He became the Brotherhood's most influential thinker for a time, and in 1959 the organisation's General Guide, Hassan Isam ' il

In recent years its spokespeople have said that Copts are welcome to join the organisation ( noting that Hassan al-Banna had two Copts as his assistants, and was known for his lack of prejudice towards Copts ); Mohammad Mahdi Akef, who became the Brotherhood's General Guide in 2004 at the age of 75 told Al-Jazeera in 2005:

The Brotherhood's General Guide, Hassan al-Banna, felt that the Society was not ready to engage in military campaigns, and that those who wished to do so " might take the wrong course and miss the target ".

A final clue turns up during a company social outing, in the course of a cricket match between Pym's and Brotherhood's, a soft-drink company and Pym's client.

During a 50-day moratorium on the application of the 7 July law, over a thousand Muslim Brothers turned themselves in, hoping to escape the death penalty ; information published about them in the official press may give some insight into the composition of the Brotherhood's membership at that time.

The reformist-Islamist ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, in particular, was strengthened through the recruitment of Arabic language teachers from other Arab countries, particularly Egypt, which is the Brotherhood's main stronghold.

( Neither is supported by the Muslim Brotherhood's international organization, which recognizes MSP / Hamas as its Algerian wing.

Following the 2011 Revolution the party joined the National Democratic Alliance for Egypt electoral bloc, which is dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party ( Egypt ).

He edited the Brotherhood's literary magazine The Germ which published four issues in 1850 and wrote the poetry reviews for it.

The Brotherhood's leadership, which

The Brotherhood's spokespeople consistently rejected the revolutionary and terrorist violence of the militant Islamic groups that appeared in Egypt during the 1970s ( such as Al-Jihad, which assassinated Sadat in October 1981 ).

Increased government repression led to a conflict between the Brotherhood's " old guard ", which dominated its Guidance Bureau, and its middle generation of leaders, who favoured cooperation with other political trends, a more open internal debate on political issues, a more concerted effort to gain legality for the organisation and a more liberal interpretation of Islam.

Also that year, to the dismay of the Brotherhood's senior leadership, a group of prominent middle-generation leaders left the Brotherhood and joined with several Copts to form a new political party, called Wasat (" Centre "), intended to represent " a civic platform based on the Islamic faith, which believes in pluralism and the alternation of power ".

" His formulation of the concept of nationalism, which was fundamental to the Brotherhood's appeal to young people, combined modern European political concepts with Islamic ones.

The idea of reviving the Islamic caliphate ( which had been abolished by Kemal Atatürk in 1924 ) was sometimes mentioned in the Brotherhood's publications, but Banna was not in favour of it.

While Qutb's ideology became very popular elsewhere, in Egypt the Brotherhood's leadership distanced itself from his revolutionary ideology, adhering instead to a nonviolent reformist strategy, to which it has remained ever since.

One example is the Muslim Brotherhood's support in the Egyptian parliament for conservative and reactionary laws which empowers the rights of property owners, to the detriment of the small peasantry.

The Brotherhood's credo was and is, " Allah is our objective ; the Quran is our law, the Prophet is our leader ; Jihad is our way ; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported that on August 7, 2007, a Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agent testified at the Holy Land Foundation trial that CAIR was " listed as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee ", that it had received money from the Foundation ( conflicting with Nihad Awad's Congressional testimony ), and that co-founders Awad and Omar Ahmad were " listed as individual members the Brotherhood Palestine Committee in America.

However, the Muslim Brotherhood's founder, Hassan al Banna, did have a traditional Islamic education ( his family were Hanbali scholars ) and it is likely that he was initiated into a tariqa at an early age.

It is revealed that Banshee was having the new Mastermind, the daughter of the deceased original Mastermind, manipulate the Brotherhood's members into having them work with him.

Although Sayyid Qutb was never head ( or " Supreme Guide ") of the Muslim Brotherhood, he was the Brotherhood's " leading intellectual ," editor of its weekly periodical, and a member of the highest branch in the Brotherhood, the Working Committee and of the Guidance Council.

The Fenian Brotherhood's main purpose was to supply weapons and funds for its Irish counterpart and raise support for the Irish republican movement in the United States.

Support for the Fenian Brotherhood's invasion of Canada fell and there was no real threat of any more raids after the 1890s.

