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Dr. Abdel-Moneim Abu el-Fotouh, member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Executive Bureau, in an interview aired on the satellite Dream T.V. channel, stated that the Islamic Caliphate, is a political and not a religious concept. It is a sort of a federation of Muslim States in a system of integration and cooperation in economic and political fields. All Muslim peopl..

The Egyptian government has sent two prominent judges to a disciplinary board for possible expulsion from the judiciary, raising the stakes in a conflict between the government and judges seeking judicial independence. The decision by Justice Minister Mahmoud Aboul Leil provoked a storm in Parliament yesterday when opposition members called for an urgent debate and the speaker refused to allow ..

The national campaign against emergency law kicked off yesterday where thousands of Egyptian university students marked the occasion through a series of coordinated angry demonstrations denouncing emergency laws and rejecting the security apparatus meddling in academic affairs.
The demonstrations organized by different political and national forces active in the Egyptian community.

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The emergency law is a tool in the hands of the executive power to storm many basic rights and freedom guaranteed by the Egyptian Constitution. Since the assassination of President Anwar El Sadat in October 1981 , the emergency law was renewed by a temporary resolution no. 560/1981 for one year and then has been extended many times again till 2003.
The emergency law grants to the authority t..

The government’s statement to the People’s Assembly in Jan. 30, 2006 is the second statement to be delivered by Dr. Ahmad Nazif who took over the government since 18 months. Nazif’s taking over the Cabinet in July 2004 is considered a new progressive step towards the process of the slow and hesitated economic conversion, which is led by the state since 1991. By adopting this process, the state ..

In a statement to Ikhwanweb, Hamas spokesperson Mr. Samy Abu Zehry, rejected Mr. Bin Laden’s statements in reference to Hamas participation in legislative councils and running for elections “Hamas has its own agenda that is not compatible with Al Qaeda’s. Hamas is a political movement serving the Palestinian people but meanwhile resisting an occupation and will only work within these boundaries..

After Hamas victory in Legislative elections and forming its first government, all western governments did not react favorably to the new reality and agreed on one thing; forcing the newly born government into collapse...

The Iraqi situation represents one of the most volatile scenes around the world. After the end of the Gulf War II and the US occupation, all believed that matters would move towards calm.

State security police arrested 23 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo including Yasser Ghazlan, son of Dr. Mahmoud Ghazlan member of the MB Executive Bureau.

The arrests came while the MB members were hanging posters belonging to the National Front for Change (NFC) condemning the extension of the Emergency Law.

State security police arrested eight activists on Sunday morning when they gathered in front of the South Cairo Court House where judges Hisham Bastawesi and Mahmoud Mikky appeared before court deciding their case. A large number of police officers and soldiers surrounded a group of activists for four hours before they were taken into custody. The eight activists, including three females, belon..

State Security police in massive numbers surrounded all entries to downtown Cairo to prevent large number of Egyptians who came from all over the country to show their solidarity to Judges Hisham Bastawi..

Some Palestinian sources asserted yesterday that Faruq Al-Qaddumi the head of the Political Department of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the secretary of the Central Committee of Fateh Movement supports the stance of the government of Hamas that refuses to recognize Israel.

During his meeting with the Arab ambassadors to Tunisia, Al-Qaddumi praised the stance of the ..

The European Union and the United States stopped their financial aids to the Palestinian government of Hamas, as a kind of punishment to the Palestinian people for electing Hamas in the last Palestinian elections that were characterized by neutrality and transparency and that expressed the free choice of the Palestinians to the program of Hamas.

Thus, Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the head of t..

Thursday, 11 May 2006, will be engraved in the memory of the Egyptian nation, given the extent of violence and terrorism exercised by the Egyptian regime against opponents showing their support for judges in their demand for an independent judiciary. Actions of Egyptian security on that day illustrates the extent of police brutality and violence towards opposition forces. Those assau..

Thursday, 11 May 2006, will be engraved in the memory of the Egyptian nation, given the extent of violence and terrorism exercised by the Egyptian regime against opponents showing their support for judges in their demand for an independent judiciary. Actions of Egyptian security on that day illustrates the extent of police brutality and violence towards opposition forces. Those assau..

The disciplinary court trying reformist judges Hisham Bastawisi and Mahmud Mikki issued its verdict today. The court found judge Mahmud Mikki not guilty and was acquitted. Judge Hisham Bastawisi was reprimanded.

According to judiciary experts, the reprimand of judge Bastawisi will not directly affect his career but can compromise his chances of being promoted to higher posts. He c..

As a result of the retreat in the ceiling of freedoms in Egypt, especially the freedom of the press, the government’s Al-Ahram Newspaper continues the policies of quelling against its great writers. This motivated the great Egyptian writer Fahmi Huwaidi to stop writing for Al-Ahram Newspaper, as well as the great cartoon writer Ahmad Ragab who declared stopping writing for Akhbar Al-Yum Newspap..

On the occasion of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East (Davos), Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif made statements in which they considered that the political reform process would need several years and should not be precipitated.

Nazif attributed this orientation to the political rise of Islamists following the successes they achieved in the..

This testimony was issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in 1994, and it addresses various issues clearly and without ambiguity. Ikhwanweb decided to post part of this testimony in order to rebut some of the claims that the Muslim Brotherhood has not yet clarified its stance on certain issues like violence, terrorism, and commitment to democracy.