Tag Archives: Muslim Brotherhood
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a group with Muslim Brotherhood origins and an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial, recently toured the White House and met with multiple officials. According to the group, Paul Monteiro, … read more »
By Osama Al Sharif, By Arab News Egypt is getting out of control: The police are on strike in a number of cities, the civil disobedience in Port Said is in its fourth week, hooligans are attacking and ransacking public … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Egypt, IndepthAfrica, John Kerry, Mursi, Muslim Brotherhood, National Salvation Front, National Science Foundation, Port Said, United States
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The two and a half weeks between January 25 and February 11, 2011 proved that in Egypt there is a strong demand for social, political and economic justice, and that the established political elites – religious or secular – are … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Cairo, Egypt, Essam El-Erian, Gamal Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, United States
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Much like Festivus, American diplomacy to the Middle East usually begins with an airing of grievances. These are not the American grievances over decades of terrorism and acts of violent hatred. These are the grievances that are supposedly infuriating the … read more »
EGYPTIANS have reason to fear the domestic news these days. If it is not about events such as a freak ballooning accident that killed 18 tourists, or the death of nine villagers who fell, one after another, into an open … read more »
Since the “Arab Spring” came to Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood assumed power, sexual harassment, abuse, and rape of women has skyrocketed. This graph, which shows an enormous jump in sexual harassment beginning around January 2011, when the Tahrir revolts … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Ahram, Arab Spring, Cairo, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, Muslim Brotherhood, Rape, Sexual harassment, tahrir square
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Police fire water cannon and tear gas at protesters in Cairo during violent demonstrations about the country’s leadership. Protesters throwing stones at security forces in Cairo One person has been killed and dozens injured during clashes between police and … read more »
Posted in Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Cairo, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Port Said, Protest, tahrir square
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While the White House was busy drafting proposals to ban assault rifles, the last of the regulations imposed on Saudi travel to the United States after September 11 were being taken apart. While some government officials were busy planning how … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged AGM-88 HARM, AlQaeda, IndepthAfrica, M61 Vulcan, Muslim Brotherhood, obama, united state, United States Constitution, White House
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By Abdulrahman Al-Rashed Neither imams nor members of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist movements would be able to protect the Egyptian presidency from the wrath of the people when they pay more pounds for one dollar. Every single citizen will … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Copts, Egypt, Egyptian, Gamal Abdel Nasser, IndepthAfrica, Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi Arabia, Sinai Peninsula, Suez Canal
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The current tensions in Egypt between the Muslim Brotherhood-led government and a fragmented populace that includes large segments of people who oppose the Islamization of Egypt—the moderates, secularists, and Christians who recently demonstrated in mass at Tahrir Square and even … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Egypt, North Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Allah, Egypt, Egyptians, Islam, Islamization of Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, Sharia, Sudan
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To read and order Frank Gaffney’s pamphlet, The Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama Administration, click here. November was just about done and Chris Matthews, the MSNBC host voted most likely by his own staff to have a poster of Barack … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Barack Obama, Egypt, Frank Gaffney, Homeland Security Advisory Council, Huma Abedin, IndepthAfrica, Islamic Society of North America, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Public Affairs Council
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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood claimed Sunday that the Islamist-backed constitution has passed with a 64 percent “yes” vote, the day after the final voting in a two-round referendum that deeply divided the country. The constitution’s critics however may contest the outcome. … read more »
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has privately pledged to “fight to his last bullet” in his ancestral hometown of Qardaha, vowing, “If I go, none of Syria remains.” The daily pools of blood spilled by his madmen cause hearts to be … read more »
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, By: Arab News In the Egyptian arena rages the biggest political, intellectual, popular and elitist media battle. Parties are now fighting over authority, positions, history and the future. The disputed proposed constitution caused bloodshed on both … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged 2011 Egyptian revolution, Cairo, Egypt, Egyptians, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, Mursi, Muslim Brotherhood, Politics
