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Well Organized Ikhwan Protects The Nation

Well organized structure and action within the Muslim Brotherhood group is a matter that is highly considered, with the movement mainly counting on its members and its non members who support its agenda. The movement gains its influence within society from the activities offered by its members whose daily omnipresence with the masses draws many supporters. Membership within the

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Well organized structure and action within the Muslim Brotherhood group is a matter that is highly considered, with the movement mainly counting on its members and its non members who support its agenda.

The movement gains its influence within society from the activities offered by its members whose daily omnipresence with the masses draws many supporters.
Membership within the group is of great importance, which why it gives much due care to its new members. Given the security restraints, conditions of membership within the group undergo much scrutiny to forestall any infiltration which happens to other groups. However, the group is keen to be well organized, or as the group’s chairman once put it "precision of organization". Such a precise organization earns the group a considerable amount of influence. This boded well in the parliamentary elections in particular when the group used its organized movement very well in promoting its candidates; even the demonstrations were well organized.
The group also enjoys a significant ability to mobilize masses particularly when it adopts specific political positions in certain situations. This is a product of the group’s excellent organization which shows clearly in its ability to unify the positions of its members, making it a unified political bloc with a unified attitude.              
All this aforementioned is a tremendous asset to the group’s movement, strengthening its influence among the public in spite of the strict security siege which the group sustains.

Apparently the powerful organization of the group is its real weapon as it presses for change and reform. This supports the fact that the well organized structure of the group and volume of membership therein are its very tools in bringing about the hoped for influence in both political and missionary work areas, and Vis a Vis the security harassment. 

Being a well organized group made the security agencies refrain from attempting to eradicate the group, given that the good organization furthers the group’s capability of escalation, demonstration and even civil disobedience. This leads us to realize why the group minds organization so much so that some analysts argue that the Ikhwan overrid the interest of the group over that of the Nation. But as a matter of fact , the group eyes organization as the main tool which helps it to perform its mission and  ensures its continuation, two things which the group sees as intertwined in its quest to achieve its role toward its nation  .

But the matter gets more complicated in some situations where the group, along with the nation, witnesses, as it has been the case since 2005, escalations and pressures on the ruling regime when they are sometimes required. But while the group is capable of leading the masses to a public resentment and pressure on the regime, it, however, cannot embark on an all out civil disobedience.

With the givens aforementioned, the question becomes; is it of the interest of the group to impose change even if the result is uncertain? And are there certain results in the political change?
We see this as the main problem facing the Muslim Brotherhood, which makes its political calculations more complicated.
The status quo makes us share the group its fears of sacrificing the organization, given that the group leads the political opposition forces able to stand up against the regime, which are also able to be its archrival in the election. So if the group gives the regime a justification to crush it, the nation will be the very loser.

However, the country will be the loser if the group fails to do its duty toward it as well as the masses supporting it. The criteria, as far as we know, is how much influence and change  the group can  bring about, which means that the organization will be in the nation’s interest if it continues its mission, while  meager influence on the part of the group will require it to brace for more risks, with relentless influence and phased changed being the criteria of a well organized and well reactivated  organization .

Rafik Habib, Protestant Christian, who argues that Egyptians–Muslim and Christian alike–are members of an Islamic society