Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website

All current indicators denote that the National Democratic Party (NDP) - both so called reformists, and conservatives- has decided to lag after the micro-steps taken towards political reform.

The essence of the judiciary law and what the government proposed to the parliament concerning punishments of press and publishing crimes, in addition to the suppressive political and security ..

Amidst heavy media presence, the MB parliamentary bloc (88 MPs) held its first elections ever to choose members of its administrative office.

The voting process occurred in a highly organized fashion and was a reflection of the true democratic nature of the Muslim Brotherhood. All 88 Muslim Brotherhood members of parliament voted in the free and open elections. Votes were casted in ..

 A number of Swedish lawmakers championing the just Palestinian issue has demanded that the "oppressive" US-led western economic and political siege on the Palestinian people must be lifted immediately, and the Palestinian people should be allowed to live an honorable life.

In their message of support, which they addressed to Dr. Atef Odwan, the PA minister for refugees’ affairs, t..

Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh has affirmed that the Hamas Movement was not a "terrorist organization" but rather represented a legitimate anti-occupation resistance that should be backed.

He said in press statements that the Hamas-led PA government was the target of an "oppressive siege" spearheaded by the US administration, which claims championing democracy.

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In his interview with Minia Online following the recent elections to choose new leadership for the MB Parliamentary Bloc which took place yesterday, Dr. Saad Al Katatny, Bloc’s president’s elect, stressed that Muslim Brotherhood practices real and genuine democracy in all its internal structures and governing bodies from the bottom to the top ..

The Israeli prisons authority (IPA) has imposed a blackout on the transfer of kidnapped PLC speaker Dr. Aziz Duwaik from Kfar Yona jail to the Megiddo prison, according to legal sources Sunday.

Lawyer Sanaa Duwaik, of the change and reform parliamentary bloc’s office in Al-Khalil, said that the Kfar Yona prison authority had been delaying her visit to Dr. Duwaik for the past ten days.

The Democratic Front Party held a conference which embraced a host of intellectual and political elites foremost among whom were renown Ahram columnist Salama Ahmed Salama, Political Sciences Professor Dr. Hassan Nafeaa, Constitutional Law Professor Dr. Atef el Banna, and Economy Professor Dr. Abdul Hamid el Ghazali for the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Chief Justice Saeed el Gamal.

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Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Studies Robert Satloff gave an interview to Egyptian independent daily al Masry al youm in which he said that the West will never allow Iran to possess Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs).” If the US fails to prevent the Iranian leaders from pursuiting their nuclear program, it [US] will resort to war”, he said.

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Three Palestinian legal societies on Saturday denounced the ongoing attacks against Palestinian refugees in Iraq at the hands of the American occupation forces (AOF) and Iraqi racist militias.

A joint press release for those societies said that the "racist repression" against those refugees was on the rise, reporting that in the course of the past week the AOF units twice stormed the Ba..

Egyptian Center for Human Rights and Prevention of Discrimination "Sawaseya", released a statement expressing its full solidarity with the March 9th Movement for the independence of the Egyptian universities and the rejection of interference of the security agencies in the university affairs, when their role should be restricted to guarding universities facilities.

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An Egyptian official has affirmed that the closure of the Rafah terminal south of the Gaza Strip, the only access for its inhabitants to the outside world, was closed on Monday at the orders of the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA).

The crossing, which links the Strip to Egypt, was re-opened on Friday for two days then extended for a third day.

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SECRETARY RICE: Well, thanks. Let me just say two or three words and then we’ll just open up. I’m always quite aware that academics can go on in 50-minute slots about things that nobody actually wanted to hear, so I tried to avoid doing so. But I do think I’d like to just make a couple of points that this is a very challenging time in international politics and I see it as a time when we’re goi..

Commenting on Iraqi President Galal Talebani’s statements calling for extending the stay of the US forces in Iraq , member of Politburo in the Iraqi Islamic Party Dr, Alaa Mekki said that his party, like most of Iraqi people, opposes the US occupation to Iraq” and all our practices and policies fall under this strategy”, he said.

In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, he asserted that..

In his interview with Ikhwanweb following the recent elections to choose new leadership for the MB Parliamentary Bloc, Dr. Hamdy Hassan, Bloc’s media spokesman, stressed that Muslim Brotherhood practices real and genuine democracy in all its hierarchical structures “The elections were applauded by all Members of Parliament as they were held in transparency and secrecy”, Hassan said, den..

Professor of Political Sciences Dr. Hassan Nafeaa wrote an article to highlight President Mubarak’s recent speech in the National Party’s fourth annual Congress.

 Dr. Nafeaa said that he didn’t write this article until he read and heard the speech several times. “ This speech confirmed my claims that President Mubarak is the first, nay, the only one to blame for the abject failure ..

Two different stances adopted –as usual among intellectuals in Egypt, as a result of the smashing rise for Muslim Brotherhood (the oldest political and religious intellectual organization in Egypt and in the Middle East) who is always accused of spawning subordinate fundamentalist groups- while the other part are the cinematic artists who take the role of a fortuneteller who warns from future. ..

Many fakes and rumors appeared from some classes and for several reasons expressing their concerns because Muslim brotherhood won many parliamentary seats in elections, the strangest thing that these categories did not express any fears or objections against forgery in elections, assaults on voters because they were choosing certain people.

This means that these classes express their b..