Dancing with the Devil : Charting the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood

DER SPIEGEL ^ | July 03, 2007

[george76]

The recent putsch in the Gaza Strip by Hamas is shedding light on an organization exercising considerable influence on the entire Arab world -- the Muslim Brotherhood. As both a social movement and a militant Islamist political outfit, its power stretches from the Atlantic coast to the Indian Ocean.

Young men with fuzz on their chins not yet thick enough for full beards stand on busy streets directing traffic. There are more on each corner of the congested Omar Mukhtar Street in Gaza City. They wear yellow and green t-shirts that enable everyone to know who they're working for long before they get close enough to read the Hamas logo emblazoned upon them.

It's the most visible sign of the violent takeover by the militant Islamist group after it pushed out the secular Palestinian Fatah party from the Gaza Strip three weeks ago. But it also represents much more: It's the irrefutable evidence that the Islamist international network of the Muslim Brotherhood has, for the first time, become the sovereign power over a piece of territory. One of the world's most densely populated and troubled specks of land has suddenly become a laboratory for political Islam in the Middle East.

The average member of the Muslim Brotherhood isn't a rabble-rouser, either -- he's a doctor, pharmacist, teacher or lawyer. He wears Western trousers and shirts, not the ankle-long dishdashah garment traditionally worn by Arab men. He's middle class -- and he's filled with rage. Rage over what he sees as the close cooperation between his government and the hopelessly corrupted West. Kept from pursuing his political aims, he is often a functionary amonst his contemporaries in Arab professional associations for doctors, engineers and attorneys.

[george76]

Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al Zawahari: The text book example of a member of the Muslim Bortherhood turned terrorist...

[Asclepius]

The average member of the Muslim Brotherhood isn't a rabble-rouser, either -- he's a doctor, pharmacist, teacher or lawyer.

Doctors indeed. The Muslim version of the cast from Scrubs just tried to nail-bomb a British nightclub. What is it with these terror doctors?

Forget the madrassahs. We need to close down the medical schools.

[Willow25]

The PIGS!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peFQWuk4nuo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuCLC8kjWCI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5t5EqWX92k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMztM0Z7BYE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Zv3BUmwqs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvjvNScmTQA

[ExTexasRedhead]

They’re probably donating to Hitlery’s campaign even as I write this note.

[Pontiac]

Thanks for the links.

[Willow25]

You are welcome..I got them from here..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860707/posts?page=13#13

Pass them around so everyone can see what we are dealing with..I did I sent them to all my email friends