Zawahri was part of the MB, in Egypt. And he seems to think he's preaching to a group of errant sinners, people that have lost their way and adopted a false belief. Granted, he's far away, but he's still of the same faith, same nationality, and, one would assume, keyed in to a large extent with what the congregation is doing.
Except that people in the next town over are convinced that he's preaching to the choir, the just of the just, those what already believe as he does in the uselessness of democracy.
Ah, who to believe?
Here's my take. Some of the old MB are still all "we must impose shari'a on the Muslims." However, when you go mainstream you get lots of people who aren't ideologically pure joining your ranks. Lots of fellow-travellers, single-issue members, people who like the little sausages or the dips served at meetings. You have to dilute your purist message to attract the masses and get pluralities or majorities. (We have that same problem at DU, after all. Lots of DINOs and "conservadems" and others who just don't meet up to the 100% Dem standard that upheld by the few, the proud, the isolated, the marginalized except in their own cliques.)
Zawahri is making two pitches at once: The first is for those following the One True Path to hold strong and not flag; the second is for those who are milquetoast MBs, MBINOs, moderaMBs, the Icky-Ones to finally see the light and come into the fold, rejecting the heresy of democracy and pursuing the One True Path of all Ikhwan to become " 'xplode-Ikhwan"" and "militaMBs".
That means it might be possible to split the MB into Archaea extremophiles and moderate eu-Muslims and. However, all the violence against them will only serve to reinforce group boundaries. This is something that groups worldwide have learned. When your edges go fuzzy, you want to firm up resistance against you, perceived or real, and reinforce membership.
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