Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website

 Many Egyptians’ high hopes for the Muslim Brotherhood - the conservative Islamists they elected to parliament last winter - have been disappointed.
The outspoken group has used its newfound presence in parliament to challenge Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s perpetual emergency law, level brutality complaints against security forces, and criticize limits placed on judges. The legisl..

Radwan Ziadeh is editor of Tayyarat magazine, Director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies, and a member of several human rights associations in Syria. 

 He wrote about 10 books on democracy, human rights, and modernizing Islamic thought, including "Islam in a Changing World".

 He also writes regularly for many Arabic publications, including the London..

 Islamic televangelist Amr Khaled is young, smiling, teaches love and mercy and is so popular he’s credited with inspiring thousands of women -- turned off by dour, traditional clerics -- to take on the veil.

Now he’s putting his popularity on the line by trying a new role, as a bridge between Islam and the West at a time when many are talking about a clash of civilizations.

Over these past nine years, Britain has pursued a markedly different foreign policy. We have been strongly activist, justifying our actions, even if not always successfully, at least as much by reference to values as interests.
We have constructed a foreign policy agenda that has sought to link, in values, military action in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq with diplomatic action ..

Perhaps there are two issues that represent the most significant episodes in the recent period of the modern Egyptian history: An unprecedented political swing in which the opposition has touched on the system’s red lights and crystallized a definite position embodying absolute denial of the major issues of the time, namely extending (Mubarak’s) reign and succession, which have long been ou..

Muslim Brotherhood members, Parliament’s largest opposition bloc, are being closely watched.
During heated parliamentary debates last week on the government’s annual policy statement, Hussein Ibrahim, a parliamentarian for the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood party, lashed out with an impassioned plea for reform.

"It does not bode well for political life, especially when i..

Muslim Brotherhood electoral gains unlikely to get in the way of reform - Privatisation program remains key in the face of high fiscal deficits - Egyptian pound may be supported by increased inward FDI.

Egypt had a frantic Q4 2005 with the parliamentary elections ending in controversial nature amidst allegations that the authorities intervened in order to stop the Muslim..

Abu Zohri to Ikhwanweb: Hamas Recognizes
the PLO as a Frame of Reference and Sole
Representative of the Palestinian People but Only After Rebuilding it on Sound Democratic And Political Bases

Mr. Sami Abu Zohri, Spokesman of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) affirmed, in a special statement to Ikhwanweb, that his movement recognizes the Palestine Liberation Orga..

 WHAT makes a person go to jail for his beliefs and fortifies that person to hold strong while the moments of life — weddings, births, deaths — pass by?

Essam el-Erian missed six and a half years of freedom for his political work. In that way he has something in common with those who accepted prison to call for freedom from the oppression of the Sovie..

"My Name is Rachel Corrie" - a play based on the words of the American peace activist crushed to death three years ago by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza - is causing controversy after the New York City theater that was scheduled to run it postponed production. We host a discussion with Katharine Viner, the editor of the play in London and James Nicola and Lynn Moffat, the two top directors of the..

When Arab leaders gather in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Tuesday for their yearly summit, the ballot box will have made fewer changes in their ranks than the grim reaper or military coups.

Two years ago in Tunis the Arab heads of state, most of them the same men now gathering in Khartoum, promised to promote democracy, expand popular participation in politics and reinforce women‘s ..

Promote democracy and prevent terrorism--but don’t conflate the two.
As an editorial in The Wall Street Journal recently asked: "Anyone out there have a better idea" than the Bush administration’s policy of high-profile democracy promotion in the Arab and Muslim worlds as a means to fight terrorism? Well, yes, there is one. That better idea consists of separating the struggle against radica..

The United States and its allies are waging war against all Muslims even if they claim to be fighting Al Qaeda and Taleban only, a ranking leader of Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt has said.

Sheikh Syed Maqsood, a member of parliament in Egypt who also sits on the ‘Shura’ of Muslim Brotherhood and is editor of Islamic research unit in the Al Azhar University, said President George W Bush h..

Omnipresent expert in television studios and regular commentator of American mainstream newspapers, Daniel Pipes has become the world theorist of the Islamphobia. The son of Richard Pipes, the Sovietologist that resumed the arms race during the Ford Administration, and spiritual son of Robert Strausz-Hupé, the visionary of the new world order, Daniel Pipes, directs a lot of strategic institutes..

Hamas has announced that a Christian, who was designated tourism minister in the new government, will not be part of the government.

Tunous Abu ‘Ita, a 57-year-old businessman from Bethlehem who was named the future tourism minister, excused himself from the government at the last minute and gave no reason for the sudden withdrawal, spokesman of Hamas in the West Bank Farhat As’ad told..

On February 27, just a week after the Tunisian authorities announced a presidential amnesty for over 1,200 political prisoners (including 70 members of the outlawed Islamist Nahda Party), Libya released 130 political prisoners, including all 85 of the Muslim Brotherhood prisoners it held. In Algeria, on March 6 the authorities released Ali Belhadj, the number-two official in the Islamic Salvati..

Our neoconservatives are, of course, anxious to "liberate" and "democratize" Syria, too. If they succeed, God help the Christians there. No one else will.

If democracy means anything, it means rule by the people, i.e., rule by the majority. We Americans add that liberal democracy also means the minority has rights no majority may violate: freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, o..

 The Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID) organized a timely and interesting discussion panel on “Democracy in the Muslim World - Priorities and Strategies” with two very distinguished speakers, Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Anwar Ibrahim, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia. The panel came as an inauguration ..