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Muslim Brotherhood eyes Facebook version

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's influential Islamist opposition movement, will launch its own social networking site next month to promote moderate Islam, an official said on Wednesday.

MB denies accusations by The Groups’ writer

Seif al-Islam al Banna, son of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al Banna rejected accusations by Wahid Hammed writer of the controversial TV series 'The Group'.

TV series increases consumer demands for MB founder’s memoirs

The Ramadan series The Group written by Wahid Hammed has apparently received nationwide attention but has it harvested sympathy for the regime as obviously intended?

US Copts protest against construction of NY mosque near Ground Zero

Coptic organizations in the US announced their intention to organize a rally on September 10, in protest to the building of a mosque in New York City, blocks away from

Analyst: Past Wafd affiliations with MB proved successful

Internal differences within the Wafd Party has had Kamal Zakher, coordinator of the Front for Secular Copts and Wafd Party member submitting his resignation to the party this week with

Moderate Islamism- Key to Democracy?

director of research at the Brookings Doha Center, argues in a new policy briefing that the U.S. must reassess its policy toward moderate Islamist groups in the Middle East, or

Burning of Quran evident aggression against Muslims

The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, has advocated on its website the intention of burning copies of the Quran.

Fight Islamic extremism through integration

It is clear that this country is never going to be (and never was) a uni-racial, uni-cultural place. Multicultural, multiracial, multireligious societies are more and more going to be the

Woman jailed for abusing and spitting at Muslims as they left mosque

Worshippers leaving a mosque in Colne were subjected to a tirade of racist abuse by a drunken woman who spat on them in the street, a court heard.

Islamists in Bangladesh face constant suppression

Since its coming into power in early 2009, there have been numerous reports that the Awami League in Bangladesh has been torturing leaders of opposition political parties in an attempt