Wednesday, February 9,2011 10:21
\nby Paul Woodward \teurasiareview.com<\/p>\n
The Iranian nation has become a model for the other nations through its resistance and insistence on Islam and Islamic establishment and due to the eye-catching progress it has made on this path throughout the last 32 years,\u201d Ayatollah Khamenei said while addressing a military gathering in Tehran today.<\/p>\n
But the Muslim Brotherhood is more interested in expressing its solidarity with its secular co-revolutionaries than its Iranian co-religionists. This isn\u2019t an Islamic revolution, they say \u2014 stating the obvious. It\u2019s an Egyptian revolution.
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\nIkhwanweb, the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s official English website editor in chief Khaled Hamza has stated that the current uprising in Egypt is a revolution of the Egyptian people and is by no means linked to any Islamic tendencies, despite allegations nor can it be described as Islamic.<\/p>\n
Hamza stressed that the revolution is peaceful and calls solely for reform and a democratic civil state initiated by the youth through the social networking service Facebook and is far removed from any Islamist groups.<\/p>\n
He criticized allegations and reiterations by some countries that the uprising was Islamic and denounced claims by the Iranian Supreme Leader Mr. Khamenai that the protests are a sign of an Islamic Awakening inspired by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.<\/p>\n
Hamza maintained that the Egyptian protests are not an \u2018Islamic\u2019 uprising, but a mass protest against an unjust, autocratic regime which includes Egyptians from all walks of life and all religions and sects.<\/p>\n
Anyone in any doubt about the difference between the Khamenei regime and the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s conservative and pragmatic political movment, should listen to the following from Dr Maha Azzam, Chatham House and Dr Shadi Hamid, Brookings Doha Center:<\/p>\n
Listen!<\/p>\n
If in the first days of the Egyptian people\u2019s uprising, the Mubarak regime imagined it could ride out the storm, two weeks later we can see that the revolution is, on the contrary, growing in strength.
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