Amr (center), 28, plays with the youngest of her three siblings in a friend's house in New Cairo. A graduate from the School of Law in Cairo, she doesn't work in order to spend time with her children, because, she explains, "I believe my role as a mother is much more important than my job." Amr joined the Muslim Brotherhood eight years ago, after getting married. She is adamant in saying that -- contrary to the beliefs of outsiders -- the organization is extremely democratic. "We are consulted for every big decision," she says. "Evan if I'm at home, there will be always someone from the organization coming to ask my point of view on the main topics."
The Brotherhood, which was founded by the Egyptian schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928, is perhaps the most prominent Islamic revival movement in the world today. In Egypt, the movement was violently suppressed under President Gamal Abdel Nasser and banned but tolerated under President Hosni Mubarak, who used fear of an Islamic bogeyman to ensure Western support for his regime. Now, on the eve of the country's first elections following Mubarak's fall, the Brotherhood is poised to become one of the most dominant political and cultural forces in Egypt. But its name aside, many women play active roles in the Brotherhood -- and vigorously defend the organization from allegations that it is a misogynistic or unrepresentative organization.
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WALTSWRONGWITHTHISPICTURE
12:02 AM ET
November 17, 2011
blah blah blah
more drivel trying to soften radical islam
SARANNE
2:50 AM ET
December 3, 2011
Uh
I was going to make a snarky comment, but I'll refrain. Your comments in themselves are indicative of the endless victimhood coupled with rampant paranoia of Islam and the Middle East as a whole. How dog-eared is your copy of "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" just out of curiosity?
CHUCKAMOK
5:17 PM ET
December 7, 2011
To all you clueless Islamic apologists
Check out who is persecuting MidEast Christians, Jews, the B'nai, Hindus, Zoroastrians ... and anybody else who doesn't "submit."
A very sorry excuse operating under the fiction of "a religion of peace."
;)
CNIRU
5:45 PM ET
November 17, 2011
No one discusses what they
No one discusses what they (the Brotherhood members) think of those outside their organization or about non-Muslims. Muslims have this dual disease of thinking that they are perpetually persecuted and that their religion is the most superior. If that was true, then all Islamic, sharia run polities would have been heaven on earth, when in fact they are among the poorest, repressive and wantonly violent of societies.
Islam is a totalitarian, imperialist, brain washing ideology. It's aims are political hegemony, not spiritual uplift. If making more sheep-people was better for human progress then the Islamic societies would have made the world's most socially and scientifically advanced societies. Again, no Sharia run country is so.
Individualism and new thinking are the cornerstones of human progress, and Islam's target is to stymie that. While the Islamic elite enjoy the fruits of intellectual advancement, the poor under Islam are all hostage to whatever drivel the elites feed them. New thinking has always been anathema to societies with strict regimen, be it Catholic Europe or Islamic Ummah. If you need to enforce strictures, then some thing is wrong with the system because it is going counter to what people want, that is freedom, of thought, practice, lifestyle, beliefs, and opportunities.
GGILLIOM
2:13 AM ET
December 5, 2011
Muslim science, and loss
One comment mentioned the great advances that came from the middle east, great strides in mathematics, science, biology. All is true.
But then the religious zealots took over and insisted that everything you need to ever know is written in the Koran. No more need for science books, just the Koran.
Same in Christianity. There is a whole group of anti-science Christians who say everything you need to ever know is in the Bible, no need for any other books or the study of science.
I would love for the middle east to return to their status of being a beacon for scientific study, but first they have to return religion to its place as a study of philosophy, not the one and only place of knowledge.
JESSEK
7:19 AM ET
November 21, 2011
There are exceptions sometime
I one knew a Muslim women who worked as a labor lawyer, and lived down the street from my place. She was a hard working, very polite and intelligent woman, who believed in the same Capitalistic values I believe in. It's all social matters. Whoever lives in Egypt, should "Walk like an Egyptian", in one way or another...
KID3
7:47 AM ET
November 21, 2011
Muslims encourage their to community to raise more children
As seen in this picture, children are a blessing in the Islam. So actually the real enemy for the Brotherhood, or Muslims everywhere, is probably fertility issues. Well, just saying. giving you another point of view.
ABDULAMEER
5:43 PM ET
November 28, 2011
Muslim Brotherhood/Sisterhood
Now that there are female martyr-murderers, Islamic women are beginning to play more prominent roles in the Islamist movement. Gender equality is out of the question, of course, but more active roles, sure. The mother of Hillary Clinton's Islamic Trojan horse adviser, Huma Abedin, is also a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Sisterhood.
However, whether Brotherhood or Sisterhood, their motto is: "Allah is our purpose; the prophet Muhammad is our leader; the Koran is our Constitution; Jihad is our way; and dying for Allah is our highest hope." Jihad, as we learn from the most widely used manual of Sharia law (Reliance of the Traveler) means to make war on non-Muslims. So, the Muslim women are making war on us, too. Let's hear it for women's rights!
CARLAMASSAGEM
6:50 AM ET
December 3, 2011
Are exceptions sometime
She was a hard working, very polite and intelligent woman, who believed in the same Capitalistic values I believe in. It's all social matters. Whoever lives in Egypt, should "Walk like an Egyptian", in one way or another. Thanks!Seguro Imoveis Massagistas Acompanhantes Ar Condicionado Carro
YASIR QUANTUMSEOLABS
3:51 PM ET
December 3, 2011
An Exceptional Nation
Egyptians have been a great civilization which has succeeded all tests of time and has always emerged as a nation. Religions have changed but the genes continue. Their way of thinking may be Islamic now and they differ from the West but that doesn't make them one bit less nation than any other modern civilization . Most of the modern civilizations will probably collapse when put to tests. The only people I consider as nations in the world are Chinese, Japanese, Germans and the Arabs. Rest are all mix breeds which need to be tested to be called a nation. Their women help build links and take part in important decisions and are not victims as most of the world thinks based on their own assumptions and without any first hand experience.
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5:01 PM ET
December 16, 2011
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REMINGTON
11:13 PM ET
December 6, 2011
Not Just A Head Scarf
Of course some would complain that this is some sort of propaganda but it gave me an new insight that I never considered. Egyptian women have for years been known for their head scarves. But each woman, no matter what "side" she claims, stands on her own.
LAUGHING JAFFA
8:54 AM ET
December 9, 2011
Egyptian
I have lived and worked in Egypt for the last 2 years and am a total Atheist. However, it is my belief that if all Islamists were like Egyptians, there would be no Islamic terrorsim. They are the most devout people I have seen but they have a peaceful nature. I don't believe the West has anything to fear from Egypt. There is more to fear from Christian fundamentalists in the US influencing US policy.
EQUATORLEET
4:22 PM ET
December 15, 2011
The grassroot networks of Muslims
America should let the growth and development of democratic societies within the world’s most troubled regions; however, you should keep our eyes available to the ultimate messages the Muslim Brotherhood - probably the most organized political streamate in Egypt today - is sending its supporters, and just how which will affect peace and stability in the area.