re: German press claims Khashoggi is a spook/nephew of huge arms dealer. Was buds with OBL

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Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist organization that among other things wants to replace the Saudi monarchy with a modern Islamist totalitarian state.

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My god this is a hilarious, and untrue, sentence. MB wants to replace the current Saudi Islamist totalitarian state with another version of it? Nominally, Muslim Brotherhood claims to be democratic, and the organic movements in SA that were influenced by the KSA's long patronage of MB, the Sahwa Movement, also promote democracy. Two of its most famous adherents, Salman al-Ouda and Safar Al-Hawali, have been targeted by the Saudi state because of their views on democracy.

It's very confusing how an association with MB has become a pejorative, especially when comparing that group to the insane Wahhabis that have long controlled the KSA.

This is not to say that I think MB would be democratic. I'm only reporting what they themselves say.