The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.
From Richard Engel
The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.
Traditionally, all the kings of Saudi Arabia have been sons of the founder of Saudi Arabia, and they've gone from one son to the next.
Foreign aid projects have pumped billions of dollars into the Afghan economy.
The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.
The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.
In the 1990s, Islamists in Algeria won elections like the Brotherhood did in Egypt. The Algerian military refused to allow the Islamists to take power. A war erupted, killing between 100,000 to 200,000 people, depending on which estimates are to be believed.
There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer the case in Egypt today.
The Muslim Brotherhood, or 'the Brotherhood' for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a secret campaign to take over the government since its creation.
ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?
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