Brotherhood hoping to make a political comeback after Biden’s victory

Sara Rashad

The outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement could not hide its elation at the election victory of Democrat Joe Biden.

Movement Supreme Guide, Ibrahim Mounir, issued a statement on November 7, in which he congratulated the president-elect, only hours after the announcement of the election results in the United States.

Mounir called in his statement on the new president to reconsider his country’s relations with what he called “dictatorships”.

This rhetoric moves hand in hand with the media coverage of the presidential election in the United States by outlets affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood. These outlets dealt with Biden as if he was the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate. They also mocked outgoing president Donald Trump, especially his accusation that the vote had been rigged in some states.

The Brotherhood backed Biden from the very beginning, having convinced American Muslims that he would be an appropriate choice for the American presidency.

It cited pledges made by Biden for giving freedoms to minorities and his usage of quotes from the holy Quran and the sayings of Prophet Muhammad.

International, external ambitions

The Muslim Brotherhood hopes it can make some gains after Biden’s coming to the American saddle.

The Islamist movement, observers said, hopes Biden will be another copy of former Democratic president Barack Obama. It views Obama as an exemplary president during whose two terms in office in the United States it succeeded in fulfilling its most important dream, namely of reaching power in Egypt as well as in other Arab states.

The congratulations Mounir sent Biden throw light on Muslim Brotherhood dreams in the coming period, with a new president taking over in the United States. The group just hopes that Biden will help it return to its status before the Trump presidency began.

The Muslim Brotherhood also waits for Trump to fulfill his pledge to enlist support from Muslims in the United States.