The Jordano regime, a key stability factor in the Tumultuoso East, has announced The prohibition of activities of Muslim brothers, the most veteran Islamist movement in the region. Amán’s government considers that Muslim brothers is involved in a plot for … carry out attacks in the kingdom, after the arrest and interrogation of 16 of its members.
There is the circumstance that the political branch in Jordan of Muslim Brothers – the Islamic Action Front – obtained a remarkable advance in the last parliamentary elections, and is today the first group in the Legislative Chamber, although most of the members of it continue to support the government chosen by the crown.
Muslim brothers It was born more than a century ago in Egyptwhere today an illegal movement, and is extended throughout the Arab world. It has been a long time since officially resigned from the armed struggle And to terrorism as instruments to get to power, but maintains its goal of creating Islamist states, chaired by Sharia, the Law of the Koran.
In Jordan, the constitutional monarchy headed by a hachemi dynasty (descendant of the prophet Muhammad), Muslim brothers is widespread in all cities, with a multitude of offices that have now been closed by the police.
Both the direction of Muslim brothers and the parliamentary party that represents his ideas They have denied their involvement in the preparation of attacks in the kingdom. Although, according to Reuters, they accept that “members of the Movement, on an individual way” have been able to intervene in the supply of weapons to the Palestinian Radical Group in Gaza.
The decision to send to clandestinity to Muslim brothers, while the question remains open around what will happen with its political branch present in Parliament, is a bold blow of the monarchy of Abdalá IIthat in 2024 he had denounced another Islamist plot in Jordan. The regime is a key ally of the West in the Middle East, and maintains a difficult balance in front of Israel – not to give the impression of communing with its thesis – and the tesiture that represents the high percentage of its population that is of Palestinian origin.
