A few months ago, King Abdullah II of Jordan told me about his meetings with Mohamed Morsi, the now-deposed president of Egypt.
The king wasn't fond of Morsi, both because the Egyptian was a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and because Abdullah found Morsi exceedingly stupid.
"I see a Muslim Brotherhood crescent developing in Egypt and Turkey," the king said. He despises the movement, partly because it is revanchist, fundamentalist and totalitarian, and partly because in Jordan it seeks his overthrow. "The Arab Spring highlighted a new crescent in the process of development."