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January 19, 2016

How the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Lost Its Unity

No more iron discipline.

Until a few years ago, the gradualist old guard of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood—the parent organization of Hamas and the precursor to al-Qaeda—was able to sideline both radicals who wanted to start an Islamic revolution immediately and so-called “reformists” urging cooperation with non-Islamists. But, write Eric Trager and Marina Shalabi, since the Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi was ousted from power in 2013, the organization has lost its cohesiveness (free registration required):

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