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86 Foreign Aff. 107 (2007)
The Moderate Muslim Brotherhood

handle is hein.journals/fora86 and id is 303 raw text is: The Moderate Muslim Brotherhood Robert S. Leiken and Steven Brooke FRIEND OR FOE? THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD is the world's oldest, largest, and most influential Islamist organization. It is also the most controversial, condemned by both conventional opinion in the West and radical opinion in the Middle East. American commentators have called the Muslim Brothers radical Islamists and a vital component of the enemy's assault force ... deeply hostile to the United States. Al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri sneers at them for lur[ing] thousands of young Muslim men into lines for elections ... instead of into the lines ofjihad. Jihadists loathe the Muslim Brotherhood (known in Arabic as al-Ikhwan al-Muslimeen) for rejecting global jihad and embracing democracy. These positions seem to make them moderates, the very thing the United States, short on allies in the Muslim world, seeks. But the Ikhwan also assails U.S. foreign policy, especially Washington's support for Israel, and questions linger about its actual commitment to the democratic process. Over the past year, we have met with dozens of Brotherhood lead- ers and activists from Egypt, France,Jordan, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, and the United Kingdom. In long and sometimes heated discussions, we explored the Brotherhood's stance on democracy andjihad, Israel and Iraq, the United States, and what sort of society the group seeks to ROBERT S. LEIKEN is Director of the Immigration and National Security Programs at the Nixon Center and the author of the forthcoming Europe's Angry Muslims. ST EVEN BROOKE is a Research Associate at the Nixon Center. [107]

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