“For decades, the Islamist group thrived in the shadows in the Arab world’s most populous nation.  In the years leading up to the 2011 overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak, it stepped carefully into the limelight, fielding parliamentary candidates as independents.  But it was only after the uprising that it took centre-stage, winning nearly 50 percent of seats in parliament and then Egypt’s first free presidential vote, which brought Mohamed Morsi to office.  Its fall from grace since has been spectacular, with its top leaders now in jail and hundreds of its supporters killed in clashes with security forces since Morsi’s July 3 ouster by the army after a wave of mass protests.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/20/muslim-brotherhood-may-go-back-underground-to-survive-egyptian-military-crackdown/

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