Rubin nails it. The Muslim Brotherhood has not ‘moderated’ it’s political agenda, in any shape or form, but has only shifted tactics in how it presents itself. The Ikwhan has learned from prior experience in its suppression by the regimes of the late Gamal Nasser and Hosni Mubarak, that it can only go so far in promoting fundamentalist Islam before the screws are turned. Those in the West who speak of the Muslim Brotherhood’s moderate wing, are only fooling themselves. KGS
The Center for Security Policy’s Dave Reaboi spent some time with Professor Barry Rubin of the GLORIA Center in Israel. Prof. Rubin is one of the world’s foremost experts on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and in the Arab world. He’s the author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles on topics ranging from Islamism in the East to anti-Americanism in the West. He blogs regularly at http://www.rubinreports.com
