To Talk or Not to Talk? - That is The Question (regarding the Muslim Brotherhood)

Steven Brooke and I have received much criticism from other conservatives about our analysis of the Muslim Brotherhood. One of them is Joshua Muravchik of the American Enterprise Institute. He recently voiced his objections with our position. While he agreed that we should talk to them, he doesn’t see the Brotherhood as a force for either reform or moderation. He considers them jihadists and bases his argument on quotations from Supreme Guide Muhammad Akef. And if there is no difference between the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda—they are both jihadi, tout court—what is there to talk about?

What indeed? This is the heart of the matter: