Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website

Shaken by November’s atrocity in Luxor, Egypt’s response has been to intensify police repression. The government refuses to differentiate between the diverse streams of political Islam and is lumping the armed extremists together with the moderate - and entirely pacific - Muslim Brotherhood. Refusal to recognise the Brothers, and failure to address the twin evils of poverty and h..

The Foreign Office decision to withdraw British observers on 14th of March from the Jericho Prison without prior arrangements gave Israel the opportunity to demolish and kidnap Palestinians.
 
The strong Palestinian response to this was only expected, as Britain (and the US) were seen to be colluding with Isra..

Election Issues

US State of Department Human Rights Report on Egypt
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor- 

The Arab Republic of Egypt has been governed by the National Democratic Party (NDP) since the party’s establishment in 1978. The NDP continues to dominate national politics and has maintained an overriding majority in the popularly elected People’s Assembly and the ..

Do Muslims deserve democracy? What’s stopping democracy from taking root in Muslim countries? Abdelwahab El-Affendi tackles a thorny issue - Islam Democracy
New Internationalist Abdelwahab El-Affendi

 
During the same period, however, Muslim leaders, whom nobody elected and compared to whom Mugabe is a saint, continue to be feted in Western capitals or wooed in their own. Syr..

International Religious Freedom Report 2005
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
The Constitution provides for freedom of belief and the practice of religious rites, although the Government places restrictions on these rights in practice. Islam is the official state religion and Shari’a (Islamic law) is the primary source of legislation; religious practices that co..

EGYPT: Presidential election was a false start in democratisation, Crisis Group says
05 Oct 2005 13:26:13 GMT

Source: IRIN
 
CAIRO, 5 October (IRIN) - Egypt’s presidential election in September was a "false start" in moves towards greater democracy and the government must do more to ensure that parliamentary elections due in November are free, fair and open to all, the Int..

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE EGYPTIAN MUSLIM BROTHERS
[by] Mona El-Ghobashy
Mona El-Ghobashy is an Instructor in the Political Science
Department, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 10027, USA
[From: International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 37, No. 03
July 2005]

Jihane al-Halafawi’s small apartment above a barbershop in Alexandria
is exceedingly orderly, a cool ..

The following contains parts of the letter of resignation by the Egyptian Diplomat Mr Yehia Zakareyia Nagm, the Charge D’Affaires in Caracas which he sent to the Egyptian Foreign Minster and published in Al Qodos Al Arabi which is a London base newspaper issued on 24th of May 2005.



The Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Caracas

Mr Minster/ Ahmed Abo El Gheit, the for..

Frank Wisner: Presidential Elections Marked ’an Historic Day’ in Egypt
Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman
Interviewee: Frank G. Wisner

Frank G. Wisner, a veteran U.S. diplomat and ambassador to Egypt from 1986-91, says the first-ever multi-candidate presidential election in Egypt marked “an historic day” for that country. Though President Hosni Mubarak will be reelected to another..

 The Moslem Brotherhood’s candidates in Alex go on hunger strike till they enjoy their full political rights and the blockage of polling centers come to an end.

A New Power Rises Across Mideast
Advocates for Democracy Begin to Taste Success After Years of Fruitless Effort

By Scott Wilson and Daniel Williams

 First of two articles

BEIRUT -- Early this year, a small group of advertising executives, journalists and political operatives began meeting around the crowded tables of a popular cafe..

 How the Islamists have changed
The Arabist NetworkFriday 20 May 2005
How the Islamists have changed

From Roula Khalaf’s article on democracy and Islamists in the Financial Times:
  The Islamists, however, have learned from the mistakes of the past and now
  adopt a more democratic rhetoric and espouse nationalist goals. This evolution
  has been acc..

Much More is Still Needed to Be Done
Jihad El Khazen    

Dr. Condoleezza Rice left the Middle East at the end of her flying visit and left the rulers discontent, without pleasing the masses. My personal assessment: as if sagacity won over the required and the possible.

What the US Secretary of State said didn’t surprise anyone wherever she..

What’s Next for Egypt: Democracy or the Fundamentalism of the Muslim Brotherhood?
Wahid Abdel-Majid 

At a small party to mark the 60th birthday of Egyptian novelist Gamal Ghaitani on 9 May, Naguib Mahfouz was asked what he expected to happen in Egypt, in view of the rapidly developing events there. "It looks like Egypt wants to try the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood," Mahfouz re..

Egypt opposition’s poll boycott gathers steam

Many opposition figures pull out of presidential election race they charge is parody of democracy.

 
By Riad Abu Awad - CAIRO

A growing number of major opposition parties and figures who had vowed to challenge President Hosni Mubarak in a September election are pulling out of a race that they charge is a parody of de..

Egyptian protestors tackle joblessness for first time 
  Egypt in recent months has witnessed a spate of protests by opposition groups voicing a broad range of complaints ranging from the 24-year-old Emergency Law, to changes in electoral rules, to President Hosni Mubarak’s grooming of his son Gamal to replace him. But last week, pro-reform activists tackled the issue of unemployme..

Who Will Administer Reform In Egypt?
Hasan Abu Taleb  

I don’t know how the tourists felt when the Egyptian security asked them to stay away from the outskirts of the Egyptian national museum. The Egyptian security forces had surrounded the parliament, established security checkpoints in the city of Cairo and created a situation which could be described by a nightmare. The ..

The 2005 Egyptian Elections: How Free? How Important?

Saban Center Middle East Memo

Tamara Cofman Wittes, Research Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy

On September 7, 2005, for the first time in their history, Egyptians will have a choice of candidates in a presidential election. When President Hosni Mubarak, who was elected to four previous terms in ’yes-or-n..