Project on Middle East Democracy

Project on Middle East Democracy
The POMED Wire


Where’s The Brotherly Love?

June 23rd, 2008 by Adam

Ibrahim Gharaibei at the Daily Star looks at the recent rifts in the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan. Over the past 60 years the movement has maintained a high degree of public unity, but internal squabbles centered around generational, regional, and ideological differences, as well as external pressure have reduced its political effectiveness. The poor showing by the group in 2007 parliamentary elections, and the emergence of a MB faction tied to Hamas, threatens to deeply splinter the group in a very public and perhaps permanent fashion.


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