Date of source: Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Nearly 37 Muslim
Brotherhood members, including two leading figures,
were arrested yesterday while participating in a summer
youth camp in the northwest coastal city of Marsa
Matrouh.
Date of source: Sunday, June 18, 2006
Veteran journalist Muhammad Hasanayn Haykal
speaks on
Al-Jazeera channel about his experiences with the Muslim Brotherhood and his meeting with the
founder and leader of
the group, as well as commenting on the group’s illicit activities, such as the
assassination of Egypt’s
Prime Minister al-...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
A quarrel broke out at the Administrative Court between the president of the Bar Association and the Muslim
Brotherhood
Date of source: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Absentee prayers were
performed for the soul of Abou
Mus‘ab al-Zarqāwī in many small Egyptian and Jordanian
mosques. The Muslim Brotherhood
considers him to be a martyr.
Date of source: Sunday, June 18, 2006
The author defends
the importance of the Muslim Brotherhood in
Egypt since its establishment in 1928, asserting it could play a major
role in the Egyptian political
scene.
Date of source: Sunday, June 18, 2006
In a statement published on the
Internet
yesterday, the leader of al-Qā‘ida, Usāma Bin Lādin, vowed to avenge the
death of the
group’s leader in Iraq, Abu Mus‘ab al-Zarqāwī.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
A famous scriptwriter criticizes Islamic fanaticism and “repentant actresses” resuming their artistic careers.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Amidst heated debate over the project of the Ministry of
Awqāf
[Endowments] to unify the azān [call to prayer] in Greater Cairo mosques,
Rose al-Yousuf
claims that it has managed to obtain a copy of a letter sent by the Saqr Factory for
Developed Industries to
the under-secretary of the...
Date of source: Tuesday, June 20, 2006
During his reception of the Algerian
ambassador in Tehran, the
secretary general of the Tehran-based Organization of Islamic Culture and
Communications, Mohammad Ali Taskhiri,
has stressed the need for narrowing the gap between Islamic
denominations, indicating that the Muslim nation
[umma]...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 18, 2006
A woman wearing a Niqāb gets into the train and utters invocations to Allah, asking passengers to repeat what she said. This phenomenon is becoming increasingly common.