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November 10, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/21/world/africa/21banna.html

A Liberal Brother at Odds with the Muslim Brotherhood

[New York Times] Michael Slackman - Gamal al-Banna is 85, and for much of his life he has been overshadowed by his famous brother, Sheik Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist political party and antecedent of a host of militant Islamist organizations, from al-Qaeda to Hamas. He is a liberal thinker, a man who would like to see Islamic values and practices interpreted in the context of modern times. Banna says the radicals are guilty of imposing what amounts to their interpretation of the Koran onto other Muslims.

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