Brotherhood resurgence? “Still, it is too soon to write off the Brotherhood, which has re-emerged twice from supposed oblivion,” says Eric Trager, an expert on the group, based at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy: Following the February 1949 assassination of Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, the group returned to political prominence through its support of the Free Officers’ ouster of King Farouk in 1952. Then, decades after President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s severe crackdown in 1954 that sent thousands of Muslim Brothers to prison, the Brotherhood resurfaced in the 1970s under the relative freedom that President Anwar Sadat afforded it, quietly rebuilding the nationwide command structure that enabled it to quickly win power once Hosni Mubarak fell in 2011. There are three possibilities for a Brotherhood resurgence, Trager writes for The Atlantic: - See more at: demdigest.net/blog/2013/11/egypts-muslim-brotherhood-can-bounce-back/#sthash.YzzLjXrI.dpuf
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