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Is the Muslim Brotherhood a “terrorist organization”?

In a word...NO!!! That’s the short version. In a somewhat deeper evaluation, one need only read the profound works of our beloved Imam Shaheed Hassan Al Banna to know there

Islamist Group Pressures Egypt’s Ruling Party

Ever since it won 88 seats (out of 444) in the 2005 parliamentary elections, the Muslim Brotherhood has shown itself to be Egypt’s most disciplined and well-organized political force.

Egypt Police Arrests 12 year Old Boy on the Eve of Local Elections

A 12-year-old boy was arrested from street Monday by security police in the northern Egyptian city of Damietta while he was playing with his friends in front of his house,

AI, Church of England delegates visit charities threatened with IOA closure

Delegations from Amnesty International and the Church of England visited Palestinian charities in Al-Khalil city that are threatened with closure at the hands of the Israeli occupation authority (IOA).

Muslim Brotherhood Withdraws From Municipal Elections, Calls on Egyptians to Boycott the Vote

The Muslim Brotherhood decided it will be fruitless to compete with a handful of candidates who are living in fears and are not able to even campaign for their elections

Bani Suwaif’s University Professors and students rally for Dr. Badee

Members of professors’ body and students of the veterinary medicine faculty at Bani Suwaif University have rallied for the release of Dr. Muhammad Badee Abdul-Majeed, professor at the faculty and

Habib: Tuesday’s Local Elections “A Farce”

The Muslim Brotherhood said today it will boycott municipal elections after being allowed to field only 21 candidates out of 10,000, calling on the Egyptian people to boycott Tuesday’s elections

The Green Light

As the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guant?namo detainee wouldn’t talk, the Bush administration’s highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions,

If Americans Knew

It’s not a coincidence that Pro-Israel Jewish Americans, like Eliot Abrams, Dennis Ross, and Martin Indyk, are usually appointed in charge of Middle East policy, especially the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Pakistan: New Beginnings?

Now, with the process of transition to civilian rule complete, the question many of us have in mind is: have we finally crossed the threshold from convoluted paternalistic military rule