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    The document summarizes a paper that examines how the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt gained political success and won seats in Egyptian congress, despite being an unrecognized political organization that has faced oppression from previous administrations. It argues that the Muslim Brotherhood transformed from a conservative Islamist movement to more modernist ideals over time. While providing historical context, the paper focuses on how the current administration under Mubarak has dealt with the Muslim Brotherhood, and whether this inaction helped increase their popularity.

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    The document summarizes a paper that examines how the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt gained political success and won seats in Egyptian congress, despite being an unrecognized political organization that has faced oppression from previous administrations. It argues that the Muslim Brotherhood transformed from a conservative Islamist movement to more modernist ideals over time. While providing historical context, the paper focuses on how the current administration under Mubarak has dealt with the Muslim Brotherhood, and whether this inaction helped increase their popularity.

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    Is Islam the Right Answer?

    : The Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egyptian


    Politics. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters Annual Conference. Wayne State
    University, Detroit, MI. March 2009.

    Abstract

    The central question of this paper concerns how the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt became so
    popular as to have won a significant amount of seats in the Egyptian congress, even though they
    are not an officially recognized political organization. The more specific question regarding the
    status of the Muslim Brotherhood is how they attained such political success in the current
    Mubarak Administration since they have not only been oppressed politically by this
    administration but by previous administrations as well. The argument put forward by this paper
    will be that the Muslim Brotherhood transformed from being a typical neo-conservative Islamist
    movement towards more Modernist ideals. This paper will demonstrate the difference between
    Islamists and Modernists and show how The Muslim Brotherhood’s values have changed over
    time. While I think that it is very important to include a historical background on the Muslim
    Brotherhood of Egypt as reported in articles and books devoted to the subjects, this paper will
    look at how this particular administration deals with the Muslim Brotherhood and if any
    particular action (or inaction) on their part is the reason for the surge in their popularity.
    Previous relationships, such as the banning and imprisonment by Nasser in the 1950s and their
    release by Sadat in the 1970s, will be taken into account as to show a timeline of government
    relations but only as a foil to their current and more amiable relationship to Mubarak. Their
    change in values, coupled with their relationship with an unpopular government will show how
    the group has come to be so popular in recent years.

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