"And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness, the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief. "

Khalil Gibran (How I Became a Madman)

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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Muslim Brotherhood Open Office in Washington DC, Criticized by other Muslim Organizations

SOURCE: Reform Party of Syria(RPS)
Furthermore, a new moderate Muslim organization named the Society for Justice and Development based out of London the UK criticized the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood today in an article published by Elaph. Their criticism centered on the attempts of the Muslim Brotherhood to stifle their growth for fear that they would attract Syrian moderate Muslims hungry for Islam but not for extremism.

Ali al-Ahmad, the writer of the article, claims that the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood does not act any different than the Ba'athists in control in Damascus; it does so by excluding people and organizations that the SMB do not agree with from any political process. Many other organizations, who joined the National Salvation Front in the past and then left them, have leveled the same accusations against the organization.