Fmr. Director of Al Jazeera: "The uproar that has accompanied the Islamists` gains is unhelpful!"

"... Reform-based Islamic movements, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, work within the political process. They learned a bitter lesson from their armed conflict in Syria against the regime of Hafez al-Assad in 1982, which cost the lives of more than 20,000 people and led to the incarceration or banishment of many thousands more. The Syrian experience convinced mainstream Islamic movements to avoid armed struggle and to observe `strategic patience` instead. ..."