I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS TRUE

But Bruce Reidel provides another take on the wingnut hysteria about Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood:

The Egyptian Brotherhood renounced violence years ago, but its relative moderation has made it the target of extreme vilification by more radical Islamists. Al Qaeda’s leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri, started their political lives affiliated with the Brotherhood but both have denounced it for decades as too soft and a cat’s paw of Mubarak and America.

Many scholars of political Islam also judge the Brotherhood is the most reasonable face of Islamic politics in the Arab world today.