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Qaradawi: Muslim Ummah is duty-bound to defend Gaza

"Supporting the Palestinian people in Gaza is a religious duty on every Muslim individual according to his capabilities, and no one is exempted from that duty" asserted Qaradawi in a speech he delivered before massive rally in support to Gaza in the Qatari capital, Doha. ..

In Case You Missed It, Obama’s Speech at AIPAC

I first became familiar with the story of Israel when I was 11 years old. I learned of the long journey and steady determination of the Jewish people to preserve their identity through faith, family and culture. Year after year, century after century, Jews carried on their traditions, and their dream of a homeland, in the face of impossible odds. ..

A year of healthy scepticism

Though the injustices of this world will continue, people will be less willing to swallow the lines fed them by the media and governments..

Egypt Police Block Friday Prayer, Assault Hundreds in Pro-Gaza Downtown Protests

Mohamed Al Beltagi, the deputy secretary-general of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc, said in statements to Ikhwanweb that the security forces denied worshippers the right to attend Friday prayers, describing the security cordon in downtown Cairo to prevent demonstrations as more tight that the security measures around Al Aqsa Mosque . ..

Security Police Arrest 20 Muslim Brotherhood Leaders Over Gaza Protests

Egyptian security forces rounded up 20 Muslim Brotherhood leaders since Friday dawn from different governorates amid mounting protests against the carnage committed by Israeli air force in the Gaza strip, Ikhwanweb reporter said. ..

Muslim Brotherhood Demands Egyptian Regime Take Positive Measures for Gaza

Akef demanded the Egyptian regime to undertake its duty before God, Egyptians, Arabs and Muslims and before "freemen all over the world," saying it should be a good example for Arab and Muslim states, and that it should practice pressure on the international community to stop the aggression...

Muslim Brotherhood calls on Muslims all over Egypt to offer a funeral prayer in absentia for martyrs

The Muslim Brotherhood group calls on Muslims all over Egypt to offer a funeral prayer in absentia for martyrs of Gaza, on Friday, January, 1st, 2009, pray for the Palestinian people to remain restive in the face of the brutal massacres committed by the IOF against Gaza Strip residents, and directly follow all these with holding vigils in front of mosques to show our rage over the aggression that risks our Egyptian and Arab national security and to show our solidarity with h..

Ten Palestinians, including prominent Hamas leader, killed in latest massacre

It was Dr. Rayyan, who took the initiative, two years ago, to protect homes against Israeli occupation air strikes by forming human shields which succeeded in stopping this practice by the Israeli occupation, where they used to phone the occupier of the home and warn him to evacuate it in ten minutes because the home is going to be bombed. ..

Dr. Habib: Disappointment In Regimes And Hopes In People

Muslim Brotherhood Deputy Chairman Mohamed Habib assured that hopes are in people to stop the Zionist aggression against our people in Gaza after the shameful and conspirator stand of the Arab regimes to the Zionist massacre...

Decision To Release Brotherhood Leaders Postponed

In its session on Tuesday, December 30, the Supreme Administrative Court postponed its resolution regarding executing the decision to release MB Vice-Chair Khayrat El-Shater and 17 other MB leaders who are detained by virtue of a military sentence issued against them to January 13, 2009...

Two Poems for the Beloved People of Gaza and Occupied Palestine

For they’re the enemy—terrorists, terrorists For they preach hatred—not like us, not like us For they’re religious zealots—terrorists, terrorists They’ll never have this land—not like us, not like us ..

Updated:ESF Arrest Hundreds, Beat Hundreds Others, Ikhwanweb Reporter arrested in Pro-Gaza Protest

The Egyptian forces harshly used force to disperse demonstrators, arrested hundreds and beat hundreds others. Many citizens have come from all governorates along with activisits across the political spectrum to attend the demonstration in front of the Egyptian Press Syndicate but the Egyptian forces turned the place into a military barracks and dealt toughly with the demonstrators...

Gaza Engulfed

The situation in Gaza need not have reached the bloody impasse it has reached today. Hamas legitimately won the elections of 2006 and constitutionally formed a government; however, Israel, the U.S. and part of the international community, refused to recognize the Hamas led-government and encouraged Fateh to break cooperation with Hamas and to challenge its stronghold in Gaza. Egypt, Jordan, and other Arab states stood by Fateh. Hamas, with backing from Syria and Iran, responded violent..

Egypt Rights Groups Denounce IOF Nazi Massacre

Scores of the Egyptian human rights organizations slammed in their strongly-worded statements the barbaric massacre against Gaza Strip at the hands of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)...

Zionists Target Relief Convoys at Rafah Crossing

IOF targeted Tuesday medical and relief convoys of Egyptian and Arab relief committees. The convoys waiting at the Rafah border crossing to be let into the Strip were bombed in order to prevent their entrance to Gaza...

Thousands of Egyptians Demonstrate for Saving Gaza

Over ten thousand Egyptians from different political and national forces demonstrated on Monday afternoon before Press Syndicate in central Cairo, against brutal Israeli aggression on the Palestinian people...

Egypt Police Arrest 45 Muslim Brotherhood Pro-Gaza Demonstrators, Bans Rally

Egyptian police forces arrested 45 Muslim Brotherhood protestors before they reached the headquarters of the Doctors Syndicate where they were going to attend a pro-Gaza demonstration called for by the syndicate on Tuesday...

Hamas: We will not raise the white flag

In another statement for Hamas on Tuesday, it said that the Palestinian people would not be content with the official Arab and Islamic regimes’ condemnation but would rather like those regimes to adopt practical steps that would end the "oppressive aggression immediately, to sever all relations with the enemy and to open the Rafah border terminal". ..

UN official: Countries cooperating with Israel are accomplices to the aggression

Richard Falk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights on Palestinian lands, said that the UN is committed to protecting civilians who are the victims of grave violations of the international humanitarian laws regardless of the country responsible for those violations. ..

Court Says MB Military Tribunal Illegitimate

Coordinator of the MB Defense Panel for those who have been martially tried Abdel-Mon’em Abdel-Maqsud confirmed in his statement to Ikhwanweb that the Supreme Administrative Court insisted, despite the courts suspension of resolving the government’s challenge last Saturday against the historical ruling issued by the Supreme Administrative Court, on the decision issued by Judge Mohamed El-Hosseiny ruling out the President’s authority to transfer civilians to military courts, a ruling wh..