AHQ: The Muslim Brotherhood has more influence in the Middle East

Due to it's Islamist ideology, the Muslim Brotherhood is either detested or straight up outlawed by secular regimes in the Middle East. In the most extreme case, in retaliation for a Brotherhood-led uprising, the Syrian regime under Hafez al-Assad brutally shelled the city of Hama, killing 40,000 people.

It has only attained something close to political power twice (correct me if I'm wrong). In the Palestinian territories in the form of the terror group Hamas and briefly in Egypt under the guise of the Justice and Development Party, which resulted in it's overthrow by the Egyptian military after the people grew discontented with the Party's Islamist leanings. It's failure in Egypt resulted in it being labelled a terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, though Qatar still openly supports the organization.

With all of that being said, Syria and Egypt's hatred of the Brotherhood come from their secular roots, which were established or in the case of Syria, inspired by Nasser who once famously ridiculed the leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood for failing to make the leader's daughter wear a hijab, but expecting Nasser to force the 10 million women in Egypt to do so.

So, what would need to happen for the Muslim Brotherhood to have a more substantial influence in the Middle East to the extent that it's able to influence governments without being toppled? Does Nasserism need to be butterflied away?
 

hammo1j

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Hmmm reading about them, they seem to be a Muslim version of the Freemasons/Puritans with ehics that people aspire to but find tedious and impractical when applied to society. They are charitable and exert a big influence for their small number too.

Possibly the way to more success would be to form a tight economic cartel within in their societies...
 
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