@cockswain Great question. Thanks for asking this, as I have been wondering the same thing. @everephebe I would love to believe you are right, as it looks as if they are positioned to win substantial influence in any upcoming elections in Egypt. Can you share where your trust in them comes from?
@bkcunningham I think that a good deal of what we know about the organization today comes from Mubarak and his security operation, which had the sole interest of keeping him and his descendants in perpetual power in Egypt, able to siphon off more and more wealth through their corruption. The Muslim Brotherhood was the most significant threat to his personal ambitions, and thus had to be demonized.
Because our knowledge of them is so polluted by suspect sources of intelligence, I have to agree with @mammal, It looks as if Egypt will become a democracy and the people will decide who will represent them. Since the group long since forswore violence as a means to achieving their ends, let’s see what they do. We haven’t many attractive alternatives. Imagine the hypocrisy of invading Egypt to overthrow a popularly elected Muslim Brotherhood under the pretext of bringing democracy to the people.