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Zaki Bani Irshid is an Islamist leader and Deputy General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, former Secretary-General of the Islamic Resistance Front, and a prominent member of the Hawk Movement within this group. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison due to publishing an article containing attacks and insults against the United Arab Emirates.
Biography
Zaki Saad Bani Irshid was born in 1957 AD, in the city of Zarqa in Jordan. His family is from the Bani Irshid tribe, whose original homeland is in the Koura district of the northern Irbid Governorate.
Education
He studied at the Polytechnic College in Amman and in 1976 AD, took charge of the Student Council presidency. In 1977 AD, he received a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from this institution.
Ideological Orientation
Bani Irshid joined the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan during high school (around 1973) and from 1990 became one of the prominent leaders of this group.
Duties and Responsibilities
He was active in guild activities and in 1992 AD, won the General Assembly of the White Cement Association. In 1995 AD, he took charge of the presidency of the General Assembly of Construction Workers and in the same year became a member of the General Federation of Jordanian Trade Unions.
Political Activity
Bani Irshid's relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood leadership began in 1990, when he was elected as the representative of the Zarqa sector. From 1990 to 1994, he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood Council. In 2002, he joined the Executive Office of the Islamic Action Front, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood and Jordan's largest political party. He was the Secretary-General of this party from 2006 to 2009. In 2008, he entered the Muslim Brotherhood Council and in 2010 its Executive Office. In 2012, he was elected as the Deputy General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood party and was also one of the main candidates for this position in the 2016 elections.
Arrest
He was arrested by Jordanian security forces on November 20, 2014. His trial began in the State Security Court and in February 2015, he was sentenced to one and a half years in prison on charges of "disturbing Jordan's relations with the United Arab Emirates". This was because he published an article on his Facebook page accusing the UAE of supporting terrorism and objecting to the classification of the Muslim Brotherhood group as a "terrorist organization". He rejected mediation offers for his release, as he was asked to apologize to the UAE government. Finally, on January 4, 2016, Jordanian authorities released Zaki Bani Irshid.
Factions and Media
In the first decade of the third millennium, Bani Irshid was known as the leader of a faction known in the media as the "Hawk spectrum" and was considered a rival to the "Dove faction" in the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan.
Nomination and Withdrawal
The Muslim Brotherhood Council, the highest authority of this group in Jordan, nominated him for the position of Secretary-General of the Islamic Action Front, but Bani Irshid withdrew from the candidacy to support "group consensus and unity". He made this decision to strengthen the unique model of the Jordanian movement and to present a specific Islamic democratic model that upholds the majority will in decision-making. They will continue to make concessions to maintain unity and respond to all persecutors.
See also
References
- Zaki Bani Irshid, Al Jazeera website, date published: 22 December 2014, date accessed: 30 Farvardin 1404.