Muslim Brotherhood >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#mw-head> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#p-search> Society of the Muslim Brothers جماعة الإخوان المسلمين [image: Muslim Brotherhood Logo.png] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Muslim_Brotherhood_Logo.png> Leader Mohamed Badie <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Badie> Spokesperson Gehad el-Haddad <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehad_el-Haddad> Founded 1928 Ismailia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismailia>, Egypt <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt> Headquarters Cairo <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo>, Egypt <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt> Ideology <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies> Sunni <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunni_Islam> Islamism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamism> Pan-Islamism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Islamism> Right-wing populism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_populism> Anti-zionism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-zionism> Political position <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum> Third Position <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Position> House of the People (Afghanistan) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_the_People_(Afghanistan)> 39 / 249 Council of Representatives of Bahrain <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Representatives_of_Bahrain> 2 / 40 People's Representative Council (Indonesia) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Representative_Council> 40 / 560 Council of Representatives of Iraq <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Representatives_of_Iraq> 4 / 325 Parliament of Lebanon <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Lebanon> 1 / 128 National Assembly (Mauritania) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_(Mauritania)> 16 / 146 Palestinian Legislative Council <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Legislative_Council> 74 / 132 National Assembly of Sudan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Sudan> 323 / 354 Assembly of the Representatives of the People (Tunisia) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_of_the_Representatives_of_the_People_(Tunisia)> 69 / 217 House of Representatives (Yemen) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Yemen)> 46 / 301 Party flag [image: Flag of the Muslim Brotherhood (2).png] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Muslim_Brotherhood_(2).png> Website www.ikhwanonline.com www.ikhwanweb.com
The *Society of the Muslim Brothers* (Arabic <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language>: جماعة الإخوان المسلمين *Jamāʻat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn*), shortened to the *Muslim Brotherhood* (الإخوان المسلمون *al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn*), is a transnational Sunni <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunni> Islamist <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamist> organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_studies> and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_al-Banna> in 1928.[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#cite_note-BorgesonValeri2009-1> [2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#cite_note-2>[3] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#cite_note-3>[4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#cite_note-4> The organisation gained supporters throughout the Arab world <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world> and influenced other Islamist groups such as Hamas <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas>[5] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#cite_note-US_Dept_State_2008-5> with its "model of political activism combined with Islamic charity work",[6] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#cite_note-BBC_profile-6> and in 2012 sponsored the elected political party in Egypt after the January Revolution <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_revolution_of_2011> in 2011. However, it suffered from periodic government crackdowns for alleged terrorist activities, and as of 2015 is considered a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain>,[7] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#cite_note-7>[8] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#cite_note-8>Egypt <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt>, Russia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia>, Syria <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria>, Saudi Arabia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia> and United Arab Emirates <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates>.[9] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#cite_note-EgyptGovtDeclaresTerrorist-9> [10] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#cite_note-base.consultant.ru-10> [11] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#cite_note-11>[12] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood#cite_note-Alaa_Shahine_and_Glen_Carey.2C_Bloomberg_News-12> > >>>> -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
