Nadene Goldfoot
We of the West first heard of the Muslim Brotherhood as some Islamic organization in Egypt that was outlawed, and being a Muslim group, had no idea why. Here's why. But first, one needs to know this:
After Islam entered Egypt under the leadership of the noble companion Amr ibn Al-As in the year 640 CE/AD, Egypt soon became Umm Al-Dunya . Islam lit the candles of institution and learning, which was matched by none, so they think. It was the beacon of Muslim scholarship and achievement.
Mohammed (570-632) who developed Islam, had been in touch with Jewish "preachers" who would be outside the tents in Medina telling the story of our Jewish beginnings and how we believed. Mohammed lived in Medina (Yathrib) in Arabia, where he encountered a significant Jewish population, after migrating there from Mecca; this is where he interacted with Jewish tribes like the Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Nadir, and Banu Qurayza, establishing a pact with them known as the Constitution of Medina.
At any rate, he thought it would be nice if his people also were also a people of the book; but he changed morality quite different to fit his ideas.
Mohammed thought he could convince Jews to become Muslims, and they refused.
These bad experiences with the Jews of Medina changed Muhammad’s view of Jews. He had hoped that they would all become Muslims, or that they’d at least assimilate enough that it wouldn’t matter. When he came to Medina, the Muslims had been facing Jerusalem to pray, to emphasize their Abrahamic origin. But after the Bani Qaynuqa siege, there was a revelation that now they should face Mecca, which Abraham had also established. That became the qibla, the prayer direction, from them on. Muhammad hadn’t declared all Jews to be evil, far from it. But he had realized that they did not view his new faith as either the same as theirs or better. They began to stand out among his enemies as the ones that would never give in, and they could work to undermine him. He began to see the Jews as a fifth column, an enemy in their midst.
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The same thing happened with Judaism and its leadership with Moses during the Exodus (1579 BCE ) that they knew nothing about, evidently. This also reminds me of the studious rabbis of Worms in Germany, where Jews arrived in the 10th century after 70 CE when Rome occupied and burned down Jerusalem along with their Temple of Solomon, a structure of religious life in Judaea/Judea. 
Worms, being in the Rhineland of Germany, housed many Jewish communities after arriving there, and rabbis would gather together and hold classes, seminars, debates, and come to understand the 613 law of Moses much better in a more unified way.
Many religious and political leaders were either born or worked from Egypt, including the likes of Imaam Ash-Shafi, Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani, At-Tahawi, Salahuddin Al-Ayyubi and, more recently, Shaykh Rashid Rida and Shaykh Hasan Al-Banna, founder of the al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn movement.
His religious/belief system was the basis of his party, like how Israel started being a Jewish state. However, At age 12 Hassan al-Banna joined the Society for Moral Behaviour, thus demonstrating at an early age the deep concern for religious affairs that characterized his entire life.
Egypt's independence movement in the early 20s:
The Brits had also been awarded the 30 year mandate to rule over Palestine in which during that time, they promised the Jewish contingent who met many times with them to make much of Palestine a Jewish holding to be the Jewish Homeland. They must have hated themselves for that as they then discovered oil in Arabia and so also made promised to the Saudis, making the Prince Feisal II the king of Iraq and the king of Syria at another point in time.
Feisal Ibn Hussein (1885-1933) was king of Iraq from 1921. He was the oldest son of Hussein, sherif of Mecca, appointed by a Jewish ambassador of Britain ironically. He led the Arabs against Turkey (Ottoman Empire who had held Middle East for 400 years) or (This Islamic-run superpower ruled large areas of the Middle East, Eastern Europe and North Africa for more than 600 years.. )
Faisal II ; 2 May 1935 – 14 July 1958) was the last King of Iraq. He reigned from 4 April 1939 until July 1958, when he was killed during the 14 July Revolution. This regicide marked the end of the thirty-seven-year-old Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, which then became a republic.
