Tea Party vs. Muslim Brotherhood

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With the recent unrest, one reporter compared the Muslim Brotherhood to the new Tea Party movement. Being a member of the Tea Party movement I was initially offended by this comparison. As I did further research on the two groups and how they were started and why, I see that philosophically the start of each group is actually similar however, the way they go about presenting their views to the world is drastically different. How they recruit members and try to change policy is rooted in the same core values of culture, language and religion. How they accomplish their goal is different as night and day.

The Muslim Brotherhood started as a social and religious group in Egypt in the early 1900’s by al-Banna. They wanted to return to the Qur’an and reject Western influence; they were looking for cultural and social control. Their doctrine is “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.” (“The Muslim Brotherhood”, n.d.) They have branches in 70 countries. The Muslim Brotherhood has through out the last 70 years been banned from several middle-eastern countries. (“The Muslim Brotherhood”, n.d.) The modern Tea Party movement started in 2009 as a common-interest association. Keli Carender, a young mother, was concerned about the TARP being passed in Congress and the debt it would cause for generations. She started a blog and encouraged people to come to a protest called “Porkulus Protest”. The movement gained momentum when CNBC’s Rick Santelli asked the American’s “Do we really want to subsidize the lower’s mortgages? This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor’s mortgage that has an extra bathroom and ca...

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... their lives. How they each go about making those changes is very different. These differences will be played out on the world stage for all to see.

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Rowen, B (n.d.) History of the tea party movement. Infoplease.com. Retrieved February 5, 2011, from www.inforplease.com/us/government/tea-party-history.html

jewishvirtuallibary.org. (n.d.). jewishvirtuallibary.org. Retrieved February 6, 2011, from http://www.jewishvirtuallibary.org/jsource/terrorism/muslinbrotherhood.html

The muslim brotherhood. (n.d.). Investigative Project on Terrorism. Retrieved February 11, 2005, from www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/135.pdf

Zak, M (2010, February 16) The republican party began as a tea party movement. Big Government. Retrieved February 5, 2011, from biggovernment.com/mzak/2010/02/16/the-republican-party-began-as-a tea-party-movement/

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