Essay On Muslim Brotherhood

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The Muslim Brotherhood is a religious and political group, founded on the belief that Islam in not just a religion, but also an actual way of life. The Brotherhood calls for a move away from secularism, and a return to the rules of the Quran as a structure for healthy families, communities, and states. Moving away from secularism means trying to combine religion and state, and that people of different beliefs are no longer equal when it comes to the law. The Muslim Brotherhood is located mostly in North Africa and the Middle East. The Muslim Brotherhood is considered a terrorist organization by many countries, including Bahrain, Egypt, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (Human Rights Watch).

As mentioned in the first paragraph, many of the North African countries consider the Muslim Brotherhood to be a terrorist organization. The Muslim Brotherhood themselves, however, originally stated that their goal was to build schools and hospitals and other services, while instilling their non-secular beliefs and ways of doing things. When they were founded around the late 1920’s and the early 1930’s, they saw themselves as doing everyone a favor by making sure that everyone was Muslim. Not everyone believed in or wanted this way of life pushed on to them, particularly the people in North Africa. This led to violent killings and horrible conflict, mainly brought on by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Fast forward to present day Egypt, where the Brotherhood was actually founded in the first place. The conflict between these North African countries and the Brotherhood has not lightened at all. In fact, it is at this time worse than ever before. For example, just last month (April 28, 2014), 683 individuals were ...

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...ous countries classify them as a terrorist group. The Brotherhood isn’t showing any sign of backing down, and justice systems are going to keep executing members if the Brotherhood continues to impose these terroristic threats.

As of now, there’s not a lot being done to stop the Brotherhood, and the only thing that North Africa is doing is changing their laws to be able to execute even more of them. If nothing is done on either side, then more and more people on both sides of the dispute are going to be brutally killed or injured. The Muslim Brotherhood is a growing problem that seems to be getting out of control. What makes this even scarier is that the members of the Brotherhood, who are in charge of the attacks, believe they are serving Islam in a good way and doing the right thing, even if the end result is simply too many unjustified casualties.

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