Gareth Browne
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Aug
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The Muslim Brotherhood, if you look across the region from Egypt to Tunisia, Syria to Jordan, is probably weaker and more divided than it's ever been.
Throughout the Middle East it's facing a raft of challenges and problems.
Some of these are internal party politics, some are external, coming from Washington DC, coming from Europe.
And this is an organization that's been around nearly a hundred years and it's really facing a set of challenges that it's never had to deal with before.
I think it's best to look at the Muslim Brotherhood as a political social movement that has a foundation based on Islamic values in society.
And it was born out of Egypt, a cleric called Sayyid Kuttab, who traveled to the US in the late 1940s and was basically disgusted by what he saw in Western civilization and culture.
And he came back, wrote about the need for the Arab and Muslim world.
To rekindle Arab and Islamic dignity in the Middle East and indeed beyond the Middle East.
And I think since then it's been quite an important political force throughout the region.
And that's not just in terms of winning power and playing politics, but as a social movement, running social welfare programs, businesses, supporting communities which really have been neglected by many of the autocratic governments in the region.
So even when it's not been in power, it's been very organized and very disciplined.
And I think it was really after the Arab Spring where it became a political movement that was to be reckoned with.
You know, that's what, barely fifteen years ago, but things are very different for them now.
Well, I think there was a very severe autocratic backlash to the Brotherhood after they gained power in Egypt and made gains in places like Jordan and in Tunisia.
We had this autocratic sledgehammer from Abdelfatel Sisi, who launched a coup in Egypt.
And so what you have left of the Brotherhood's coherent political and ideological leadership is either dead in prison.
or exiled.
And this is in almost every country in the Middle East.
So you have the Brotherhood on a Sharia or ideological level essentially being run out of Turkey, London, parts of Europe.
So it's splintered, it's discombobulated, there's a lot of infighting.
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