Editing Muslim Brotherhood (section)

===Controversy===
How much of the blame for the fall from power in Egypt of the Brotherhood and its allied Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) can be placed on the Brotherhood, and how much of it can be placed on its enemies in the Egyptian bureaucracy, media and security establishment is disputed. The Mubarak government's state media portrayed the Brotherhood as secretive and illegal,<ref>{{cite book|last=Wickham|first=Carrie|title=The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement|date=2013|publisher=Princeton: Princeton University Press|page=55}}</ref> and numerous TV channels such as OnTV spent much of their air time vilifying the organization.<ref>{{cite news|last=Elmasry|first=Mohamed|title=Unpacking Anti-Muslim Brotherhood Discourse|url=http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/12466/unpacking-anti-muslim-brotherhood-discourse|newspaper=Jadaliyya|date=28 June 2013|access-date=8 June 2017|archive-date=28 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628044528/http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/12466/unpacking-anti-muslim-brotherhood-discourse|url-status=live}}</ref> But the Brotherhood took a number of controversial steps and also acquiesced to or supported crackdowns by the military during Morsi's presidency.<ref>{{cite book|last=Iskandar|first=Adel |title=Egypt in Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution|date=2013|publisher=Cairo: AUC Press|page=114}}</ref> Before the revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood's supporters appeared at a protest at Al-Azhar University wearing military-style fatigues, after which the Mubarak government accused the organization of starting an underground militia.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wickham|first=Carrie|title=The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement|date=2013|publisher=Princeton: Princeton University Press|page=121}}</ref> When it came to power, the Muslim Brotherhood indeed tried to establish armed groups of supporters and it sought official permission for its members to be armed.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Mekela|first=Juna|title=The Arab Spring's Impact on Egypt's Securitocracy|journal=International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence|year=2014|volume=27|issue=2 |page=227|doi=10.1080/08850607.2014.872531|s2cid=153839873}}</ref>