally Posted by IcyPatriot
It certainly is going to see how this unfolds over the next 10-20 years or so. The Brotherhood will have control over multiple countries ...
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The funny thing is that people were saying or strongly hinting at this in the 50s and even a bit in the early 60s, when the Brotherhood was a more viable candidate for popular revolution. It hasn't yet come to pass.
Citations (hard to find internet articles from that time period for some reason):
Peters, D (1953). "Muslim Brotherhood—terrorists or just zealots".
Kirk, George Eden (1961). Contemporary Arab Politics: a concise history.
Khomeini thought in 1979 that Muslims would flock to his Islamist banner, especially when they invaded Iraq in 1982, but that didn't pan out either. Despite the alarmist journalism out there, there is little appetite among the majority for an Islamist regime in Egypt, or elsewhere throughout the Middle East.
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