Banning the Brotherhood won’t make it go away

During the tenure of Mohammad Mursi’s presidency in Egypt, there were some supporters of Islamism who expressed grave concerns about the future of the Islamist project regionally and globally. These particular concerns were not about the possibility of a military intervention that would remove Mursi from office. Rather, the concerns were about the exposing of intellectual bankruptcy within the parent movement of modern, mainstream, Islamism. Those concerns have now been put to one side –the Brotherhood in particular, and Islamism as a whole, have other more immediate concerns to deal with. But regardless of those concerns, neither the Brotherhood, nor Islamism, is likely to disappear anytime soon.

The opening of the article. The full text is at Al Arabiya English.