Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website

The meetings of the European Parliament have witnessed a severe crisis between the European countries and Egypt. The parliament issued a decision which adopted the recommendations of the Egyptian civil society, joining these demands to the on-going negotiations about the policies of the European Neighborhood.

The European Parliament demanded the European Union that the work sheet shoul..

Tens of the Egyptian journalists demonstrated before the Shura Council and the People’s Assembly to demand a new legislation that abolishes imprisonment penalty concerning the publishing cases and a new regulation for wages corresponds to the ambitions of the journalists and ensures a good standard of living.

The head of the Press Syndicate - Galal `Arif, the Syndicate’s Board, and a c..

After long days of deafening silence, the US on Sunday, May 21, finally faulted its key Mideast alley Egypt for its crackdown on opposition and pro-reform protests.

"These (actions) strike me as not only wrong actions but mistakes, like beating people up and the heavy-handed security reaction to these things," US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick said on the sidelines of the Wor..

Each victory achieved by the Muslim Brotherhood on the public level is accompanied by procedures that aim at putting the movement under siege, preventing it from forming a popular base.

All these attempts to put the movement under siege emit from the ruling regime’s mentality that imposes its domination and supremacy over the political field. This ruling regime does not reconsider ..

As a result of the retreat in the ceiling of freedoms in Egypt, especially the freedom of the press, the government’s Al-Ahram Newspaper continues the policies of quelling against its great writers. This motivated the great Egyptian writer Fahmi Huwaidi to stop writing for Al-Ahram Newspaper, as well as the great cartoon writer Ahmad Ragab who declared stopping writing for Akhbar Al-Yum Newspap..

ECWR received a message signed by the three political activists - Asma’a Ali, Rasha Azab, Nada El-Kasass - and was asked to send it as their voice from behind the bars of El Kanater prison.  Irrespective of the contents of the message and whether or not  ECWR agrees with it, we must send their message and demand their immediate release.

Their message says:

On the occasion of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East (Davos), Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif made statements in which they considered that the political reform process would need several years and should not be precipitated.

Nazif attributed this orientation to the political rise of Islamists following the successes they achieved in the..

Egypt’s political parties did not evolve from within society, but rather as tools within the arena of political power, which is under the complete control of the individual ruler. The latter seek legitimizing his rule or to give it a democratic appearance as an attempt to acquire internal legitimacy from society, or external legitimacy from the international community he hopes to appease . . . ..

As a way to protest on the unjust way, the honored judges were treated with because they refused to submit to the government and approve the forging actions during elections and the referendum to the extent that they used violence against them.

I came across this unusual poll on the Muslim Brotherhood English-language website:

Obviously this is not representative of anything, but I find it interesting that the MB would ask this question on its own site, which obviously..

Lahcen Daoudi is a curious kind of Islamist. A top leader in Morocco’s Party of Justice and Development, a legal Islamist movement emerging as a political force, he fights off suggestions that he wants to Islamise society, blaming his secular rivals for spreading false rumours. "People cannot eat from Islamist slogans. They come to us because they want solutions."

A good-humoured, econo..

From the Egyptian groups Institute for Freedom of Thought and Expression, Arab Institute for Civil Society, Legal Aid Society for Human Rights, and The Civil Monitor for Human Rights, on May 21:

On Thursday, May 18 activist Asmaa Mohammed Hassan Soliman (known as Asmaa Soliman), was surprised to learn that she had been dismissed from her job at the National Institute for Laser Enhanced ..

Two major criteria helped to distinguish the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) from other political or ideological groups. These two criteria are the cohesiveness of organization’s structures and the devotion of its members. The following study is a good example of how this massive organization is able to..

Makki Affirms To Ikhwanweb:

-Judges Protests Will Continue Till the Government Accepts Our Demands
-Government is the Cause of the Crisis

The Judges Club (Union) organizes today, Thursday, 25 May 2006, a standing protest in order to pressure the Egyptian regime to carry out judges’ demands for the bill guaranteeing t..

From Tripoli to Beijing, President Bush has abandoned his bold pledge to support democracy. . . DANIELLE PLETKA and MICHAEL RUBIN are, respectively, vice president for defense and foreign policy and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

LAST WEEK, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced resumption of full U.S. diplomatic relations with Libya, citi..

The two Youth for Change activists, Mohamed el-Sharqawi and Karim el-Sha’er, arrested yesterday by plain clothes security, were brutally tortured and sexually abused, say their lawyers and fellow activists who managed to see the two last night at the State Security Prosecutor’s office.

Sharqawi was kidnapped, according to accounts by lawyers and activists as he was leaving the Press Syn..

One of the big “disappointments,” if you can call it such, about yesterday’s 25 May demo in Cairo was that the Muslim Brotherhood was no-show. That meant that, aside from the 300 judges that stood silently in front of their Club to demand judicial independence, there were only a few hundred leftists activists in Central Cairo. I haven’t heard about what happened in other areas of Cairo, or in t..