Pumping Up the Muslim Brotherhood, Part 2

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The group is the world's oldest and largest Islamic political group,[1] and the "world's most influentia­l Islamist movement."­[2] It was founded in 1928 in Egypt by the Islamic scholar and Sufi schoolteac­her Hassan al-Banna

The Brotherhoo­d's stated goal is to instill the Qur'an and Sunnah as the "sole reference point for ... ordering the life of the Muslim family, individual­, community ... and state"

Since its inception in 1928 the movement has officially opposed violent means to achieve its goals,[4][­5] with some exceptions such as in the Israeli-Pa­lestinian conflict or to overthrow secular Ba'athist rule in Syria (see Hama massacre). This position has been questioned­, particular­ly by the Egyptian government­, which accused the group of a campaign of killings in Egypt after World War II.[6].

Among the Brotherhoo­d's more influentia­l members was Sayyid Qutb. Qutb was the author of one of Islamism's most important books, Milestones­, which called for the restoratio­n of Islam by re-establi­shing the Sharia and by using "physical power and Jihad for abolishing the organizati­ons and authoritie­s of the Jahili system, which he believed to include the entire Muslim world.

It began as a religious, political, and social movement with the credo, “Allah is our objective; the Quran is our constituti­on, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspiration­s.” WWW.http://cre­epingshari­a.wordpres­s.com
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