Reply #17: Wasn't this the group behind the assassination of Anwar Sadat?

[6th Borough]

...correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Egyptian Islamic Jihad (and subsequently, the Islamic Jihad currently operating in the PLA territories) an offshoot if the Muslim Brotherhood?

Either they've had a change of heart (and/or leadership) or they have no difficulty in making declaring intentions 180 degrees from their true philosophy.

Hell, after all these years, maybe I can give them the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps they are (I'm not speaking cynically here) more concerned with the state of affairs within Egypt (authoritarian rule, massive unemployment, coupled w/ having the largest population in the Arab world by a long shot and yet falling so far from prominence since the days of Nasser, the liberation of the Suez...even having puppet states of their own; the superpower of the Arab world, so to speak).