In Egypt itself, the two largest Islamist groups - the Brotherhood and the Salafists - won about three quarters of the ballots in the second round of legislative elections held in December, while the secular and the liberal forces took a battering.
JERUSALEM (JTA) - The Muslim Brotherhood did not initiate the current upheavals in the Middle East, but the Islamist parties in Egypt, as in Tunisia and Libya, have been the chief beneficiaries of the collapse of longstanding authoritarian repressive regimes across North Africa.
