Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

(Toni Johnson’s article direct from the Council on Foreign Relations on 3 Dec 2012.)





Muslim Brotherhood's Jihadist foot-soldiers.


The Muslim Brotherhood (known in Arabic
as al-Ikhwan al-Muslimeen) is Egypt's oldest and largest Islamist organization.
As the most organized opposition group following the ouster of former President
Hosni Mubarak in 2011, the Brotherhood became the country's