The Muslim Brotherhood: Who Are They?

CONFLICTED

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Religion & Spirituality, History

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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After finishing our extensive exploration into some of the most colourful and fascinating characters in Islamic History - figures who influenced modern Salafi jihadism as we know it today - Conflicted aims its sights on a modern group with an equally significant position in the Muslim world. This is a group whose nebulous, clandestine structure makes them tricky to unravel. A group based in Egypt but with tentacles across the Middle East and beyond. A group who once boasted our previous subject, Sayyid Qutb, as a member. The Muslim Brotherhood. But who are they really? How are they structured? And are they the radical Islamists that many claim, or in fact a moderate group with relatively modest aims? In this first of two episodes on the Muslim Brotherhood, we try to unlock their structure, discovering how they function in countries across the Muslim world, to answer these questions and more. Join our FB Discussion group to get exclusive updates: https://www.facebook.com/groups/450486135832418 Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, dear listeners, you've tuned in for another episode of conflicted with me, Thomas
0:10.0	Small.
0:11.0	And me, the great Yathambal, Aemundin.
0:14.4	Aemund, I'm about as nervous about doing these episodes as I was when we embarked on our
0:20.9	episodes on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, if you remember from last season.
0:26.6	You know, the next couple of weeks we're going to be talking about a very divisive, rather
0:31.8	nebulous organization, our old Egyptian friends, the Muslim Brotherhood.
0:37.4	Well, it's a minefield, and I mean it in the, you know, in the figurative sense, not
0:43.7	in the literal sense here, but it is a minefield, of course, because every time I had a discussion
0:49.0	about the Muslim Brotherhood, since the Arabs spring in particular, there are people,
0:54.1	and I mean it, at least two of them, we're no longer on speaking terms with me, because
0:58.7	I was criticizing the Muslim Brotherhood in a rise to power in Egypt.
1:04.0	And I believe basically that these people are going to ruin Egypt.
1:08.4	Well, the Muslim Brotherhood sure is divisive.
1:11.4	And after our exploration into the historical figures, who in many ways set up modern
1:16.6	Salafi-jihedism, we're now going to have a look at an organization who some say, prop
1:22.0	up Salafi-jihedism in the modern era, others say there are force for peace and charity
1:27.4	in the Muslim world, and yet others say there are a clandestine puppet master of various
1:33.6	Islamic governments.
1:35.5	Who are the Muslim Brotherhood, moderates, radicals?
1:39.8	Let's jump right into it.
1:49.5	So Amen quickly, and really we have to do this quickly, because we have in a way told
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