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Two Students, One is Detained, Deprived From Taking Final Ex... The administration of Fayoum University continue to write its worst record under the leadership of Dr. Ahmed El-Gohary president of the University, as the Disciplinary Board decided to prevent two student from taking their final exams without conducting any investigations with one of them because he has been detained since last April and with fictitious investigations with the other who wasn’t available during the incident they were investigating about.

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Gov’t Intimidates Lawyers to Vote For Its Candidates in Synd... Less than 48 hours before the second round of the Lawyers’ Syndicate elections, the government through its powerful State Security Apparatus in Qalyoubeya governorate summoned lawyers to pressure them to vote for the incumbent Sameh Ashour for Syndicate Chairman position, and Hussein El-Gammal, ruling party’s candidate

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Gov’t Arrests Two MB Leaders in Kafr El-Sheikh Despite of Co... In an unexpected move, state security forces re-arrested Dr. Hassan Ali Zead Shoaye (Vice-President of the MB Administrative Office in Kafr El-Sheikh and MB candidate in the 2005 parliamentary elections), and Farahat El-Deeb (MB leader in Kafr-El-Sheikh) and sent them back to Wadi El-Natrron Prison on a new charge that has not been disclosed yet after the court acquitted them of all charges The two were ordered to be released by the Cairo Appeal Court, however, the Ministry of Inte

2	Shedding our own blood to please Israel The unnecessary death of six Palestinians, including two resistance fighters, by Palestinian hands in Qalqilya on Sunday, 31 May, will be an indelible and everlasting stigma of shame on the forehead of Israel’s Palestinian puppets.

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America, Islam and the War of Ideas Author The book’s preface is very beneficial as it constitutes the light that takes us through the book and it also sets the tone for the coming chapter through the author’s objective eye. Obviously the author’s objectivity is not only derived from the constant reminder of how different his perspective of issues

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Wrong venue for Obama’s Muslim speech Why should the president of the United States address the "Muslim world", as Barack Obama will do in Egypt this Thursday? What would happen if the leader of a big country addressed the "Christian world"? Half the world would giggle and the other half would sulk.

2	Lawyers turn to Muslim Brotherhood for leadership CAIRO // Egyptian lawyers voted last week to return the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition movement, to the leadership of the country’s most powerful professional syndicate.

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A Record That Can’t Be Ignored All eyes and ears will be on President Obama on June 4, when he delivers his first address from an Arab country. Will he focus on preserving a close relationship with Arab governments, whatever their shortcomings, or will he gear his message to Arab citizens, suppressed for decades by authoritarian leaders?

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Egypt Dissidents Ask Obama To Push Arab Democracy The Muslim Brotherhood Web site offered tips for Obama in Cairo, including a call to criticize Mubarak and "the despotic Arab regimes." "Choosing Cairo is a generous reward for the Mubarak regime, which has not succeeded in the past 25 years in holding, not even one, truly democratic and fair election, unless a genuine critique of his regime while you are in Cairo is at hand," the Web site said.

2	Israel refuses to cooperate with UN investigators GENEVA, (PIC)-- Israel has announced that it would not cooperate with the UN investigative team mandated by the UN human rights council last January to probe Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip.

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Jordan’s Islamic Action Front picks up new leadership Amman - The Islamic Action Front, Jordan’s largest political party, has chosen new interim leadership in a bid to restore unity that seemed to have been undermined due to exacerbating feuds among members of the party’s Executive Bureau that lasted over the past two years, the IAF said in a statement Sunday.

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Amnesty International Report 2009 on Syria Despite its references to the oppression of the Kurmandji (not "Kurdish") ethnic minority, the Amnesty International Report 2009 on Syria does not mention either the indigenous Aramaean nation or various religious groups that have been persecuted over the past decades.

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MB: It’s Premature to Judge Obama’s Visit Before It Begins MB issued statement regarding President Obama’s visit to Egypt and his long anticipated speech to the Muslim world on June 4th. The statement indicated that it would be premature for Muslim Brotherhood to form a clear stance towards the visit before it even begins, and it will wait to hear from the U.S President his vision for the future of US-Muslims relations and democracy promotion the Middle East, as well as the reaction of the Egyptian government

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Ten tips for Obama before his visit to Cairo The ample achievements the Muslim Brotherhood has made in Egypt’s parliamentary elections, urges you Mr. President to open genuine communication channels with the Islamic movements in the region, especially Hamas, which won the elections in Palestine in 2006. Overcoming many obstacles in order to reach a common vision with the Islamic movements in the Middle East is the way to mapping out the future of American Middle East relations.

