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Dr. Hasan Al-Huwaidy’s Death

Dr. Hasan Al-Huwaidy, MB’s Deputy, died this morning, in Amman. His burial ceremony will be after Asr prayers on Friday 16th of Rabi` Al-Awal 1430 A.H, 13th of March 2009 AD. May Allah accept him and dwell him in His spacious paradise, May Allah grant his family, students and his companions’ patience and we are from Allah to and to Allah we return...

Palestinian Public Opinion Poll No (31)

Findings of the first quarter of 2009 indicate a significant increase in the popularity of Ismail Haniyeh and Hamas and decease in the popularity of president Mahmud Abbas and Fateh. They also indicate a significant decline in the status and legitimacy of Salam Fayyad. Despite these findings, Fateh’s popularity remains higher than that of Hamas. The two most important factors shaping public attitudes regarding these issues seem to be the Israeli offensive against Gaza, particularly the..

Open Letter to President Obama about Democracy Promotion in the Middle East and the Muslim World

First of all, congratulations on your victory in November. Like so many others throughout the world, we find ourselves both hopeful and inspired. Your election is proof of America’s continued promise as a land of opportunity, equality, and freedom. Your presidency presents a historic opportunity to chart a new course in foreign affairs, and particularly in the troubled relationship between the United States and the Muslim world...

Adrift on the Nile

Bruce Rutherford’s Egypt After Mubarak is an ambitious effort to explain how the Muslim Brotherhood, the judiciary, and the business sector can work in parallel, if not exactly together, to influence Egypt’s political future...

End of Impunity or the Big Challenge

In a strong reaction to current actions to sue Israeli war criminals, Azmi Bishara wrote ideas around the crimes and the trial which are a part of the classic literature critics of international criminal law...

Facebook under attack

Millions of users of social networking websites, including Facebook, are under malicious attacks by hackers and data stealers, online security experts warn, urging a review for safety policies...

Bi-Partisan Group of Prominent Scholars and Experts Urge President Obama to Make Democracy

More than 80 scholars and experts-including Egyptian democracy activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim and former deputy prime minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim -are urging President Obama to adopt a consistent and credible policy that supports democracy in the Arab and Muslim world. The group will formally issue an open letter to the president at a news conference Tuesday, March 10, at 2:30 p.m. at the National Press Club in Washington. ..

Omar al-Bashir

Omar al-Bashir has been the Sudanese leader through two decades of civil war, rebellions, drought and famine...

Galloway’s Gaza Mission Runs Into Protests

George Galloway’s high-profile mission to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza has run into controversy, just as his convoy reaches the final leg of its 5,000 mile journey. ..

Take Action on President Obama’s FY2010 Budget Request for Military Aid to Israel

Israel killed more than 1,300 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, more than half of whom were civilians, and is continuing to maintain an economic blockade of its 1.5 million residents with U.S. weapons and political support. Israel has placed the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip under military occupation since 1967, in violation of international law and UN resolutions. ..

Drawing Gaza by Photos and words

As a first speaker who survived the Israeli war on Gaza; I would be starting a very comprehensive speaking tour in the U.K. I’ll be speaking at the parliament, touring at colleges and universities to bring more awareness about Palestine and the last war launched against Gaza. I just got to Cairo and I’m flying to London within hours. Just in the car, I started to make my first simple and humble report, however, I was so tired from the long hours of travel. I try in the below work to le..

The road to Gaza’s killing fields

GAZA LIES in ruins. After 22 days of ruthless Israeli aerial bombardment and ground assault, a survey1 of the carnage is as enraging as it is numbing: at least 1,285 Palestinians have been killed; 895 were civilians, including 280 children and 111 women. Another 167 of the dead were civil police officers, mostly killed on the first day of the bombing as they were graduating from a training course. Twenty-four hundred houses were completely destroyed, and 20,000 partially. Other infrast..

We refuse freezing the case against the killers of Ma’tooq and Sulaiman

Lawyer Khalil Ma’touq, the uncle of the murdered Sami Ma’touq, has received a verbal resolution from the Syrian Defence Minister via the Military Attorney General to freeze the case against his nephew’s killers. Sami Ma’touq was killed with his friend Joni Sulaiman in the village of Al-Mushirfeh by a joint patrol of security and customs on 14/10/2008...

Muslim Association of Britain: ACTION ALERT

MAB support PSC for the emergency lobby of parliament on the afternoon of Wednesday 11 March, which they are organising lobby of parliament on Gaza to raise the need for urgent action to be taken by the British government to address the horrific humanitarian crisis that has been forced upon the people of Gaza ...

Muslim Publics Oppose Al Qaeda’s Terrorism, But Agree With Its Goal of Driving U.S. Forces Out

A study of public opinion in predominantly Muslim countries reveals that very large majorities continue to renounce the use of attacks on civilians as a means of pursuing political goals. People in majority-Muslim countries express mixed feelings about al Qaeda and other Islamist groups that use violence, however, perhaps due to a combination of support for al Qaeda’s goals and disapproval of its terrorist methods. ..

Strategies for Engaging Political Islam: A Middle East, U.S. and EU ’Trialogue’

While much attention has been paid to whether Islamists are becoming more moderate, or whether they are committed to democracy, far less effort has been devoted to developing a practical strategy for engaging Islamists. There are many obstacles to such engagement, including Westerners’ disagreements with Islamists’ political agendas, authoritarian regimes’ tactics to exclude Islamists from the political process, and Islamists’ suspicion of American and European motives. As a result, A..

Reclaiming The Mantle Of Democracy Promotion

Last Wednesday, the Egyptian government released Ayman Nour, one of Egypt’s most prominent dissidents and a former presidential candidate, after more than three years in prison. Nour’s surprise release has been interpreted by the U.S. press and bloggers like Marc Lynch and the Arabist as an effort by the Mubarak regime to create a more positive U.S.-Egyptian relationship by removing a severe symbolic irritant — the continued imprisonment of Nour –- from the picture. The dissident had b..

Tariq Ramadan in Vancouver tonight

Tariq Ramadan will be speaking at SFU’s downtown campus on Granville Street tonight (Monday) at 7pm. I think I have a reservation for this. I booked on-line, but never got a confirmation. Here’s how SFU presents Ramadan:..

Israel’s Dirty War in Gaza and Complicity of Her Allies

In recent years, life had become more and more unbearable in the area which once was called Palestine. Palestinians today, under a Jewish state that allows them no autonomy, suffer from miserable living conditions in a land that was theirs more than 60 years ago...

"We control America" -Israel’s stranglehold over US politics

Paul J. Balles looks at how unconditional American backing for Israel, engineered through the Zionist stranglehold over the US political process, has enabled Israel to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity with impunity..