Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website

The spokesman of the Palestinian movement Hamas, Samy Abu Zahry, told Ikhwan Web, the official English site of the Muslim Brotherhood, that Hamas adheres to its principles and ideologies regarding the resistance of Israeli occupation and the liberation of each grain of the Palestinian soil, and the establishment of the Palestinian state, of which Jerusalem is its capital. ’The non- recognition ..

"We need three generations for our plans one to listen, one to fight and one to win."Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood

"In the history of people and nations, suffering hits everyone," said Khalid Mesha’al, political leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas. "But those who respond to that suffering and translate it into action are usua..

Khaled Mesha’al, a prominent leader of Hamas, said that the movement comes to the Legislative Council adhering to the option of resistance. Hamas will apply a new version of fighting the Zionist entity, via mixing politics with taking up arms. 
 
In an interview on Aljazeera Channel on Monday, Mesha’al said Hamas resolved to run for the legislative polls after holding consultat..

A row has erupted in Egypt after the president’s son suggested that electoral gains by the Muslim Brotherhood were won using illegal campaign tactics.

Hosni Mubarak’s son, Gamal, who heads the policies secretariat in the ruling party, said the Brotherhood’s gains  stemmed from evasion of laws and the illegal exploitation of religion during campaigning.
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Occupied Jerusalem - Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, ostensibly has won Wednesday’s parliamentary elections, according to latest results.

Hamas leaders in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip have indicated that the movement may have won as many as 70 seats out of the 132 contested seats, making up the Palestinian legislative council.

Hamas Gaza leader Ismael Haniyya said h..

The Palestinian Authority (PA) cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Ahmed Qrei, has resigned en mass following the unexpected overwhelming victory of Hamas, the Islamic resistance movement, in Wednesday’s legislative elections.

Qrei told reporters in Ramallah that the mass resignation was intended to allow Hamas to form the new Palestinian government.

Qrei, looking somber and obvio..

The Hamas’ well-known leader, Ismail Hanneya, said that he was reached over telephone by Hussein Al-Sheikh, a Fatah prominent West Bank leader, who congratulated him on the crushing victory Hamas scored in the Palestinian legislative elections held Wednesday in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Al-Sheikh affirmed that the ruling PA faction would honor the election results being reflecti..

The Hamas Movement’s political bureau chairman, Khaled Mishaal, on Thursday made a phone call with the PA chief, Mahmoud Abbas, during which he affirmed that the PLC polls conducted Wednesday across the PA-controlled lands represented a landmark victory for the Palestinian people, a press release, issued by Hamas’ media office, said.

According to the statement, Mishaal pointed out that ..

"Where is Gamal Mubarak?" a columnist asked last week. As it turned out, he didn’t have to wait long for an answer. The younger Mubarak’s disappearance from the spotlight -- following the recent parliamentary elections -- had inspired much speculation about how frustrated the head of the ruling National Democratic Party’s (NDP) policies committee must have been by the party’s dismal performance..

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The reaction in much of the world to Hamas’ stunning election victory was shock and alarm. But for Islamist groups across the Middle East, Hamas’ defeat of the mainstream Fatah movement was a welcome boon, the first real opportunity to assert the power of political Islam.

 
The results of the Palestinian elections will shake up the region’s mostly autocratic rulers, dashing ..

 Sweeping electoral success in the Palestinian territories for Hamas, a sometimes violent movement that embraces Islamic fundamentalism, shook the Bush administration Thursday, as Washington’s push for democratic balloting throughout the Middle East collided with its main goals in the region: fighting terror and promoting stability for Israel.

It was an outcome the White House didn..

Hamas’s stunning Palestinian election victory this week signals that democratic change is possible in the Arab world, even if the United States might not be pleased with the outcome of an idea it has championed.

The Islamist movement is poised to form the next Palestinian government after winning 76 seats in the 132-member parliament to end Fatah’s 40 years of political dominance in an..

I’ve been recalling an editorial from the Chinese People’s Daily  
Online that I read last month. It suggested that while many  
westerners trumpet the concepts of "freedom and democracy" as  
universal values, in practice western governments selectively apply  
them. It noted specifically: "On Dec. 25, [2005] the Islamic  
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Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt’s Nobel Prize-winning author, is seeking  
permission from the country’s highest Islamic authorities to publish  
one of his most controversial novels, a move which has staggered  
friends and colleagues who see it as a capitulation to the power of  
conservative Islam.

The 94-year-old writer said his pub..

International donors threatened to withdraw millions of dollars in aid from the Palestinian Authority today unless Hamas renounces terrorism after its stunning victory in parliamentary elections.

The United States said that it will review "all aspects" of its aid programmes if the militant group Hamas is in government after its victory in this week’s elections.

"To be very clea..

Opposition Islamist lawmakers walked out of Egypt’s parliament on Saturday to protest at the expulsion of a fellow MP who had criticised the government for letting a French warship through the Suez Canal.

The Muslim Brotherhood said on its Web site that parliament speaker Fathi Sorour had expelled Mustafa Mohamed Mustafa "to deny the Muslim Brotherhood MPs the chance to reveal new scan..

For the first time, the government admitted, in an official account submitted to the parliament, torturing accused and imprisoned convicts. Hassan Hamdy, a Muslim Brotherhood’s MP, tabled a question in the parliament about torture incidents, citing Mos’ad Qotb of the Brotherhood who died under brutal torture in a jail of the State Security. Nevertheless, the perpetrators of this inhuman action ..