Egypt's once-monolithic Muslim Brotherhood is showing signs of fracturing, strained by the ouster of its erstwhile leader Mohammed Morsi from the presidency. A group of about 1,400 people within the Brotherhood — a group that had been respected throughout the region for its organization, its social justice efforts and its opposition to violence — has launched a petition of no confidence in the group's supreme leader. That splinter group's new coordinator has also accused Morsi of trading Islam for power. Meanwhile, the army that deposed Morsi is headed by his former Brotherhood ally, and Egypt's public prosecutor ordered the arrests of a handful of Muslim Brotherhood senior leaders on charges of inciting violence. The challenge, said one scholar in Cairo, will likely transform the decades-old Brotherhood, banned under the regime of Morsi's predecessor Hosni Mubarak. "This kind of criticism is feeding into new feelings of disappointment among members," he said.
