Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website

Do Muslims deserve democracy?

What’s stopping democracy from taking root in Muslim countries? Abdelwahab El-Affendi tackles a thorny issue. To gain a revealing insight into why many Muslim countries fail to develop or sustain democratic systems, one has just to follow the news stories of recent times. Prominent among these was the vigorous campaign by Britain and its allies against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as he appeared increasingly intent on rigging the March general elections. Mugabe was vociferous..

Yasser Abdou Tells His Story with the MB Military Tribunal

Yasser Mahmoud Abdou is a Muslim Brotherhood leader acquitted from the military tribunal after a one year marathon "farce" trial against 40 Muslim Brotherhood leaders. Yasser Mahmoud Abdou is the Secretary-General of the Syndicate of Commercial Professions in Giza. Our interview with him revealed his patience and political awareness. He exposed much of what was going on in the fourteen months he spent behind bars. ..

"Doctors Without Rights" Turns To Cyberspace

Doctors Without Rights, a group of doctors who pledged to exert their utmost effort for restoring the doctors’ lost rights and promote their profession, have increased their vivid activities on the internet to include blogs, mailing groups, a web page on Facebook site and other things in favor of doctors. ..

Interview with MB Deputy Chairman in Al Ahrar Daily

The Egyptian daily Al-Ahrar published a lengthy interview with Dr. Mohamed Habib, first deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, in which he tackled several issues, including day-to-day problems, the Palestinian cause, the stance towards Hamas, the Egyptian society’s reaction in case the Muslim Brotherhood reaches power, the future of the Muslim Brotherhood, and latest crackdown against it...

Doctors Blog against Medical Carelessness

A number of physicians working at al-Mattariyah Educational Hospital have created a blog for disclosing the violations and negligence practiced by the hospital administration, which has recently led to the death of four new born infants inside the hospital’s incubators due to power cut for more than two hours...

Faramawi Released Without Bail

North Cairo Criminal Court headed by judge Mohamed Alaa al-Mansi has acquitted on Sunday Professor Abdul-Haii Al-Faramawi who has been arrested on Tuesday April 22nd 2008 and accused of joining an outlawed group and helping Hamas develop an unmanned airplane for unknown attacks. ..

Biased Foreign Policy Will Not Serve US Interests: MB Executive Bureau

Dr. Mohamed Morsi, MB senior Executive Bureau member, said in a statement to Ikhwanweb that the unswerving bias of US presidential hopefuls towards Israeli occupation will not serve the interests of the American people. ..

MB Chairman: Food crisis stems from corruption not overpopulation

Mohamed Mahdi Akef, chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, has emphasized that the MB believes that the current food crisis is due the corruption of the great countries that persecute and exploit the poor countries, to the extent that they utilize wheat and corn in manufacturing fuel regardless of the people’s need for them. “We think that misplanning is another reason for food crisis; they exploit the people instead of supporting them,” Akef added...

Maat suggests that the Government may resign and Emergency Representatives may Lose Confidence.

Maat center followed up parliament sessions the day before yesterday- Sunday- the session, which witnessed the agree of the National Party’s majority on extending Emergency Law enforcement for the coming two years, while on the other side opposition representatives, independent representatives, and Muslim Brotherhood representatives refuse this extension...

MB MP: Protests are means for restoring one’s rights

Mohamed Abdul-Azeem (member of the MB parliamentary bloc) stated that the huge number of protests and strikes in Egypt indicates the public discontent the in the Egyptian street due to the misleading policies and practices of the regime that also led to poor living standards. ..

PA Speaker: Gov’t Failed to Fulfill Social Justice

During the tenth annual conference of the National Center for Social and Criminal Researches, Soror indicated that the Egyptian government should promptly set clear social policies to attain social justice. He stated that food crisis is not only an impediment for development or a poverty element, but threatens the world’s stability and security as well. ..

Egypt: Amnesty International, Violations in the "war on terror"

At least 18 people were killed and more than 100 injured in bomb attacks in Dahab (southern Sinai) in April. Peaceful protesters calling for independence for the judiciary and political reform were violently dispersed by police...

Facebook Parties?

Mohamed Mustafa -not his real name- is one of the two admins of "We Can." Informing me by SMS, he preferred to meet me in his clinic (he is a dentist) although we originally set an appointment elsewhere. The reason, he says, is that SSI might be taping his cell phone. "That is how they arrest activists. By eavesdropping our phone calls, they get to know our whereabouts," he says laughingly...

El Shater Transferred to a Prison Hospital Amidst Family Worries

Zahraa and her mother complained that the prison hospital is very poorly equipped and can even worsen the condition of patients. Moreover, family visits there are very restricted. ..

Hamas: The independent committee’s report exposes human rights violation in WB

The Hamas Movement stated Tuesday that the report issued by the independent human rights committee about the police regime pursued by the PA leadership and its government in Ramallah and the violation of human rights in the West Bank conclusively confirmed the policy of repression and factional cleansing practiced by the PA security apparatuses there. ..

Hamas calls on Palestinian masses to participate in Friday march towards Sufa

In the context of its anti-siege activities, the Hamas Movement called on the Palestinian masses in Gaza to participate in the march of "challenge to break the siege" heading at noon Friday towards the Israeli-controlled Sufa border crossing, east of Rafah...

Dozens wounded in confrontation with IOF troops in Na’lin

More than thirty citizens and journalists were wounded in the confrontations in Na’lin village west of Ramallah city on Tuesday between IOF troops and citizens angered over confiscation of their lands...

Egypt ups the pressure on satellite TV programming

Dishes sprout like mushrooms from the roofs of seemingly every building here, a testament to the wild popularity of satellite television among Egypt’s 76 million people...

Egypt Seeks to Extend Emergency Law

The Egyptian government is seeking to extend its emergency law, which gives the security forces sweeping powers in making arrests and holding people in detention without due legal process...

Jailed Brotherhood leader to undergo heart procedure

The jailed, ailing third-in-command of Egypt’s opposition Muslim Brotherhood will undergo a cardiac catheterisation procedure in a Cairo hospital on Monday, his daughter and the Brotherhood said...