SOURCE: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36035089?ocid=socialflow_twitter Police in Jordan have shut the headquarters of the main opposition movement, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood (MB), group officials say. The building in the capital Amman was cleared and sealed on city governor’s orders, an MB leader told Reuters. No reason was given for the closure, the […]
Source: The Guardian It did not even seem like a good idea at the time. British diplomats warned from the start, in April 2014, that David Cameron’s decision to conduct […]
‘This is the battle of young Egypt for the future of Egypt,’ the US-educated professor of engineering tells Robert Fisk in Istanbul ROBERT FISK ISTANBUL Tuesday 05 May 2015 Amr Darrag’s message is both gloomy and optimistic, a little cynical for a former Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian Minister of Planning perhaps, […]
‘This is the battle of young Egypt for the future of Egypt,’ the US-educated professor of engineering tells Robert Fisk in Istanbul ROBERT FISK ISTANBUL Tuesday 05 May 2015 Amr Darrag’s message is both gloomy and optimistic, a little cynical for a former Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian Minister of Planning perhaps, […]
AFP / THE JORDAN TIMES ABU DHABI — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi on Monday said the fight against “terrorism” needs a new Muslim religious discourse in addition to security and military measures. “The rise in terrorism… requires a thoughtful response from the international community,” said Sisi told the […]
AMMAN — The Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday urged Jordanians to unite against the “conspiracy to settle the Palestinian issue” that threatens Jordanian sovereignty. In a statement issued by the movement and its political arm, the Islamic Action Front, the Islamists urged the government to reveal the “truth” behind US Secretary […]
Source: BBC The military-backed interim Egyptian government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group after blaming it for a deadly attack on a police HQ earlier this week. The group, whose candidate Mohammed Morsi won the presidential poll last year before being deposed by the military, had already been […]
Source: BBC The military-backed interim Egyptian government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group after blaming it for a deadly attack on a police HQ earlier this week. The group, whose candidate Mohammed Morsi won the presidential poll last year before being deposed by the military, had already been […]
TEHRAN (FNA)- Egypt’s interim government revoked the permit for a non-governmental organization set up by the Muslim Brotherhood. The move follows a Sept 23 court ruling that banned the Brotherhood […]
TEHRAN (FNA)- Egypt’s interim government revoked the permit for a non-governmental organization set up by the Muslim Brotherhood. The move follows a Sept 23 court ruling that banned the Brotherhood […]
Saudi Arabia appears to be determined to crack down on the Muslim Brotherhood in a manner similar to the UAE, where security services have already arrested over 90 members of […]
By David Schenker Ammon Voice of the Silent Majority Today, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is down, if not completely out. After the Egyptian military deposed President Mohamed Morsi, a ranking Brotherhood bureaucrat, in July, Egypt’s courts charged him with a litany of felonies and the army cracked down, shooting […]
By Jessica Chasmar-The Washington Times Wednesday, September 25, 2013 The Muslim Brotherhood has decided to move its media office to London, shortly after an Egyptian court decided to ban the organization or any subsidiary from operating within the country, a local newspaper reported. According to the Egypt Independent, the Muslim […]
(Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Monday banned the Muslim Brotherhood from carrying out any activities in the country, widening a campaign to debilitate the Islamist movement of deposed President Mohamed Mursi. “The court bans the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood organization and its non-governmental organization and all the activities […]
By Tariq Ramadan Swiss Muslim Thinker Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:00 It’s dangerous to be a friend of the United States in the Middle East. A fact the US government […]
A question apparently being raised in next week’s trial in Cairo of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leaders facing criminal charges is this: Was the Obama administration paying bribes as large as […]
Anwar Sadat, nephew of the assassinated president, talks to Robert Fisk about a ‘savage’ Egypt – and why it needs help It’s not every day you get to ask Anwar Sadat about the fall of Mohamed Morsi. But the nephew of the Egyptian president assassinated by Islamists in 1981 – […]
By Jeff Kunerth, Orlando Sentinel 4:20 am, August 23, 2013 More than 100 Egyptian-Americans and their supporters gathered Thursday night in sympathy with Coptic Christians and in opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood. Speakers maintained that the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was justified because of widespread displeasure with his […]
STORY SUMMARY Watching Saudi Arabia and other wealthy Gulf states line up behind the bloody counter-revolution in Egypt, you can’t help suspect that these conservative monarchies are ready to fight to the last Egyptian against the Muslim Brotherhood – waging what amounts to a proxy war against the regional threat […]
Aside from sentiments or rhetoric of conspiracy, as opposed to fully-fledged political thinking, what happened and is happening to the Muslim Brotherhood is a tragedy of its own making. BY RAED OMARI AL ARABIYA In response to what happened to Egypt’s Brotherhood, Arabs, like many other people around the globe, […]