Foolish Suspicion of Political Islam
As Arab countries and especially Egypt continue to struggle their way into a new and hopefully
As Arab countries and especially Egypt continue to struggle their way into a new and hopefully
Tunisia’s Islamist party will uphold women’s rights and not try to impose strict Muslim values if, as many expect, it wins the first election since Tunisia’s revolution, its leader said.
“Fear” is a key word when considering the future of the relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood and the US. This multifaceted fear can be explained for a number of reasons.
Through the lens of the life testimony of Fatemah Abdel-Hadi, one of the founders of the Muslim Sisterhood, a remarkable glimpse is possible into historic shifts that defined Egypt’s modern political history
The American invasion of Iraq led to a significant deterioration in the relationship between the United States and the Muslim Brotherhood organizations. Many Muslim Brotherhood members had frozen or restricted their contact with American officials
There are at least two levels of relations between the various Islamic organizations in the region; the first is on the level of ‘coordination of ideologies and positions’, and the second is the ‘coordination on an organizational, operational and financial’ level.
The General Statute of the international organization of the MB, which was ratified on July 29 1982, emphasized that security, political and financial constriction upon country-based organizations affiliated to the MB is an incentive for the organization to endorse international cooperation.
The main question is: do the rules of the game allow for the equal participation of concerned parties, Islamists and secularists, liberals and leftists?
There are three major events that have shaped the Western world’s knowledge of political Islam; namely, the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the 1981 assassination of the late Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat and the 9/11 attacks.
Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is one of the most important Islamic movements in the Arab world and the Muslim world. It represents a broad and distinguished trend within modern Islamic thought.
When I first heard of the massacre that took place in Oslo last Friday, I wasn’t shocked as much as I was irritated. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw dozens of kids dead; it was as if whoever did that was heartless.
To cut through the hype, it’s helpful to review the actual record of U.S.-Brotherhood contacts since the movement’s reemergence in Egypt in the 1970s. Until the 1990s, U.S. diplomats did not go out of their way to avoid Brotherhood members…
The killing of Osama Ben Laden might help to put a closure for the thousands of families who lost their loved ones to al Qaeda, and represents a major symbolic victory for governments waging the so called “War on Terror”.
Now that the Muslim Brotherhood stands to take a prominent place at the negotiating table, we examine what the group believes and how it may influence politics in the country and the region.
t is the first protest in the history of Egypt that gathers every color of the political spectrum for one goal: the departure of Mubarak and his regime.
Despite getting trounced in the most recent election, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Web geeks are transforming Egypt’s Islamist group from a shadowy organization with power bases in mosques and charities into a media-savvy machine.
“The Brothers reject all stupid threats against Christian places of worship in Egypt issued by anyone and under any pretext,” the group said.
In a recent statement, media spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood Dr. Essam al-Erian described the scheduled “Quran burning” as a “barbaric act, reminiscent of the Inquisition” .
Ikhwanophobia.com highlights articles and statements by prominent Western media and political figures that are critical of the Brotherhood and Islam.
Ikhwanweb decided to post part of this testimony in order to rebut some of the claims that the Muslim Brotherhood has not yet clarified its stance on certain issues like violence, terrorism, and commitment to democracy.
This is a 22 minutes documentary on Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Magdi Abdelhadi made this series of reports for BBC.
Commentary: MB and Democracy, Mutually Exclusive?
Latest events in the Middle East, particularly Egypt following the January 25 revolution, have proven that the conservative Muslim Brotherhood is the true pro-democracy advocate, compared to liberal groups which ironically behaved so undemocratically after the fall of the regime.