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A press review of attitudes to the Muslim Brotherhood and its role in the new parliament, criticism that the group is putting party politics over the Egyptian people, and statements by leading figures in the group questioning the Holocaust.
Muhammad Habīb, the deputy murshid, commenting on Murshid cĀkif’s statements that the Muslim Brotherhood would respect existing treaties between Israel and Egypt, said any agreement concluded by a state "is not Qur’ān. It is human action that is subject to review.”
A summary of articles about a controversial document attributed to the Muslim Brotherhood, which bodes no good for the future of the Copts in Egypt.
Several key Brotherhood members have exerted painstaking efforts trying to initiate dialogue, particularly in Coptic circles and industry and decision-making spheres in the West, but to no avail. Brotherhood murshid [guide] Muhammad Mahdī ‘Ākif denied statements about his contacts and dialogue with...
Different aspects of the Muslim Brotherhood’s success in the recent parliamentary elections are discussed including Mīlād Hannā’s concerns that Copts will become "second-class citizens” if the Brotherhood’s come into power.
A review of the election coverage, with a special emphasis on the Muslim Brotherhood and possible implications of their potential rise to power.
It is argued that the solutions offered by the Muslim Brotherhood to deal with the nation’s problems are a far cry from Islam, since the group’s founder, Hasan al-Bannā, took what he needed from Islam strictly to serve his political project: reaching power by force.
Lawyer Muntasir al-Zayyāt has said that the Brotherhood wants to monopolize Islam and politics, noting that the group wants to deny other Islamic currents any representation in parliament.
Khomeini’s Iran, the Taliban’s Afghanistan, Nimeiri’s Sudan and several other countries have claimed to be ruled according to Islam. Yet such ’Islamic’ rule merely led to backwardness and oppression. The elite in Egypt are terrified by the idea that a theocracy Egypt would bring a whirlpool of...
The Brotherhood’s insistence on using the slogan "Islam is the Solution" mainly aims to garner as many votes in the elections as possible, proving that they do in fact seek to establish a religious-based state.

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