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Dr. Fathi Yakan, the leader of the Islamic Action Front and a member in the National Meeting, declared an initiative in an attempt to get out of the crisis; Yakan handed it at on Tuesday at 7.30 PM to the Prime Minister Fouad Siniora; the initiative is based on one item, which is forming a national unity government headed by Siniora.

Dr. Fathi Yakan told Ikhwanweb that he was the one wh..

Iraq: IIP Deplores Killings, Arsons And Displacement Operations For Fifth Consecutive Month

The Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) released, on December 10, 2006, a statement lashing out at the government for its failure to protect the Sunnis in Al Horreyya district where they have been facing killings and displacements under the nose of the Iraqi government.

"Five consecutive months ha..

The Syrian offshoot of Muslim Brotherhood released a statement, on December 12, 2006, warning that both US and Iranian schemes pose a serious threat to Lebanon’s stability and unity.

"The US occupation of Iraq has created chaos elsewhere and has given way for the Iranian scheme to expand and could eventually impose its hegemony on the region", the statement said, adding that Arabs shoul..

An Egyptian citizen has been tortured by police officers and has been threatened that his wife will be raped.

With the spread of the phenomenon of torture in Egypt- a well-established policy in police stations and State Security Police- the police officers, Khaled Dabsh and Mohamed Shahdah, summoned citizen Ahmed Abdul Latif Al-Himdi to the State Security Police in Kafr Al-Sheikh with t..

The Egyptian authorities arrested, on Thursday December 14, 2006, several Muslim Brotherhood leaders, among them Khayrat el Shater, the MB Chairman’s second deputy and a host of public figures, including syndicate leaders and university professors, and more than 180 of Al Azhar university students including the secretary general of the Free Student Union, Suhaib Shawkat Al M..

The Muslim Brotherhood students confirmed that the Egyptian security services that detained students under the pretext of rebelling against public order for exercising a sportive performance, are the same services that allowed bullies to assault and attack the students in Ain Shams University.
The students’ statement ‘For Whose Interest Are Students Persecuted’- issued on Saturday- a copy of..

“I hope that those reading this message will know to what extent I am emotionally suffering after publishing those pictures [MB students’ parade]" "Since, Monday, when Al Masri Al Youm Newspaper published the news of Al-Azhar militias, I have felt sad about what will happen after; there was fear inside me but I did not know that all this would happen.”

This is  part of the tes..

Ayman Nour’s health continues to deteriorate in prison after suffering major complications related to his uncontrolled Diabetes, doctors said. The latest was rupture of tiny blood vessels inside his eyes causing hemorrhage, as a result of a condition called Diabetic Retinopathy" which develops due to uncontrolled blood sugar.

During his interrogation yesterday by the prosecutor conc..

Muslim Brotherhood cannot be eradicated 

Dr. Hassan Nafeaa, head of the Political Sciences Department, Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Cairo University, wrote an article in which he reviewed the yearlong conflict of successive regimes in Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood,

 citing the recent arrests which reached out to sixteen Muslim Brotherhood leaders, ..

Doctor Salah Ali- chairman of the Islamic national Al Menbar society in Bahrain (Muslim Brotherhood) and chief of its parliamentary bloc- won the post of the second deputy House Speaker unopposed; also being unopposed, both Khalifa Al Zharani was elected House Speaker, and Ghanem Al Bouinin was elected first deputy House Speaker.
The House of Representatives held a procedural session on Tues..

Tripoli’s Supreme Court sentenced to death, today, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting 424 Libyan children with HIV virus.
The nurses and the Palestinian doctor have been detained since February 1999 on charge of intentionally infecting 426 Libyan children with AIDS virus, 52 of them died since then. A Libyan court sentenced them to death in May 2003 but the L..

Editor and researcher in the Islamic movements affairs, Hossam Tammam, delves into the status of the Muslim Brotherhood group in the Egyptian society, taking as a launching point the incident at Al Azhar University when MB students performed a mil..

Less than two weeks after a large labor protest, more than three thousands workers at Helwan and Torah cement plants (south of Cairo) staged an open sit-in due to not paying some of their financial dues.

The recent increase in huge labor protests in Egypt raises worries of the official arenas; they fear that such spontaneous moves may encourage other sections to carry out similar ..

A delegation of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc- headed by Hussein Mohamed Ibrahim- the MB bloc’s deputy chief-received, last Wednesday evening, a delegation from the Socialist Group in the European Parliament headed by Mrs. Bascolina Bolitanu the Vice Chairman of the Group.

The MB bloc deputy leader welcomed the European delegation which is currently visiting Egypt, and have ..

Ikhwanweb wishes Christians all over the world who are celebrating Christmas today, a happy holiday. We also extend our wishes to the people of the Jewish faith who ended their celebration of Hanukkah on December 23rd.  We pray for the day when all people of faith and children of Adam will live together in peace and prosperity...

Spokesmen for Hamas Movement and its armed wing the Qassam Brigades on Monday denied allegations published by a Hebrew daily that the Movement was planning to attack American targets.

Fawzi Barhum, the Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip, said that the report by Yedioth Ahronoth, quoting an American paper, was completely untrue.

"Our battle is with the Zionist occupiers only and we ..

Al Hiwar satellite TV channel will host Mr. Ibrahim Monir, the general supervisor of ‘Risalat Al-Ikhwan’ (Muslim Brotherhood Message) in a TV interview entitled: “The latest attack against the Muslim Brotherhood After Arresting Engineer Mohamed Khayrat Al Shater, the MB Deputy Chairman And Other MB Members” on a TV show called: Issue and Interview

Hebrew press: Egypt transferred large quantity of arms, ammunition to Abbas’ guards.

The Egyptian authorities have recently transferred a big number of guns and ammunition to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas’ loyalists in the Gaza Strip, according to a Hebrew press report on Thursday.

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