Date of source: Tuesday, March 27, 2001
[Editor’s note: Due to personal problems of the translator the translation could not be finished. A complete translation of the article will be published in week 15]
Al-Midan newspaper organized a debate between the Muslim Brothers and Egyptian intellectuals. It was moderated by Midan’s editor in...
Date of source: Friday, March 9, 2001
Raga’i Atiya said that he did not meet the General Guide of the Brotherhood and Mokhtar Nuh tried to agree with him on a public list. He refused the support of Fou’ad Serag Eddin Pasha because there were four Wafdists among the rivals for the Bar’s highest post. Pope Shenouda invited him for a day...
Date of source: Monday, March 12, 2001
Al-Hayat received a statement signed by the Islamic Quds Committee. The statement attacked the Brotherhood group and the way in which it dealt with the lawyer of the Gama’at Al-Islamiya, in the Bar’s elections. An official in the Quds Committee, denied that the committee had issued this statement....
Date of source: Sunday, March 11, 2001
The secretary and preacher of the Muslim Brotherhood was one of the people who called for reconsideration of the priorities of Islamist activity. He said that the Brotherhood’s strategic goal is founding an Islamic state to be classified outside secularism and that the priorities of the Brotherhood...
Date of source: Saturday, February 24, 2001 to Friday, March 2, 2001
The author points out the discrepancy between the principles, the Brotherhood claim to follow and their practices; the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood wrote in his autobiography that they received funds from the foreign manager of the Suez Canal Company. The author believes they would have...
Date of source: Sunday, February 4, 2001
Several wings within the Brotherhood are looking to fill the position of the general guide after Mustafa Mashhour. Some outsiders think succession in the Brotherhood is a result of conflict between the elders and the middle generation. Others claim that it is a power struggle between the "secret"...
Date of source: Monday, January 24, 2000
The article narrates the story of a former fundamentalist who used to ask a paper seller about pornographic magazines and books in order to overcome his sexual impotence. The article went into every detail of the fundamentalist sex life and strongly criticized their approach to sexual education,...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 17, 2001
The Muslim Brotherhood’s female candidate in the last elections said that she did not nominate herself as a reaction to her husband’s prevention from nomination but because she intends to play a different role from her husband’s. She believes that neither her nomination nor supporting Copts were...
Date of source: Sunday, January 21, 2001
The head of the Pakistani Brotherhood warned the military ruler of Pakistan that the Brotherhood will declare its own Islamic government if he does not enforce Islamic Shari’a [law] by March 7.
Date of source: Wednesday, January 10, 2001
The author explained that he did not mean to criticize the article of Fahmi Howeidi about establishing an Islamic party [see RNSAW, week 52, article 4] in his article "Playing with fire, sheikh!." It was rather a rational discussion of all the points mentioned in Howeidi’s article. He also pointed...