Date of source: Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Shaykh 'Āsim Abd al-Mājid, al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah Spokesperson, affirmed that if the Islamist movement took power, it would allow Copts and other religions to drink alcohol and eat pork as long as they do not do it in front of Muslims.
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Date of source: Monday, September 12, 2011
Informed sources report a growing rift between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) over the military council's alleged intention to appoint the members of the constituent assembly tasked with drafting the new constitution after the parliamentary elections.
Date of source: Saturday, September 10, 2011
Safwat 'Abd al-Ghāni, a representative for al-Jamā‘ah al-Islāmiyyah, has revealed that the party will run in the upcoming parliamentary elections to compete for 20 percent of the seats.
Date of source: Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday issued its first strongly-worded statement against the ruling military council since the 25 January Revolution, requesting that it “meet the many promises it made.” The declaration was seen by some observers as further evidence that the “honeymoon” period...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 7, 2011
My friend Tharwat al-Kharabāwī, a lawyer and former leading Muslim Brotherhood (MB) member, has recently given me his valuable book entitled Qalb al-Ikhwān...Mahākim al-Taftīsh or The heart of the Muslim Brotherhood...inquisition," a personal experience, considered a living testimony from a once...
Date of source: Sunday, September 4, 2011
No matter what successes Prime Minister Essam Sharaf achieves together with his cabinet, he will always be discredited for underestimating public memory—a memory by no means poor. With that memory alertly registering details big and small on the Egyptian arena, Dr Sharaf has miserably failed. The...
Date of source: Thursday, September 1, 2011
Dr. Hamdī Hasan, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), warned that there is a conspiracy against the second article of the Egyptian constitution that states '...Islamic Sharī'ah is the principal source of legislation".
He said that the MB will have to use force [Reviewer's Note: in...
Date of source: Saturday, September 3, 2011
Islamists have imposed themselves in the Egyptian society after the January 25 revolution and rolled up their sleeves to establish parties, nearly 20, including the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood group.
Date of source: Monday, August 29, 2011
Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria, Archbishop Antonius Najīb, has expressed his fears over the possibility of strong presence from Islamist forces in the next parliament.
Date of source: Thursday, August 25, 2011
Al-Misrī al-Yawm is dedicating a full page to the platform of the Building and Development Party, the political arm of the al-Jamā'ah Islāmīyah (Islamic Group).
The platform, contained in a 38-page booklet, asserts that Egypt is a parliamentary shūrá (consultative) state that has to be prepared for...