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Qaradawi Calls On Ending Female Circumcision, Considers It Banned In Islamic Law

President of the International Union for Muslim Scholars Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi affirmed in a fatwa (an Islamic edict) published on his website the absence of any legal evidence in the Islamic religion which obliges female circumcision or makes it a preferable act adding that if a certain action is proven by specialists to cause harmful results stopping this act would be obliged in order to block any route to corruption and to prevent harm. In this case, specialists found that circumcis..

Kefaya to Join Upcoming April 6 Strike

In a statement which Ikhwanweb received a copy of, the Egyptian reform movement Kefaya announced its official participation in the strike called on by the April 6 Youth movement explaining that the last April 6th strike which it described as the “April 6 uprising” had affirmed Kefaya’s requests...

Security Forces Kidnap MB Leader in Kafr El-Sheikh

Police forces kidnapped MB leader Osama El-Husseiny in mysterious circumstances as he was passing across a traffic booth in Kafr El-Ibrahim, Kafr El-Sheikh last Thursday...

Urgent Statement against State Security Officers’ Torture of MB Student Activist

Member of MB Parliamentary Bloc MP Abdul-Hamid Zaghloul presented an urgent statement to the Minister of Interior about the torture of the student Ahmed Abdul-Fattah Abdul-‘Al at the hands of a state security officer with the cooperation of Alexandria University (Damanhour branch) guards in the Damanhour state security headquarters after arresting him on campus during his participation in a pro-Gaza event. Two security officers had used the severest techniques of physical torture agai..

University Chief of Police Trial Postponed

The Criminal court decided Tuesday, March 17, to postpone the case of Buheyra University Chief of Police Ahmed Eissa to May 17 to listen to the witnesses’ testimonies...

Morsi: Zionist Lobby behind Attempts to Hinder Civil Society Work in Europe

Commenting on the campaign launched against the Islamic civil organizations in Europe in his statement to Ikhwanweb, MB Executive Bureau Member Dr. Mohamed Morsi affirmed that the attempts to hinder civil organizations’ work have exposed the true colors of Zionism accusing the American-backed Zionist lobby of being behind the campaign...

MB in Tunis Renew Requests For Release of Former Leader

The statement affirmed that the real motive behind his punishment were the statements he made to the media about his firm grasp on his affiliation with the movement who considered the sentence a criminalization of the freedom of expression and affiliation with the peaceful political movement...

Habib: London Conference Reveals Double Standards with Hamas

An international conference in London to find ways to prevent the smuggling of weapons to Gaza began on Friday, a month after a similar conference was held in Copenhagen. Participating in the closed-session style conference in addition to Britain are Canada, France, Denmark, Germany, the U.S.A., and Norway...

MP: Human Rights Violations are Still Taking Place in prisons and Police Stations

MP Mohammed Kasba (Member of MB Parliamentary Bloc) has condemned the ongoing prevalence of torture in Egyptian prisons and police stations in an explanatory request to the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior...

MB Leader: Erdogan Assasination Attempt Is Pathetic and Unacceptable

Abdel-Fattah pointed to the presence conflicts within Turkey between the supporters and opponents of Erdogan’s platform amid external interventions and internal conflicts..

A Series Production on the Life of MB Founder within a Year

In a statement to Ikhwanweb, MP Mohsen Radi announced that the screenplay of a 30-episode series addressing the life of Imam Hasan El-Banna (Founder of the MB movement) was almost finished...

MB Parliamentary Bloc: Arrest Warrant of Al-Bashir Reaffirms Double Standard Policy

Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary Bloc has released a statement, on March 4th, in which they rejected the decision of ICC to arrest Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir. ..

Iraqi MB: Obama’s Decision to Withdraw a Step in the Right Direction

Iraqi Islamic Party Political Bureau Member and MP Dr. Omar Abdel-Sattar El-Karbouly affirmed in a press statement that Obama’s decision to withdraw American forces from Iraq confirms the soundness of the vision of those who passed this agreement provided that it be secured by a public poll and the national reform document that would solve the true crisis of the Iraqi reality whose future is vague under the current regional interventions...

Abul Fotouh: MB Supports Justice Yet Rejects ICC

Dr. Abdel Monem Abul Fotouh (Member of Muslim Brotherhood and Bureau Secretary General of the Arab Doctors Union) has emphasized, in an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, the support of MB to justice and the trial of any one who abuses or violates human rights and the rights of his people, addeding, "we wish the capture of all dictators who terrorize their own people in the Arab and Islamic world, pointing out to MB’s rejection to the ICC decision to arrest Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir"...

Gaza Populist Campaign Welcomes Gaza-bound British Aid Convoy

In a statement, of which Ikhwanweb received a copy, the Populist Campaign for Breaking the Siege on Gaza welcomed the British Aid convoy heading to Gaza from England en-route the Egyptian territories in the upcoming days...

MB MPs Demand the Discussion of Education and Scientific Research

Each of the following members of MB Parliamerntary Bloc; Hamdi Zahran, Ali Laban, Abdullah Elewa, Ismail Thrwat, Hassanein Elshora, Hesham ElKadi, Mamoud Helmy, Ragab Abu Zeid, Adel Elbermawy, Mohamed Shaker Senar, Alam Eldin Elsakhawy, Mohamed Yusuf, Farid Ismail, Abdel Halim Helal, Abdel Aziz Khalaf, Abdel Hamid Zaghloul, Abdel Fatah Eid, Abdel Hamid Helal, Yasir Hamoud, Saad Hussein, Sabry Amer, Ali Ismail, have requested a public debate to discuss the worsening situation of educa..

MP Accuses Egyptian Govt’ of Monuments Negligance

Dr. Abdel Hamid Zaghlul, Deputy representative of Adko and Rashid (Member of MB Parliamentary Bloc in Behera) has submitted an urgent request to the Minister of Culture and Minister of Local Development on the deliberate negligance of the government to the ancient area of Abu Mandor in Rashid, Behera...

Syrian MB Affirm their Commitment to National Principles despite the Romurs

On behalf of MB in Syria, Zuhair Salem (Spokesman of Muslim Brotherhood) has stressed, in a press release, the adherence of the MB in Syria to the national principles and its political properties,its bias towards the nations, supportive to its issues, committed to the unity with wise ness and vision, despite the amount of rumours following the MB’s adoption of the honourable position to suspend the activities of the opposition during the Zionist aggression on Gaza Strip and during last..

Jordanian MB: Zahabi’s Government does not Meet Demands of Jordanian People

Jamil Abu Bakr (Media Spokesman of Muslim Brotherhood), in a press release, has accused Zahabi’s government, before and after the amendments, of “not meeting the aspirations of the Jordanian people” who “yearn” to see a government that would be “representative of the real and influential political and social forces in the society”..

Habib: MB With Inter-Palestinian Dialogue, Resistance Must Be Preserved

In a statement to Ikhwanweb, MB Vice-Chair Dr. Mohamed Habib stressed the importance of supporting the Inter-Palestinian dialogue being held in Cairo between all the Palestinian factions starting today, Thursday, February 26...