Muslim Brotherhood

The Muslim Brotherhood’s fight against women’s rights

by News Sources 03.16.2013

The New York Times reports: During its decades as an underground Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood has long preached that Islam required women to obey their husbands in all matters. “A woman needs to be confined within a framework that is controlled by the man of the house,” Osama Yehia Abu Salama, a Brotherhood family [...]

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Video: The Muslim Brotherhood and Mubarak

by News Sources 05.24.2012
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A new generation of political Islamists steps forward

by News Sources 01.21.2012

Olivier Roy writes: Everywhere, the Muslim Brotherhood is benefiting from a democratization it did not trigger. There is a political vacuum because the liberal vanguard that initiated the Arab Spring did not try, and did not want, to take power. This was a revolution without revolutionaries. Yet the Muslim Brothers are the only organized political [...]

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Egypt’s Islamists: Threat or opportunity?

by News Sources 01.14.2012
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Forging ties with democratic Egyptian government is like reaching out to the Soviet Union?

by Paul Woodward 01.04.2012

The New York Times reports: With the Muslim Brotherhood pulling within reach of an outright majority in Egypt’s new Parliament, the Obama administration has begun to reverse decades of mistrust and hostility as it seeks to forge closer ties with an organization once viewed as irreconcilably opposed to United States interests. The administration’s overtures — [...]

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Egypt: from Nasser’s ideological hotchpotch to an Islamist landslide

by News Sources 01.02.2012

Magdi Abdelhadi writes: Egypt’s secular half, along with a sizeable Christian minority, is bracing itself for an Islamist parliament, the first in the country’s history. While many are stunned and terrified at the prospect, some still pin their hopes, paradoxically, on the very institution that’s largely to blame for the country’s democratic deficit – the [...]

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Hamas responds to the Arab Spring

by News Sources 12.22.2011

The Washington Post reports: Buoyed by the success of Islamist movements in countries swept by the Arab Spring, Hamas, the militant Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, is showing signs of pragmatism as its sense of isolation fades. The organization is jockeying to reposition itself amid shifting terrain in the Arab world. It is [...]

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The battle for Upper Egypt

by News Sources 12.19.2011

Lauren E. Bohn writes: Assiut feels far away from the famed epicenter of Tahrir Square. The oft-neglected peripheral region of Upper Egypt (the cultivated valley of the Nile from Cairo in the north to Aswan, 535 miles south) has been plagued by institutional apathy for years, long dismissed as a dead-end, from where one travels [...]

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The success of Egypt’s Islamists marks a trend throughout the region

by News Sources 12.13.2011

The Economist looks at the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists represented by the Nour party, whose combined successes in the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections give an overall majority to the Islamists. Surrounded by well-wishers at his home on a narrow dirt street in the village of Nazla, Wagih al-Shimi insists his Nour party [...]

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Democracy and Islam in the Arab elections

by News Sources 12.06.2011

Jack A. Goldstone writes: No doubt the most difficult task in the months ahead for Western leaders responding to changes in the Arab world will be to stick to their guns on democracy — that is, to accord elected governments and their leaders all the respect due to democratically chosen heads of state. This is [...]

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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood says end to military rule is ‘top priority’

by News Sources 12.02.2011

The Guardian reports: The Muslim Brotherhood has fired a warning shot at Egypt’s ruling generals, declaring that a swift end to military rule is the country’s “top priority” as it prepares to take charge of a newly elected parliament. With provisional election results continuing to emerge, confirming earlier predictions of a strong victory for the [...]

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Inside Story – Is political Islam replacing Arab dictators?

by News Sources 12.01.2011
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s democratic dilemma

by News Sources 12.01.2011

Nathan Brown writes: For years, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has been taunted by its critics to demonstrate its democratic commitments. Of course, without free and fair elections in the country, it could only offer promises. But as Egyptians now go to the polls in the country’s most democratic parliamentary elections in many decades, the Islamists are [...]

