Frères musulmans : rencontre avec le stratège sorti de prison. (Du Caire) Sorti de prison il y a tout juste une semaine après douze ans d’incarcération, Khairat al-Shater reçoit ses visiteurs chez lui, au onzième étage d’un immeuble situé dans le quartier résidentiel de Nasr City. L’homme d’affaires de 60 ans, élégamment vêtu d’un ensemble blanc, répond avec gravité aux questions qui lui sont posées, devant une dizaine d’amis et de sympathisants venus l’assurer de leur soutien. Considéré comme le numéro trois des Frères musulmans et tête pensante du parti, Shater a été arrêté en 2006 en même temps que dix-sept autres responsables des Frères musulmans à l’issue d’une manifestation pacifique à l’université Al Azhar. Condamné à sept ans de prison en 2008 pour blanchiment d’argent et terrorisme après un procès bâclé devant un tribunal militaire, il est considéré comme l’un des principaux financiers du parti.
Son arrestation a été perçue comme une tentative du régime Moubarak de porter un coup d’arrêt au parti. Bien sûr. Nous avons de nombreux projets. The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website. “I’m fed up,” complained President Hosni Mubarak about ruling Egypt, “But if I resign now, there will be chaos. And I’m afraid the Muslim Brotherhood will take over.”
His fear is echoed by several prominent American politicians, including Republican presidential hopefuls Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. They suggested that the deposition of Mubarak would most likely lead to an Islamic government in Egypt, a change many perceived as worse off than the status quo. But why should we prefer a 30-year-old authoritarian regime to a potential democratic government involving the Brotherhood? And why are we fearful of Islam as an obstacle to democracy? The word Islam is almost synonymous with terrorism to many Americans. Not only is the Brotherhood non-violent, but it has also consistently outperformed the Mubarak regime in enabling progress in Egypt. If Mubarak and his friends in the U.S. Again, self-interest is at work. Source. Les Frères Musulmans en Egypte: un état des lieux - Entretien avec Amr ElChoubaki.
Les Frères Musulmans en Egypte: un état des lieux - Entretien avec Amr ElChoubaki Olivier Moos - Religioscope 6 May 2005 "La stratégie des Frères Musulmans en Egypte est essentiellement fondée sur deux aspects. Le premier concerne leur activité de prédication (da'wa) dans la société égyptienne. Le deuxième aspect touche à leur rôle politique. " - Spécialiste des mouvements islamistes, Amr ElChoubaki partage ici ses observations et analyses. Amr ElChoubaki est spécialiste des mouvements islamistes et directeur de recherche au Centre d'Etudes Politiques et Stratégiques d'Al-Ahram. Religioscope - Depuis 1981, année de l'accession au pouvoir de Hosni Moubarak, quelle a été la stratégie déployée par les Frères Musulmans (ikhwan al-muslimin) qui leur permit d'atteindre la place prépondérante qu'ils occupent à présent dans la société égyptienne? Amr ElChoubaki - La stratégie des Frères Musulmans en Egypte est essentiellement fondée sur deux aspects.
Brotherhood divided over minority presidential candidates | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood uncovered | World news. The downstairs entrance is littered with rubbish, and the stairwell is dark and cramped. Only the opulence of the second-floor door – a broad, ornate colossus of a door – offers any clue as to what lies inside this unprepossessing apartment block in an unfashionable corner of Cairo's Roda Island. Behind the door are the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement that – depending on who you believe – is about to either give Egypt the Taliban treatment or help steer the country through transition to a pluralist democracy. Given the international opprobrium that its name often inspires, perhaps it's not surprising that the brotherhood prefers a low-key, almost shabby feel for its headquarters.
"We are not in the forefront," smiles Essam el-Erian, a senior brotherhood leader. "There is no compromise," Erian (above right) told the Guardian on Tuesday. But placating foreign powers was not what Hassan al-Banna founded the movement for in 1928. Anzalone: The Muslim Brotherhood Myth. Christopher Anzalone writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood & the Demonstrations: Fact vs.
Fiction Since the start of mass popular protests by Egyptians against their country’s autocratic government, headed by the aging president Hosni Mubarak and his new vice president, Omar Suleiman, a great deal of attention has been paid to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun). Attention on the opposition movement has been particularly heavy and skewed in the United States where pundits from both the left and the right breathlessly claim that the Brotherhood is poised to take over Egypt in a repeat of what happened in 1979-1980 in Iran and erroneously tie the Egyptian movement to Usama Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda Central. Much of this analysis is based on fallacies and conjecture rather than fact. The claim that al-Qaeda emerged seamlessly from the Brotherhood is the most egregious claim that has been made.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: widening split between young and old. Egypt’s main opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, is facing a change in leadership that could sideline reformists. That could deprive Islamists of an avenue for participating in Egyptian politics, and some could become radicalized. Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition Mahdi Mohammed Akef, the general guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood for the past six years, will step down in January amid a widening split in the organization. Mr. The goal of the group, which has never been allowed to form a political party, is to make Islam “the sole reference point for ordering the life of the Muslim family, individual, community ... and state.” But within the Brotherhood there are sharp differences over how to oppose President Hosni Mubarak’s autocratic regime, what rights should be accorded to women, and how strictly Islam should be interpreted.
