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Challenging Time in Egypt

when the U.S. supports the governments that are considered authoritarian, the people often will criticize the U.S. for supporting authoritarian governments. When the U.S. steps up and criticizes those governments

Muslim Brotherhood Calls For Solidarity With Political Detainees

Mr. Mohamed Mahdi Akef, Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, called upon all citizens to rally behind the political detainees and press for their unconditional release regardless of their political affiliations

Egyptian police arrest 9 Brotherhood members

Egyptian police raided a Cairo study centre connected with the opposition Muslim Brotherhood and arrested nine leading members of the Islamist group, police and the Brotherhood said on Monday.After giving

Iraqi VP: Occuaption Forces in Iraq Commit Daily Massacres

In an exclusive statement to Ikhwanweb , Iraqi vice president and Islamic party chairman Mr. Tarek el Hashemi commented on the massacres perpetrated by the US forces in Haditha, Samera,

The shocking truth about the American occupation of Iraq

Could Haditha be just the tip of the mass grave? The corpses we have glimpsed, the grainy footage of the cadavers and the dead children; could these be just a

Doubtful results

Last week’s Chambers of Commerce elections in Alexandria reflected official prejudice against the Muslim Brotherhood, reports Pierre Loza Elections took place last week for the 105 board seats of the

Nine Muslim Brotherhood Members Arrested in Cairo

Egyptian state security police arrested nine prominent members of the Muslim Brotherhood during a routine meeting at the Center for Research and Development in Cairo.

VIEW: The Domestic Wars of Hosni Mubarak

A domestic war with the Egyptian Bedouins of Sinai broke out two years ago. Alienated young Bedouins apparently decided to rebel against their treatment as third-class citizens. All around them,

Mubarak seems to be running scared from democracy

For a teeming city of 16 million, the political demonstration was tiny. Twenty to 30 human-rights activists gathered in a leafy neighborhood that houses many foreign embassies. Their objective was

Democractic Governance And Separation of Religion & Politics

Theoreticians of democracy have insisted that without secularization of the political space there can be no democracy. Recent history of reformation in the Muslim world has insisted on the inseparability