The Muslim Brothers, the Iqhwan, in conversation simply aqhi, "brothers," the Arab world's oldest Islamic party, was founded in Egypt in 1928 and today is a force in Syria, Jordan and the Sudan. Trying to use his riveting personality to transform Egypt, Nasser banned them as reactionary. Under fire from the Nasserite left, Sadat brought it back to legal life as a counterweight. Today, Hosni Mubarak uses them as a foil to parry the Islamic radicals bearing down on his regime; he pressures them to renounce terror, and he makes sure the favors due Islam either go their way or the way they favor.
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