The effects of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood on Afghan jihadist groups

The present paper is organized to answer this question of how the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement has had an impact on Afghan jihadist groups? The study of this issue is important because many of the political and social problems in Afghanistan are rooted in the friendships and relationships of social forces with flows outside the borders. To find the answer to this question, we use an analytical descriptive method. The obtained results indicate that the jihadist groups influenced the Muslim Brotherhood in their goals and ideals, organizational structure, and methods of struggle, and six factors influencing these groups had a significant role in the influence of the Brotherhood: The central position of Egypt and al-Azhar in the Muslim world, the modernization of the Brotherhood leaders in interpreting religious teachings, the absorbent political ideology of the Brotherhood, the devout and religious affiliation of Egypt with the Afghan sunni community, the cultural intellectual poverty in Afghanistan, and Western support for Islamist ideas against Development of the influence of socialism. The Brotherhood's thoughts have been transmitted through religious scholars, Arab expeditionary forces, and the translation of books and magazines into Afghanistan, and specifically affected the three groups of the Muslim youth movement, the Gulbuddin Islamic Party, and the Islamic populace. The spread of extremism and the deepening of social gaps in Afghanistan can be seen as two important consequences of the jihadist groups’ influence of the Muslim Brotherhood.