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Friday, January 28, 2011

the moderate muslim brotherhood, FA 2007

(108): MB as 'moderates' with whom the US can work

(110): for moderates in MB, democracy as compatible with 'slow Islamization'

(111): whereas for jihadists (Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi), democracy is 'polytheism'

(111): road to power is not revolutionary ('Fabian strategy')

(112): 'salafi?' but there is the Jamal al-Din al-Afghani kind (political participation), and the Saudi kind

(113): Qutb's ambiguous legacy

(115): reformist vs. conservative divide, re: question of political party

(115): no effective international organization -- ('no Comintern'). differences re: Iraq invasion, war in Lebanon, etc.

(118): no Islamists arrested in the French riots in 2005

(119): softness of the brotherhood in France (UOIF)

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