Abdullah to Obama, Watch Out for Brother Mursi
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March 22 (Bloomberg) -- King Abdullah II of Jordan, amember of the dwindling band of Arab leaders who have somehowstayed in power despite the rise of what he calls a “MuslimBrotherhood crescent” across the Middle East, made an acuteobservation to me recently about the tactical immaturity of theBrotherhood’s leadership.
We were talking about the rise of political Islam in theregion when the king made an unflattering comparison betweenRecep Tayyip Erdogan, the Islamist prime minister of Turkey, andMohamed Mursi, the Muslim Brother who is president of Egypt. TheBrotherhood is an international movement, but it was founded inEgypt, and its leader, the supreme guide, sits there today.