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The Islamists have gained a considerable lead in the Mauritanian elections, sources confirm, adding that they are running second nationwide and are running first in the capital, Nouakchott .

In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb, Mohammad Jamil Ould Mansour, the leader of the moderate reformists, said that the elections went on smoothly, the results are very promising and that the init..

The Egyptian judges’ General Assembly, held in the Judges’ Club on Friday Nov. 17th, 2006, was unique. It was a new uprising of judges, in which they demanded not only the independence of the judicial authority, full supervision on electio..

Morocco’s Islamic Justice and Development Party (PJD) has rejected the new election bill, considering some of its articles as undemocratic and that they violate the principle of equality and the freedom to run for the elections.

 Abdallah Baha, the president of the Justice and Development’s (PJD) parliamentary group, and PJD’s Undersecretary-General, said in a statement to Ikhwanwe..

Comment on Washington Times article 
 
Once again, the Muslim Brotherhood is facing a barrage of deliberate misquotations, misinterpretations and distortion of statements.
 
The Muslim Brotherhood finds itself between the hammer of Mrs.&nb..

A 57-year-old Palestinian grandmother blew herself up on Thursday amongst a group of Israel occupation soldiers in retaliation to recent atrocities committed by the IOF in the northern Gaza Strip.

Before carrying out her attack she wrote: "This attack is but a taster of what the Zionists will face at the hands of Palestinian men and women. The [Qassam] Brigades will prepare surprises for..

Hamas won an overwhelming electoral victory in January 2006, overturning many assumptions regionally and globally. Branded as terrorist by Israel and the West, it is the largest Palestinian militant Islamist organisation, formed fifteen years ago at the beginning of the first intifada. Its short-term objective is to drive Israeli forces from the West Bank and Gaza, an aim it hopes to realise th..

"Candidates of the Islamic National Al Menbar Society (Bahrain’s chapter of Muslim Brotherhood) have achieved good results in the first round of the parliamentary election", said Mo’az Al Hassan the head of the Society’s media office.
Al Hassan added, in a statement to Ikhwanweb, that four candidates won the elections while three others will face a second round runoff, pointing out that onl..

A new chapter of brutality against the Egyptian people is opened by the ruthless state security apparatus; Hisham Fahim, a state security officer, in Abshway, governorate of Al Fayyum, beat and tortured Mahmoud Ahmed Garhy after kidnapping him while he was visiting his newly married daughter.

Detectives Mahmoud Abdul Salam and Ashraf kidnapped him and took him blindfolded to the state s..

The Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood denounced president Bush’s visit to Amman which will begin on Wednesday November 29,2006. In a statement it released Tuesday, a copy of which was posted Ikhwanweb, the group said that the US administration led by President Bush is held responsible for the heinous brutalities and the destruction in Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan

The g..

The Nixon Center hosted discussion with John Voll, Professor at Georgetown Univerity, on the Muslim Brotherhood, on Tuesday November 28. The discussion focused on the current status of the Muslim Brotherhood and also U.S. policy options towards it. The discussion was moderated by Robert S. Leiken, Director of of Immigration and National Security Programs.

It is interesting to..

A host of university teaching staff members as well as the March 9 Group staged a march of protest, on Wednesday, at Ein Shams University after the Faculty of Law witnessed assaults by 200 outsider hooligans whom the university administration hired later last week to assault Muslim Brotherhood students; this assault led to injuring about 15 MB students.

The professors walked round..

The Islamic Group in Lebanon has called on the opposition to calm down and resort to dialogue, in a statement it issued after the Lebanese opposition urged its supporters to take to the streets to topple Siniora’s government.

"The Islamic group has previously declared its opinion: that we don’t prefer taking to streets, specially that the opposition’s targets from this can be tackled wi..

The Political View of the MB Moderate Reformists in the Mauritanian Elections

The  coup of the 3rd August 2005 opened horizons of change in front of the Mauritanians; so their hopes for involvement in the public affairs were revived again; they gathered in different forms to call for reform and seek change and a new situation that may mends turmoil of the past and my bode with a fu..

The Palestinian Centre for Human rights in Gaza reported that the prosecution of an Israeli war crimes suspect was stayed as part of a legal manoeuvre by the Attorney General of New Zealand to prevent the arrest or charge of the suspect while on a visit to New Zealand.

Moshe Ya’alon was spared arrest or..

The results of the runoff of the Bahraini Municipal and Legislative elections confirmed the lead that the Islamic movement achieved in the first round of the vote; the results declared- on Sunday 3rd Decembers, by the Bahraini Justice Minister, Mohamed Ali Al Satri showed that the National Islamic Al-Menbar society (Musl..

Mohamed Abdel-Alim, the spokesman of the Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM) said that that the initiative recently offered by the movement is a translation of the current reformist orientations
in the Kuwaiti society and that they were voiced in several events, during and before the elections.

"The ICM doesn’t want to impose its views on anyone; presenting this initiative at this ..

 The final results of the runoff of the Mauritanian legislative elections showed a great progress for the opposition, after winning 14 seats out of 52.

According to the final results, announced by the Mauritanian Interior Minister, Mohamed Ahmed Ould Mohamed Al Amin, the political parties have won in the runoff 21 seats, while the independent slates won  31 seats, including tw..

In a major breakthrough in the world of medicine, head of the Yemeni Iman University Sheikh Abdul Meguid Al Zendani said that he and his scientific team discovered an herbal drug which can cure AIDS. He added that around 15 HIV carriers were cured after they regularly took this medicine in a period ranging between three months and one year, pointing out that the tests conducted on the samp..