Who are the Muslim Brothers?

31.01.2011                     26.Shevat, 5771

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Who are the Muslim Brothers?

Egypt's largest, best-organized opposition movement wants to first prepare society, and then found a Koranic state.

As the Egyptian popular uprising enters its seventh day on Monday, all eyes are on the Muslim Brothers, the country’s largest and best-organized opposition movement, to see how it will try to leverage the crisis to further its goal of rising to power.
Founded by Hassan al- Banna in the smoky coffeehouses of Cairo in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood believes in the establishment of a fundamentalist state ruled according to the strictest interpretation of Shari’a (Islamic law)..
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