Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website

Today, while driving through town, I wound up behind a minivan that had a big sticker on the back. The sticker had an Israeli flag in the middle of it, and under it the quotation from the book of Genesis that reads "I will bless those who bless thee."
 
I would like to take this time to list my own reasons for thanking and blessing Israel, our lone ally in the Middle East, for ever..

With the tacit support of the Bush administration, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has recently arrested a number of political oppositionists and journalists and cancelled local elections scheduled for later this year The repressive measures are intended to serve as a notice to ordinary Egyptians that the regime’s promises of reform and democratisation are not intended to permit any genuine ch..

The son of Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak, and a group of close associates have moved into key political positions that put the younger man in line to succeed his aging father at a time when the government has taken steps to block opposition rivals from challenging the heir apparent.

Last month, Gamal Mubarak rose in the hierarchy of the governing National Democratic Party, whose gras..

US Ambassador to Egypt and Israel: If Hamas follows sound policy, they will receive more support 

 Recently, Daniel Kurtzer, visiting professor of political studies of the Middle East at Princeton University, visited Yemen. Dr. Kurtzer was born in 1949 and received his master’s degree in Middle Eastern history from Colombia University. From 1977 to 2005 he worked as a diplomat ..

The Clock Ticks as Syrian Revolt is Uttered Anew
Regime Change Syria: Khaddam’s Alliance and Assad’s Missing Base
There is again a spike in talk of regime change in Syria, with Syria’s former vice president, Abdel-Halim Khaddam, leading the chorus. He has organized the major opposition movements within Syria after his (supposed) democratic epiphany.

The irony - and the serious ch..

Nearly 1,000 Egyptian judges held a half-hour silent protest Friday to demonstrate for full judicial independence and against the government’s order to interrogate six of their colleagues who criticized recent elections.

The justices, wearing the red and green sashes of their profession, gathered outside their professional association, the Judges’ Club, in downtown Cairo ahead of an ext..

The United States, declared President Bush in his 2005 inaugural address, seeks to "support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world." Later this month the State Department will release it annual report on U.S. effor..

U.S. policies in the Middle East don’t serve the country’s national interest, and are determined primarily by the country’s pro-Israel lobby, according to a study published Thursday by researchers from Harvard University and the University of Chicago.
the following article is excerpted from the report:
For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centre..

Hosni Mubarak’s Son Climbs Party Ranks as Country’s Leaders Undercut His Rivals, The son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and a group of close associates have moved into key political positions that put the younger man in line to succeed his aging father at a time when the government has taken steps to block opposition rivals from challenging the heir apparent.

Last mo..

There are two sources of shari’a (Islamic law): revealed and non-revealed.  The revealed sources of Islamic law are the Quran and hadith (traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions), whereas the non-revealed sources consist of rationality and ijtihad. Since the revelation of the Quran and prophetic hadith both ended with the death of Muhammad, ijtihad assumes a vital role in the..

Many people in the Middle East, Asia and the West work overtime these days trying to understand the expanding wave of Islamist political groups that are winning elections and sharing power. Mainstream Islamist parties winning democratic elections are often perceived in many Western lands and Israel as a dire threat. Not all Arabs and Asians are happy with the victorious Islamists, either. It is..

The Fiqh Council of North America wishes to reaffirm Islam’s absolute condemnation of terrorism and religious extremism.

Islam strictly condemns religious extremism and the use of violence against innocent lives. There is no justification in Islam for extremism or terrorism. Targeting civilians life and property through suicide bombings or any other method of attack is haram or forbidd..

 A Muslim scholar suing the U.S. government over its refusal to give him a travel visa asked a court Wednesday to allow him to enter the country temporarily while the case is awaiting trial.

Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss citizen who teaches at the University of Oxford in England, had his U.S. visa revoked in 2004, shortly before he was scheduled to move to Indiana to accep..

Hamas has a right to govern the PLC with their majority of seats. But how exactly should they govern regarding Israel?

Sometimes a people reach a fork in the road and face a dilemma that prevents an easy decision as to which path to take. And when that happens, it is worth stopping and pondering how to resolve the dilemma. Then it is easier to make a wise, well-informed decision as to ..

In statements to the Ikhwanweb, the Coptic well-known thinker, Dr. Rafiq Habib, asserted that the referral of the Coptic question to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and the discussion of the note submitted by the “United Copts Organization”, jointly with the International League of Human Rights, on the situation of Copts in Egypt, “constitutes a clear interference in the domestic a..

The United States remains committed to pressing for more democracy in the Middle East despite victories by Islamic fundamentalists in recent elections in Egypt and the Palestinian Authority, top US State Department officials said Tuesday.

The Bush administration has said reform in the Mideast is a top policy concern and has focused on Egypt, a key ally in the region. But many in the re..