Lawfare Blog:
Editor’s Note: The Arab Spring and the subsequent backlash from authoritarian regimes have created new rifts in the Middle East. One of the biggest new divides is between those who support and those who oppose the Muslim Brotherhood, the inveterate Islamist movement that has branches in many Arab countries. Saudi Arabia in particular has supported the counterrevolution in several countries, backing a crackdown in Bahrain and providing vital financial support for the Egyptian military leaders who overthrew the Brotherhood government there. Their most recent move has been to place new restrictions on the Brotherhood within the Kingdom itself, ending decades of toleration and even quiet support for the movement. William McCants, my colleague at Brookings and director of the Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, offers his insights on the new relationship based on his recent research trip to the kingdom.
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I remember when the MB was illegal in Egypt BEFORE the ”Arab Spring.”
Illegal voters, members of the MB used to put a ladder up to a rear window of a building where voting took place and sneak MB voters in, thus bypassing the proof that they were allowed to vote.
These MB supporters would then get a ballot as if they had walking in the door properly and vote.
To see Qatar is still pro MB is sad.
It is being isolated as Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain all cut off ties to it over this.
Egypt is an oil-poor country while the four above are oil-rich.
MB is very divisive.
The MB is like the American Liberals who rage when you disagree with them…..except for one difference:
the MB will kill you for it.
Hamas, for example is MB.
When Hamas fought in Gaza against Fatah for control of Gaza they killed thousands and shot out the knees of hundreds of others.
MB/Hamas was who Saddam Hussain used to send $25,000 to for every terrorist killed while killing any Israeli (whether the murdered ones were Jews or Muslims!)
MB deserves to be exposed for its terrorist ways.
Too bad Obama counts Muslim actors on scene in this part of the world as friends by how closely they align with MB.