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Dec 2022
1h 9m

The Jihad Brothers

FDD
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The Muslim Brotherhood has been around for close to a century but most people – certainly most Americans and Europeans – know very little about it.

Is it reformist and non-violent as its spokesmen and defenders claim?

Or is it – as Cynthia Farahat argues in a new book – the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization?

The book is titled: The Secret Apparatus: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Industry of Death.

Cynthia Farahat is an Egyptian-American writer, counterterrorism expert, and fellow at the Middle East Forum, whose president, Daniel Pipes, a distinguished scholar, wrote the forward to her book.

She joins host Cliff May as well as FDD’s Reuel Marc Gerecht, formerly a Middle Eastern specialist at the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, to discuss.

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