By : Muslim Brotherhood, IkhwanWeb : The Muslim Brotherhood expresses deep sorrow and concern over the ongoing infighting among Lebanese factions in Beirut. ....

By : Mohamed Habib, IkhwanWeb : Commenting on the President’s 30% raise, I once said it aimed at aborting May 4 strike by dissuading people from partici ....

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2	Hamas warns the IOF against Gaza’s explosion Hamas warned the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) against Gaza’s explosion due to the continuous atrocities practiced by the IOF and stated that it will not accept the siege any more.

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Ministry of Interior Impedes El-Shater’s Medical Checks Khayrat El-Shater (second deputy chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood who was sentenced to 7 years in jail in the latest controversial military tribunal case) was prevented from completing his medical examination last Tuesday. He suffers from dilated coronary artery and is in need for periodical medical checks and radiology.

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Mideast change is coming, and may not be pretty The convergence of six trends in the Middle East - the changing realities of food, energy, water, population, urbanization and security-dominated politics - is likely to create conditions that will be politically challenging, if not destabilizing, in many countries in the years ahead

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Heated Debate at the Egyptian PA About the Arrest of Faramaw... Opposition MPs strenuously criticized the regime’s policy of arresting Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members that recently included three former MPs (Dr. Sayed Abdul-Hameed, Eng. Sayed Hazeen, Eng. Saber Abdul-Sadeq) as well as professor Abdul-Hai al-Faramawi (Islamic Studies professor at al-Azhar University) and hundreds others in the run-up to the local elections.

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All the World’s A Stage: America’s Image in the Muslim World SIMPLY PUT, America’s image in much of the Muslim world remains abysmal. Iraq, the war on terrorism, American support for Israel and other key features of U.S. foreign policy continue to generate animosity in the Middle East, Asia and elsewhere

2	Ikhwanweb in Sandmonkey’s Diaries! I have been gone for this past week, but I wasn’t absent in any way. I was running around helping an Australian friend do a report on May 4th. Here are glimpses of the days that passed by and the people that I met during.

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Egypt: Second Generation Internet Users and Political Change Although the general strikes on April 6 and May 4 have drawn limited public participation, they have revealed an important new political phenomenon in Egypt: political mobilization by young, second generation internet users via blogs, YouTube, and Facebook.

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The Brotherhood’s Strike… A Reaction Why did Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood refrain from participating in the April 6th strike but made a contrary decision by participating in today’s strike? They claim that things were not clear with respect to the first strike and that their followers do not participate in protests whose organizers are anonymous, and just as they could not hold their people responsible for the mistakes of others, they also did not wish to climb on the backs of other political groups!

2	Tension in Egypt clouds outlook for succession Social tensions in Egypt over the past year have eroded overwhelming expectations that Gamal Mubarak will succeed his father President Hosni Mubarak at the helm of the most populous Arab country, analysts say.

2	HR Representative: Emergency Law is the Worst in Egypt’s His... Dr. Ahmed Kamal Abulmagd, Professor of Law at Cairo University and Vice-chairman of the National council for human rights, said Monday that the Emergency law is the worst law ever witnessed in Egypt.

2	Two Unfair sentences against Islamic Detainees The exceptional Supreme State Security Court in Damascus issued on Monday 5/5/2008 two unjust sentences on two Islamic citizens:

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MB Executive Bureau: Price Hikes Signal Regime Failure to Ha... Dr. Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Executive Bureau member, expressed his disappointment at the law, and said in a statement to Ikhwanweb that it indicates the failure of the regime to resolve economic problems. The government should have rather tried to eliminate corruption and monopoly, he said.

2	MB students create Facebook Group "Egyptians, Wake Up" Muslim Brotherhood students created a facebook group "Egyptians, Wake Up" to host discussions of issues related to reform and democracy.

2	Assault on HR Defenders while Attending the Hearing of a Tor... Human Rights activists denouncing torture in Egypt were attacked by anonymous men on April 30 during their waiting to attend an appeal hearing against the pre-trial detention of three torture victims

2	Secular and Antidemocratic IN MANY countries where elections and Islam overlap, religious political parties are suspected -- often rightly -- of trying to use the democratic system to advance an illiberal agenda. Turkey, the most advanced democracy in the Muslim world, has the opposite problem.

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Habib: Muslim Brotherhood’s Endorsement of May 4 Strike Urge... Though the call to stay at home on Sunday endorsed by the Muslim Brotherhood and Kifaya to protest political and economic crises was met with limited public participation, it has urged the government to consider some mechanisms to diffuse the public anger that preceded the strike, Muslim Brotherhood Deputy Chairman said in a lengthy statement to Ikhwanweb on Sunday.

2	Is Turkey’s Justice and Development Party a future model for... The Justice and Development Party (AKP) is now engaged in a political struggle with the country’s secular establishment, and the outcome is unclear.

2	UNRWA halts services in Gaza for lack of fuel The UNRWA has declared that it would halt distribution of supplies to Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip as of Monday in the event no fuel was provided through the Israeli-controlled crossings.

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Muslim Brotherhood Statement on Exporting Gas to Israel The Muslim Brotherhood is dismayed by the government’s decision to export gas to Israel at reduced prices at the time when Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) are committing daily massacres against the Palestinian people and the besieged Gaza strip.

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The Brotherhood and May 4 Strike: MB Bloc Secretary General ... First: The stay-at-home call of May 4 2008 to protest policies and figures of the ruling regime in Egypt has originally started in the political, media, and public scenes since April 6 and after. The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has only decided to endorse the strike on April 29. So we neither organized the strike nor set a date for it.

2	MB Parliamentarians Oppose Draft Law Raising Petroleum Price... Opposition MPs declared in a press conference Monday their rejection of a draft legislation by the People’s Assembly raising Petroleum prices.

2	A Nation In Waiting Al-Jazeera’s documentary on the US-backed dictator Mubarak is now available online…

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Blogging the strike: activists remain behind bars The last entry on Kareem Al-Beheiri’s blog, egyworkers.blogspot.com, reads, "It is now 7 am on April 6 and I am on my way to the Mahalla textile factory to cover the events of the strikes. I wish success to all seeking to expose the failing Egyptian political system."

2	May 4th The authorities seem to have focused on the infrastructure of spreading information. Already yesterday there was some problems with the Muslim Brotherhood arabic website Ikhwhan online, today harakamasriya(Kefaya´s website was blocked for Egyptian visitors.

2	Egypt Opposition Increases Pressure on 80-Year old Mubarak Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak celebrated his 80th birthday Sunday. He has been in power for 27 years, and the question of who will succeed him has become a topic of intense speculation.