{"id":235927,"date":"2010-01-27T08:18:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T13:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=11489"},"modified":"2010-01-27T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T13:18:30","slug":"muslim-brotherhood-to-egypt-don%e2%80%99t-squeeze-out-moderates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/235927","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Brotherhood to Egypt: Don\u2019t squeeze out moderates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11503\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 291px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11503\" title=\"badie\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/01\/badie-281x350-custom.jpg\" alt=\"badie\" width=\"281\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohamed Badie in an interview with Reuters in Cairo, 26  Jan\/Asmaa Waguih<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The new leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has said that\u00a0 government efforts to squeeze Egypt&#8217;s biggest opposition group out of politics would only spur on <em>&#8220;deviant&#8221;<\/em> and potentially violent Islamic movements.\u00a0 Mohamed Badie, 66, told Marwa Awad and Edmund Blair of the Reuters Cairo bureau the group would campaign in this year&#8217;s parliamentary election, but a state crackdown would likely prevent a repeat of its success in 2005 when it secured a fifth of the seats.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Muslim Brotherhood, which carries the banner of moderate Islam, must be given the chance to teach Egyptian society to benefit the nation and its people,&#8221;<\/em> said Badie, picked as the group&#8217;s new leader this month.\u00a0 <em>&#8220;When we were prevented from playing the role of spreading moderate Islam, thorns sprouted in Egypt&#8217;s soil and so did terrorism,&#8221;<\/em> he said, adding he rejected <em>&#8220;deviant and &#8216;takfiri&#8217; ideology&#8221;<\/em>, referring to groups that declared people infidels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idAFJOE60Q02A20100127\">Read the whole story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span id=\"apture_prvw1\"> <\/span><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at RTRFaithWorld<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Badie in an interview with Reuters in Cairo, 26 Jan\/Asmaa Waguih The new leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has said that\u00a0 government efforts to squeeze Egypt&#8217;s biggest opposition group out of politics would only spur on &#8220;deviant&#8221; and potentially violent Islamic movements.\u00a0 Mohamed Badie, 66, told Marwa Awad and Edmund Blair of the Reuters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}