Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website

There are children standing here,
Arms outstretched into the sky,
Tears drying on their face.
He has been here.
Brothers lie in shallow graves.
Fathers lost without a trace.
A nation blind to their disgrace,
Since he’s been here.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

Houses burnt beyond repair.
The smell of..

Theoreticians of democracy have insisted that without secularization of the political space there can be no democracy. Recent history of reformation in the Muslim world has insisted on the inseparability of religious from politics. In fact, religious reformation in the past century has always meant political reform requiring the Muslim autocrats to relinquish absolute claim to power either thro..

The Muslim Brothers consider the free market economy and the fight against corruption to be the remedy that will cure all of Egypt’s economic ills. Nevertheless, they have not as yet presented a concrete programme outlining how they intend to put this theory into practice. Frederik Richter reports from Cairo

General Outlines

-Broadening the scope of participation of the government in the executive authority in line with that of the president .   
                             
-Imposing restrictions on the pres..

President Bush teared up on Memorial Day and said we must complete the mission in Iraq to honor the 18,000 wounded and 2,400-plus dead.

Well, I have a question. What is the mission?

Is it to overthrow Saddam Hussein? He’s been overthrown and is awaiting execution by a kangaroo court we selected to do the hit.

Is it to allow the Iraqi people to hold elections? They’ve he..

The growing evidence of US war crimes in Iraq means the country faces weeks and months of distressing revelations and shaming court cases that could turn public opinion more decisively against a conflict in which 2,500 American servicemen have died and which has no end in sight.

The issue has been simmering since the first public word emerged of a possible massacre ­ followed by a ..

Last week’s Chambers of Commerce elections in Alexandria reflected official prejudice against the Muslim Brotherhood, reports Pierre Loza

Elections took place last week for the 105 board seats of the 26 Chambers of Commerce. No less than 309 candidates competed. The Muslim Brotherhood who were only able to secure nominations in Alexandria, didn’t win a single seat. They cr..

A domestic war with the Egyptian Bedouins of Sinai broke out two years ago. Alienated young Bedouins apparently decided to rebel against their treatment as third-class citizens. All around them, billions are spent on roads, airports, and beaches; sizeable parcels of land are allocated generously to rich Egyptians from the Nile Valley and to foreigners, but not to Sinai natives

The decis..

For a teeming city of 16 million, the political demonstration was tiny.
Twenty to 30 human-rights activists gathered in a leafy neighborhood that houses many foreign embassies. Their objective was a police station, where two demonstrators said they were tortured and sodomized last week after another small protest.

Nearby, behind the luxurious Four Seasons Hotel on the banks of the ..

Egyptian police raided a Cairo study centre connected with the opposition Muslim Brotherhood and arrested nine leading members of the Islamist group, police and the Brotherhood said on Monday.

After giving the Brotherhood a margin of freedom last year, Egyptian authorities have started to crack down on the movement, calling it a secret organisation despite the presence of 88 of its ..

In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb , Iraqi vice president and Islamic party chairman Mr. Tarek el Hashemi commented on the massacres perpetrated by the US forces in Haditha, Samera, Ishaki and other areas by saying "We share the Iraqi people their disbelief and shock of the massacres and heinous crimes committed by occupation forces in Iraq. We had hoped that the scandal in A..

Could Haditha be just the tip of the mass grave? The corpses we have glimpsed, the grainy footage of the cadavers and the dead children; could these be just a few of many? Does the handiwork of America’s army of the slums go further?
By Robert Fisk

I remember clearly the first suspicions I had that murder most foul might be taking place in our name in Iraq..

Some American commentators have called for an all-out war against all manifestations of political Islam. Disentangling myth from reality about this movement, whose goal is to establish governments based on sharia, Koranic law, is an intellectual challenge fraught with difficulties. Here are five fact..

“Why do they hate us?” So stunned Americans asked, after 9/11, when we learned that across the Arab world, many were saying, “The Americans had it coming.”

For a textbook example of why we are hated, consider Gaza and the West Bank. There, a brutal Israeli/U.S.-led cutoff in aid has been imposed on the Palestinians for voting the wrong way in a free election.

Immediately after H..

when the U.S. supports the governments that are considered authoritarian, the people often will criticize the U.S. for supporting authoritarian governments. When the U.S. steps up and criticizes those governments for domestic policies, the people will almost universally, whether it’s in Egypt or elsewhere, say, Don’t meddle in our domestic affairs . . .

Calvin Sims, anchor for The N..

The Freedom Committee of the Lawyers Syndicate is organizing a major conference on Thursday, June 8, 2006

In a major operation in late May, Moroccan security forces arrested over 300 members of al-Adl wa al-Ihsane (Justice and Spirituality Association—JSA), including ranking leaders, over vague allegations that the group was plotting a violent overthrow of the monarchy (http://www.aljamaa.com). The arrests were made in a number of major cities and towns over a f..

Jimmy Carter is without doubt one of the most active and influential ex-presidents in American history.

After leaving office, he established the nonprofit Carter Center, tasked with advancing human rights around the world. Through his and the center’s work, Carter has helped monitor more than 60 democratic elections, worked with governments in sub-Saharan Africa to develop sustainable a..

President Hosni Mubarak’s message to Egyptians lately could not be clearer: I control everything and there’s nothing you can do to change that. Peacefully, anyway.

What else could he mean when he sends his security forces to brutally beat and drag to jail men and women peacefully demonstrating for the very reforms that just a year ago Mubarak himself claimed to be championing.

W..