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"Liberty for Muslims?"
By David R. Sands
The Washington Times


    Saad Eddin Ibrahim is an unlikely optimist about the future of democracy in the Islamic world. The sociologist spent nearly three years in the courts and prisons of his native Egypt, arrested at gunpoint in June 2000 and kept for a..

"Scholars Examine Compatibility of Islam and Democracy
(Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy Holds Annual Conference

By Nino Kader
The Washington File (U.S. State Department)

Washington - The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), at its fourth annual conference in Washington May 16-17, examines the possibilities democracy hol..

Islamic Movements at the End of the 20th Century: Where Now?

By Michael Collins Dunn

Senior analyst of the International Estimate, Inc. and editor of its bi-weekly newsletter, The Estimate.

It is possible to discern certain trends and characteristics in the evolution of Islamic movements from which we can extrapolate a few inferences about future developm..

 Human Rights Watch has called on Egypt to investigate what it labels state-sponsored brutality against opposition demonstrators.

The group said plain clothes security officers and government supporters beat protesters during Wednesday’s vote on partial electoral reform.

Egyptian opposition groups also contest government figures of a 51% turnout.

commitment to democracy is absolute
A top State Department official said Thursday the Bush administration’s commitment to expanding democracy in the Arab world is ``absolute and very firm’’ because U.S. national security is at stake.

Elizabeth Cheney, deputy assistant secretary of state for the Near East, said this month’s multicandidate election won overwhelmingly..

The Committee for Opinion-related Prisoners Demand Dr. El-Brinse to be Released
Ikhwan Online

By Yasser Hady
The Committee for opinion-related prisoners called the human right organizations and the free, independent officials for helping Dr. Hansen El-Brinse, a professor in Medicine School at Alexandra University, to be released as soon ..

A Message from a Political Prisoner
By Dr Mohamed Abdol Rahman Al Morsi Ramadahn- specialist Heart Consultant

Al-Mansorah, Egypt and currently under contingent imprisonment in Al-Mansorah General Prison since 14/05/2005 under case No 4272

What happened of breaches by the Egyptian regime to human rights and law guarantees against demonstrators calling for fre..

Abu el-Fotooh: the Upcoming Election will be falsified:
Ikhwan Online

Abu el-Fotooh, a leading figure in the Moslem Brotherhood, affirmed that the purpose of the National Front, which consists of all political parties and movements, is not to form a parliamentary list to contest in the forthcoming parliamentary elections. Actually, this is unattainable because of the time element..

The Moslem Brotherhood and the Constitutional-article76 Amendment
Ikhwan online
Abdel Moaz Muhammad
The political reform and the freedom are the prime issues for the representatives of the Moslem Brotherhood since their access to the parliament. For the sake of these issues, the Moslem Brotherhood incurred precious sacrifices such as standing before martial courts, facing trumped-up ch..

The Police Shoots Azabaoy’s Supporters and Tears el-Dery’s Posters:
Ikhwan online 9102005
Muhammad el-Azabaoy, a representative of the Moslem Brotherhood in the Parliament, submits an urgent questionnaire to the Interior Minister. The questionnaire is about the incident that toke place in Tanata district, his parliamentary circle, on 810 when the police shot some of his supporters who ..

’My son profited from Egypt\’s debts
Due to the corruption of the superiors, it is difficult to find legal documents to use against them. However, their confession is one way of holding a case, and that’s the best weapon.

Referring to the constitution, it forbids the president to practice any trading using his position as an aid. Is it legal then for the president’s son to take adva..

’We reject inheritance rule’

Nadia Abou El-Magd

Cairo - Egypt’s largest Islamic group criticised the possibility that President Hosni Mubarak may one day hand power to his son, saying on Wednesday it would "fight" any bid to enshrine hereditary rule into this country’s laws.

The fiery comments by Muslim Brotherhood supreme leader, Mohammed Mahdi Akef, came during a spe..

’My son profited from Egypt\’s debts
Due to the corruption of the superiors, it is difficult to find legal documents to use against them. However, their confession is one way of holding a case, and that’s the best weapon.

Referring to the constitution, it forbids the president to practice any trading using his position as an aid. Is it legal then for the president’s son to take adva..

The Police Attack all Non-NDP Candidates:
Ikhwan Online
By Ahmed el-Talawy
In the morning of the first day, 15of Oct., to fill candidacy applications for the Egyptian parliamentary election of 2005, some candidates of the Moslem Brotherhood and other parties or independents are subject to beat and insult by the police, in front of Cairo Security Department. Open orders are given to th..

Dr. Khaled el-Tarawly

The question of reform is historic; it witnessed all stages of history. It is long-desired goal for rulers to settle themselves and for the ruled to improve their living conditions and to put an end to injustice and suppression.

Reform becomes the topic of the hour. It is regarded as the magic remedy for all problems and diseases. Therefore,..

Egypt clears opposition leader in bribery case
 
Egypt’s attorney general cleared firebrand opposition leader Ayman Nur in a bribery case, easing the pressure on the embattled politician ahead of parliamentary polls.

But the 40-year-old MP and Ghad (Tomorrow) party leader still faces separate charges of forging documents for the creation of his party over which he was remand..

Egypt gives main oppn group more space before election
CAIRO — Egyptian authorities are giving the outlawed main opposition group unusual leeway in the run-up to parliamentary elections, in what the group says is an attempt to enhance the vote’s credibility.

The group’s activists were arrested and their supporters blocked from voting in Egypt’s last parliamentary elections in 199..

Egyptian opposition demands into monitors
CAIRO – Egyptian opposition groups which have formed an alliance to fight November parliamentary elections want international human rights organisations to monitor the vote, a member of the alliance said on Wednesday.
George Ishak said the alliance that includes his Kefaya protest movement would ask foreign human rights groups, including London-..