Hasanul banna biography of donald
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Muslim Brotherhood expands westward
Dr Mohamed Zuhdi Jasser, an American Muslim, who campaigns against political Islam, sees little difference between al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.
"Political Islam, [even] non-violent political Islam, that teaches supremacy, that teaches Western society is godless and corrupt, is the slippery slope towards radicalism," he says.
"The only difference between al-Qaeda and the Brotherhood today is that one preaches violence to get there and one preaches dawa [proselytising] and evangelism to democratically replace our constitution with the Koran."
Ian Jonson, the author of A Mosque in Munich, about the Muslim Brotherhood's westward expansion, says it is in everyone's interest - including politicians and the wider Muslim community - to be cautious of the Muslim Brotherhood.
"They present themselves as very modern, as people who speak the language of politics, human rights, and diversity."
But, on the
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Who was the architect of Islamism?
In the late nineteenth century, great swathes of the Islamic world were under Western colonial rule. This presence was particularly marked in Egypt. British rule in Egypt began in 1882 and lasted for several decades. France was involved in the Suez Canal Company and also had considerable cultural influence on the educated secular class in Egypt.
While the confrontation with European ideas and behaviours led to a hardening of conservative Islamic attitudes among the devout, reform-oriented groups were open to the momentum for modernisation and sought to re-evaluate their own traditions with a view to making Egyptian society "more Islamic".
Hasan al-Banna, who was born in 1906 in a small town called Mahmoudiyah not far from Alexandria, was filled with a similar sense of mission in his younger years. In 1928, he founded the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Ismailia on the banks of the Suez Canal. In the two decades that followed, the brotherhood b
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Hassan al-Banna
Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (1906–1949)
Sheikh Hassan Ahmed Abd al-Rahman Muhammed al-Banna | |
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| Born | (1906-10-14)14 October 1906 Mahmoudiyah, Beheira, Khedivate of Egypt |
| Died | 12 February 1949(1949-02-12) (aged 42) Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt |
| Cause of death | Gunshot wounds |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Political party | Muslim Brotherhood |
| Religion | Islam |
| Jurisprudence | Independent (Salafi)[1][2][3][4] |
| Creed | Athari[5][6] |
| Movement | Ikhwani[3] |
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