Cairo Review (AUC) The Tahrir Forum. MB doublespeak. Freedom & Jusitice Party. Muslim Brotherhood. Saadudin Ibrahim: Hijacking Revolution and Egypt. Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian sociologist Saadudin Ibrahim , which aired on ON TV on July 31, 2012: Interviewer: You indicated that the Muslim Brotherhood are hijacking the country, not merely the top political posts.
Is the Muslim Brotherhood indeed about to hijack the country? Saadudin Ibrahim: Well, this is how it seems to me, as well as to other observers, some of whom are more knowledgeable than me about the Brotherhood. I have said that in my youth, I was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, but it was people who remained in it for a longer period, or were much closer to the leadership than me, who helped me form my general view of the Muslim Brotherhood, and of their desire to hijack everything and to control everything.
Morsi Meter - مرسي ميتر. 6th April Movement. Wikipedia. The April 6 Youth Movement (Arabic: حركة شباب 6 أبريل) is an Egyptian activist group established in Spring 2008 to support the workers in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, an industrial town, who were planning to strike on April 6.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Activists called on participants to wear black and stay home on the day of the strike.
Bloggers and citizen journalists used Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, blogs and other new media tools to report on the strike, alert their networks about police activity, organize legal protection and draw attention to their efforts.[7] Founders[edit] 6th April Facebook Page. Black Blocairo2013. Egyptian Black Bloc (EgyptianBlackBl) Black blocairo (blackblocairo2) Spiegel Report on the Black Bloc. National Salvation Front (Egypt) The National Salvation Front[1] (also known as the National Front for Salvation of the Revolution or the National Rescue Front, Arabic: جبهة الإنقاذ الوطني)[2] is an alliance of Egyptian political parties, formed to defeat Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's 22 November 2012 constitutional declaration.[3] The National Front for Salvation of the Revolution has more than 35 groups involved overall.[4] Observers are concerned that the NSF will not be able to become a coherent political force because the different parties agree on opposing Morsi, but their views on other subjects diverge.[5] The front issued three demands to Morsi during the 2012 Egyptian protests.
Kritik an National Salvation Front. Maskierte Demonstranten haben am Montag in Kairo wichtige Strassen blockiert und das gigantische Verwaltungsgebäude am Tahrir-Platz versperrt.
Mit diesen Aktionen zogen sie den Zorn vieler Bürger auf sich. Die Beteiligung an den Protestzügen zum Tahrir-Platz am zweiten Jahrestag des Sturzes von Präsident Mubarak, zu denen für den Abend Revolutionsgruppierungen sowie linke, nationale und liberale Parteien aufgerufen hatten, blieb relativ gering. Die Angst vor Gewalt war gross. Der «Schwarze Block» hatte Chaos angedroht, und die Sicherheitskräfte hatten deshalb an strategisch wichtigen Orten ihre Präsenz verstärkt. Vor dem Präsidentenpalast kam es am Abend zu Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Sicherheitskräften und Jugendlichen. Mursi als Mubarak mit Bart Die Opposition fordert einen Rücktritt der Regierung und Änderungen in der Verfassung. Offizielle Feiern gab es zum Jahrestag von Mubaraks Sturz nicht. Criticism Against Egypt's Opposition Coalition Grows. Critics say Egypt's umbrellas opposition group, the National Salvation Front, or NSF, is slowly becoming a national joke.
Mohamed ElBaradei (ElBaradei) The Brotherhood’s Compassionate Conservatism. Subsidies. Nathaniel Kern, Matthew M.
Reed On the second anniversary of the departure of Hosni Mubarak, the Obama Administration is criticizing President Mohammed Morsi for his failure to act on economic issues. The warning, delivered by U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson, indicates that Washington will not vote for a $4.8 billion IMF loan just because the U.S. generally approves of Egyptian foreign policy. So far Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party have refused to make tough economic decisions before parliamentary elections begin in April.
Arab Women and Men See Eye to Eye on Religion’s Role in Law. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Many observers of the Arab uprisings are growing concerned about women's rights as Islamist parties that generally favor a more assertive role for religion in public life gain influence across North Africa.
Gallup surveys in five Arab countries found Arab women are as likely as Arab men in their countries to favor Sharia as a source of legislation. The majority of women and men across countries experiencing political upheaval do want some level of religious influence in law, though people's views of the specific role for Sharia vary widely from one country to another.
The Egyptian center for Public opinion research Baseera - المركز المصري لبحوث الرأي العام بصيرة. Thirty-nine percent drop in Morsi votes if elections held tomorrow. The Baseera Centre.
Middle East Policy Council. In Egypt, deadly violence — never too far from the surface as of late — has erupted once again.
The second anniversary of the regime-toppling Tahrir Square protests was impetus enough for many to take to the streets to demand further political reform. Egypt’s continuing chaos. Spillover in Egypt. Spillover in Egypt 28 January 2013 Clashes in Cairo and Port Said, which led to the loss of at least 40 lives on Saturday, are snowballing.
A glance at the trend of violence shows that Egyptians are restless, and any issue that is enough to spark volatility is seized in a political manner. So was the case on Saturday. As people at large were out to mark the second anniversary of former dictator Hosni Mubarak’s exit, the moment was used by both pro and anti-government supporters to vent their anger, and coincidentally was spurred with the judicial verdict against football fans of a last year match that had ended in a stampede. "street politics" Dialogue with the Islamic World. Selected (and tranlsated) Twitter Accounts...