Biden’s victory feeds Brotherhood’s dreams of return to political life

Jibril Mohamed

The International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood continues to dream of returning to the political stage in the region, after peoples brought them down.

The election victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the United States is rekindling Muslim Brotherhood hopes in this regard.

However, the outlawed Islamist organization will soon discover that its hopes are mere illusions.

The Muslim Brotherhood believes Biden will act in a Barack Obama fashion when he moves to the White House in January. Nonetheless, they still cannot realize that peoples will not allow them to return to the political stage once more.

The Obama administration worked to establish a partnership with the Brotherhood. It backed the Islamist movement to reach power in a number of Arab states, under influence from the Brotherhood lobby.

Nevertheless, the group showed its ugly face quickly and failed in ruling the countries where it reached power, especially Egypt and Tunisia.

It now believes that Biden will extend a lifeline to it. Outgoing American President Donald Trump failed to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization for several reasons. Here in Egypt, analysts believe that the Islamist group will not be able to make a political comeback.

“The sure thing is that the dreams of the Muslim Brotherhood will never come true,” said Tarek al-Kholi, a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Egyptian House of Deputies (lower house of parliament).

He said the coming period will show whether Biden will take sides with the Brotherhood in the region and around the world or not.

“It will also show whether this will pose dangers to international and regional security,” he told The Reference.

Political science professor Moatazz Abdel Fattah wrote on Twitter that the Brotherhood would not return to the political stage in countries like Egypt so long as peoples do not want them.