Date of source: Thursday, February 26, 2004
It appears that there is a plan
by the authorities to crack down on the members to restrict their participation in meetings
abroad. The rate of the bans on travel of Brotherhood members increased dramatically since
Muhammad Mahdi Akef was appointed supreme guide of the Brotherhood.
Date of source: Tuesday, February 24, 2004
The “secret division” or the military wing of the
Brotherhood was founded by Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. The secret
division was meant to defend it [the group] against competing parties and to counter the British
occupation of Egypt at the time. But Abdel Rahman El...
Date of source: Saturday, February 28, 2004
This file is about the Muslim Brotherhood. It contains a
number of articles on the Brotherhood that discuss the future awaiting them, the problems of
transforming into a party, changes within the group and other issues.
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: 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: Monday, April 19, 2004
Recently,
Rifa’at Al-Sa’id published a book titled “Al-Erhab Al- Mut’aslim…Lemaza?… Mata?…Ela eyn?”
[Islamized Terrorism: Why? When? To Where?] in which he attacks the group fiercely. Al-Sa’id also
mentions some of the principles that have ruled the Brotherhood, and that allow murdering a...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 14, 2004
The professor of Philosophy and Islamic Doctrine at the Azhar
University Dr. Sa’ad Eddin Saleh states in his book titled “Al-Ekhwan Al-Muslimoun…ela Ayn?" [The
Muslim Brotherhood: To Where?] that the problem of the Muslim Brotherhood is the leadership. This
problem started after the death of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 5, 2004
The book of “Al-Ekhwan Al-Muslimun ela Ayn?” [The Muslim Brotherhood…to Where?] by Dr. Saad Eddin Saleh, dean of the faculty of Usul el-Din [fundamentals of religion] in Zaqaziq is obviously objective in defining the points of weaknesses in the performance of the Brotherhood. In this book Dr, Saad...
Date of source: Monday, May 10, 2004
Essam Al-Erian is not a prominent leader of the Brotherhood. He distributed his loyalty between the group’s old guards and its reformists led by the disciples of Omar Al-Telmesany [former supreme guide of the Brotherhood]. The two parties like Al-Erian but they do not trust him because they both...