Ikhwan spokesman defends the group in the pages of The New York Times

One of our least-favorite Islamists is back in the international spotlight: Writing from prison,Gehad El-Haddad, the Ikhwan’s one-time English-language spokesman takes, to the pages of The New York Times to “recognize the [Ikhwan’s] political mishaps” and argue that they are by no means enough to justify “detention and fallacious designations.” Haddad says the group had always been a non-violent, “socially aware grassroots movement” dedicated to social service and public work and regrets that politics drove a wedge between them and the people they served. He adds that so-called “offshoots” of the group left because “they found no path in our philosophy, vision of society or movement for such extremism.” Read “I Am a Member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Not a Terrorist.”