Date of source: Wednesday, June 1, 2005
This insider view about the Muslim Brotherhood’s game of interests comes from their lawyer’s book and his experiences with them. In his account, Muntasir al-Zayyāt believes that President Sādāt released the imprisoned Brotherhood members and allowed them to the political space to counterbalance the...
Date of source: Thursday, May 19, 2005
After the Cairo bombings, one tends to question whether or not random violence is a new trend? To answer, one should first denounce all forms of similar incidents. But one should not forget that the security treatment was shallow and contradictory.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 3, 2004
Dr. Kariman Ibrahim mentioned in her book “Al-Ekhwan Al-Muslimun min Hassan Al-Banna ela Sayyed Qutb” [The Muslim Brotherhood from Hassan Al-Banna to Sayyed Qutb] some of the tactics the Brotherhood applied in carrying out terrorist attacks.
Date of source: Wednesday, March 31, 2004
In his book “Al-Haraka Al-Islamiya fee Misr—Al-Waqi’ wa Al-Tahadiyat [The Islamic Movement in Egypt—Reality and Challenges], Saleh Al-Wardani writes that the Muslim Brotherhood sent a memo to the palace pledging their allegiance to King Fouad I in 1933. “Perhaps the stands adopted by Banna after...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Salah Shady, one of the prominent Brotherhood leaders wrote, “Hassan Al-Banna [founder of the Muslim Brotherhood] was the good seed for Islamic thought and Sayyed Qutb was the good fruit.” The life of Sayyed Qutb witnessed many conversions and unlimited mysteries.
Qutb knew how to love and how to...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Adel Hammouda [the editor-in-chief of Sawt El-Umma] wrote about Sayyed Qutb saying that his followers forgot “the days when Qutb wrote about women, love, and Jazz music. They wish that history might forget those days of his life and start his story from the moment of his change to faith. Qutb...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 26, 2004
There are two mysteries in the history of Sayyed Qutb that can hardly be explained. I am mentioning these two mysteries without offering explanations:
The first mystery is the scholarship Qutb got in America. The selection of Sayyed Qutb for this scholarship is the subject of many questions. Qutb...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 9, 2004
We come to the second mystery in the life of Sayyed Qutb. During his time in prison, Qutb received special treatment not enjoyed by other prisoners. At the time, Qutb was the only person who was allowed to keep paper, pens, and books while receiving medical treatment in the prison’s hospital from...
Date of source: Friday, July 30, 2004
Suddenly, Sayyed Qutb placed himself very close to the new power, [the officers of] the July Revolution, and forgot or ignored his fierce defense of the workers and the poor which continued from 1949 till 1951.
It is astonishing that Sayyed Qutb forgot about his call for social justice, yet, it is...
Date of source: Wednesday, January 14, 2004
The author continues his comments on Islamized terrorism in Egypt,
taking the Muslim Brotherhood as a major example. In this article he gives an overview of a book
by Dr. Hassan Hathout, one of the historical leaders of the Brotherhood. The book is titled “Al-
Haraka al-Islamiya…Nazra...