The Muslim Brotherhood\’s party said on Wednesday its alliance was leading in Egypt\’s election, which would give the nation\’s oldest Islamist group a powerful parliamentary platform to challenge the authority of ruling army generals.
Egyptians voted on Monday in their first election since a popular revolt ousted Hosni Mubarak, amid fears the generals who replaced the deposed leader would try to cling on to power.
Egyptians vote on Monday in the first big test of a transition born in popular revolutionary euphoria that soured into distrust of the generals who replaced their master, Hosni Mubarak.
The Muslim Brotherhood held an anti-Israel rally in a Cairo mosque that reportedly called to \”one day kill all Jews.\”
The Muslim world is out of control. And that’s a good thing.
There is such a huge flow of news here in Cairo these days that Salah Abdullah, an Egyptian carpenter in his 30s, says he is not able to keep track of everything.
The Muslim Brotherhood\’s English website rejected claims that the Egyptian protests are aimed at creating an Islamic state.
The late Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was fond of pointing out that Israel “lives in a bad neighborhood.” The popular revolt in Egypt reminds us of the enduring truth of that comment.
A leader of Egypt\’s Muslim Brotherhood said any post-Mubarak government should dissolve its peace treaty with Israel.
The emergence of \”Hamastan\” in Gaza sent leaders in the Middle East and elsewhere scrambling for an answer: Whose fault is it? Is it reversible? Will the same thing happen in the West Bank? What should and could be done now?
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