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 After heated debate between its members, the Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary Bloc in the Egyptian People’s Assembly (PA) has named its Chairman Dr. Mohammed Saad el Katatni to be its candidate for the post of the Parliament Speaker and run against Dr. Ahmed Fatehi Sorour the incumbent Speaker, a NDP member

The Bloc also named Deputy Chairman of the Bloc Hussein Mohammed Ibrahim a..

 The PA information ministry has demanded the trial of Israeli army commanders before the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague over the massacres they committed and still are committing against the Palestinian people especially the ongoing bloodbath in Beit Hanun, north of the Gaza Strip.

More than 60 Palestinians were killed and more than 250 were wounded, 40 of whom in ..

The PA chief, Mahmoud Abbas, phoned the Hamas supreme political leader, Khaled Mishaal, on Thursday in the presence of PA premier Ismail Haneyya on efforts to form the national unity government, Nabil Abu Rudaina, the PA presidential advisor, said.

He said that the phone conversation reflected the “positive spirit” that is prevailing in the national dialogue currently progressing in the ..

Director of UNRWA operations in the PA lands John Ging has called on the international community to immediately intervene to provide urgent protection to the unarmed Palestinian civilians in Gaza Strip, and to stop the IOF troops’ violence against them.

Ging’s remarks were apparently spurred by the scenes of horror, murder, and destruction he has seen in the beleaguered city of Beit Hanu..

A 60 years old woman, reported a message sent to Ikhwanweb, was walking down a street in the Tunisian capital when two security officers stopped her and asked her why she wore the hijab (veil), reminding her of the Tunisian president’s recent statements banning wearing the veil. The two officers ordered her to take her veil off but she refused; so, one of them pulled her veil by force and ..

Lebanese people breathed a sigh of relief after the  political forces announced their intent to get together and open dialogues on all the national issues, said the head of Jama’a Islameya’s Politburo in Lebanon, MP Asa’ad Hamoush, in a press release of which Ikhwanweb received a copy.

Like all Lebanese people, the Jama’a Islameya group still expects that the Lebanese politica..

For the second time in months, the Zagazig State Security Court has issued a ruling acquitting Dr. Hassan al Hayawan, the prominent professor at Zagazig University and the senior MB member. The Court issued its ruling after a military tribunal rejected a similar court order to release Dr. al Hawayan and ordered him to be retried, for allegedly possessing ..

Sawaseya Center for Human Rights and Prevention of Discrimination (SCHR) condemned the government for the measures it has taken to crackdown on the Egyptian Judges Club, said a statement released on Wednesday November 15, 2006- a copy of which was obtained by Ikhwanweb.

SCHR said that the government has targeted the Club after its disclosure of violations in the recent parliamentar..

Mauritania’s Moderate Reformist Trend affirms that it adopts the method of the Egyptian moderate Muslim Brotherhood group, adding that it will ask the government to boost its partnership with Europe and promote, to some extent, cooperation with the US, said its head, Mohammad Jamil Ould Mansour, in a press conference held on Monday 13.

He called for banning the use of mosques ..

In a statement released on Nov. 15, 2006, Lebanese Islamist thinker and Chairman of the Islamic Action Front, Fatehi Yakan, expressed his deep sorrow over the failure of the inter-Lebanese dialogue which was aiming to form a national unity government.

The Chairman of the Islamic Action Front (the Lebanon chapter of Muslim Brotherhood) called on leaders of Hizbullah and Amal parties..

The Israeli air force dropped more than 1.2 million American-made cluster bombs on Lebanon during Israel’s recent war waged on that Arab country for almost two months last summer, a Hebrew paper reported.

Ha’aretz quoted official sources as saying that the American army had used the same type of bombs during its invasion of Iraq three years ago.

However, a spokeswoman for the Isra..

A real democratic change in Egypt will not happen as long as the ruling party still in power; the regime does not have any credibility; it has failed in the battle of democratisation in the country through rigging elections and tightening the grip over the society in general...

In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, Chairman of Muslim Brotherhood in Syria Ali Sadruddin el Bayanoni  dismissed as groundless rumors which had it that the group or th..

Al Banna Didn’t Make Up New Version of Islam, Just Breathed New Life Into Muslim Nation.

Thousands of people poured into the Jordanian capital, Amman, to attend a large rally organized by Jordan’s chapter of Muslim Brotherhood, on Nov. 16, 2006, marking the centenary anniversary of Hassan al Banna, the founding father of the Muslim Brotherhood. The particip..

In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, Deputy Chairman of the Lebanese Islamic Group (an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood), Ibrahim Al Masry, said that the recent speech given by Hizbullah leader, Hassan Nasrullah, doesn’t give the impression of an escalation, adding that he only defended the view which his party and its alliances adopt.

"He only threatened to take the issue to the s..

Tarek Heggy- a secularist thinker- offers his deep condolences to Dr. Al Hayawan’s family ... and also to Egypt.

I have many disagreements with the MBs - YET, I totally oppose arresting any of the MB’s illegally, let aside my entire opposition to the black track records of torturing tens of thousands of ..