Mr. Why It Matters: Sharia: practice of faith, politics of modernity. The furore in Britain over the Archbishop of Canterbury"s cautious references to the sharia and law in his lecture in London on 7 February 2008 has been extensively discussed by a number of openDemocracy writers and from a variety of perspectives: among them Tina Beattie, Fred Halliday, Theo Hobson, Tariq Modood and Roger Scruton, as well as Simon Barrow in OurKingdom. These responses, however, still leave room for some clarifications over the applications of the sharia in modern times and their implications for the debate The theological logic of the sharia is that God had revealed his commandments for a pious life, and that these should constitute the norms for the life of believers, their family, society and, ultimately, government.
These commandments are given, in part, in the Qur"an, the word of God, and in other parts in the narratives and utterances of the Prophet Mohammed and his companions (and to the Shi"a in the narratives of their "twelve" imams). A modernist adaptation. MB new leader. Muhammad Badie becomes the eighth leader of the Muslim Brotherhood since the party's establishment. Egypt's main opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, has named Dr Muhammad Badie as its new leader following the resignation of Chairman Mohamed Mahdi Akef. Badie was "chosen by consensus by members of the consultative council," Akef told a press conference in Cairo on Saturday. Badie is the group's eighth Chairman since it was founded in 1928.
Akef addressed a word to the press conference, which had convened for the historical announcement of the eighth Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement. He asserted that the movement was bound by a set of regulations however were and still are open to reform and progress suitable to specific incidents and specific times stressing that flexibility is a must for the success of any trend. He called on the members of the movement to holdfast to its cause and not to waver or flinch in the face of possible oppression and tyranny.
Letter from Badei. In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate Praise be to Allah and Blessing on His messenger, companions and followers Dear Brothers and Sisters, I greet you with the Islamic greeting; Peace be upon you and God’s mercy and blessings; It is the will of Allah that I undertake this huge responsibility which Allah has chosen for me and a request from the MB Movement which I respond to with the support of Allah. With the support of my Muslim Brothers I look forward to achieving the great goals, we devoted ourselves to, solely for the sake of Allah. At the outset of my speech I would like to address our teacher, older brother, and distinguished leader Mr. We say to our beloved Muslim brothers who are spread around the globe, it is unfortunate for us to have this big event happening while you are not among us for reasons beyond our control, however we feel that your souls are with us sending honest and sincere smiles and vibes.
We look to the future with hope and concern. When the alternative is not so different after all. After a difficult and protracted interlude the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) elected a new supreme guide, Mohamed Badei. The fate of the MB leadership had been pending ever since the seventh supreme guide, Mohamed Mahdi Akef, announced that he would step down after his first term even though the Brotherhood's internal regulations entitled him to a second. The MB in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world has suffered one crisis after the other over the past three years. If this tells us anything it is that the Egyptian, Jordanian and Algerian branches of the Islamist group are beset by confusion and political decline, sufficient to undermine their image among the public as a possible alternative to existing regimes.
As different as the circumstances are for the Muslim Brothers in these countries, the branches of their elderly organisation have one major element in common. They are gripped by a structural and ideological crisis which has erupted into unprecedented internal disputes. Source. The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website. A couple of weeks ago I promised to write about Muhammad Badie's election as the Muslim Brotherhood's new supreme guide. I never did, mostly because I didn't have anything interesting to say; Evan has already written about the internal drama that surrounded the vote, and I don't think the election has much external significance, despite widely-publicized concerns that Badie (a conservative) will push the group to the right. Why not? Shadi Hamid sums it up well. Unlike many of its secular counterparts, the Muslim Brotherhood has never depended on individuals and personalities, but rather on strong organizational and institutional structures.
The Brotherhood is also under immense pressure right now from the Mubarak government, which has recently stepped up its campaign of harassments and arrests of Brotherhood members. At the same time, it reportedly offered the group a deal: reduced political participation in exchange for reduced harassment. That's in the short term. Conservative gains in Muslim Brotherhood elections. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has just announced the results of its internal elections to the 16 member Guide's Office (which acts a sort of executive branch for the movement). Held in the midst of intense pressure from the Egyptian regime and a hot internal crisis, the election has produced a dramatic turn towards the conservative end of the spectrum. The most dramatic result was the failure of leading reformist Abdel Mounim Abou el-Fattouh and the Deputy Supreme Guide Mohammad Habib to win a place in the Guide's office.
Essam el-Erian, whose defeat in a special election several months ago prompted the latest round of internal crisis, did win a seat -- reportedly by joining a slate with conservative leader Mahmoud Ezzat. Otherwise, conservatives focused on religious outreach rather than politics won a thumping majority. The very fact of the elections is noteworthy, of course. The results seem to have been the opposite of what was intended.
Source: Ikhwan Online.