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Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR The main criticism being voiced about the government led by President Mohamed Morsi within Egypt and by some foreign observers is that it lacks the majority support of the people of Egypt. In substantiation of this argument it … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Islamism, Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi Arabia, United States
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Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR On Sunday, in an apparently conciliatory move, Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi rescinded his controversial decree of November 22 assuming vastly new powers granting him immunity from law, which triggered massive protests against his regime. However, he is stubbornly … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Barack Obama, Cairo, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, obama, United States
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Islamists allied to President Mohamed Morsy on Sunday claimed that Egyptians have voted in favour of a controversial draft constitution during a referendum, but opposition accused them of “vote rigging” and irregularities. Muslim Brotherhood members claimed that their tally showed … read more »
Bruce Thornton The hope that democracy would bloom in Egypt following our collusion in removing Hosni Mubarak looks more and more delusional every day. Even our foreign policy wishful thinkers are no longer peddling the canard that the Islamist Muslim … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Sharia, United States
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A controversial referendum on a new constitution in Egypt due to start on Saturday looks set to further split the country, after the opposition called for a ‘no’ vote and imposed conditions that could yet result in its boycott. Egypt’s … read more »
Essam El-Erian is the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s top foreign propaganda figure and with the Muslim Brotherhood hard at work seizing power and torturing protesters, he had his work cut out for him when he arrived at the Al-Noor Islamic School … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Noor School, Brooklyn, Egypt, Egyptian, Erian, IndepthAfrica, Maged, Muslim Brotherhood, New York
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The title of a recent Al Akhbarreport declares: “Morsi summons 3,000 jihadis from Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia, Somalia and Iran to be an Islamic army to strike the police and army forces” of Egypt. According to the report, Ibrahim Ali, a … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Egypt, Ibrahim Ali, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Islamization of Egypt, Middle East Forum, Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Sharia
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The question riding on the chaos being played out – from the burning offices of the Freedom and Justice Party to the squares of Egyptian cities to the palace gates of power – is how will all this shape future … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Arab, Cairo, Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Muslim Brotherhood, tahrir square
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By: Arab News By Khaled Al-Dakheel Between Sept. 9, 1881, and last Jan. 25, Egypt, as the Egyptians say, experienced four revolutions: The Orabi Revolution, the Revolution of 1919, the July 23 Revolution, which began with a military coup in … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Arab Spring, Egypt, Egyptians, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, Wafd
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Angry chants filled Tahrir Square on Tuesday as thousands of demonstrators filled the iconic center of last year’s revolt, this time to protest a recent decree that grants President Mohammed Morsi sweeping powers. The protesters, waving Egypt’s red, white and … read more »
By Eric Walberg At last Egyptian politics is moving. President Mohamed Morsi is slowly building on his summer ‘coup’, when he stared down Egypt’s generals and put his men in the top army and defence positions, following terrorist attacks in … read more »
November 25, 2012 by benim
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid, Arab News It was very difficult for anyone to think that President Muhammad Mursi would do that. But his spokesman announced it clearly. He said: “The president is above all and above all other authorities.” He … read more »
Posted in Egypt, Global Issues, Middle East, North Africa
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Tagged 2011 Egyptian revolution, Arab Spring, Cairo, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, Mursi, Muslim Brotherhood, tahrir square
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By Johannes Stern The misnamed Revolutionary Socialists (RS) in Egypt are working out a political alliance with billionaire tycoons, ex-Mubarak-regime officials, operatives of the United Nations, Nasserites and various liberal and pseudo-left parties. On October 18 they published a joint … read more »
Opponents and supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi clashed in Cairo on Friday in the first street violence between rival factions since the Islamist leader took office. Islamists and their opponents threw stones, bottles and petrol bombs, and some fought … read more »
We don’t hear much anymore the breathless celebrations of Egyptian democracy that followed our abandonment of the creepy but reliable Hosni Mubarak. The “Facebook kids” who enchanted our media with their tech-savvy cool have been forgotten. It’s hard to find anymore … read more »
1. ‘It’s Never as Bad as It Seems on Twitter’ As analysts scrambled over the weekend to interpret President Mohamed Morsy’s decrees retiring the head of Egypt’s military junta and reversing its June 17 constitutional putsch stripping the presidency of much of its executive … read more »
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