![]() ![]() Islam to them is exclusively what a sheikh or the Guide says. When it comes to the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists, there is no way to debate on religion. Second: they claim an exclusive understanding of religion. For instance, when the Guide was leaving the mosque, the Brotherhood devotees competed over "the honour to put shoes on his feet for him". But they are all mindlessly subordinated to their leader. Many of these youth are educated: engineers and doctors. Stripped of judgement, they back everything he does or says. A Brotherhood member swears unquestioning allegiance to the Guide. ![]() This is because their understanding of religion, according to Aswani, rests on the following factors:įirst: sheer obedience to the Guide. To be sure, the behaviour of the Brotherhood and Salafists in real life is starkly at odds with the true teachings of Islam, and their take on religion is dissimilar to that of regular Muslims. ![]() "Just try to level criticism at the Brotherhood Supreme Guide on Facebook or Twitter, and you will receive showers of terrible insults from religious youth assigned by the Guidance Bureau to insult Brotherhood opponents online." Yet they commit all kinds of irregularities: lying, vote-buying, voter intimidation, preventing Copts from casting their vote, cutting electricity at polling stations and the list goes on, the writer noted. The Brotherhood and Salafists claim to be God-fearing, aware of what is wrong and right. The Brotherhood and Salafists do not understand religion the way regular Muslims understand it, wrote Egyptian novelist Alaa Aswani in the Cairo-based paper El Masry El Youm. ![]()
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