Date of source: Thursday, August 25, 2011
Dr. 'Isām 'Iryān, vice president of the Freedom and Justice Party (affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood MB group), condemns U.S. threats to cut aid to Egypt [Read the details here on AWR] and link it to the Camp David treaty.
He added that U.S. aid is not a charity for Egypt, and that it is used to...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Many Islamist factions are disagreeing over the Azhar document and the propsed governing principles of the constitution. Salafists have declined to negotiate with Dr. 'Isām Sharaf, Prime Minister of Egypt, over the governing constitutional principles. The Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic Group...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Acts of violence erupted at a demonstration the evening before last (August 21, 2011), which was attended by the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafī movement, April 6 Youth Movement, and the Revolution Youth Coalition. The main battle comprised of the Muslim Brotherhood Youth on one side and the Youth...
Date of source: Thursday, August 18, 2011
Representatives of political parties and Islamist groups announced their approval over the Azhar document as an only reference to seek during the process of drafting the constitution.
'Abd al-Mun'im al-Shahāt, the spokesman for the Salafist Call Organization in Alexandria, said the Azhar is the...
Date of source: Friday, August 19, 2011
Although Islamic thinker and presidential hopeful Dr. Muhammad Salīm al-'Awā approved the Azhar paper and stressed the need to activate it, he rejected that the Azhar or any other religious institution should play any political role.
Date of source: Thursday, August 18, 2011
The Secretary General of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party ‘Freedom and Justice’, Dr. Muhammad Sa'd al-Katatnī, has described the remarks of Eric Cantor, the majority leader in the U.S., as an “unacceptable intervention” after Cantor expressed his concerns over the possibility of a majority...
Date of source: Monday, August 15, 2011
A Salafī leader in Egypt said on Monday that his political party, the Nūr Party, includes several leaders from the disbanded National Democratic Party (NDP).
Date of source: Monday, August 15, 2011
The Azhar's Grand Shaykh, Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyīb called all political powers for an urgent meeting in the Azhar's headquarter in order to reach an agreement on the Azhar's document, targeting to assure the Egyptian identity [Reviewer's Note: News story was also mentioned in al-Misrī al-Yawm Arabic,...
Date of source: Sunday, August 14, 2011
The founder of the secular Free Egyptians Party, Coptic businessman Naguib Sawiris, accused Islamist movements of hijacking the Egyptian revolution.
The remark was made by Sawiris on Saturday during a speech at the seventh meeting of the Arab and International Relations Council in Kuwait. The...
Date of source: Friday, August 12, 2011
Islamic groups threatened to organize a Million-Man protest and ascend its position as a response to what has been announced by the Deputy Prime Minister 'Alī al-Silmī, who said that the government will issue a new constitutional declaration.
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