15% for MBs. Muslim Groups Take Lead in Cairo Quake Relief : Egypt: Mosques house and feed the homeless. Disappointment in government assistance is expressed. CAIRO — At a small but growing tent city around the ancient Mosque of Ibn Talun, hundreds of Egyptians left homeless by this week's earthquake waited Wednesday for handouts of blankets, mattresses, food and cash. Their benefactors: serious-faced young men in beards bearing placards saying, "Islam Is the Solution.
" A few hours earlier, a government man had come by with a pickup truck full of promises. He pledged free apartments and cash handouts, then drove off in the dust. "How can we find you again? " a man whose house had collapsed in nearby Sayed al-Zaynab wanted to know. But here, in a makeshift relief center run by Islamic fundamentalists, help was at hand.
As hundreds of families prepared to spend their third night on the streets in the wake of 4the devastating quake that killed more than 450 people and injured 4,000, both the government and the Islamic relief agencies scrambled to find housing for the homeless and reparations for the victims. Egypte : les frères musulmans. Adler, BHL et Finkielkraut anxieux face à la perspective d’une Egypte démocratique. Mon Figaro : Vers une dictature intégriste au Caire ? Tunisie-Egypte. L’hypocrisie des élites françaises médiatisées. Lotfi Maherzi, professeur à l’Université de Versailles Saint Quentin, à Paris 8, dénonce le silence complice des Lévy, Finkielkraut, Glucksmann et autres Adler, qui regrettent (presque) la fin des tyrannies arabes. Le philosophe slovène Slavoj Žižek écrivait récemment dans ‘‘Libération’’ : «L’hypocrisie des libéraux occidentaux: ils soutiennent publiquement la démocratie et quand le peuple se soulève contre les tyrans, ils sont profondément inquiets ».
Il aurait pu rajouter dans sa magistrale démonstration que cette même hypocrisie est lourdement présente chez les intellectuels français et autres «élites médiatisées» – d’Alain Finkielkraut à André Glucksmann, de Bernard Henry Lévy à Alexander Adler et tant d’autres. Tunisie: une joie différée, une dictature regrettéeLe silence ancien, frileux et gêné s’est vite transformé, dans les blocs-notes de Bernard Henri Levy dans ‘‘Le Point’’, en exclamation de joie et de louange à la révolution tunisienne. Lettre d’un jeune français en soif d’une autre révolution. ©Jimmy Markoum "Egypte"entre la "prison nationale démocratique" (référence au Parti National Démocratique de Moubarak) et le peuple Le spectre de l’islamisme ou la paresse intellectuelle Une fatalité arabe ? Il y a quelques semaines, le monde semblait soudainement découvrir l’horreur de la dictature tunisienne de Ben Ali.
Pendant toutes ces années, les pays occidentaux, et notamment notre « pays des droits de l’Homme », se sont gargarisés de discours passionnés sur la nécessité de répandre la démocratie dans le monde entier, au moment même où ils cautionnaient la tyrannie à l’œuvre dans ces pays. En janvier 2006, les Palestiniens votent massivement pour le Hamas dans le cadre des élections législatives. Les pays occidentaux ont alors jugé les peuples des pays arabes encore politiquement immatures pour la démocratie, à l’image de Caroline Fourest[1] qui appelait à séculariser avant de démocratiser. Pourtant, depuis, la donne a changé. Révolution et islamisme Jimmy Markoum. Egypte : les Frères Musulmans en embuscade. Calvi, obsédé des Frères Musulmans - une vidéo Actu et Politique. Egypte : les Frères Musulmans en embuscade (extrait) Frères musulmans: ces questions qui agitent l'’Occident.
La cécité s’accentue. Www.controverses.fr/pdf/n3/oulahbib3.pdf. White House walks fine line on Muslim Brotherhood. L'Egypte vue de la grotte de Ben Laden. Zawahari against MB. Leaked Cables: Egyptian Government Stokes Fears of Muslim Brotherhood. U.S. intelligence collaboration with Omar Suleiman “most successful” New round of muslim brothers arrests. Why a Member of the Muslim Brotherhood Was Late to the Revolution. Muslim Brotherhood.
MB around the world. Les racines de l'islamisme : "Que veulent les Frères musulmans ?" - L'Histoire : Actualité de L'Histoire. Salafistes contre Frères musulmans, par François Burgat. SALAFISM ON THE RISE IN EGYPT CAIRO 00000202 001.2 OF 004. Les Frères musulmans: Amazon.fr: Xavier Ternisien. Gilles Kepel : "Barack Obama a fait de l'islam une religion américaine" Tariq Ramadan. Tariq Ramadan 04 Février 2011 sur RMC. Debating Non-Violent Islamism. Veiled Truths. Egypt And The Muslim Brotherhood: A Stratfor Special Report | zero hedge. Qui sont les Frères Musulmans? Les chrétiens encore frappés en Egypte. The Muslim Brotherhood in flux - In Depth. The Muslim Brotherhood After Mubarak. Brotherhood Enters Elections in a Weakened State – Egypt Elections. Histoire de l'islam : Qotb, Frère musulman radical.