re: #72 ggt

So, they are advertising (and hopefully utilizing) the kinder, gentler form of Islam?

They are obviously dedicated to the installation of Sharia law - at least in predominantly Muslim countries. They seem to clearly be aligned with Hamas (although their history shows opposition to hard line Palestinian organizations).

Here’s another interesting excerpt from that Wikipedia page:

Somalia’s wing of the Muslim Brotherhood is known by the name Harakat Al-Islah or “Reform Movement”. Nonetheless, the Brotherhood, as mentioned earlier, has inspired many Islamist organizations in Somalia. Muslim Brotherhood ideology reached Somalia in the 1960s, but Al-Islah movement was formed in 1978 and slowly grew in the 1980s. Al-Islah has been described as “a generally nonviolent and modernizing Islamic movement that emphasizes the reformation and revival of Islam to meet the challenges of the modern world,” whose “goal is the establishment of an Islamic state” and which “operates primarily in Mogadishu.”

Given the level of Islamophobia out there, I’m just a little reluctant to draw conclusions w/o a careful weighing of the evidence.