.... Without making basic and meaningful changes to its structure and without undertaking a major revision of its discourse, the Brotherhood may well be on a slow road to nothingness. It will also need to remember that Mubarak's National Democratic party won elections and secured seats in parliament. But winning seats without a real popular mandate will only alienate the Brotherhood further from the people it claims to represent.
[A COMMENT] I heard the Muslim Brotherhood in Radio 4 this morning advocating large families, because 94% of Egyptian land was unpopulated. It is also uninhabitable. Egypt's population is set to double again in the next 40 years. They will starve first. [Guardian Cif] Read more