"The British signed the Treaty of Darin in 1915 with Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman, also known as Ibn Saud, which made the lands of the House of Saud a British protectorate. The treaty also acknowledged the rights of Abdulaziz's sons to rule. In 1932, Abdulaziz unified the Kingdom of Hejaz and the Kingdom of Nejd into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He was proclaimed king (malik) of Hejaz in 1926, and raised Nejd to a kingdom in 1927."
In 1923 he enrolled at the Dār al-ʿUlūm, a teacher-training school in Cairo, which maintained a traditional religious and social outlook.
In 1927 he was assigned to teach Arabic in a primary school in the city of Ismailia (al-Ismāʿīliyyah), near the Suez Canal, which was a focal point for the foreign economic and military occupation of Egypt. There he witnessed scenes that acutely distressed him and many other Muslims.
In March 1928, with six workers from a British camp labour force, he created the Society of the Muslim Brothers (Arabic: al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn), which aimed at a rejuvenation of Islam.
Al-Banna considered Islam to be a comprehensive system of life, with the Quran and Sunnah as the only acceptable constitution. He called for Islamization of the state, the economy, and society. His idea for all was complete immersion in Islam, interpreted in his way, no doubt.
He declared that establishing a just society required development of institutions and progressive taxation, and elaborated an Islamic fiscal theory where zakat would be reserved for social expenditure in order to reduce inequality.
Al-Banna's ideology involved criticism of Western materialism, British imperialism, and the traditionalism of the Egyptian ulema. He appealed to Egyptian and pan-Arab patriotism but rejected Arab nationalism and regarded all Muslims as members of a single nation-community.
So, the Muslim Brotherhood is a Sunni Islamist religious, political, and social movement, becoming terrorists, with adherents estimated to number between 2 and 2.5 million.
was an Egyptian politician, engineer, and professor who was the fifth president of Egypt, from 2012 to 2013, when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed him from office in a coup d'état after protests in June. An Islamist affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood organization, Morsi led the Freedom and Justice Party from 2011 to 2012.
Within months of the coup against Morsi, Egypt's President, the Egyptian military took several measures to undermine the Muslim Brotherhood—banning it in September 2013 and declaring it a terrorist organization in December. These efforts corresponded to a view of the Brotherhood’s power as being concentrated in an elite cadre that made strategic decisions and passed them on to the wider organization through top-down communication. The military-backed regime assumed that if this pyramidal setup was debilitated, the strains on the Brotherhood would lead to its disintegration.
At the same time, Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1929. He organized another group called the PLO, the Palestine Liberation Organization. He attended Cairo University, evidently the hotbed of change, like in the USA. He founded FATAH in 1959 as a political movement, formally the Palestinian National Liberation Movement. It also is a Palestinian nationalist and social democratic political party. It is the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the second-largest party in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).
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Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, is the chairman of Fatah. Another year and he'll be 90 years old. From Fatah has sprung a smaller group more fanatic and that is HAMAS. The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas is a Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islamist political organization with a military wing, the Qassam Brigades. It has governed the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.
It is now 2025 and Donald Trump is President of the USA, stating that they must beremoved and that a nice piece of real estate in either Jordan or Egypt would be a good place for them, which is being denied by those presidents in charge. Trumpseems to have taken control of the Middle East and this is like music to Israel's earswho have been fighting against Hamas ever since its birth. No other president hasoffered so much help to Israel in its dealings with people who deny their presence. In fact, the countries involved had a meeting in Khartoum, Sudan, Africa after the 1967 War when Israel won against the mighty band of nations' attacks and even gained land in the defense of theirs, and they decided they would never make peace with Israel, stating this withtheir 3 NO, No, Nos. Trump was there when the Abraham Accords came about. I'm afraid that the Arabs thought this would be the ticket to having a Palestine Statebut that's not going to happen. After Oct 7th, all the world can see what Hamasallows and is capable of. They are worse than murderers. They have standardsto live by that are worse than the animal kingdom.
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_al-Banna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood_in_Egypt#:~:text=In%20Egypt%2C%20the%20Muslim%20Brotherhood,between%202%20and%202.5%20million.
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