Why do most of the recent protests focus on economic or social issues rather than political ones?
Return to table of contents. Printer-friendly version. Jordan: Rifts in the Muslim Brotherhood Ibrahim Gharaibeh Debates surrounding the April election of Hammam Sa’id as General Guide of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood reflected the deep internal conflict within the organization. For the past sixty years, the movement has managed to maintain internal unity. Recently, however, internal schisms—traditionally underplayed and kept secret—have become much more salient and public. The movement is wrought with generational, regional, and ideological disagreements; it also faces great external pressures that threaten its unity and its ability to reach consensus on national and regional issues. Most significantly, the recent emergence of a powerful faction with close ties to Palestine’s Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) threatens to divide the movement. Debates within the Jordanian Islamist movement date to the political opening that Jordan experienced since the 1980s, and they heightened a
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