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The List of Fraud-Committing Judges

 
The Egyptian Bar Association released a list of judiciary personas who were involved in vote fraud in the course of the outgoing parliamentary polls. The list contains the following names:
 
-         Muhammad Abdul Mageed, the President of the Northern Cairo Court, who committed ballot riggi..

Mubarak sends message to Egypt’s Islamists

 
Egyptian leader stresses his firm commitment to respecting precedence of citizenship over religion.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sent a thinly-veiled message to the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday by stressing the precedence of citizenship over religion in a speech to parliament.

Mubarak stressed his "firm commitm..

Islamism - The Tsunami of the future?

( The Zionist, MideastWeb)
In almost every country in the Middle East, Islamist parties seem to be creeping ever closer to power, despite, or perhaps because of the US push for democracy in the Middle East. For the most part, this ominous development is viewed with even more ominous equanimity, perhaps because it is believed that there is nothin..

 When Iraqis swarmed to the polls last week to cast ballots in parliamentary elections, the Bush administration hailed a democratic victory in a region creaking under the weight of corruption, cronyism and dictatorship.
   But the outcome might not be what the administration had in mind when U.S. forces swept Saddam Hussein from power more than 2 1/2 years ago. Iraq’s ele..

Devil’s Game

News: A reporter tells the story of how U.S. policies in the Middle East spurred the rise of Islamic ..

Cold War, Holy Warrior
News: Ike was president. Washington was desperate for Arab allies. Enter an Islamist ideologue with an invitation to the White House and a plan for global jihad.

In the fall of 1953, the Oval Office was the stage for a peculiar encounter between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and a young Middle-Eastern firebrand. In the muted black-and-white photograph re..

Hamas coordinates with ’Brotherhood’
          

Hamas and Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood organization, which have historical ties, have begun coordinating their moves ahead of next month’s parliamentary elections in the Palestinian Authority, PA security officials said on Monday.

Meanwhile, Said Siam, a senior Hamas offic..

ARABESQUE: A Thinly-Veiled Display of "Democracy"

The Egyptian government has long made it clear that its citizens should be happy with a limited, shall we say "symbolic", political participation. 

All the streets leading to the polling station are blocked by lines of riot police. Their black helmets, shields, and batons form a dark and disciplined mass. Under the helmets ..

In Egypt, the twilight of an era

The headline of the state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram described December 7, the last day of voting in Egypt’s month-long, three-stage parliamentary election, as "the most violent" of the election. The independent daily Al-Masry al-Yom went a bit further. Under photos of mayhem that could have been shot in Nablus or Ramallah, the newspaper declared that "Egy..

Israel has become concerned over the rising power of the Islamic opposition in Egypt.

Israeli officials have concluded that the gains achieved by the Muslim Brotherhood in parliamentary elections in December could change relations with the Jewish state and the Middle East. They said the Brotherhood win could encourage Hamas’s takeover of the Palestinian Authority, particularly..

THE NEWS from Egypt this week was more of the same: On Wednesday, the final, chaotic day of nationwide parliamentary elections, police shot rubber bullets and tear gas at crowds of voters around the country, blocking citizens from reaching polling stations. In areas known for opposition to President Hosni Mubarak, riot police clashed with angry voters. Eight people were killed on Wednesday ..

IN last month’s Saudi Arabian municipal elections, the nation’s first experiment in real democracy, many were worried because Islamic activists dominated their secular rivals. Indeed, we have seen a similar trend in Turkey, Morocco and Iraq in the last few years; and we can expect it in the coming Lebanese, Palestinian and Egyptian elections. Yet, while this Islamic trend can no longer be ignor..

The Brotherhood actually are as close to modernist liberals as anyone in the spectrum of Egyptian politics will come. They resemble a European party of Christian Democrats. Yes, they emphasize the religion of Islam, but then that just reflects the practice of the people in that country. While they hardly approve of Israel, they do not intend to resume war with it or to end the peace treaty with..

 The great showing of the Muslim Brotherhood in the last parliamentary vote set a new chapter for the group whose history can be divided into three phases:
1-     The era of its founder, Hassan el-Bana, that had come to an end upon his assassination.
2-     The period of allying followed by disagreement with the Revolution. It was the most crit..

 The Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood’s Leader, Abdul Mageed el-Zanibate, believes that the contact with grassroots is the top key of the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise during December parliamentary polls. The Egyptian MB, in addition, puts forth a methodology that establishes a civil state of vote, of parliament and of democracy within the Islamic framework that fosters equal citizenship. 

I envy Iraqis. Not for the presence of foreign troops in their country. Nor for the relentless bloodletting that claims at least 30 Iraqis a day.
 
No. I envy Iraqis for holding relatively peaceful parliamentary elections despite all of the above. Their elections - with 70 percent turnout - won the much-deserved praise of international observers.
 
In Egypt, supposedly fre..

Is Egyptian political culture characterized by apathy and submission to authority? Are Egyptians ready for substantial changes in their political system? Which aspects of the political culture of Egypt can act as catalysts and which can act as impediments for reform? What are the values that Egyptians hold as supreme? Is it possible to change ideas and attitudes that Egyptians have been adoptin..

Essam el-Arian, an influential member of the Muslim Brotherhood, stated that the group Is in favour of the formation of Christian-oriented civil parties. He mentioned that the Brotherhood called on thousand of Copts to run for local vote, supported by the Brothers, but they refused.
 
These statements coincide with the rise of Copts’ fear of the major wins achieved by the Brotherhoo..

Integrating Hamas into the political mainstream will contribute in deescalating the cycle of violence

- On the surface of it, the  resolution of the US congress and the statements of Javier Solana of the EU threatening to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority if it allows the Islamic movement “Hamas” to participate in the upcoming legislative elections seems in tune with the wes..

American-led efforts to spur democratic reform in the Middle East have brought with them a controversial consequence: the electoral fortune of Islamist groups. From the success of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt’s parliamentary elections to Hamas’ recent strong showing in the Palestinian municipal elections to Hezbollah’s growing assertiveness in Lebanon’s legislative process, the possibility o..