Saudi Arabia’s official attitude toward the Muslim Brotherhood today is that the group is a terrorist organization so many other countries.
For decades, the kingdom was competing for influence with the secular nationalist regimes of Egypt, Iraq, and Syria, Saudi Arabia welcomed to its soil Brotherhood members.
For decades, the kingdom was competing for influence with the secular nationalist regimes of Egypt, Iraq, and Syria, Saudi Arabia welcomed to its soil Brotherhood members.
After Brotherhood political parties won elections in Egypt and Tunisia, these governments came to understand the Brotherhood as an existential threat.
Thus began a campaign to re-brand the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, ideologically indistinguishable from al-Qaida, a threat that must be rooted out with brutal discipline. Tamara Cofman Wittes, Brookings, Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy
Thus began a campaign to re-brand the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, ideologically indistinguishable from al-Qaida, a threat that must be rooted out with brutal discipline. Tamara Cofman Wittes, Brookings, Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy
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