Editing Muslim Brotherhood (section)

===Status of non-Muslims===
*In 1997, Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide [[Mustafa Mashhur]] told journalist Khalid Daoud<ref>{{cite book|title=Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East: the Egyptian Experience|last=Murphy|first=Caryle|year=2002|publisher=Simon & Schuster|pages=241, 330}}<!--quotes article printed in ''Al Ahram Weekly'' 5–9 July 1997--></ref> that he thought Egypt's Coptic Christians and Orthodox Jews should pay the long-abandoned ''[[jizya]]'' poll tax, levied on non-Muslims in exchange for protection from the state, rationalized by the fact that non-Muslims are exempt from military service while it is compulsory for Muslims. He went on to say, "we do not mind having Christian members in the [[People's Assembly of Egypt|People's Assembly]]. ... [T]he top officials, especially in the army, should be Muslims since we are a Muslim country. ... This is necessary because when a Christian country attacks the Muslim country and the army has Christian elements, they can facilitate our defeat by the enemy".<ref>{{cite book|title=Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East: the Egyptian Experience|last=Murphy|first=Caryle|year=2002|publisher=Simon & Schuster|pages=241, 330}}</ref> According to ''[[The Guardian]]'' newspaper, the proposal caused an "uproar" among Egypt's 16 million Coptic Christians and "the movement later backtracked".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Shenker|first1=Jack|last2=Whitaker|first2=Brian|date=8 February 2011|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/08/egypt-muslim-brotherhood-uncovered|title=The Muslim Brotherhood uncovered|work=The Guardian|access-date=12 December 2016|archive-date=14 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014030521/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/08/egypt-muslim-brotherhood-uncovered|url-status=live}}</ref>