The granddaughter of Hassan al-Banna, the late founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, feels differently.
Abu Nidal - whose real name was Sabri Banna - died in Iraq in 2002, reportedly committing suicide.
When, in March 1928, the charismatic preacher Hassan al-Banna founded the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt, it was a flop.
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The society was founded in 1928, in Ismailia, a city on the Suez Canal, where Banna worked as a schoolteacher.
Banna rejected violence as a political tool in Egypt, a viewpoint that has been shared by nearly all Brotherhood leaders.
Sanaa al-Banna, 25, at work on her doctorate at Cairo University, left the Brotherhood a few years ago and has cut almost all communication with members.
Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, once warned his followers that it was a mistake to be too candid, and secrecy has always characterized the society.
But lawyers for the men - Bisher al-Rawi, Jamil el Banna, Richard Belmar, Omar Deghayes, Binyam Mohamed and Mr Mubanga - say they will resist settlement talks until they discover more of what the government knew.
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Back in 1938 the Brotherhood's founder Hassan al-Banna, an Egyptian schoolteacher with a knack for organisation, took the podium at an Islamic gathering in Cairo and proposed stitching together the nascent states that Europe's colonial powers had carved out of the Ottoman empire.
The immediate trigger for the decision was a deadline of 9 August in the case of one of the prisoners, Jamil el-Banna, who had been cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay and who might have been sent to Jordan if the UK government had accepted him.
As in Turkey, the West will be forced to do hard things like develop a policy of containing rather than engaging Egypt, and of identifying and cultivating forces in Egyptian society that are willing to embrace John Locke, John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith over Hassan al-Banna and Qaradawi.
Beginning with the Muslim Brotherhood of Hassan el-Banna in 1928, followed by the movements founded by Islamist ideologues like Abul ala Maududi, Sayyid Qutb and the extremist Deobandi creed in South Asia, radical Islam established a strong presence in the Muslim world in the second half of the 20th century.
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