Muslim Brotherhood Jockeys for Power in Egypt

摘要

In this way it won one-fifth of the seaLs in the 2005 parliamentary elections. Since the days of President Gamal Abdel Nasser (1956-1970), the Egyptian government has looked the other way as the Brotherhood terrorized Coptic Christians and enforced Islamic strictures upon the Egyptian populace, but cracked down when the group showed signs of growing powerful enough actually to seize the reins of the Egyptian government.