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MB Reaffirms its Commitment to Peaceful Change, Rejects Violence

We, at Ikhwanweb, despite all the attempts to disseminate a spirit of cultural conflict between Islam and the West, affirm that our path and goals will remain clear and that we will continue to follow them as we will continue to call for dialogue and gap-bridging and raise the voice of moderateness: No to the new fascism, no to Naziism, and no to hatred! ..

Hamas Calls for Palestinian State in 1967 Borders

GAZA CITY - The head of the democratically elected Hamas in Gaza said on Tuesday the movement supported the creation of a Palestinian state in the territories Israel has occupied since the 1967 Six-Day war...

Carter calls for reconstruction of Gaza

Former US president Jimmy Carter on Tuesday called for opening the Gaza Strip’s crossings in order to allow construction material necessary for the reconstruction of areas devastated in the latest Israeli war on Gaza...

UN high commissioner for human rights calls for ending Gaza siege

Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has called for an end to the Israeli siege of Gaza Strip and to restrictions on freedom of import-export traffic...

Haneyya asks the world community to pressure the IOA to lift siege

Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya has urged the world community to pressure the Israeli occupation authority to lift the siege on Gaza Strip and end the Palestinian people’s suffering...

Hamas: Agreement difficult to reach amidst continued assassinations

Hamas Movement on Monday asserted that reaching an inter-Palestinian national conciliation agreement was getting farther to reach in light of the continued PA security forces’ assassinations in the West Bank...

Hamas: Agreement difficult to reach amidst continued assassinations

Hamas Movement on Monday asserted that reaching an inter-Palestinian national conciliation agreement was getting farther to reach in light of the continued PA security forces’ assassinations in the West Bank...

Barghouthi: Netanyahu’s speech proved the absence of a peace partner in Israel

MP Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, the secretary-general of the Palestinian national initiative, said on Monday that Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu proved in his speech on Sunday that there is no peace partner in Israel and his willingness to entrench the apartheid system against the Palestinians...

OIC delegation arrives in Gaza on Wednesday

A delegation of the Organization of Islamic Conference is scheduled to arrive to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing on Wednesday, the Palestinian interior ministry said. ..

Abu Marzouk: Dialog targets release of Hamas detainees alive

Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy political bureau chairman of Hamas, has said that the national dialog among Palestinian factions targets releasing all kidnapped supporters and cadres alive...

Haneyya to meet Carter in Gaza

PA premier Ismail Haneyya is to meet on Tuesday with former US president Jimmy Carter in the Gaza Strip to discuss latest political and field developments in the Palestinian lands, especially in the Strip...

Gaffney’s First Amendment argument FAILS

Washington Times columnist Frank Gaffney is throwing a temper tantrum because Paul Krugman called him and his newspaper out for putting forth hate speech. In a today’s column, entitled "Free speech, but not for me?" Gaffney says:..

Bahar strongly condemns the death of detainee under torture in Abbas’s jails

Acting Palestinian legislative council speaker Dr. Ahmed Bahar has strongly denounced the death of Haithem Amr, 28, under torture in Al-Khalil jail run by security forces loyal to former PA chief Mahmoud Abbas...

U.S. Jews Latest Group To Seriously Question Their Support Of Barack Obama

It appears the U.S. Jewish community, like many other groups of people in this country, have begun to wake up to the fact that the product they ordered when they voted for Barack Obama on November 4, 2008 is a completely different animal than the one that popped out of the package the UPS guy dropped off on January 21, 2009...

Iran: an arbitrary decision to close "Al-Arabiya" in Tehran

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) strongly condemned resolution of the Iranian authorities to close down the office of "Al-Arabiya" TV channel in the Tehran for a week, without declaring any grounds, while the Adminstrative Court in Cairo will consider a Hesba case aims at closing the Office of the office of the Iranian state owned "Al-Alam" Satellite channel in Cairo. ..

Swine Flu Map in Egypt

Ikhwanweb has detected some common features of the infected cases in Egypt: First: All infected cases are either foreigners or Egyptians living abroad (mostly with dual nationalities). Most cases were quarantined in Cairo International Airport. Out of the 19 infected cases only five are Egyptians. The rest- 14 cases- are foreigners with the Americans leading the toll with 12 cases followed by 2 Columbian cases. ..

8 more swine flu cases confirmed at AUC…MB earlier predictions

Dr Mahmoud Ezzat, Secretary General of the Muslim Brotherhood and a professor in the Faculty of Medicine in the Zagazig University stated that indications warn that swine flu could mutate into a pandemic affecting the whole country especially in light of the way in which the Egyptian government is dealing with the virus...

Crackdown on Software companies in Damanhur

It is worth mentioning that the States Security service and Artistic Works Investigation Unit have launched large raids against the Islamic library Some light (Nahwalnoor) in Mount Sinai St. on 2nd June 2009.This coincides in reports where Major Nagi Al-Gammal and inspector Gamal Tayah are set to appear in Damanhur prosecution for a questioning which was submitted by Fares Barakat who was a victim during the arrests in al-Behira on 15th May 2009 against 24 belonging to the Muslim Broth..

Thoughts on President Obama’s Speech by 100 Arab & Muslim Leaders

Despite some unfortunate incidents, a majority of Muslims are very tolerant, perhaps unbeknown to President Obama. The sectarian killings in Iraq were instigated through the colonialist policy of divide and rule after invasion, since Iraqis, Shias and Sunnis, intermarried and lived together amiably throughout their history. Also contrary to President Obama’s commitment, American Muslims are still handicapped in fulfilling their obligation of Zakat since most Islamic charities are still..

Supporting Palestinian Resistance and Women’s Political Participation Are Our Causes

It is also necessary that the trend towards the empowerment of women, as a positive form of discrimination, not lose balance of the principles and rules of equality and equal opportunity between citizens. Also, the necessity of establishing guarantees for the execution of this law for a period to be agreed upon must be clarified...