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Islamic IssuesOther Views February 5, 2008

Terrorism meeting at AFA stirs controversy

The Air Force Academy has invited three men who say they are former Islamic terrorists to speak at the 50th annual Academy Assembly, which opened today.
Other IssuesReports February 5, 2008

What Do the Pentagon’s Budget Numbers Mean?

The new 2009 defense budget has just been released. The more you look into the numbers, the more things become unclear, very unclear. Most of the numbers being released today
Human RightsPalestine February 5, 2008

Turkey can do more to help the Palestinians

Palestinians have welcomed recent statements by top Turkish officials, criticizing the harsh Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has pushed the coastal territory’s 1.5 million inhabitants to the brink
Human RightsPalestine February 5, 2008

Irish solidarity delegation visits popular committee in Gaza

A delegation from an Irish society in solidarity with the Palestinian people visited the headquarters of the popular committee against the siege in Gaza and met with its head MP
Islamic MovementsPolitical Islam Studies February 5, 2008

Islamist Movements and the Political Challenge: An Alternate Perspective

While on a recent visit to Delhi, I chanced upon an Urdu book whose title, Tehrik-i-Islami Ko Darpesh Siyasi Challenge (’The Political Challenges Before the Islamic Movement’, immediately attracted my
Activites February 5, 2008

Judges’ Club Threatens More Measures Unless New Financial Cadre Endorsed

The Judges’ Club is preparing for a new battle for improving judges’ salaries and for endorsing a new financial cadre (degree), especially as prices are uncontrollably sky-rocketing in the current
Activites February 5, 2008

Judges’ Club Threatens More Measures Unless New Financial Cadre Endorsed

The Judges’ Club is preparing for a new battle for improving judges’ salaries and for endorsing a new financial cadre (degree), especially as prices are uncontrollably sky-rocketing in the current
PalestineParliament News February 5, 2008

MB Bloc Denounces Palestinian Egyptian Border Skirmishes

Hussein Mohamed Ibrahim, vice-chairman and spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliamentary bloc, lamented the skirmishes that took place place at Egypt-Gaza borders on Monday evening killing a Palestinian citizen
Other Issues February 5, 2008

Egyptian Administrative Justice Orders Engineers Syndicate Sequestration Lifted

The Administrative Court issued a ruling on Sunday Feb, 3rd, 2008, in which it ordered Sequestration over the Egyptian Engineers Syndicate be lifted. The court overturned also the decision of
MB in International press February 5, 2008

Muslim Brotherhood Drafts Party Platform

Egyptian political scientist Amr Hamzawy is at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace here in Washington. "It is going to be up to the Muslim Brotherhood in this very specific