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Roadside bomb kills 5 police in Afghanistan

Violence and killings continue in Afghanistan and Taliban vowes to continue...

'Ali Shari'ati: Revolutionary, 'Red Shi'ism' vs. the 'Black' Shi'ism of the Clerics

Shari‘ati was critical of the ‘ulama, whom he saw as instruments of the state who needed to be sidelined in order to make way for a new religiously educated intelligentsia.[3] Islam, Shari‘ati wrote, had to..

Nigeria: Religious Hate Explodes, Shaming Both Christians and Muslims

A week ago, religious hatred and riots in Nigeria resulted in devastating loss of life,..

Celebrating Police (State) Day in Mubarak’s Egypt

Today Egyptians around the country have off from work and school in recognition of a new national holiday: Police Day. The Mubarak regime, it seems, has a sense of humor after all...

Human Rights Watch’s report –Syria 2010

Syria’s poor human rights situation deteriorated further in 2009, as the authorities arrested political and human rights activists, censored websites, detained bloggers, and imposed travel bans. No political parties are licensed...

Haiti to relocate 400,000 quake homeless

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Within days, the government will move 400,000 people made homeless by Haiti's epic earthquake from their squalid improvised camps throughout the shattered capital to new resettlement areas on the outskirts, a top Haitian official said Thursday...

Israel Continues To Spy on Its Biggest Ally, Another Israeli Spy Arrested by FBI

Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested on Monday an American scientist on charges of attempting to pass classified information to Israel. The scientist is accredited for helping “discover water on the moon”...

Israel, Turkey and Low Seats

Last week a small crisis with potentially serious implications blew up between Israel and Turkey. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon summoned Turkish Ambassador to Israel Ahmet Oguz Celikkol to a meeting Jan...

IDF Scandal: Israel Stealing Organs In Haiti

A fresh scandal of the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) has just emerged in Haiti, a recent probe by a black rights activist has called into investigation of what he said was " informal and illegal organ harvesting" of dozens of bodies killed in the late earthquake that hit the caribbean island 9 days ago...

The Qaradawi Index

Yusuf al-Qaradawi is in the news these days, denounced on a daily basis on Saudi, Palestinian and Egyptian op-ed pages, forums and TV over his stances on Gaza, on Hamas and Abu Mazen, on Yemen, and more. Following those controversies is an excellent window into what divides and arouses passion in Arab politics today...

A brother and a scholar

For 58 years, Kamal Helbawy has been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, making him one of the oldest members of the Islamic movement. He joined the MB when he was 12 - in 1951 - and since then the Brotherhood, Islam and political Islam have been the centre of his life...

EGYPT: New leader won't advance Muslim Brotherhood on political stage, critics say

The new leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is a conservative ideologue not likely to challenge the government of President Hosni Mubarak...

New Brotherhood leader says group not against Mubarak

The new leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's biggest anti-government group, says his movement doesn't oppose President Hosni Mubarak, a remark that may indicate the group's retreat from an overt political role...

Islam can not always be blamed.

Somewhere along the line somebody confused the peaceful Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood Movement with the Al-Qaeda concocting a peculiar cocktail...

A Bad Weekend for ME Bloggers and Social Networkers

It's a three day weekend in the US. But first the Muslim Brotherhood, and now various censors and security services, keep making me blog instead of catching up on my reading...

Q+A-The Muslim Brotherhood’s influence on Egyptian politics

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the world’s oldest Islamist political group, has named a conservative as its new leader, suggesting that the country’s biggest opposition group may lower its political profile and focus on a social agenda...

The Eighth MB Guide: It's Badi‘, not Bayumi

A brief drop-by from a weekend off to note that the press conference announcing the eighth General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, postponed from Thursday till today, announced the appointment of Muhammad Badi‘...

Egypt's opposition names new head

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood named a conservative as its new leader on Saturday, suggesting that Egypt's biggest opposition group may lower its political profile and focus on a social agenda...

Bloggers Stifled Again in Egypt

Freedom House condemns the arrest of 19 activists in Egypt -- among them leading bloggers, political party representatives and journalists -- and demands their immediate release without harm...

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood 'peering over erupting volcano' as leader departs

Mohamed Badi, senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood guidance bureau, has taken over as head of the party after former leader Mahdi Akef came to the end of his term Wednesday...