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 Hamas has dropped its call for the destruction of Israel from its manifesto for the Palestinian parliamentary election in a fortnight, a move that brings the group closer to the mainstream Palestinian position of building a state within the boundaries of the occupied territories.
The Islamist faction, responsible for a long campaign of suicide bombings and other attacks on Israelis, s..

As we enter 2006, Islamic radicalism remains no less a challenge to the world than it did four years ago. One of its chief aspects involves how non-Muslims, who typically have little knowledge of Islam, may accurately identify Muslim moderates.

Muslim moderation is defined by attitudes and conduct, not by abstractions or historical precedents, which, as with all religions, may be in..

Commenting on recent media reports that indicated a possible change in Hamas strategy to omit the destruction of Israel statement from its charter as poll nears, the leader of the Hamas movement Mr. Khaled Meshael denied any change in that regard.  Mr. Mashael stated that the movement’s ideology is based on the armed resistance as a strategic option until fully liberating Palestinian soil ..

Hamdy Hassen, the spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood’s parliamentary bloc, caused an earthquake when he called on the Parliament Chairman, Fathey Soror, to take crucial measures against the Attorney General who announced the discontinuance of investigations on irregularities marred the referendum on the constitutional article 76.
 
In his memo, referred to the parliament chairman, ..

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Member of Parliament (MP), Mahmmud Megahed, the representative of El-Matria Constituency, and a member of the Parliamentary Legislative Committee lodged a request for information regarding the statements of the Minister of the Human Resources and Immigration, Aisha Abdel Hady. Megahed referred his request to the Premier and to the Minister of the Higher Education and Sc..

The Palestinian resistance group Hamas, expected to make major inroads in the Palestinian parliament in the January 25 polls, is open for negotiations with Israel.

"We’ll negotiate (with Israel) better than the others, who negotiated for 10 years and achieved nothing," Sheikh Mohammed Abu Tir, the number two on Hamas’s slate for legislative elections, told Israel’s Haaretz daily on Sund..

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, prominent political leader and candidate in the upcoming legislative elections Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar has reiterated his Movement’s stand that it wasn’t presenting itself as an alternative to a certain party per se, but rather works to realize genuine political partnership in the decision-making policy in the Palestinian arena.

Zahhar, who was spea..

 The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, doesn’t target excluding any Palestinian faction from the political arena, rather it aims at establishing political partnership through its participation in the forthcoming legislative elections slated for 25th January , Ismail Haneyya, one of the Movement’s prominent leaders, underlined.

Hanneya, who tops Hamas’ PLC election list, said that..

President Bush’s efforts to spread democracy to the Middle East have strengthened Islamists across the region, posing fresh challenges for the United States, according to U.S. officials, foreign diplomats and democracy experts.

Islamist parties trounced secular opponents in recent elections in Iraq and Egypt.

Hamas, the armed Islamic Palestinian group, appears set to fare well i..

Here’s one for the Moral Confusion and Political Double Standards Department: the United States’ armed forces and government are holding discreet talks with Iraqi "insurgents" who are attacking and killing Americans in Iraq, and negotiating with a North Korea that they see as a nuclear threat. Yet the same U.S. government refuses to talk to Hamas, Hizbullah, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Isl..

 The focus in next week’s Palestinian legislative elections is on the Islamic group Hamas, with both Israel and the Palestinian Authority wary of its entry into mainstream politics. Late last year all eyes were on Egypt’s Islamic Brotherhood, which fed off growing disillusionment with President Hosni Mubarak’s regime to take home the second largest number of votes in parliamentary election..

The Parliament Chairman, Fathey Soror, blocked a memo submitted by representative Hamdy Hassen concerning the violations and unethical manipulations by the Attorney General regarding some political cases of high public interest. Fathey Soror asserted the Attorney General is a part of the judiciary which is not subject to the supervision of the executive branch in accordance with separation of a..

Mr. Mahmoud Attia the Brotherhood MP from Alexandria spent his Eid Holiday on the streets aiding families, most of them Christians, who lost their residence to heavy rain and bad weather that hit Alexandria the last few days.  The team erected a large tent on the seen to provide a temporary shelter for these families and distributed food, blankets and cash while
negotiating with the mu..

The past 24 hours have brought many new developments in my homeland, but unfortunately, neither of the major ones have actually been for the good of Egypt.

Actually, they could be seen as setbacks.

In the first big story for today, we find that a dozen Copts from Odaysat (which is near Luxor) were injured yesterday as they were trying to spruce up a house.

Actually, th..

The latest tragedy to darken Cairo’s horizons took place on a street named for the League of Arab Nations. Recently, when Egyptian police forcibly removed Sudanese refugees from a makeshift camp they had set up in the Mohandeseen district of Cairo, anywhere from 27 to 265 of the refugees died by beating, asphyxiation or trampling.

There was irony in the street’s name, because the event..

The Palestinian militant group Hamas recognises the existence of Israel and will go along with negotiations with the Jewish state, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in an interview published on Saturday.

Aboul Gheit, whose government has had close contacts with Hamas and other Palestinian militants over the past year, also said that joining the political process would lea..

The Muslim Brotherhood’s deputy leader, Muhammad Habeeb, asserted to Ikhwan online, the rejection of the group and of Egyptians to the foreign pressure for political reform and freedom in Egypt. He indicated that the Egyptian effective and active powers are able to gain the Egyptians’ rights via peaceful and modern pressure along with constitutional and legal channels.  
 

Sharobem el-Bakhomy, the deputy of the Orthodox Patrick in Alex, asserted that the Muslim Brotherhood’s outshining and their close approach to power do not ever fear Copts.
 
We do not fear reports about the Brotherhood’s intention to establish a religious state in which Copts are discriminately treated. In addition, Copts’ departure from Egypt is unacceptable. Coptic leaders catego..