Date of source: Tuesday, July 24, 2001
The head of the Labor Party said that the Brotherhood does not need the party now as they have 17 representatives in Parliament. He added that the party bridged the gap between the Brotherhood and the other parties. The mistakes of the Brotherhood made the party what it is now. He denied...
Date of source: Saturday, June 16, 2001 to Friday, June 22, 2001
The Brotherhood MPs are focusing on the ministers of education, health, culture, agriculture, and interior. Each of them specializes in attacking a ministry. The most active is Dr. Mohammed Gamal Hishmat, who filed 61 inquiries to the ministers of health, education, and higher education and...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 5, 2001
The Muslim Brotherhood want to form a political party to end their series of failed coalitions with other parties. Dr. Essam Al-Erian said that founding a Brotherhood Party was the only way to end the stagnation in the Egyptian political arena.
Date of source: Monday, May 21, 2001
The author comments on political life based on religion. He gives the example of Algeria and Lebanon, where everything is taken from a religion-related perspective. He then moves to Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood are asking to form an Islamic party and where some extremist Copts are asking to...
Date of source: Saturday, May 19, 2001 to Friday, May 25, 2001
The author is of the opinion that Brotherhood is like a magician playing card tricks with legitimacy: democracy slogans in elections, planning conspiracies against it in secret, using the media to build Brotherhood hierarchies to spread their ideas and manipulating people’s minds and beliefs.
Date of source: Saturday, May 12, 2001 to Friday, May 18, 2001
Muslim Brotherhood MPs demanded a change to freedom-restricting laws and also demanded political and democratic reform. Such an action made political circles wonder whether this was an indication of a radical transformation in the Brotherhood’s anti-freedom position, or an attempt by the...
Date of source: Friday, May 4, 2001
Brotherhood MPs are preparing a campaign aimed at television, its budget, programs, drama, and the female television announcers. They filed about 500 information requests, choosing popular topics to start crisis: three sex novels published by the Ministry of Culture, the Miss Egypt competition,...
Date of source: Sunday, April 29, 2001
The Muslim Brotherhood Group said that its candidates for the Shura Council elections were exposed to security contraventions to stop their attempts to join the next council elections. The group confirmed that the police excluded seven of its members from applying for the elections.
Date of source: Friday, April 27, 2001
The General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood stated that the group is not seeking power but only wants the Islamic Shari’a [law] to be enforced. He added that the aim of their activities in professional syndicates is not a matter of control. It is a democratic thing to have if the Brotherhood...
Date of source: Sunday, April 22, 2001
A heated debate took place between the chairman of the Egyptian Parliament and the Muslim Brotherhood MPs, who criticized the detention of three of the group’s members. They said that what happened [detention] was a conspiracy that aimed at making it too late for the Brotherhood to submit the...