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(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.
Frères musulmans : rencontre avec le stratège sorti de prison | Rue89
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?
"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: Les Frères Musulmans en Egypte: un état des lieux - Entretien avec Amr ElChoubaki
The Muslim Brotherhood is internally divided over whether women and Copts should be allowed to run for president. The debate emerged as a number of MB leaders are in the process of revising the political party platform before presenting it the public in its final form. The groups said that the head of its new Freedom and Justice Party will be selected by the party’s general assembly. A number of the Brotherhood’s leaders want to remove a part of the platform that rejects the eligibility of Copts or women to run for president. However, another faction is in favor of the ban. A source close to the group’s guidance bureau said they are looking for a way to amend some of the articles of the platform that was first drafted and presented to intellectuals and political elites a few years ago.
Brotherhood divided over minority presidential candidates | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt
| | ENTRETIEN - Brigitte Maréchal, professeur à l’Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique), spécialiste de l’Islam, décrypte l’impact des Frères musulmans en Égypte. Acheter la version pdf du journal dans lequel il est paru et avoir accès à l'intégralité des articles de ce numéro (disponible à partir du TC n°3465). Vous abonner à la version numérique de Témoignage chrétien (accès illimité aux articles publiés sur le site et aux pdf) pour 15 jours (4,50 €), un mois (8 €), six mois (45 €) ou un an (75 €).
International : Egypte :« Les Frères musulmans ne forment pas un bloc homogène »
The Muslim Brotherhood uncovered | World news | The Guardian
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. "We keep a step behind."
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.
Anzalone: The Muslim Brotherhood Myth | Informed Comment
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. The political direction chosen by the Arab world’s oldest and largest Islamist organization could affect the succession plans of President Mubarak. It could also decide the dominant interpretation of Islam in Egypt, a key player in a volatile region.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: widening split between young and old - CSMonitor.com
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 ).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.
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Letter from Badei
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. Mohamed Mahdy Akef, the seventh leader of the MB group a strong, dedicated and enthusiastic person who led the group's journey amid storms and surpassed all its obstacles, thus providing this unique and outstanding model to all leaders and senior officials in the government, associations and other parties by fulfilling his promise and handing over the leadership after only one term, words are not enough to express our feelings to this great leader and guide and we can only say "May Allah reward you all the best".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.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.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.
Conservative gains in Muslim Brotherhood elections | Marc Lynch
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