Julia Simon examines the sources of funding behind the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi Al-Nour party, who now hold more than two thirds of parliamentary seats in Egypt.
"Down a narrow alley way in a village in the Qalubiya Province north of Cairo is the apartment of Muhammad Sadd, a local Muslim Brotherhood member in this village of 35,000 people.
Twenty-nine year-old Sadd lives with his wife Sara and 11-month-old baby, Ahmed. He works as a security guard on the banks of the Nile. He doesn’t make a lot of money for Sara and Ahmed – only about 130 dollars a month. And yet every month he gives 7 percent of his income to the Muslim Brotherhood. For Sadd, that comes to about 50 Egyptian pounds, less than 10 dollars.At the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in the hills above Cairo, I meet Khairat el Shatter, a multi-millionaire businessman and the deputy supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party recently won 47 percent of the seats the parliament and el Shatter says the majority of campaign money came from fees from members like Mohammad Sadd."
“For example,” he says, “if in Egypt there are 1 million members of the Muslim Brotherhood and if all of them gave a dollar a month than we’d have a lot of money for the elections and everything else.”
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