Ikhwanul Muslimin began to take a role in the conflict in Egypt

Ikhwanul Muslimin (Muslim Brotherhood), the largest opposition force in the country, seems to take a more assertive role since Thursday. The leader of the group issued a statement calling on President Hosni Mubarak to step aside for a transitional government. “We demand that the regime is overthrown, and we demand the establishment of a national unity government for all factions,” the Brotherhood said in a statement broadcast by Al Jazeera.

Many political analyst estimates Ikhwanul Muslimin would become a powerful political force. It makes the furious nations like United States and Israel because it would endanger their interests in the Middle East.

Founded in Egypt in 1928, Ikhwanul Muslimin is the oldest and largest Islamic movement in the world, with affiliates in nearly every Muslim country and adherents in Europe and the United States. Ikhwanul Muslimin was founded by a teacher and imam of Egypt, Hassan al-Banna, as a grass-roots associations whose purpose is to promote the reform of Muslim society with a greater adherence to Islam, through preaching, outreach and social service provision. Its size and diversity, and legal restrictions that have kept tens of years of indigenous political power in Egypt, making it difficult to sufficient quantities. As the Roman Catholic Church includes the left and liberation theology advocate conservative anti-abortion, so the Ikhwanul Muslimin include practical reformers and ideologues instigator.

American politicians and experts have used the Ikhwanul Muslimin as a kind of ghost, mark it as a radical threat from Al Qaeda’s grandfather. That lineage accurate in the literal sense in which some leaders of Al Qaeda, particularly the Egyptian roots of the terror network’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, have in the organization. But hate-Qaeda leader precisely because the Brotherhood has rejected violence and chose to compete in elections.

“Brotherhood hated Al-Qaeda and Al Qaeda hates the Brotherhood,” said Shadi Hamid. Shadi Hamid is director of research at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar. “So if we talk about counterterrorism, was involved with the Brotherhood will advance our interests in the region.”

Ikhwanul Muslimin figures are mostly old joined the demonstration only after they are under way. This doubt may reflect in part the history of state cruelty grim.