{"id":3731,"date":"2011-02-09T09:41:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T09:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2011-02-10T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T08:04:00","slug":"egypt-the-muslim-brotherhood-as-rorschach-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3731","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: the Muslim Brotherhood as Rorschach test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> ]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/quoikhwan.gif\" alt=\"quoikhwan.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell from a quick search on Google, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6zqcwll\">ElBeltagy<\/a> is a Muslim Brotherhood MP, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Headlines\/Article.aspx?id=206130\">Muhammad Ghanem<\/a> is the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s representative in London.<\/p>\n<p>Some will see in this <strong>DoubleQuote<\/strong>, further evidence of &#8220;taqiyya&#8221; &#8212; I think that&#8217;s quite a stretch.  Some will see evidence of a struggle in which two opinions use media access as part of the process of jockeying for position &#8212; that seems a lot more plausible.  Or it may be as simple as the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one analytic overview that came highly recommended by my more expert friends:<\/p>\n<p>Hossam Tammam, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almasryalyoum.com\/en\/opinion\/islamists-and-egyptian-revolution\">Islamists and the Egyptian revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron ] As far as I can tell from a quick search on Google, ElBeltagy is a Muslim Brotherhood MP, while Muhammad Ghanem is the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s representative in London. Some will see in this DoubleQuote, further evidence of &#8220;taqiyya&#8221; &#8212; I think that&#8217;s quite a stretch. Some will see evidence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,498,526,471,476,233,102,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytic","category-arab-world","category-charles-cameron","category-cultural-intelligence","category-democracy","category-dictator","category-diplomacy","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}