[lit-ideas] Egypt's Muslim Brothers gain parliamentary seats
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:34:43 -0800
In Egypt, the home of Baker's New Islamists, the Old Islamists, the Muslim
Brothers increased their number of seats in Parliament from 15 (in 2000) to
88 (in 2005). http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA26806 . Several
Egyptian intellectuals criticized the Muslim Brothers who were for years
outlawed from Egypt as a terrorist organization. I looked for the names of
the critics mentioned in the article in Raymond William Baker's New
Islamists, to see if any of them were New Islaminsts, but it doesn't appear
that they are. Baker has two mentions of Abdul Moneim Said in his book, but
Said is a secularist not a New Islamist. The intellectual critics in the
MEMRI article are secularists wanting to keep religion out of politics;
which has been the position of Mubarak and his predecessors.
There are 454 members in the Egyptian Parliament. 88 Muslim Brothers
amounts to about 20%. An ambition of Mubarak has been to eliminate
Islamists from Egypt. The doesn't seem to be succeeding.
Lawrence
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