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  johnpi 9:58 am on December 28, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Difficult political project ahead for new leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

  The next leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood will have to heal divisions between moderates and conservatives if the opposition group is to have any political role, a senior member of the group said.

  Internal elections for the Brotherhood’s 16-member governing body, known as the guidance bureau, were held last week for the first time in 14 years, with members of the old guard securing the bulk of the seats.

  Ideological differences within the group, officially banned but tolerated, have been aggravated by the inflexibility of a number of senior members, Abdel-Moneim Abul-Futuh told Reuters in an interview on Saturday.

  “The Brotherhood is more active politically now than previously, but has grown more conservative in thought,” following years of state oppression and curtailment of its freedom of assembly and participation, said Abul-Futuh, a prominent reformist member.

   

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  johnpi 8:46 am on December 21, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Egypt (94), muslim brotherhood (17), Muslim Brotherhood conservatives, Muslim Brotherhood reformists (5), The Muslim Brotherhood (8)

  Analysts say results of Muslim Brotherhood’s internal election for its governing body show a ‘coup d’etat’ has taken place against the reformists camp, which has now been ‘crushed.’

  In media reports, the reformists are synonymous with the youth cadre of the Brotherhood.

   
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  johnpi 8:19 am on November 1, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  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.

   
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  johnpi 8:04 am on October 31, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Egypt (94), muslim brotherhood (17), Muslim Brotherhood conservatives, Muslim Brotherhood reformists (5), The Muslim Brotherhood (8)

  Hard-liners in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood dig in amid calls from youth for reform.

  The Middle East’s most powerful Islamic political movement is undergoing a leadership struggle as young, more moderate activists try to push the Muslim Brotherhood to soften its fundamentalist ideology and become a more democratic force.
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  Young Brotherhood moderates say it needs to become a more open and modern political movement if it is going to survive. Some want to imitate Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party, an Islamic-rooted party that has embraced mainstream politics. The young critics contend the Brotherhood’s old guard is holding it back.

  “Those in charge aren’t connected with today’s world,” Abdelmonem Mahmoud, a journalist and blogger, told The Associated Press.

  Mahmoud, once a prominent spokesman for Brotherhood youth who was jailed several times for being part of the movement, said he froze his membership a year ago because of repeated intellectual clashes with the conservative leadership.

  Several others have done the same. Mahmoud said that while it wasn’t an organized exodus, if the leaders didn’t start to pay attention to the younger generation, the Brotherhood would begin to lose many of its “open-minded” members.

  “Their thirst for change is not sated by the Brotherhood, so they look for it elsewhere,” he said.

  But conservatives are digging in. While some urban youth push to liberalize the Brotherhood, its large rural membership has become more hardline in recent years.

   
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  johnpi 5:26 am on October 20, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Egypt (94), muslim brotherhood (17), Muslim Brotherhood conservatives, Muslim Brotherhood reformists (5), The Muslim Brotherhood (8)

  Analysis of the split that’s developed in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leadership.

  “There’s a problem of ideas. There’s a conservative tendency that controls the leadership and does not believe in opening up to society in political work,” said Abdel Moneim Mahmud, a journalist associated with the reformist wing.

  Mahmud said reformists want to see the Brotherhood, which controls a fifth of seats in parliament after it ran independent candidates to get around a ban on the movement, to take on more political action in alliance with the country’s leftist and liberal opposition.

  The reformists were especially appalled by a draft of the Brotherhood’s political programme in 2007, which opposed women or Coptic Christians leading the country, and proposed a council of clerics to oversee the drafting of laws, in a manner redolent of Iran’s Islamist regime.

  “The conflict is not on strategy in regards to the government,” Rashwan said. “They have the same strategy of non-confrontation with the regime. But there are differences in ideology, specifically on allowing women to rule, and clerical oversight.”