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Ikhwanweb wishes Christians all over the world who are celebrating Christmas today, a happy holiday. We also extend our wishes to the people of the Jewish faith who ended their celebration of Hanukkah on December 23rd.  We pray for the day when all people of faith and children of Adam will live together in peace and prosperity...

Ahmed Ashraf, is a 50 year old engineer who is well known for his calmness and nobility. He is that kind of person that makes you feel at ease when you look at him with his beautifull smile. However, this smiling man has been thrown behind bars since he was picked up by security forces along with hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members in the latest crackdown.

During the same event, MB members promised to obstruct the pending constitutional amendments and do their best to prevent them from going into effect in every possible legal way in the People’s Assembly.

"It is the right fo..

On December 21, 2006, the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published an interview with Dr. Natana DeLong-Bas, who taught this year in the Department of Theology at Boston College and in the Department of Near East and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.In the interview, she said that Wahhabism is not extremism and that the Muslim Brotherhood and Sayyed Qutb have nothing to do with jihadism. Dr. DeLong-Bas also indicated that there may be a Western conspiracy against the Arab and Islamic world, and said that she knows of no evidence that Osama bin Laden was behind the 9/11 attacks...

On May 7, Alaa Abd El Fattah, my nephew, was detained by security forces in downtown Cairo at a demonstration in support of the Egyptian judges in their conflict with the government...

 The Misdemeanors Appeals Court of Zagazig issued, on Tuesday, a ruling of releasing Dr. Amir Bassam, a Muslim Brotherhood leader in Sharqiya and a professor in the Faculty of Medicine Asyut university; Dr Bassam was detained a week ago and the prosecution ordered jailing him for 15 days without any legal basis.
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Mshari Al-Zaydi’s article "No to Democracy" represents a trend among liberal politicians in the Middle East who argue that the application of transparent democracy might not be the cure for our political and Arab ailment especially if it will foster the so called "fundamentalists" who come to power as a result of slogans they raise which tickle the sentiment of the "majority" and nothing more!

In his view, Al-Zaydi explains how democracy has often led to results worse than having theocratic, despotic, Nazi, Communist and military governments or monarchies regimes in power...

This night four years ago, specifically on Jan. 14, 2003, they entered, asked me to hood my face and took me … to where?

Four years ago, we were arrested by the state security service; we were 14 persons affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood and we were in an organizational meeting rejecting the war on Iraq; our meeting in Al-Zaytoun district, east of Cairo, was stormed in a horrible and..

The (Egyptian) Muslim Brotherhood, the region’s most influential opposition movement, announced just a few days ago that it will be forming a political party. The MB has flirted with the idea since the early 1980s. They probably would have gone ahead and formed one long ago, if there was any reason to think the government would legalize it. The Egyptian government, however, refuses to legalize..

Egyptian government continued its unabated crackdown against members of the Muslim Brotherhood by arresting 7 more today in Behira province bringing the total number of detainees to 234 since the begining of a nationwide campaign against the group two months ago. The seven men were charged with belonging to an illegal organization and possessing the Muslim Brotherhood literature.

Egyptian Interior Ministry issued a new arrest warrant against Khairat Al Shater and 15 other Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders, in a continuation of  the regime’s policy of intimidation and terrorism practiced against the group.

Yesterday, Cairo Criminal Court issued  a ruling to immediately release Al Shater, the second deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood and other..

Last month Iran broke United Nations seals on the uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz, triggering a diplomatic crisis that most believe almost certainly will lead to a standoff with United States, Britain and the European Union. The U.K., Germany and France -with support of U.S.- have called for Iran to be hauled before UN Security Council to face possible sanctions...