Morocco Cracks Down on Islamist Opposition Group JSA

In a major operation in late May, Moroccan security forces arrested over 300 members of al-Adl wa al-Ihsane (Justice and Spirituality Association—JSA), including ranking leaders, over vague allegations that the

Major Conference Planned in Solidarity with Political Detainees

The Freedom Committee of the Lawyers Syndicate is organizing a major conference on Thursday, June 8, 2006

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

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

The Persecution of the Palestinians

“Why do they hate us?” So stunned Americans asked, after 9/11, when we learned that across the Arab world, many were saying, “The Americans had it coming.” For a textbook

Is political Islam on the march?

Some American commentators have called for an all-out war against all manifestations of political Islam. Disentangling myth from reality about this movement, whose goal is to establish governments based on

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

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,

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

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