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Two people die on last day of Egypt vote
  — Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at crowds trying to break through blockades of polling stations in an opposition stronghold Wednesday, and two people were killed in the final day of Egypt’s parliamentary elections.
The deaths occurred in the northern town of Damietta, said Dr Mohammed Balboula of Damietta Public Hospital.

Police Scuffle With Female Voters in Egypt

Police wrestled with women and fired tear gas as voters tried to break blockades that police had erected around polling stations in opposition strongholds in this Nile Delta city Wednesday, the final day of Egypt’s parliamentary elections.

Government supporters armed with knives, bottles and machetes attacked voters lined up trying to..

3 killed in violence during Egyptian election
Authorities block polling station in Muslim Brotherhood stronghold

A third person was killed in the village of al-Khiyata, near the Mediterranean city of Damietta, the independent Egyptian Organization for Human Rights said. The Sawasya rights group said he was killed when police fired live rounds.

There was no imm..

Where Are You Now, Condi?
The score stands at NDP 195 seats in Parliament, Brotherhood-backed independents 74 after the first two rounds of balloting in PA elections

A fter two rounds of voting in November’s Parliamentary elections, independent candidates backed by the banned-but-tolerated Muslim Brotherhood won an unprecedented 74 seats, quintupling the group’s showing in the 2000 P..

Egyptians are witnessing a new political reality in the country, after the Muslim Brotherhood, the largest opposition group in Egypt, increased its parliamentary representatives fivefold in the recent legislative elections.

The movement has been banned since 1954, and as such is barred from fielding candidates in the elections, but it has dodged this sanction by fielding its members as..

US Blasts Egypt Over Poll’s "Wrong Message"

 
Ereli said Washington viewed these actions "as inconsistent with the government of Egypt’s professed commitment to increase the political openness and dialogue within Egyptian society." 
 
- The United States has expressed serious concern over abuses in Egypt’s parliamentary elections and said its key Middle East ally..

In el-Sharqia governorate, Associated Press reporter, Amer Nabeil, was bodily assaulted by thugs hired by the National Democratic Party when he was covering voting irregularities committed in el-Zaqaziq City. Moreover, the reporters of el-Hurrah Channel were dismissed. Police keep out the supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood’s nominee, Muhammad Morsy, lifting their cordon when the NDP’s backers..

Since early this morning, ICEM had been receiving reports of violent incidents throughout Egypt. Reports reveal a systematic and planned campaign to prevent opposition voters from going to the polls. This led to large demonstrations which then in turn were severely repressed with the use of excessive force on the part of the security forces. The day’s toll is currently six fatalities and dozens..

SEVEN KILLED IN EGYPT VOTING
At least seven people have died during polling place clashes after police blocked voters from casting ballots, using tear gas and rubber bullets in a day of sweeping violence.

Most of the clashes were reported in Muslim Brotherhood strongholds in the Nile Delta, north of Cairo.

While police confirmed the seven shooting deaths, Interior Ministry ..

Judges in Dametta Stage Sit-in Protesting Count Fraud

 
The monitoring judges in Dametta stage a sit-in protesting fraud in Bandar Dametta constituency. The ballot count showed Saber Abdel Sadeq, the Muslim Brotherhood’s nominee, getting 16.000 votes while his competitor, the National Democratic Party’s candidate, took 10300 votes. However, the president of the count commission d..

In spite of bloody instances marred the final run-offs that killed seven and wounded dozens, the Muslim Brotherhood gains additional 12 parliamentary seats.
 
The security authorities deliberately defeated most of the MB’s representatives in the outgoing parliament, Muhammad Morsy, the head of the MB bloc, is on the top. Actually, Morsy got 29.000 votes while his competitor took 11.5..

NGOs’ Reports on the Polls

By Yasser Hady
 
The Egyptian NGOs released their accounts on the Egyptian parliamentary polls that wrapped up on Wednesday. In its report, the Independent Commission for Election Observation condemned the arrest campaigns targeted the Muslim Brotherhood ahead and in the course of the third round of the vote. The report added that these coercive meas..

Kafr el-Sheikh: Judges Resisted Boxes Replacement
 
 
Eleven monitoring judges in el-Read constituency of Kafr el-Sheikh governorate illustrated an honorable stance. Security forces attacked them attempting to take over the polling boxes in order to replace them with ready-stuffed ones. However, those respectable judges resisted, in cooperation with the residents, to allow th..

Democracy: The Religious and the Political in Contemporary Islamic Debate

 Abstract: The opponents of Democracy within the Islamic camp base their opposition on claims that Islam and democracy are antithetical of one another. To prove them wrong, Islamic proponents of democracy - such as Rachid Ghannouchi - seek to show that a lack in understanding either of democ..

 Human Rights and Muslim Identity
Identity has been defined as oneness: that which endures as a self-regulating unity throughout change; or as sameness: that which can be identified as being the same from among diversity or pluralit..

Will Politics Tame Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood?

- When stumping through the port city of Alexandria, whose crumbling mansions and rickety tram lines evoke long-faded glory, Sobhe Saleh of the Muslim Brotherhood vowed he had a different vision for Egypt’s future.

Egyptians fled tear gas fired by policemen at a voting site in Zagazig. The Islamist Muslim Brothe..

No other choice?
Islamist gains in Mideast elections send U.S., region down uncertain road.

 What if you hold an election and the wrong candidate wins?

In essence, that is the quandary that faces the Bush administration and its "march for democracy" in the Middle East. Consider a favorite, a winner and an upstart in the region’s current round of electoral fever:

Egypt: A test of the democratic rhetoric

In the recent Egyptian elections, the Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest and largest Islamic movement in the Arab world, has succeeded in winning approximately one third of the votes, even though the organisation, which continues to be banned in Egypt, had confined itself to contesting 144 out of the 454 parliamentary seats to avoid aggravating the ..