ABSTRACT

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leadership engaged in negotiations with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), and the Brotherhood set up its own political party, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) which, in alliance with the Salafist parties, won the majority of parliamentary seats. Ikhwan's website, Egypt Window, published an article dated 30 May 2015 entitled "The Western Stance Toward the Brotherhood", in which it details the characteristic phases. Protests against the Brotherhood and FJP's policies mounted not only among members but also among mainstream media whose journalists complained of rising intimidation by Mohamad Morsi's government. The MB media resorted to the same old narrative where events facing the whole region are regarded as part of a calculated plot against Islam, where the good ought to win in the end. The MB media simply resumed its warning of the ongoing conspiracy against them and against Islam, a battle that was claimed as being fought internally as well as externally.