Date of source: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Informed sources claim a delegation from the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group, headed by Deputy General Guide Khayrat al-Shātir, met with the military council on Monday, hours before the group announced that it would boycott Friday’s million-man demonstration, billed as “Correcting the Path of the...
Date of source: Monday, August 29, 2011
The brother of the assassin of former president Anwār al-Sādāt returned to Egypt from exile in Iran August 28 and surrendered to the authorities.
Date of source: Monday, August 29, 2011
Engineer Salāh Hāshim, one of the founders of the Jamā'ah Islāmīyah (Islamic Group), said unity of the different factions and movements would furnish an opportunity for the Islamists to make it to power.
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...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Safwat 'Abd al-Ghanī, a member of al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyāh's Shūrá Council, handed the group's party papers to the Committee for Political Parties' Affairs.
The party will be called al-Binā' wi al-Tanmīyah.
From the other hand, Ahmad Rāsim al-Nafīs, Shi'ite thinker, said that the documents for...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 24, 2011
“Hell will break loose for the US if Omar Abdel Rahman is killed in prison,” said Safwat Abdel Ghany, member of Jama'a al-Islamiya's consultative council, in a press conference outside the US Embassy in Cairo on Wednesday.
Abdel Rahman, commonly known as the “Blind Sheikh,” is allegedly leader of...
Date of source: Thursday, August 25, 2011
Jama’a al-Islamiya’s Building and Development Party will be coordinating with the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party in the upcoming parliamentary elections, said Jama'a al-Islamiya’s Building and Development Party Chairman Nasr Abdel Salam. He pointed out that efforts to create a...
Date of source: Thursday, August 25, 2011
Tens of supporters of Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel Rahman are continuing protests outside the American Embassy in Cairo for the sixth consecutive day, demanding his release from prison in the U.S.
Date of source: Saturday, July 30, 2011
Major General Ibrahim 'Abd al-Ghaffār, former prison warden, addressed thousands of supporters at a meeting for the Islamic Group saying, “I am happy to stand before the mujahideen, who were imprisoned and were tortured for protecting the values of Islam... I tell you that Egypt will be Muslim,...
Date of source: Monday, July 25, 2011
The official spokesman of the Islamic Group, 'Asām 'Abd al-Mājd, was heard making comments after he left a mosque on Friday in Cairo, describing the protesters in Tahrīr Square as “hooligans.” The Islamic Group has denied these comments.