Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood rejects resignations of four senior executives of the liberal camp.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s shura council has rejected the resignations of four members of the groups executive office in hopes of containing a crisis that has been brewing within the group.
During a meeting late Thursday, the 51-member council, the highest decision-making body in the Brotherhood, the largest opposition group, swiftly decided to reject the resignations of Rheil Gharaybeh, Mamdouh Muheisen, Ahmad Kafawin, Mohammed Qudah.
The four dovish Islamists tendered their resignations to protest the movement’s continued organizational connectivity with Hamas.
The decision was meant to defuse the crisis and avoid early elections for the group’s leadership, said a source in the organization.
Marc Lynch recently wrote about how the issue of relations with Hamas has supplanted the traditional “hawk-dove” struggle within the organization.
The “Hamasi” trend supports close ties and the prioritisation of Palestinian issues, and embraces a common Muslim identity over a narrowly Jordanian one. The “reformist” trend insists that Hamas, as the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, should have responsibility for Palestine while the Jordanian Brotherhood must be a national organisation focused upon domestic Jordanian issues.
