With the recent unrest, one journalist compared the Muslim Brotherhood to the new Tea Party movement. Being a member of the Tea Party movement I was initially offended by this comparison. By doing further research into the two groups and how they were started and why, I saw that philosophically the beginning of each group is actually similar, however, the way they present their views to the world is drastically different. The way they recruit members and try to change policy is rooted in the same core values ​​of culture, language and religion. How they achieve their goal is as different as night and day. The Muslim Brotherhood began as a social and religious group in Egypt in the early 1900s by al-Banna. They wanted to return to the Quran and reject Western influence; they sought cultural and social control. Their doctrine is “Allah is our goal. The Prophet is our leader. The Quran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope." (“The Muslim Brotherhood,” n.d.) They have branches in 70 countries. Over the past 70 years the Muslim Brotherhood has been banned from several countries in the Middle East. (“The Muslim Brotherhood,” n.d.) The modern Tea Party movement was born in 2009 as a common interest association. Keli Carender, a young mother, was concerned about TARP passed in Congress and the debt it would cause for generations. He started a blog and encouraged people to participate in a protest called the “Porkulus Protest.” The movement gained momentum when CNBC's Rick Santelli asked Americans: “Do we really want to subsidize low-income mortgages? This is America! How many of you want to pay the mortgage of your neighbor who has an extra bathroom and f... middle of paper... their life. How each makes those changes is very different. These differences will be played out on the world stage for all to see. Works Cited Rowen, B (n.d.) History of the Tea Party Movement. Infoplease.com. Retrieved February 5, 2011, from www.inforplease.com/us/government/tea-party-history.htmljewishvirtuallibary.org. (n.d.). jewishvirtuallibary.org. Retrieved February 6, 2011, from http://www.jewishvirtuallibary.org/jsource/terrorism/muslinbrotherhood.htmlThe Muslim Brotherhood. (n.d.). Investigation project on terrorism. Retrieved February 11, 2005, from www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/135.pdfZak, M (2010, February 16) The Republican Party began as a tea party movement. Big government. Retrieved February 5, 2011, from biggovernment.com/mzak/2010/02/16/the-republican-party-began-as-a tea-party-movement/