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Muslim Brotherhood leader decries Egypt military trial

[JURIST] A leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder], who is standing before a military trial in Egypt on money laundering and terror charges, Monday denounced the

Hamas Deputy FM in Rice Message: Hamas Seeks Peace

Dr. Ahmed Youssef, the political adviser at the Hamas-led Palestinian Foreign Ministry sent a message through the media to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in which he stressed that Hamas

Al-Shater Denies Censorship Charges, Considers Fake

Khairat Al-Shater appeared before Al-Sayeda Zainab Prosecution pursuant to a notice filed against him by the Censorship Investigation Bureau.

Military trial of Brotherhood members a ’farce,’ group leader says

A prominent Muslim Brotherhood leader standing trial in a military court here on Monday decried the proceedings against him and 39 other senior members of the banned opposition group as

Jihad revisions

Before Al-Qaeda’s chief theorist, Imam Abdul- Aziz Al-Marouf, publicised the ideological revisions drafted by the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Sayed Imam El-Sherif (Dr Fadl), and since the Egyptian

Popular Dictators: Who Could Pass the Democratic Test?

Some call Putin a dictator, yet few deny that he would win a fair election. If you look around the world, how many bona fide dictators could say the same?

End of the MB Blogging Spring?

Despite Mahmoud’s current pessimism, I still think that this is possible down the road - if these creative and energetic youth activists can find ways to reassure their elders that

25 student members of the Muslim Brotherhood arrested in Egypt

At least 25 students have been arrested by the Egyptian go vernment for ’belonging’ to an outlawed muslim group, marking the resumption of t he government’s crackdown on members of

Facing Hamas and Hezbollah

Hamas and Hezbollah have both been on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations for many years

Moderate Islamists and peaceful democracy

It has become widely acknowledged that political exclusion and oppression fosters extremism, whereas democratic participation encourages moderation and compromise.