[lbo-talk] Gays Flee Iraq as Shia Death Squads Find a New Target

[Michael Hoover]

On 8/6/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
> * The authoritarian regime was not without its critics, though most
> were quickly dealt with. A serious challenge arose in the late 1970s,
> however, from fundamentalist Sunni Muslims called the Muslim
> Brotherhood (seen as a forerunner to Al-Qaeda), who reject the basic
> values of the secular Ba'ath program and object to rule by the Alawis,
> whom they consider heretical. From 1976 until its suppression in 1982,
> the Muslim Brotherhood led an armed insurgency against the regime. In
> response to an attempted uprising by the brotherhood in February 1982,
> the government crushed the fundamentalist opposition centered in the
> city of Hama, leveling parts of the city with artillery fire and
> causing many thousands of dead and wounded.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria>
> Yoshie
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the original muslim brotherhood dates to late 20s and early 30s in
egypt, a product of hasan al-banna successfully moving islamic revival
from realm of individual reforms to that of mass organization and
popular movement, al-banna's successor, sayyid qutub, introduced
elements that were amalgam of marxist and fascist principles...

significant factor about MB - like many other islamic revival orgs in
other countries since - was/is its focus on political change in
egypt...   mh