Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website

Haneyya: Muslims and Christians are one people sharing the same pain

Ismail Haneyya, the premier of the PA caretaker government, stated during his meeting Wednesday with patriach Michel Sabbah and a high-level church delegation that Muslims and Christians in Palestine are one people with the same hopes, suffer the same pain and share the same aspirations and common destiny...

Brotherhood throws weight behind 4 May general strike in Egypt

Egyptian opposition groups expressed excitement on Wednesday after the nation’s largest and most popular opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, threw its support behind a planned nationwide strike on 4 May...

Muslim Brotherhood Blogger Abdel Monem Mahmoud Banned from Traveling to Morocco

Muslim Brotherhood journalist and blogger Abdelmoneim Mahmoud (Monem) was banned from traveling to Morocco on Thursday. He was invited to a conference on freedom of the press in Africa organized by the International Journalists Union. ..

Democracy – Egyptian Style

Hopes for political reform and increased participation in Egypt faded with the events that marked the 2008 local council elections, which have cast a gloomy shadow over the future of democracy, rights and freedoms. ..

Bloggers Call for Coordination Among Opposition for May 4 Strike

A group of anti-NDP youth called in their blog no4watany.blogspot.com for a coordination between opposition forces on the day of May 4 strike to act as the beginning of a national coalition for change. ..

Is Turkey’s Justice and Development Party a future model for the Arab world?

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) is now engaged in a political struggle with the country’s secular establishment, and the outcome is unclear...

Marginalia: Suspended until further notice

"Are the Arabs ready for a literary revolution?" the cover of the Extra section of the British daily The Independent asked on 15 April, the day following the opening of the London Book Fair (14-16 April), an event which this year designated the Arab publishing industry as "market focus"...

Censorship on YouTube

The world has become closer than in the past because of technology. Internet is the best media to spread new information to other places. I became interested in YouTube because I think YouTube is a very famous website that almost everybody uses...

Habib: Muslim Brotherhood Stance on May 4 Strike Has no Relation to Military Verdicts

In a statement to Ikhwanweb, Mohamed Habib (first deputy-chairman of the MB) denied any relation between the harsh military tribunal verdicts against MB leaderships and the movement’s decision to join the call for May 4 strike. ..

In search of...moderate Muslims

A few days ago the European blogger Michael van der Galien, with whom I had an exchange about "pure Islam" here last year, wrote a post at his PoliGazette entitled "The Spell of Islamophobia and Moderate Muslims."..

Hamas Leader: Agreement between Hamas and Fatah in Peace Settlement a Necessity

Nasser al-Sha`er, former deputy Prime Minister in the Hamas cabinet, stressed that any attempt to end Fatah presence in Gaza at the hands of Hamas is neither in favor of Hamas nor the Palestinians. ..

Egypt: Mubarak’s concessions lead to more resistance

The repression at Mahalla al-Kubra’s textile mills in Egypt has not dampened the wave of protests and strikes...

HRW calls US to end illegal detention practices in Iraq

Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization called the United Nations Security Council to address serious concern about the practices of the US-led Multi-National Force-Iraq against Iraqi detainees. HRW accused the United States of invoking the Security Council resolutions to justify its practices which do not meet with international standards...

MB Parliamentary Bloc Proposes Establishment of Drug Addiction Clinics in Prisons

Rajab Abu-Zeid (member of the MB parliamentary bloc for Shebeen al-Koum City) has submitted a suggestion to the parliament calling for establishing hospitals in all public prisons specializing in addiction treatment for prisoners. ..

Muslim Brotherhood MP Denounces Confiscation of Live Broadcast Sets

Saad Kahlifa, Muslim Brotherhood MP, submitted a request on Monday to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Information demanding query into the confiscation of five live broadcasting instruments from an IT company. He demanded the PA speaker to hand it over to the Culture and Information Committee in the People’s Assembly. ..

Muslim Brotherhood Statement on May 4 Strike

Since the Executive Authority has turned a blind eye to all the calls for reform, the MB declares its endorsement of the call to stay at home next May 4, with the exception of those working in medical and public service institutions, and those who have exams in any educational institution...

Health ministry demands fuel for ambulance vehicles

The health ministry in the PA caretaker government has asked for fuel to be able to move its ambulance vehicles to carry the wounded whose lives are at risk in the event they were late to hospitals...

Detainees in Abbas’s prisons carried to hospitals

Detainees in the Nablus prisons of PA chief Mahmoud Abbas’s security apparatuses were carried to hospitals for treatment of severe torture, reliable sources told PIC reporter on Tuesday...

Two Muslim Brotherhood Members Arrested in Kafr El-Sheikh

State Security forces have arrested two leading figures of the MB from Al-Hamoul and Baltteem in Kafr Al-Sheikh city. They are Abdullah Hindawi and Abdul-Mutty Wafa. ..

Ahrar center appeals for ending administrative detainee’s suffering

The Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies appealed to all international human rights organizations to urgently intervene to end the suffering of Mahmoud Al-Musalima, 48, the second oldest serving administrative detainee in Israeli jails...