ANDREW BOSTOM EXPLAINS THE EGYPTIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD’S POPULARITY
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January 31, 2011
Andrew Bostom Explains the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Popularity on Radio
Citing — wait for it — actual data, I explained this AM (Monday 1/31/11) on America’s Morning News radio Show with John McCaslin and Amy Holmes why the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s traditional Islam resonates with the Muslim mainstream in Egypt.
A cogent rebuttal of some alarming non-sequiturs recently put forth by Ralph Peters concludes the interview.
Background for the interview can be gleaned here, here, and at great length in this December 2007 essay/review, here.
Here is a link to the audio.
What Do the Egyptian Crowds Want? Caliphate Dreams and Strict Sharia
Posted by Andrew G. Bostom Jan 29th 2011 at 8:34 am in Islam, Islamic extremism, Middle East | Comments (28)
A sobering reminder—based upon hard data—from an essay of mine published in April, 2007:
In a rigorously conducted face-to-face University of Maryland/ WorldPublicOpinion.org interview survey of 1000 Egyptian Muslims conducted between December 9, 2006 and February 15, 2007, 67% of those interviewed-more than 2/3, hardly a “fringe minority”-desired this outcome (i.e., “To unify all Islamic countries into a single Islamic state or Caliphate”).
The internal validity of these data about the present longing for a Caliphate is strongly suggested by a concordant result: 74% of this Muslim sample approved the proposition “To require a strict [emphasis added] application of Shari’a law in every Islamic country.”
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