Damascus, May 13 (ANI): The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria has resurrected itself and become the dominant group amid 14-months of uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
The exiled Muslim Brotherhood members and their supporters now hold the most number of seats in the Syrian National Council, The Washington Post reports.
They even control its relief committee, which distributes aid and money to Syrians participating in the revolt.
The Brotherhood is also sending funds and weapons to the rebels, who continued to fight with Syrian troops despite a month-old U.N.-brokered cease-fire.eighboring countries fear that the fall of the minority Alawite regime in Damascus would make way for the Sunni Islamist government.
However, Brotherhood leaders have assured Syria's neighbours, including Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon, as well as U.S. and European diplomats, that hey do not intend to dominate Syria's political system or establishing any form of Islamist government.
"These concerns are not legitimate when it comes to Syria, for many reasons," Molham al-Drobi, who is a member of the Brotherhood's leadership and sits on the Syrian National Council's foreign affairs committee, said.
But although support for the Brotherhood inside Syria appears to be limited, activists say it is growing as the uprising drags on. (ANI)
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