Date of source: Wednesday, February 18, 2004
The relationship of the Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan Al-Banna with the king’s palace was characterized by unlimited support from the king, but finally led to the toughest crisis of the Brotherhood, the assassination of Al-Banna. Dr. Kariman Ibrahim Al-Maghraby wrote in her book, “The Muslim...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 25, 2004
The battle of the Bar Association elections has started early. The elections are supposed to take place next year, but it seems that the first steps are already being taken. The tension between the Brotherhood and the Nasserites in the association’s board is deep-seated, to the extent that both...
Date of source: Wednesday, December 22, 2004
The outlawed Muslim Brotherhood has rejected accusations of being a terrorist group, stressing its desire to serve Egypt’s interests and to achieve security and
stability in the country.
- See art. 6: Who rules the Azhar…the Grand Imam or the US ambassador?!
- See art. 12: Sectarian strife or...
Date of source: Friday, December 31, 2004
Magdi Khalil [see AWR, 2004. week 49, art. 7] argues, that the Muslim Brotherhood only uses democratic procedures as methods to obtain their aim, the political power of the country. He assumes that after having taken power, they would then reject the democratic system in their political life...
Date of source: Thursday, March 4, 2004
The banned Muslim Brotherhood caused a
surprise yesterday when it mentioned that it would be willing to change its name if the
government would allow it to form a political party. Muhammad Mahdi Akef, the supreme guide of
the Brotherhood, said that what the Brotherhood has suggested is merely an...
Date of source: Monday, March 8, 2004
A crisis broke out between the
government and the Journalists’ Syndicate because the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood
announced his initiative from inside the Syndicate. The Minister of Interior criticized the
event, saying that initiatives should be presented by recognized political...
Date of source: Monday, March 22, 2004
In an interview with Al-Musawwar
magazine, the Brotherhood’s supreme guide, Muhammad Mahdi Akef presented a contract between the
Brotherhood and the Journalists’ Syndicate in which it was written that the Brotherhood would
rent the hall for a couple of hours to present its statement concerning...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 30, 2004
The author of this article strongly opposes the article published in the
last issue in which Dr. Hassan Hefni called for forming political parties based on religion.
According to the author of this article, forming political parties based on religion is a
dangerous call that leads to the...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Al-Qahera’s article “The middle stream in the Brotherhood calls for
dissolving the group,” published March 16, 2004 mentioned, that there are some members of the
Brotherhood who are calling for the dissolution of the group. That is not true. This great group
is not owned by any certain person,...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Intellectuals opposed the idea of forming a political party based on religion.
We
reject the Muslim Brotherhood initiative [for political reform] because it was issued by an
illegal group. The Muslim Brotherhood has remained in political life by force, and violence
constitutes a great part of...