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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
R and B singer Beyonce, who put off a gig in Malaysia following Islamist outrage over her "gyrating moves" and "sexy outfits," has brought her world tour to Egypt and more hostility. Hamdi Hassan, a lawmaker from the Muslim Brotherhood, has written to the speaker of the house and the interior minister labeling her planned Friday night show a "sex party" and demanding...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
By AMR BARGISI AND SAMUEL TADROS Today Egypt will play host to the 56th Congress of Liberal International (LI), which bills itself as the world federation of liberal and progressive democratic parties. Among the nearly 70 parties represented by LI are Britain's Liberal Democrats, Germany's Free Democrats and the Liberal Party of Canada. In the U.S., LI's Web site cites the National Democratic Institute...
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post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
One of the principal obstacles to forward movement on an agreement in the Middle East is the absence of unity on the Palestinian side of the table. The quarrel between Fatah, whose strength lies primarily in the West Bank, and Hamas, whose base is in Gaza, makes it easy for the Israelis to say -- sincerely or hypocritically -- that they are ready to talk, but the Palestinians are too divided to be...
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt is a political organization that once included Sayyid Qutb, the man who inspired Al-Qaeda. It was founded to promote Islamic law, oppress women etc. And now it wants...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Cairo - The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition group, accused the United States and Israel of colluding with the Egyptian government in fixing the 2005 elections, in remarks published Saturday. Mohammed Mahdi Akef, the Supre...
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Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
GERTZ - CAIRO -- Egyptian security sources said the Muslim Brotherhood has revived its international network by recruiting prominent Sunni clerics and politicians from the Levant, North Africa and the Gulf. The sources said the recruitment took place in 2009 in wake of the Hamas war with Israel in the Gaza Strip. "The Brotherhood has been working with Hamas and other groups to form an international...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was swift in its rejection of reports that its leader resigned after a row with conservatives, but the crisis exposed a profound rift among them.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
File photo shows a Muslim Brotherhood supporter holding a banner with the Arabic slogan "Islam is the Solution' during a demonstration in Cairo. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was swift in its rejection of reports that its leader resigned after a row with conservatives, but the crisis exposed a profound rift among the Islamists, analysts said.
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Sify (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
The 20 activists, including a candidate in the 2005 legislative elections, were arrested in the Nile delta city of Mansoura, a security official said.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Egypt's security chief predicted Thursday that the country's largest opposition group, the banned Muslim Brotherhood, would not see gains in next year's parliamentary elections.
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Egypt's security chief predicted Thursday that the country's largest opposition group, the banned Muslim Brotherhood, would not see gains in next year's parliamentary elections.
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
A secretive group faces dilemmas across the Arab world SINCE its founding in Egypt in 1928 the Muslim Brotherhood has suffered repeated bouts of repression, defections by jihadist radicals and liberal moderates alike, and fractious disputes over regional crises, such as Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Still, the secretive but highly disciplined group has retained both a loose international...
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Israelated (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Hassan BarariSeptember 23, 2009 PolicyWatch #1585 is the first in a two-part series discussing trends within the Muslim Brotherhood. This piece focuses on the organization's divisions in Jordan, while the second part addresses the potential for the group's return to violence in Egypt. In early September, three senior leaders of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) resigned from the organization's executive...
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
There was a major meeting of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood over the past month, and one of the most contentious topics was whether it should maintain an official relationship with Hamas. Some members, considered "doves" in the context of extremist Islam, wanted to distance themselves from Hamas and the clear damage it has done to the Palestinian Arab cause. It also looks like there was some...
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parisius | 02/13/2009
Geert Wilders, a controversial anti-Muslim Dutch politician, was deported from Britain after he tried to defy a Home Office entry ban He arrived at Heathrow but only got as far as immigration... Mr Wilders, 45, had been invited to a House of Lords screening of his film, linking the Koran to terrorism. Muslim groups backed the government's decision to ban Mr Wilder and labelled him "an open and relentless