I apologize for my ignorance, is this opposition between the Saudi Arabia government and the brotherhood still a big thing? I hadn’t heard about it for a long time and don’t know much about it.
Forget the sects, it’s basic politics. The Muslim Brotherhood is an ideology that opposes monarchies.
Monarchies hate them.
tbh i’m not even sure why the muslim brotherhood is considered “bad”. I’ve heard good things about them - they elected that morsi fellow right? they were pro-democracy, but socially conservative. Morsi went to iran and criticized them for not being democratic… in TEHRAN. man had balls.
The Muslim Brotherhood is bad because of political violence associated with it, Islamist (think Saudi-level) but different school of thought). Just because you encourage democracy doesn’t make you a good group.
There’s a pretty good thread about them here with a lot of different viewpoints if they’re ‘bad’ or not: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMiddleEast/comments/y6589v/thoughts_on_the_muslim_brotherhood/
IMO they’re mostly just incompetent, and I’m opposed to theocracies in general.
The Brotherhood is basically just moderate ISIS. They’re Pan Islamists who want a worldwide caliphate based on Sharia, the difference with ISIS is that their practice of Islam is more mainstream and they’re more ambivalent on the use of political violence
But that doesn’t matter too much, what does matter is the worldwide caliphate part. In the MB’s ideal world, they’d depose the Gulf Monarchies to add them to the Islamic superstate. This is why Saudis and UAE view them as an existential threat
A little known fact I’m learning these past few weeks is nobody hates muslims more than other muslims
If only Non-Muslims were aware of this fact. There is nothing stronger than a Muslim’s love for another Muslim, yet simultaneously the opposite is also true. I’m not sure if you’re aware of sects in Islam, but extremists from the two major sects (Sunni’s and Shia’s) absolutely despise each other to the point where they’ll claim the other isn’t a true Muslim.
There is nothing more annoying than people starting a post by implying they know their stuffs only to end up with the most basic, ignorant conclusions.
Those you call extremists are not the extremists of Shia or Sunna,they are their own thing, ISIS is for instance is just a modern freak that combine aspects from the Khawarij and the Assassins with modernist/post-modern elements.
Keep in mind that Sunna weren’t formed as a “sect”, they were the anti-sect guys as such they were always defined as the opposite to whatever new sect was rising untill around the forth-fifth century where the madrassa system started spreading, and who was the very first sect to immerge? The Khawarij, so imagine how annoying it is to confuse sunnists with their very first enemy, Shai weren’t even THAT relevant for many centuries and the prime ideological opponents for sunnist were the Mu’utazillies and similair sects for most of the early centuries.
It should be noted, for the avoidance of doubt, that both Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood are Sunni. The conflict comes from the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is Islamist whereas the current Saudi crown prince is pursuing a policy of westernisation and liberalisation (and probably eventually secularisation).
Muslim brotherhood are the founders and currently affiliated with the some of the most evil people on the planet, like Erdogan, Hamas and Hezbollah.
There is no mainstream Shia scholar who does not consider Sunnis as Muslims.
