Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Looks Beyond Tahrir

1 December 2011

Cairo — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood came under fire from various political quarters for its decision to stay out of last week's clashes in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square. But as Egyptians vote in the country's first post-Mubarak parliamentary polls, many local analysts believe the controversial decision may have ended up paying political dividends.

"Preliminary indications suggest the Brotherhood did even better at the polls than initially expected because their measured response to the recent Tahrir Square clashes was positively received by much of the public, who just want stability after months of uncertainty," Abdel Menaam Mounib, prominent Egyptian authority on Islamic political movements, told IPS.

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