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Assalaamu 'alaykum!
The accumulated reputation of the Islamic movement stems from a history of social work for the most impoverished of Egypt and was not merely a public relations exercise only done cynically close to the general election as was attempted by other liberalist movements.
The Brotherhood runs around 1000 NGOs and subsidises education, healthcare, facilities for the disabled and job-training programmes. Dozens of hospitals are administered by the organisation, as well as schools across all of Egypt and centres for widows and orphans that have been opened to all citizens, regardless their political or religious affiliation.[5] Services are offered at heavily subsidised rates while treatment and drugs are offered free of charge for those who cannot afford them since the organisation’s services run on donations.[6]
The trust it developed through the honesty it displayed since its establishment attracted the poorest and humblest who constituted the majority of those who voted in its favour. This reached the extent that even Egypt’s Coptic Christians used to ask when the Brotherhood will form a political party so that they can vote for it.[6]
Read more here: http://www.islam21c.com/politics/12020-the-waged-war-on-islam-in-egypt-part-1
The Brotherhood runs around 1000 NGOs and subsidises education, healthcare, facilities for the disabled and job-training programmes. Dozens of hospitals are administered by the organisation, as well as schools across all of Egypt and centres for widows and orphans that have been opened to all citizens, regardless their political or religious affiliation.[5] Services are offered at heavily subsidised rates while treatment and drugs are offered free of charge for those who cannot afford them since the organisation’s services run on donations.[6]
The trust it developed through the honesty it displayed since its establishment attracted the poorest and humblest who constituted the majority of those who voted in its favour. This reached the extent that even Egypt’s Coptic Christians used to ask when the Brotherhood will form a political party so that they can vote for it.[6]
Read more here: http://www.islam21c.com/politics/12020-the-waged-war-on-islam-in-egypt-part-1