Saudi action puts Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait on spot

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  • Saudi action puts Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait on spot - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
    http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/03/muslim-brotherhood-kuwait-saudi-terror.html

    On March 11, a little-noticed lawsuit will resume in the Kuwaiti courts to disband the Muslim Brotherhood’s local charity arm, the Social Reform Society. Al Eslah, as it is known, is accused of mixing aid with politics — at home as well as in projects abroad, such as in Egypt. The case itself is unlikely to achieve its objective and will likely linger in the courts for months. But it is a telling example of the increasingly tense debate in Gulf states over the Muslim Brotherhood’s place in politics.

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    Half a century ago, members of the Muslim Brotherhood came to the Gulf allied with the ruling monarchies against a different threat: Arab nationalism in Egypt. Many of those who came drew from the educated classes of Cairo and naturally gravitated to education in the Gulf as well. Ministries of Education from Kuwait to Bahrain Saudi Arabia grew and modernized drawing on their expertise.