Unlike jihadi groups, the MB seeks to change the world slowly & stealthily. While AQ & IS would consider themselves lucky to control a village, the MB is able to exert control over entire countries.
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On the other hand, in 2016, a mosque less than a mile from me invited J-e-I firebrand Muhammad Hanif Qureshi to speak. This is a man who praised the murder of Punjabi governor Salmaan Tafseer, who wished to relax blasphemy laws. The invitation was approved by the UK Home Office.
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Clearly, Western governments offer the MB and its offshoots freedoms that they would never grant to AQ or IS, and this makes the more outwardly respectable groups far more dangerous than the jihadis.
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In conclusion: the MB is the grandfather of much of today’s Islamism, a puppeteer of jihadis & dictators alike, a many-headed hydra seeking to devour civilisation from a myriad different ways. It may not burn people alive in 1080p, but this is precisely why it should be watched.
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