Archive for 'Muslim Brotherhood'
ANALYSIS & EDITOR’S COMMENT: Breaking down barriers
Border crisis bolsters Islamists
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, January 29, 2008
Egypt’s main Islamist party and other opposition groups are strengthening their appeal by using images of desperate Palestinians streaming out of the Gaza Strip to provoke wider protests against President Hosni Mubarak’s 26-year-old government.
Demonstrations in Cairo and throughout the country by the Muslim Brotherhood […]
Posted: January 30th, 2008 under Egypt, Gaza, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood.
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FEATURE: Ikhwan bloggers
Young Brothers in cyberspace
By Marc Lynch, MERIP, Winter, 2007
In September 2007, the Society of Muslim Brothers, Egypt’s largest organized political force, released a draft political party platform to a select group of around 50 Egyptian intellectuals. The response was scathing. Planks such as those advocating formation of a “higher council” of religious scholars with what […]
Posted: November 20th, 2007 under Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, democracy, political Islam.
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OPINION: The West’s silence on Egypt’s assault on human rights
Behind closed doors
By Ibrahim El Houdaiby, The Guardian, November 14, 2007
The justice systems in Britain and the US may not be perfect. But viewed from Egypt, the jurisprudence and transparency that attend the vast majority of trials there are very much to be envied.
In Cairo today, some 40 leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood are […]
Posted: November 15th, 2007 under Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, democracy.
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NEWS & OPINION: Egypt’s struggle for democracy
Cairo moving more aggressively to cripple Muslim Brotherhood
By Ellen Knickmeyer, Washington Post, October 1, 2007
After imprisoning or prodding into exile Egypt’s leading secular opposition activists, the government is using detentions and legal changes to neutralize the country’s last surviving major political movement, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Brotherhood leaders and rights groups contend the government is clearing the […]
Posted: October 1st, 2007 under Bush Administration, Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, democracy.
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OPINION: The Muslim Brotherhood is not at odds with its democratic rivals
The Muslim Brotherhood will stand up for all Egyptians
By Ibrahim El Houdaiby, The Forward, September 26, 2007
In her opinion article, [Mona] Eltahawy criticizes the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader, Mohammed Mahdi Akef, for calling her “naked” because she was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt and pants. I could not agree more with her.
Not wearing the hijab, or headscarf, […]
Posted: September 27th, 2007 under Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, democracy.
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OPINION: The rise of political Islam
Democracy, not terror, is the engine of political Islam
By William Dalrymple, The Guardian, September 21, 2007
The Bush administration proclaimed in 2004 that the promotion of democracy in the Middle East would be a major foreign policy theme in its second term. It has been widely perceived, not least in Washington, that this policy has failed. […]
Posted: September 23rd, 2007 under Hamas, Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood, War on Terrorism, political Islam.
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OPINION NEWS: Muslim Brotherhood; Egypt’s crackdown on the press
I will stand up for the Muslim Brotherhood
By Mona Eltahawy, The Forward, September 19, 2007
…as that same secular, liberal Egyptian Muslim, I believe I must defend the Brotherhood’s presence on Egypt’s political stage. If I don’t, then I am just as guilty as the regime that has for decades sucked the oxygen out of the […]
Posted: September 20th, 2007 under Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, civil liberties, human rights.
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