"...al - ikhwan al - musilmun = Muslim Brothers"

"... al - ikhwan al - muhandisun = Engineer Brothers"



Khalid Duran's insight into this issue "... of the worst anti - Americanism" in Steven Emerson's American Jihad, page 172.

"Yet some of the worst anti - Americanism among Muslim fundamentalists comes from people who are often remarkably well - educated -- engineers,m doctors, and even scientists.

"Duran has an answer for that as well.

And here it is!

"[T]he odd thing about Islamic fundamentalism is that it's always had its strongest appeal among engineers.

"There's even a joke in Arabic.

"The words al - ikhwan al - musilmun mean Muslim Brothers.

"[A]nd al - ikhwan al - muhandisun means Engineer Brothers..

"In Egypt they always say the Muslim Brotherhood is really the Engineering Brotherhood...."