在几个月内，以穆兄会思想武装起来的伊斯兰政党就颠覆了突尼斯和埃及的世俗独裁者，并骎骎然大有接管也门和叙利亚之势，这主要是因为它们是革命中唯一的组织良好的政治运动。
Within months, Islamist parties shaped by the Brotherhood’s ideology had replaced secular dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, and seemed poised to take over Yemen and Syria, largely because they were the only well-organized political movements on the scene.