Muslim Brotherhood source of adversity; Jordan’s resilience dispels demon dreams
Opinion
By Ahmed Al-Jarallah
FOR the past 90 years, the Muslim world has been afflicted with an ailment called, ‘Muslim Brotherhood’. This group appointed itself as protector of the society that determines features of a believer and draws the lines of behavior which this believer should uphold.
Whoever comes close to this group survives severe torment, while whoever distances himself from the group becomes a cursed infidel.
This group entered the political arena through the doors of mosques. It gave leaders and officials the tools of faith and purity, or atonement and heresy. Whenever this group fails, it resorts to violence, killings, bombing and assassination.
It operates based on the guidelines set by its theorist Sayyid Qutb. It later led to the birth of several terrorist groups from its nest in various countries in the Muslim world.
Since 1928, the Brotherhood Group has been following the same method to reach the seat of power in various Muslim countries. It takes into account the cultural infrastructure in some societies and strives to form a new religion that has no relation with Islam in other societies.
It plays the cord of contradictions or fishes for opportunities by taking advantage of emerging crisis or infiltrating the ruling circle through common channels, starting with financial empowerment through a series of commercial, manufacturing and banking interests, and then getting close to the ruler.
It enables its elements to infiltrate public institutions and State domains. It also stirs organized chaos and exposes the weaknesses of institutions. It portrays the ruler as corrupt or incompetent. Through all that, it uses religious cover while its elements market themselves to be working with trust, piety and sincerity.
This is what the group attempted to do during the reign of King Farouq of Egypt in 1952, when it portrayed Egypt as a farm of corruption being managed by corrupt people who are not afraid of Allah.
This started with the movement of ‘Free Officers’ which it allied to the Brotherhood. In fact, it portrayed Jamal Abdul-Nasser as the survivor who would rescue Egypt from the abyss of ignorance and disbelief to prosperity, knowledge and faith.
However, when the group discovered that the ‘Officers’ would not be their puppets, it attempted to turn public opinion against them and orchestrated a series of terrorist operation including the attempt to assassinate AbdulNasser. The matter escalated to open confrontation and banning of the group.
The group’s branch attempted to use the same tactics in Syria, but the Bathist’s iron hand rule that does not accept partnership in managing the country promptly moved to stop the group’s infiltration. The famous battle of Hama in Syria is a testimony to that.
This happened after the military wing of the group perpetrated civilian massacres, the most famous of which is the massacre in Aleppo Artillery School — the straw that broke the camel’s back.
After that, the chaotic group attempted to prick the Kingdom