Considering Benicia's position as the major inland Army post and transport hub to the valley, both Grant's and the Brotherhood's affinity for strong drink and the early spread of the Brotherhood through Northern California, it is entirely possible that Grant was inducted into the Organization.

Her Christmas carol Lift your hidden faces, set to a French carol tune, was included in the Anglican hymnal Songs of Praise ( 1931 ) as well as in the Hutterian Brotherhood's Songs of Light ( 1977 ).

Their original captain, Allende, was recaptured, but later freed by Berek, who became the Brotherhood's new captain following his escape from Reis.

The split faction Ghad El-Thawra Party, headed by Ayman Nour, was part of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party-led Democratic Alliance for Egypt.

Although the theme of the failure of both capitalism and socialism was not new in the Brotherhood's discourse, the application of the concept of jahiliyya to Egyptian society represented an innovation, motivated in part by Qutb's personal experience of the brutality of what had become a

The Brotherhood's main political demand during this period was

However, the limited resources available to professional associations did not enable these programmes to have a significant effect, and the Brotherhood's success in this arena was due more to voters ' perception of its candidates as honest and motivated by a sense of civic duty, in contrast to the corruption that has often characterised professional associations.

Hassan al-Banna was imprisoned twice ( only to be released within weeks ), the Brotherhood's journals were suppressed, its meetings were banned and any reference to it in newspapers was forbidden.

The Brotherhood's leadership was keen to avoid confrontations that could give the government a pretext to suppress the Society altogether.

Having alienated all other political groups, the regime could not yet afford to dispense with the Brotherhood's support, but was unwilling to give it a greater role in government.

* In the Command & Conquer Series, the Global Defense Initiative ( GDI ) uses a satellite-based Ion Cannon device to attack Brotherhood of Nod installations and forces ; it is used at the end of the First Tiberium War to destroy the Brotherhood's command centre, the Temple of Nod.

Earlier, Juggernaut had infiltrated the X-Men for him as part of the Brotherhood's plan, though Juggernaut slowly changed during his time with the X-Men, mostly due to the positive influence of the young boy Sammy Paré.

Members of the Brotherhood's secret apparatus started to carry out attacks on Britons as well as on Egyptian police stations, and continued to do so over the next few years.

In the Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011 – 2012, the political parties identified as " Islamist " ( the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and the Salafi Al-Nour Party ) won 70 % of the total seats.

Simultaneously, Nasser began using the more willing among the ulema (" religious scholars ") of the al-Azhar University as a counterweight to the Brotherhood's Islamic influence.

That same year, he imprisoned Sayyed Qutb, the Muslim Brotherhood's chief ideologue.

In a series of Washington Times articles from February to June 2009, Gaffney accused the Obama administration of effectively adopting the Muslim Brotherhood's plan for the Middle East ; Sharia law.

Randolph maintained the Brotherhood's affiliation with the American Federation of Labor through the 1955 AFL-CIO merger.

His contributions to the Brotherhood's magazine The Germ were made under the pseudonyms Laura Savage and John Seward.

This contradicted the Brotherhood's view that they had flowered uniquely from a pallid past.

Lee provided a great deal of valuable support to the Brotherhood of Ruralists in their attempts to establish themselves in the 1970s, and he continued to do so until his death ; his essay Understanding the Ruralists opened the Brotherhood's major 1993 retrospective book.

He sees pragmatic elements in the leaders of post-revolution Egypt, but dismisses the Muslim Brotherhood's potential for moderation.

After only one season the Players ' League folded and the Brotherhood's members went back to the National League.

Both teams ultimately foil the Brotherhood's plot, with the Doom Patrol expressing pride in their former member.

" All of the Brotherhood's members have the same short, big-headed stature as Nodwick, although they lack the big nose all good / neutral henchmen develop.

Duré, intrigued by the collusion of the Templar Brotherhood with the Shrike Cult, travels to God's Grove, the Brotherhood's home and soon to be within the range of the Ouster invasion armada.

The Brotherhood's leader, Magneto, attempts to deliver a punishment but kills Basilisk instead.

Dessel is sent to the Brotherhood's Academy on Korriban to be trained in the ways of the dark side.

Most importantly, Bane studies tomes from the Golden Age of the Sith, and realizes that the Brotherhood's teachings are incomplete.