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The London-based Arabic newspaper of Al-Quds Al-Arabi [The Arab Jerusalem], has conducted a poll in which about 11,000 visitors of their website took part. The poll showed that 41 percent of voters are in favor of the exclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood. The other 58.9 percent of voters opposed the...
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi’s call for establishing Islamic and Christian parties has resulted in more disputes and splits within various political streams. The majority of political powers rejected Al-Qaradawi’s call deeming it an obvious demand to create a legitimate political party for the Muslim...
Some of those who met the US Commission on International Religious Freedom in Egypt, spoke of the necessity of establishing a Coptic Christian political party. We will find that once the [Orthodox] Copts have their party, the Catholics will have theirs, and the Sunnis, the Shiites and the Muslim...
I do not agree with the term “political Islam” because it involves a scientific, methodological mistake. Today, there are some Muslims who use religion in order to realize political ends. Those who do this don not abide by Islamic principles and values, they only chose from these principles and...
In his program “Al-Deen wa Al-Hayat” [Religion and Life], Al-Qaradawi declared his deep faith in democracy and advocated the right of the Brotherhood to establish a legitimate party to run for elections. “The democracy I call for is the democracy of a Muslim society, which has its own fundamentals...
"According to our law, religious parties are illegal. Yet, they shall work through other legal parties.” This is the usual response that we get from the higher placed in society to the question about whether or not the Muslim Brotherhood is going to establish a political party.
It would be of course great if we could nominate a Copt in the presidential elections. I just think it is too early for us to do so. This is the last step that should be preceded by so many other steps and preparations and political awareness.
The surprising announcement by lawyer Mamdouh Nakhla of his intention to establish a political party, named the Coptic Nation opened the debate on religious parties in Egypt.
The political-religious ideas of the Islamic Liberation Party are more evolved than the previous ancestral ideologies. They alert youth to confront the alliance between Jews and western colonialism along with the ragged Arab regimes.
President Mubārak has declared that the law does not allow forming religious parties. He responded to a question about the transformation of the banned Muslim Brotherhood to a political party.

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