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

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

CONFLICTED

December 11, 20251h 3m

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Show Notes

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


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This episode was produced and edited by Thomas Small.

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