“Don’t Fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood”
Read a Jan. 28, 2011, essay, “Don’t Fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood,” by Bruce Riedel, a Middle East expert at the Brookings Institution.
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“What is the Muslim Brotherhood?”
Read a Jan. 28, 2011, background article on the Muslim Brotherhood by CNN.com.
“Mubarak or Muslim Brotherhood not Egypt’s only choice: Experts”
A Jan. 29, 2011, post at USA Today‘s “Faith & Reason” blog rounds up articles on the religious import of the Egyptian situation.
“Do Egyptians want both democracy and a role for religion in their government?”
Read a Jan. 30, 2011, essay about the political situation in Egypt at “On Faith” by Reza Aslan, a widely cited scholar of religions.
“Egypt’s Bumbling Brotherhood”
Read a Feb. 2, 2011, op-ed in The New York Times by Scott Atran, author of Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood and the (Un)making of Terrorists. Atran argues that the Muslim Brotherhood is largely ineffectual.
“Concern about Islamists masks wide differences among them”
Read “Concern about Islamists masks wide differences among them,” a Feb. 4, 2011, report by Reuters reporter Tom Heneghan.
“Global Restrictions on Religion”
A 2009 Pew Forum report on restrictions on religion around the world found that Egypt is among the countries with the highest government restrictions on religion.
“Egypt, Democracy and Islam”
A 2010 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project found that a majority of Egyptian Muslims said that democracy was preferable to any other kind of government. An overwhelming majority also viewed Islam’s influence in politics as positive.
Darrin Grinder
Darrin Grinder is a professor at Northwest Nazarene University in Boise, Idaho. He co-authored The Presidents and Their Faith: From George Washington to Barack Obama (2012), which examines the religious beliefs of America’s presidents.