(MENAFN) During an interview on AL-Jazeera TV, a Saudi writer who lives currently in the US said that the Muslim Brotherhood is not simply going to disappear.
Despite all the pressure, Jamal Khashoggi stressed its ideology will remain influential.
Khashoggi stressed that what the Brotherhood was exposed to during the time of former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser from 1956 to 1970 was no more than what it is exposed to today.
He pointed out the Nasser's government came to an end but the Muslim Brotherhood remained. This was a 'victory' of sorts for the Islamist ideology adopted by the movement since its founding by Hassan Al-Banna in 1928.
"The Brotherhood won without knowing," he suggested, adding that there was a project for the abolition of the Islamic group by Western liberal forces and by the communists who tried to abolish religion.
He concluded that the Muslim Brotherhood should not be anxious about its future, which is assured as long as the religion of Islam remains. However, he called upon the movement to get out of "the narrow scope of the organization to the openness of the ideology" although he accepted that the organization was necessary at a certain time.
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