Mideast: The New Muslim Brotherhood

Don't look now, but the face of radical Islam has changed dramatically across the Middle East.
by Stephen Glain
NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL

April 30, 2007 issue - Zeki Bany Arshead is the Muslim Brotherhood's new man in Amman. The general secretary of the Islamic Action Front, the Brotherhood's Jordanian chapter, might be expected to spout the rhetoric of his predecessors—heavy on Qur'anic injunctions and talk of a Pan-Arabic Islamic "caliphate." So what's all this about democracy? "Our minimum demand," he says from his businesslike offices in downtown Amman, "is for freedom of expression and assembly, real elections with multiple parties, rule of law, an independent judiciary and a free press."

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