The Muslim Brotherhood is a Sunni Muslim group first founded in 1928 by Egyptian teacher Hassan al-Banna. And they are tremendously resilient."Īt first, Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Bana was largely apolitical They may be in a moment of weakness right now - especially in Morocco, vis-a-vis the state - but they are not gone. Islamists have a tremendous ability to reinvent and reenergize themselves. Their demise "was predicted in the '50s, the '60s and the '70s," said Mohamed Daadaoui, a political science professor who specializes in North African politics at Oklahoma City University in the US. After all, this isn't the first time the demise of Muslim Brotherhood affiliates has been mooted, they told DW. These changes of fortune for Muslim Brotherhood-inspired groups has led to suggestions that the era of what has been described as neo-Islamism is now over. "It appears his first choice was to sacrifice the Muslim Brotherhood to pursue appeasement with Cairo and Riyadh in the hopes of securing new friends in the region," they concluded. This change of Turkish attitude stemmed from several factors, including a new United States government less engaged in the region, deterioration of Turkey's relationships with other Gulf Arab nations like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and economic woes at home, analysts at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy wrote in March this year.Ī pro-Muslim Brotherhood protest in Istanbul with protestors holding pictures of ousted Egyptian leader Morsi Thousands of exiled members of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood took shelter in Turkey, Until relatively recently, they had been supported by the Turkish government, which significantly cooled diplomatic relations between Egypt and Turkey.īut early last year, that began to change, with Turkish authorities taking actions such as preventing Egyptian opposition satellite stations in the country from broadcasting criticism of the Egyptian regime. But a coup by the Egyptian military in 2013 overthrew Morsi's government, and the incoming authoritarian leadership arrested and killed many members of the movement. In Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi won that country's first post-Arab Spring elections in 2012. In Tunisia, the mainstream Islamist party, Ennahda, was pushed out of power after President Kais Saied suspended the country's parliament in July. Morocco's ruling Islamists suffer election defeat Powerless and doomed?
The PJD's defeat comes at the same time as other Muslim Brotherhood-connected political parties, most of which also came to power in the region after the so-called Arab Spring in 2011, are facing setbacks - albeit in varying circumstances.
"The party's drop reflects a popular public perception that Morocco's central bureaucracy aligned with the palace is better able to manage the economy, navigate crisis, and create job growth," said Michael Tanchum, of the Austrian Institute for Security Policy and a non-resident fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington. But now the party, which is closely connected to the Muslim Brotherhood - a movement that centers Islam in its political and social work - retains just 13 seats. In previous ballots of 20, the party, commonly known as the PJD, ended up with a majority in the 395-seat assembly. In the country's federal elections last Wednesday, the Justice and Development Party lost 113 of the 125 seats it had won in the last election.
Last week, the party that previously held a majority in the Moroccan parliament suffered a crushing setback.
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