Prof. Rohan Gunaratna
The contemporary wave of Political Islam was influenced and shaped by the Muslim Brotherhood. The foundational ideology of Al Qaeda, Islamic State (ISIS) and other Islamist terrorist groups is inspired, influenced and sourced from the Muslim Brotherhood. Both at its place of birth and nucleus, Egypt has proscribed the Muslim Brotherhood. Nonetheless, the politico-religious movement has spread, surged and sparked violence both in battlefields and off-the-battlefield.
The Muslim Brotherhood promotes exclusivism, extremism, violence and terrorism. An insidious threat, the Muslim Brotherhood can adapt to the operating environment functioning both clandestinely and openly. The most notorious branch of the Muslim Brotherhood is Hamas, the Palestinian group that led the massacre of 1,200 and abduction of 254 Israelis and foreigners on October 7, 2023. (1)
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