The election of a new leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the Arab world's most influential movements, has aroused an oddly muted response, not just from the group's critics but from fellow-travelling Islamists as well. Muhammad Badeea, a media-shy 66-year-old veterinarian, whose elevation to the post of the Brothers' "supreme guide" was announced on January 16th, is the eighth leader of a movement founded in 1928, with millions of sympathisers across the Muslim world. Nowadays he and his co-rnhorts face mounting challenges from without and within.
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