The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.

To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.

The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion.

In the 1990s, Islamists in Algeria won elections like the Brotherhood did in Egypt. The Algerian military refused to allow the Islamists to take power. A war erupted, killing between 100,000 to 200,000 people, depending on which estimates are to be believed.

The Syrian border town of Qa'im was the main gateway Islamic radicals used to go to Iraq. Syria became the passageway for extremists from Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to fight a jihad against American forces in Iraq.

In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.