Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website

Since the city of Jerusalem was occupied by the Israeli authorities in 1967, the Israeli Antiquities Authority has been doing its bestو through using the policy of the stick and carrot, to discover the archeological treasures in the city of Jerusalem, the latest of which was buying a shop near Al Aqsa Mosque under which it started serious excavation works.
 
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The Secretary-General of the Muslim Brotherhood group in Syria, Ali Sadruddin al-Bayanoni, announced the group is opening a media office in London.

Al-Bayanoni told Ikhwanweb, around the media office that the group opened in the British capital, London:" We have been here for many years; it is natural that we exercise our work through an office, not from my house", confirming that they ..

An internal study conducted by Egypt’s Stock Exchange Authority warned that the latest security escalation against Muslim Brotherhood businessmen will hurt the national economy and sends negative signals to foreign investors abroad.

The study said that the increasing number of detentions against MB businessmen and investors will hurt the Egyptian economy, specially that ..

Coptic intellectuals  rejected the call of Bishop Murqos to amend the second Article of the Egyptian Constitution which states the Islamic Sharia is the source of legislation

Dr. Rafik Habib, a Coptic intellectual, refused this call from Murqos, the spokesman of Egyptian church, for amending the article of the Islamic Sharia.

Habib said in statements to Ikhwanweb that ..

Counselor Zakariya Abdul Aziz, the chairman of the Egyptian Judges’ Club, called on the independent MPs of the People’s Assembly, the lower chamber of parliament, to vote for rejecting the proposed constitutional amendments, with opposition MPs, to reach the rate of one third (about 151 MPs) which is required for dropping the amendments, because they aim at "excluding the judiciary from supervi..

Dr. Hamdi Hassan, the media spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc, said that the political party that the group declared starting to establish is open for all Egyptians (Muslims and Copts).

Hassan confirmed, in a statement to Ikhwanweb, that an MB party will not be sectarian; every Egyptian has the right to join this party as long as he believes in its principles and is..

Delegations of 19 Arab and Islamic countries participated in the International Forum for Islamic Parliaments (IFIP) in Jakarta, Indonesia, and elected Hussein Mohamed Ibrahim, the deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc in the Egyptian People’s Assembly, as a senior deputy speaker for the forum. The Algerian MP Abdul Magid Al Manasera was elected  a speaker for the for..

23 Egyptian human rights organization called on president Hosni Mubarak to cut the prison sentence against the opposition leader, Ayman Nour, who was sentenced to five years in jail on charge of submitting forged documents for founding Al-Ghad Party that he was leading later in 2005.

The statement released by the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights and 22 other organizations, a copy..

Zaki Bin Arsheed, the Secretary General of Islamic Action Front (IAF) declared that the party rejects the amendments introduced by the parliamentary national direction subcommittee to the publishing law after it enforced maximum penalties against the freedom of expression and maintained jailing journalists for expressing their views.

He said in a statement today that maintaining" what r..

Robert Poker, Australia’s ambassador to Cairo, received at his house on Monday, both Dr. Mohamed Saad Al Katatni- the chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood’s (MB) parliamentary bloc, and Eng. Saad Al Husseini - the bloc’s under secretary general, and invited them to lunch along with Philip Mac Yanon, Canada’s ambassador to Cairo, and Rene Wilson, New Zealand’s ambassador to Cairo.

The meet..

Al-Masri criticized strongly the role of the Lebanese army as it maintained its unjustified negative attitude; it did not open streets and did not try to help citizens to cross barriers and barricades; Al-Masri thinks that this may be attributed to the fact that the Lebanese army commander has political ambitions for assuming the presidency and wants to support the opposition.

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Eight human rights organizations issued a joint statement in which they condemned the policy of detentions that the Interior Ministry escalated in last period, specially against the Muslim Brotherhood group.
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Eng. Solaiman Abdul Qader has been reelected for a new four-year term to head the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot in Libya, according to a statement the group released. This took place during the general conference of the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya, the highest body in the group.

The statement, a copy of which was obtained by Ikhwanweb, pointed out that the the group highlights the complete..

In an attempt to reassure the public after the scandal of contaminated blood, which resulted in a nationwide shortage of blood donors, the Muslim Brotherhood is launching an aggressive campaign to encourage people to donate blood and provide hospitals and blood transfusion centers with badly needed b..