事实上，世俗独裁者在每一个转折点上都对穆兄会实施了镇压 — — 通常是暴力镇压，如1982年阿萨德残忍地粉碎了穆兄会领导的哈马（Hama）起义。
Indeed, secular dictators have worked to suppress the Brothers at every turn – often violently, as when Assad ruthlessly crushed a Brotherhood-led uprising in Hama in 1982.