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The rise of the Islamists

by Paul Woodward 12.01.2011

Mohamed Awad, director of the Alexandria and Mediterranean Research Center, describes to Patrick Martin from Toronto’s Globe and Mail, a scenario that many in Egypt’s liberal secular elite must now dread: “My fear,” said Dr. Awad, whose office is surrounded by models of Alexandria’s prospective future waterfront, “is that the more extreme Islamists, the Salafists, [...]

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Egypt’s Islamists: Betting on the ballot box

by News Sources 11.27.2011

Ursula Lindsey writes: One evening a few weeks ago, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) invited journalists to attend one of their parliamentary campaign events in Cairo’s sprawling poor neighborhood of Imbaba. A disciplined and cheerful crowd marched along the narrow, unpaved alleys. People leaned out their windows in the tightly packed red-brick apartment blocks. While their [...]

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Egypt: Interview with Muslim Brotherhood’s secretary general

by News Sources 11.26.2011
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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood continues to alienate itself from the people

by News Sources 11.25.2011

Amira Nowaira writes: As the brutal crackdown against peaceful protesters in Cairo and several other Egyptian cities continued unabated for six days running, the Muslim Brotherhood stayed out of the fray, declaring clearly that it would not join the protests. In deciding to stay away from these protests, the Brotherhood may have committed its gravest [...]

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New winds in Mideast favor Hamas

by News Sources 11.23.2011

The New York Times reports: For years, the imposing black gate that sealed the border between Egypt and Gaza symbolized the pain and isolation that decades of conflict have wrought on this tiny coastal strip, especially under Hamas in recent years. But recently, the gate has come to represent a new turn for the increasingly [...]

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While Gaza is being bombed by Israel, Hamas armed wing decides a unilateral ceasefire is worthless

by News Sources 08.19.2011

Ma’an News Agency reports: The military wing of Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades, has called off a ceasefire with Israel and will allow factions in Gaza to respond to Israeli attacks, Al-Aqsa Radio reported late Friday. “There can be no truce with the Israeli occupation while it commits massacres against the Palestinian people without justification,” a [...]

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Britain’s arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah

by News Sources 07.05.2011

Jonathan Cook writes: He is an Islamic “preacher of hate” whose views reflect “virulent anti-Semitism” and who has funded Hamas terror operations, according to much of the British media. The furore last week over Sheikh Raed Salah, described by the Daily Mail newspaper as a “vile militant extremist”, goaded the British government into ordering his [...]

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The Muslim Brothers in Egypt’s ‘orderly transition’

by News Sources 03.04.2011

Gilbert Achcar writes: Egypt’s uprising, contrary to most predictions, was initiated and driven by coalitions – including political parties, associations and internet networks – which were dominated by secular and democratic forces. Islamic organisations or their individual members took part on an equal footing with groups of marginal importance before the uprising, and with groups [...]

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Egypt in 2011 is not Iran in 1979

by News Sources 02.13.2011

Hamid Dabashi writes: The pro-Isreali neocons in the United States and their Zionist counterparts in Israel compare the Egyptian and Iranian revolutions because they are frightened out of their wits by a massive revolutionary uprising in a major Arab country that may no longer allow the abuse of the democratic will of a people for [...]

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Engaging the Islamists

by News Sources 02.10.2011

Shadi Hamid writes: Whether we like it or not, the Muslim Brotherhood – Egypt’s major Islamist group – is going to play a significant, perhaps crucial role in a post-Mubarak Egypt. Too often, American policy makers fall under the illusion that they can somehow have Arab democracy without having the largest opposition groups participate. A [...]

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The American-Israeli led anti-democratic alliance

by Paul Woodward 02.09.2011

“Never insult the Arabs,” advised Amos Gilead, former head of Israel’s Political-Military Bureau, speaking on Monday at the influential Herzliya national security conference. But he wasn’t appealing for an improvement in Israeli-Arab relations since he only had a few Arabs in mind — Hosni Mubarak and other leaders “that are supporting stability and are coping [...]

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