In 2011, mass movements of desperate ordinary people, trying to survive and calling for some basic needs and dignity, emerged in the Arab world.

The Muslim Brotherhood, whilst not the instigators of the uprisings, benefited and emerged as the only group capable of organising an alternative to the status quo. The elders of the Brotherhood made some mistakes, which led to the old order taking back control, aided and abetted by some Gulf states and Western governments. And as a result of that experience, the Muslim Brotherhood movement has now largely become discredited among younger Muslims.

In the Syria conflict ISIS emerged on cue to put an end to the Syrian revolution. One day the truth will emerge about this movement. An edition of the ISIS magazine, Dabiq, has the headline “The Murtad (apostate) Brotherhood” on its front cover. They argue that the Muslim Brotherhood is a deviant group.

And whilst ISIS declared the Brotherhood “Murtad,” Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt has acted as a willing executioner. Thousands of members of the Muslim brotherhood have now been imprisoned, tortured and many killed, whilst the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel and even the USA, France, and Austria consider the Brotherhood terrorist or extremist. They have all also declared them and “political Islam” deviant.

Some regimes in the Middle East, fearing that their days are numbered, have engaged in a vicious effort to wipe out the Muslim Brotherhood along with Western States, even targeting legitimate organisations in Europe using the charge of terrorism and Islamic deviancy.