What the U.S. Gets Wrong About the Muslim Brotherhood

In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas speaks with Lorenzo Vidino,
Director of the Programme on Extremism at The George Washington
University. What happens when an ideological movement is neither a
terrorist organisation nor an ordinary religious group — but
something in between? One of the world’s leading experts on the
Muslim Brotherhood explains… The early history of Islam in America
The first Brotherhood-linked students arriving in the U.S. in the
50s and 60s The formation of the first American Brotherhood cells
The Brotherhood’s gradual institutional influence across the 80s
and 90s Why CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) is so
controversial Germany’s three-fold classification system and what
the U.S. can learn from it Follow Lorenzo on: X, BlueSky, LinkedIn,
and YouTube.  Check out his books: The New Muslim Brotherhood
in the West (Columbia University Press, 2010) The Closed Circle:
Joining and Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood in the West (Columbia
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