A Muslim Brotherhood dissident recently pointed out that “inside every Brotherhood member is an Islamic State member.”
This came in response to the recent revelation that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdidi was once in the Muslim Brotherhood.
Abdul Jalil al-Sharnubi, a former Brotherhood leader, made his statements during a satellite interview on the Arabic language program “New Evening” with journalist Jamal ‘Anayat.
His point was that the revelation that al-Baghdadi was in the Brotherhood should be no surprise. To make his point, he even added that “established lawyers and doctors [from the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood] were among the first to volunteer to fight [for the Islamic State].”
More diplomatically but making the same point, Egyptian Minister of Religious Endowments (Awqaf), Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar Gom‘a earlier said that the fact that al-Baghdadi was with the Brotherhood proves “that the Brotherhood is the spiritual father to every extremist group.”