The State of Muslim Brotherhood (Cover Book Review)

The book unravels how opportunism became the typical approach of the Brotherhood’s behavior–even after January 2011 Revolution—in the context of a series of alliances that have always ended with stabbing the ally in the back.  

The Brotherhood is calling for democracy and pluralism with no intention or whatsoever to apply it on the ground, and those whom are demanding its application within the group only has to abide by the “hear-and-obey” bylaw or else to face ejection, ostracism, and defamation.   

As such, the four chapters of this book trace the long and extended history of the Brotherhood, during which they deliberately mix the “fixed” religious discourse with the “ever-changing” political goals, to create a blurred discourse with multi-faced approach that internalized egotism and brinkmanship in its rhetoric and record.  

At the end of this book, you will come to know how the Brotherhood’s partisanship and ideology were the main points of contention with all parties that the group reached out to. For example, the Brotherhood’s positions on women, Coptic Christians and arts as much as its parentalism all came into play to prompt other parties to take issue with the group.

The State of Muslim Brotherhood clearly unravels the scheme of the “Polity of the Brotherhood” and its perils on the present and future of the homeland [Egypt], and in tandem, reveals “the group’s predicament” or more accurately it is a tragedy of the group’s meteoric rise to the abyss.      

Keywords: Muslim Brotherhood, Islam, Islamists, Egypt, Politics, Hassan Al-Banna, ideologies