It's deja vu for the Muslim Brotherhood and a failure of the democratic process for Egypt, writes scholar

July 4, 2013

The Muslim Brotherhood has been here before.


In the fall of 1954, the Muslim Brotherhood put its faith in the revolutionary transition in place after the 1952 military coup, backing the wrong horse in General Muhammad Naguib, and was ultimately outmaneuvered by Nasser.

In one fell swoop, the organisation was outlawed, its offices burned down by angry mobs, its newspapers shut