Muslim Brotherhood

Muslim Brotherhood: Bin Laden's death means Obama should pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq

By: Charlie Spiering 05/02/11 3:33 AM

Essam al-Erian, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s governing body, told AlJazzera that US soldiers should be withdrawn from Afghanistan and Iraq after the killing of Osama bin Laden. Read More

NPR executive caught on tape trashing 'white, middle America, gun-toting' conservatives

By: Charlie Spiering 03/08/11 7:42 AM

National Public Radio senior executive, Ron Schiller, was captured on camera trashing conservatives, Republicans, Zionists and other strong liberal views in a dinner conversation with undercover activists posing as members of a Muslim Brotherhood front group. Read More

Alliances with military strongmen eventually backfire

By: Daniel Twining 02/16/11 12:12 AM

Why has Washington been so cautious in its support for the biggest popular revolution in the modern Arab world? The short answer is fear that a vacuum left by President Hosni Mubarak’s departure would be filled by the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Read More

The risk that 2/11/11 will end up like Iran's 2/11/79

By: Michael Barone 02/12/11 9:05 PM

It looks like 2/11/11 will go down in history with 11/9/89, not 6/4/89. 6/4/89 is when the Chinese military obeyed orders to massacre protesters in Tienanmen Square; 11/9/89 is when East German leaders announced the opening of the Berlin Wall and declined to order border guards to shoot the Berliners who began dismantling the barrier that had stood for 28 years. Read More

End Transmission: Mubarak is going to do something, at some point

By: J.P. Freire 02/10/11 3:45 PM

- Our own director of national intelligence, James Clapper, forgets what the word "Muslim" means in the title "Muslim Brotherhood" when he calls the organization "secular." Read More

Egypt's conflicting views of democracy and religion

By: Byron York 01/31/11 9:05 PM

Last year the Pew Research Center Global Attitudes Project conducted a survey of opinion in several Muslim countries. The subject was the proper role of Islam in politics and society. One of the countries surveyed was Egypt, and among other discoveries, the Pew researchers found that 84 percent of Egyptians favor the death penalty for people who leave the Muslim religion. Read More