Who’s afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood and why?
By News Desk| Posted by Neha | Updated: 27th February 2021 11:02 pm IST
By Yvonne Ridley
I’ve often wondered why the Muslim Brotherhood strikes fear into the hearts of Arab regimes. Prisons across Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are filled with thousands of political prisoners drawn from the leadership and membership of the movement, which is also banned as a “terrorist organisation” by this tyrannical triumvirate.
The exaggerated fear shared in equal measure by the extreme right wing in Israel and the outgoing Trump administration is such that it has become one of the most demonised political groups in the Middle East today. If you listen to Riyadh, Abu Dhabi or Cairo you’d be forgiven for thinking that they have rounded up and caged the most dangerous and violent terrorists in the world. The reality, though, is quite different. You would be hard pushed to find any “terrorist” act committe
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December 21, 2020 at 9:48 am
I ve often wondered why the Muslim Brotherhood strikes fear into the hearts of Arab regimes. Prisons across Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are filled with thousands of political prisoners drawn from the leadership and membership of the movement, which is also banned as a terrorist organisation by this tyrannical triumvirate.
The exaggerated fear shared in equal measure by the extreme right wing in Israel and the outgoing Trump administration is such that it has become one of the most demonised political groups in the Middle East today. If you listen to Riyadh, Abu Dhabi or Cairo you d be forgiven for thinking that they have rounded up and caged the most dangerous and violent terrorists in the world. The reality, though, is quite different. You would be hard pushed to find any terrorist act committed or claimed by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Saudi sacks 100 Islamic preachers for failing to condemn Muslim Brotherhood
Members of Jordan s Muslim Brotherhood in Amman, Jordan on 31 July 2015 [KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/Getty Images] December 18, 2020 at 5:37 pm
The Saudi government has sacked 100 Islamic imams and preachers who gave sermons in mosques in Makkah and Al-Qassim because they failed to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood as instructed,
Al-Watan newspaper reported
.
The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah, and Guidance issued instructions for all imams and preachers to criticise the Muslim Brotherhood and blame them for causing differences and divisions within society.
Last month, the ministry ordered preachers to dedicate the Friday sermon to supporting a controversial statement issued by the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars in which the council described the group as a terrorist organisation that does not represent Islam s true teachings but rather serves its partisan interests.