Date of source: Sunday, January 1, 2012
[This is a full transcript of an interview made on December 2, 2011]
The results of the first round of the Egyptian elections show that Islamist parties appear to have won by a landslide. The Muslim Brotherhood created the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) that has apparently received 40-45 percent...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 22, 2011
A meeting planned between Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III and Muslim Brotherhood Murshid (Guide) Muhammad Badī', which was scheduled to take place on Tuesday (June 21, 2011), was postponed over previously-set appointments for the pope prior to his recent therapeutic trip in the United States, a...
Date of source: Friday, June 17, 2011
Achurch source reported that the Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) Guidance Office asked for a meeting between MB's Murshid, Dr. Muhammad Badī' and Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III. This meeting will be the first of its kind in the history of Copts and MB.
Date of source: Thursday, June 9, 2011
Muhammad Badī', the Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) Murshid [Guide], said that the basis of knowledge and morals in the Egyptian community come from the Azhar, adding that all MB and al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah are brought up on this.
He said that Sayīd Qutb, whom he called a martyr, advised him to take care...
Date of source: Sunday, April 24, 2011
Muslim Brotherhood (MB) member Hāzim Fārūk explained the widespread absence of MB members from Coptic Easter celebrations, explaining that the group was not invited by the Coptic Church. He pointed out that some MB members nevertheless visited churches on Easter Sunday to congratulate the priests....
Date of source: Monday, April 11, 2011
The Students Union (SU) elections in Beni Suef University witnessed a poor turnout by students despite hectic attempts by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group to garner as many votes as they can.
The MB had included Copts and female students on their lists for the first time.
(Reviewer's Note: News...
Date of source: Thursday, April 7, 2011
“The Coptic Church prefers not to enter into politics just work in the social field. All meetings between the Muslim Brotherhood group and Copts are just random and disorganized" says Dr. Rafīq Ḥabīb, a Coptic thinker.
On the other hand Ṣubḥī Ṣalīh, a leader in the MB, asserts that no Copt or a...
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2011
According to the article at hand, members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) intend to meet with Coptic adolescents in order to explain the MB's points of view and to address Coptic fears that the MB might dominate Egypt’s political scene in the future.
Furthermore, MB spokesperson ‘Isām al-‘Iryān...
Date of source: Monday, March 28, 2011
Dr. 'Isām al-'Iryān, Spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood [MB], said that the MB will meet with Coptic youth soon and that they are studying a possible meeting between the MB and the church.
The goal of these meetings is to discuss the different points of view on both sides and fears of the MB on...
Date of source: Thursday, March 24, 2011
Coptic Pope Shenouda III denied previous media reports, according to which he had discussed a potential meeting between Copts and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).
The MB, on the other hand, is holding on to its view that the possibility of a meeting was discussed, that would have granted Copts the...