Brotherhood using the media to promote its ideology
Since the outbreak of the events of January 25, the Brotherhood has not hesitated to exploit the media to achieve its goals.
This Islamist
organization launched TV channels that can speak on its behalf.
These channels advocated
the Brotherhood's views before the downfall of the group's regime in Egypt in
June 2013.
The organization then
relied heavily on hostile TV channels, such as the Qatari news channel
al-Jazeera.
The organization and sponsor
states also allocated huge amounts of money to launch TV channels that can
broadcast from other countries.
Deep interest
Islamism specialist Ahmed
Ban said the Brotherhood viewed the media as an important tool for the
promotion of its agenda very early on.
Ban wrote an article in
September 2019 on this issue. Titled "The Brotherhood's use of the media
as a weapon to defend its ideas," the article talks about the role of the
media in the life of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ban says in the article
that the Brotherhood had realized the importance of the media very early on in
its life.
The group used the media,
he said, in mobilizing the members of the public and earning support from the
members of the public.
Ban notes that Muslim
Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna was keen to establish a newspaper that
would be the mouthpiece of the group and a tool for spreading his organization's
ideology early on.
He enumerates the
magazines and newspapers that the group intended to own.
"On June 15, 1933,
the Brotherhood released the first issue of its weekly magazine, The Muslim
Brotherhood," Ban says in his article.
He adds that the
organization wanted to publish this magazine on a daily basis.
He notes that Sheikh
Tantawi Gohari was the editor-in-chief of the magazine.