CAIRO - The long banned Muslim Brotherhood said Tuesday it will form a political party once democracy is established in Egypt but promised not to field a candidate for president, trying to allay fears at home and abroad that it seeks power. Still, the fundamentalist movement is poised to be a significant player in the new order. Egypt's new military rulers gave a strong sign they recognize that the Brotherhood, which calls for creation of an Islamic state in the Arab world's most populous nation, can no longer be barred from politics after the mass uprising that forced out President Hosni Mubarak with 18 days of protests.
[...] the reader rarely glimpses the illuminating insights Zahid may have to share. [...] most surprising given the book's title, Zahid cites no interviews with government officials, ruling party elites, or Muslim Brotherhood members.
Hassnaa Hussein is a modern Egyptian woman: She studied English at the religiously conservative Al-Azhar University, wears slacks with her headscarf and happens to loathe the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Hussein wants Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down in September and pave the way for free and fair presidential elections. But the prospect of the Muslim Brotherhood coming to power in Egypt is something, she said, that makes her uneasy.
A political leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Thursday called on any government that replaces Hosni Mubarak's regime to withdraw from the 32-year-old peace treaty with Israel. After President Mubarak steps down and a provisional government is formed, there is a need to dissolve the peace treaty with Israel," Rashad al-Bayoumi, a deputy leader of the outlawed movement, said on Japan's NHTV.
Hassnaa Hussein is a modern Egyptian women: She studied English at the religiously conservative Al-Azhar University, wears slacks with her headscarf and happens to loathe the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Hussein wants Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down in September and pave the way for free and fair presidential elections. But the prospect of the Muslim Brotherhood coming to power in Egypt is something, she says, that makes her uneasy.
Groupthink that portrays "dangerous" as "innocuous" has led to censorship by omission. The Muslim Brotherhood, according to the conventional wisdom on the left, is now a responsible Egyptian political organization that will compete in the first free elections Egypt has known since the late 1940s. Until now, the Brotherhood has done well under a different name and still managed to pull 20 percent in elections rigged to favor the now-deposed President Hosni Mubarak's party. Now the Brotherhood plans to enter candidates under its own name, and straw polls indicate it may muster up to 40 percent.
NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Essam Abdallah, an Egyptian liberal intellectual, today stated in his article published on FamilySecurityMatters.org's website, that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian regime and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Libya and Jordan now comprise what is becoming the greatest Islamist radical lobby ever to penetrate and infiltrate the White House, Congress, the State Department and the main decision making centers of the US government. Dr. Abdallah says that "all of this is happening at a time when the US government is going through its most strategically dangerous period in modern times because of its need to confront the Iranian Mullahs regime, which is expanding in the Middl...
The Obama administration has been talking up the Muslim Brotherhood as a necessary part of Egypt's future. The brothers, however, are denouncing the U.S. takedown of Osama bin Laden. The White House might want to find some better friends. Weekend violence in Egypt between Muslims and Coptic Christians left at least a dozen dead and highlighted growing sectarian tensions. The killings are being attributed to Salafist fundamentalists who abhor the fact that 5 percent to 10 percent of Egypt's population is made up of Christians. They would just as soon reduce that total to zero. Salafi tribal chiefs, though, distanced themselves from the violence, and it was also denounced by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, which publicly preaches peaceful change.
Could the Muslim Brotherhood take over after the Egyptian revolution? For years, Hosni Mubarak insisted his authoritarian regime was all that prevented an Islamist deluge. He used the Brotherhood bogeyman as an excuse to crush almost all political opposition, including liberals and leftists. He banned the Brotherhood but let it run candidates for parliament, thus giving the bogeyman more heft.
CAIRO - The once outlawed Muslim Brotherhood said Saturday its new political party will contest half of the seats in Egypt's parliamentary elections in September, revealing plans to become a major force in the country's post-revolution politics. Egypt's largest Islamic group and the best organized opposition movement during ousted President Hosni Mubarak's three decades of autocratic rule sought to ease concerns that it is intent on bringing about an Islamist-dominated parliament.
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