Existential Politics
British writer Ben Cobley's distinctive, existential take on politics and culture.
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How the Muslim Brotherhood has embedded itself in Western societies (opens the original)
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I think the most difficult thing to grasp about the Muslim Brotherhood is also the most basic. What is this thing, this entity called the Brotherhood? And, beyond that, how does this entity seem to be both everywhere and nowhere, ubiquitous and marginal, both big and small? And how does this all relate to the proliferation of Islamist organisations across the West and beyond?These questions – which I think pretty much everyone in public life struggles to reach the threshold of asking let alone a
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