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Lebanon Islamic Group Slams Shiite-Salafist Memo of Understanding

The Islamic Group in Lebanon has criticized the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Shiite Hizbullah and the Salafists, dismissing it as an attempt to downgrade the problems between the Sunnis and Hizbullah in Lebanon. It called on Hizbullah to launch a serious dialogue with Sunni groups. ..

Gov’t Is Responsible for the Egyptian Setback at Beijing Olympics: MB MP

Muslim Brotherhood MP Hisham Al-Qadhi (member of Youth and Sports Committee at the PA) has held the government responsible for the Egyptian “alarming setback” at Beijing Olympics 2008. e..

Hamdi Hassan Demands The Interior Minister To Resign

Dr. Hamdi Hassan (member of the parliamentary bloc of Muslim Brotherhood) demanded the Interior Minister Habib Al-Adli to resign because of the violations and transgressions by some police officers against the Egyptian citizen. ..

MB Media Advisor Condemns Crackdown On MB Publishing Houses

Chairman of Muslim Brotherhood Media Department Assem Shalaby has strongly condemned the government’s crackdown on publishing houses and bookshops owned by MB members ahead of the holy month of Ramadan...

MB Nominates Copts, Liberals For Lawyers’ Syndicate Elections

Spokesman of Muslim Brotherhood lawyers Mohamed Tosson announced on Sunday that MB “national slate” for the Bar Association elections will include liberals, Islamists, and a Copt. ..

The Blogging Revolution lands

The young online tribe is more interested in discussing sex, drugs and rock’n’roll than political revolution, writes Antony Loewenstein Early last month, some Iranian members of parliament voted to debate a draft bill ..

Abdel Sattar El Meligi Is Not A Muslim Brotherhood Leader, Says MB Secretary General

Muslim Brotherhood Secretary General Dr. Mahmoud Ezzat denied that Dr. Sayed Abdel Sattar El Meligi is a leader or spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood...

Morsi Slams Inaccurate Media Reports About the Muslim Brotherhood

Chairman of Muslim Brotherhood political department Dr. Mohamed Morsi strenuously criticized media outlets that repeatedly link the Muslim Brotherhood with the US-based Holy Land Foundation without any tangible evidence or clue...

An Interview with Cindy Sheehan

The State Security Arrest a Blogger under the State of Emergency Law

The state security apparatus had raided Mohamed Refaat’s home early in the morning on 21st of July 2008 in his absence, and seized his PC, and many of his books, and when Mohamed Refaat approached the officer “ Hisham Tawfik” in the morning in the state security offices, he shocked by the fabricated charges of “inciting to strike on the occasion of 23rd July”, he was then referred to the state security prosecution office in the case no. 1143 for the year 2008. The state security had de..

Akef Praises European Activists For Breaking Gaza Siege

Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Mohamed Mahdy Akef expressed his solidarity with the anti-siege European activists whose vessels anchored at the Gaza port on Saturday despite difficulties and Israeli threats. ..

Radi Criticizes Releasing Israeli Tourists Who Assaulted Egyptians

Mohsin Radi (member of the MB parliamentary bloc and member of the Information and Tourism Committee) strenuously criticized releasing six Israeli tourists by Tur Sinai Prosecution after they assaulted Egyptian workers in a Sharm El Sheikh hotel on Friday. ..

150 Clergy Appeal to Obama: Don’t Lose Your Ethical Vision, Don’t Move to the Political Center

In an open-letter to Senator Obama, over 150 American clergy appealed to the Democratic candidate for President to retain the ethical and spiritual vision that won him the nomination in the first place. Rejecting the “inside-the-Beltway” wisdom that a Democrat must “move to the center to win the election,” the clergy disputed the very notion that this is an accurate understanding of American politics. ..

MB Leader Visits Algeria, Condemns Terror Attacks

In his visit to the Algerian capital upon an invitation from the Society For Peace movement “Hems,” Al Husseini denounced the terrorist attacks that hit two Algerian cities last week. ..

Security Forces Arrest Four In Upper Egypt

Security forces arrested four citizens from the Upper Egypt city of Aswan on Friday after storming their houses and seizing all their private papers and some of their belongings. They were probably arrested because of their involvement in the latest local elections, their ..

Egypt parliament fire fuels scorn of government

Firefighters appeared ineffectual Tuesday as they battled the blaze raging through the top floors of the 19th-century palace that houses the Shoura Council. Dozens of fire trucks rushed to the scene, but at least in the early hours, only a few sprayed water on it. Firefighters mainly stayed outside, while the flames spread and ravaged ..

Middle East still at war: the US is losing but the winners are unclear

In a period of rapid decline of American power around the world, the danger of choosing military force to assert US global reach becomes more, not less likely, and nowhere is that more clear than in the Middle East...

IOF troops storm Jerusalemite home, kidnap youth and steal golden jewelry

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Joint forces of the Israeli army, police and special units blasted their way into the home of a Palestinian Jerusalemite on Thursday in Enata village east of occupied Jerusalem, took away his son and stole his wife’s golden ornaments...

PRC: The battle for the Aqsa has started

GAZA, (PIC)-- The battle for the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem has begun and all Mujahideen should prepare to sacrifice all for the sake of protecting the holy site, Abu Abir, the spokesman, of the popular resistance committees said on Thursday...

Haneyya asks Red Cross to work on lifting siege on Gaza

GAZA, (PIC)-- Ismail Haneyya, the premier of the PA caretaker government, called Wednesday on the Red Cross delegation to work on lifting the unjust siege on the Gaza Strip and to intervene to facilitate the travel of patients for medical treatment outside the Strip...