Like many young members of the Brotherhood, I faced a stark choice: to either endure the group’s stagnation in terms of thought and activity and become part of an “uneasy minority” struggling to find a margin of action within the Brotherhood, or leave them altogether and look for other venues of political activism outside their rigid structure.
Today, as the revolution revives the Brotherhood and gives it fresh momentum, almost all the young members of the Brotherhood that I know, including those who were involved in organizing last January’s protests and sit-ins, have left the group and embraced political circles that commend greater adventure and vitality.
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