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Contrary to what was reported yesterday, today’s press reported that the Muslim Brotherhood general guide is still occupying his position and will remain the general guide until the end of his mandate at the end of January.
In the article, security forces continue their drive against senior leaders of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group after some of its affiliated students displayed a parade in the Azhar University’s campus a few months ago. Police are also targeting the group’s secret financial system in order to...
Scholars inside the Azhar are split over a project proposed by a businessman to have a stock exchange dealing in currency, a system of economic activity that is new in Egypt and Arab and Islamic countries, amidst arguments as to whether the proposal runs counter to the sharī‘a.
The guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Muhammad Mahdi Akef rejects the projects of change that come from abroad, stressing that change that is effected by force or top level decision will have a limited effect. “Solutions imported from abroad will not solve our problems,” Akef said.
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.
Heated student elections were held last week in all the Egyptian universities. While some students played the role of activists, others took the role of spectators. Islamist students, who call themselves Gama’at el-Islamiya, and non-Islamists fought each other in the elections.
Learned sources within the Muslim Brotherhood organization unveiled that currently a fierce struggle is taking place within the circles of leadership of the organization over their position regarding the issue of nomination of President Hosni Mubarak for the fourth presidential term.
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