2	Q+A-Why is Obama speech to Muslim world important? WASHINGTON, May 31 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will give a highly anticipated speech to the Muslim world in Egypt on June 4 in which he will seek to reach out to Muslims alienated by the previous Bush administration’s policies.

2	Jihadist revisions What can be learned from the state’s confrontation with violent Islamist movements in the 1980s and 90s?

2	How Islamic culture helped Europe out of Dark Ages The timing is apt: now that Barack Obama’s America seeks conciliation rather than confrontation in the Middle East, here is a thoughtful book revealing how Islamic culture helped the West to emerge from the Dark Ages into the Renaissance.

2	Farhan appointed interim IAF chief AMMAN, May 31, 2009 (Jordan Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- The shura council of the Islamic Action Front (IAF) elected Ishaq Farhan as an interim secretary general of the party following a marathon meeting on Saturday.

2	Obama’s visit is dividing Egyptians CAIRO // Since the May 8 announcement that the US president, Barack Obama, would deliver his long-awaited speech to the Islamic world in Egypt, the country has been gripped by “Obamamania”.

2	What Do Muslim Women Want? In sharp contrast to the popular image of silent submissiveness, Gallup findings on women in countries that are predominantly Muslim or have sizable Muslim populations hardly show that they have been conditioned to accept second-class status.

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Islamists Lose Ground in the Middle East The results of Kuwait’s elections last month -- in which Islamists were rebuffed and four women were elected to parliament -- will likely reinvigorate the movement for greater democracy in the region that has stalled since the hopeful "Arab spring" of 2005. It also puts pressure on the Obama administration to end its deafening silence on democracy promotion.

2	Can Muslims provide solutions to the Current Economic Crisis... America Muslims cannot sit on sidelines talking only about foreign policy related issues. We must play a role in coming up with ideas to help the economy.

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Muslims want tangible change on Mideast from Obama CAIRO, Egypt -- Respect for Islam, a prescription for Palestinian statehood and assurances of a speedy U.S. pullout from Iraq _ that’s what Muslims from Morocco to Malaysia say they want to hear from President Barack Obama this week when he addresses them from this Arab capital.

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Dr. Morsy warns against Zionist illusions Dr. Morsy linked between results of this meeting- held days after a similar meeting between US President Obama and Zionist PM Netanyahu- and the unjust ruling issued by a US court against activists and officials of the Holy Land Foundation who were sentenced to up to 65 years in prison on charge of funding Hamas. This is in spite of the fact that Hamas is the real legitimate representative of the Palestinian people who voted for it in ballot boxes in front of the whole world.

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Give me a smile instead of a bullet, We are children for lif... The children of Palestine and aleXsandro Palombo children unite to launch a campaign of peace, love and hope. The revolution of the children of Gaza and the realization of their dreams, the desire to create, to express themselves, to be happy and free, contrasting the absurd supremacy of the big powers.

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Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal: Who is qualified to judge others... It is not correct to say that Hamas is against the West. We are against those who are against us. We resist those who occupy us. Otherwise, we are open to the whole world. - These are the words of Mr. Khaled Mishaal, the political leader of Hamas, Damascus, Syria, May 2009.

2	Gaylard: The Israeli siege thwarts UN efforts to help Gazans NEW YORK, (PIC)-- UN humanitarian coordinator Maxwell Gaylard stated Thursday that the continued Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip hinders the efforts made by the UN and its partners to help the Palestinians in the post-war Strip.

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Russian paper: Moscow to ask Lieberman to end Gaza siege MOSCOW, (PIC)-- Visiting Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman will hear demands by Russian officials for an end to the siege on Gaza in addition to halting settlement activity in the Palestinian lands, Russian paper Vremya Novostei reported on Saturday.

2	Obama Speech Puts Egypt On Center Stage U.S. President Barack Obama travels to Egypt early June for what the White House is billing as a major address to Muslims around the world.

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Arab Opinion: Bush Bad, Obama Good Professor Shibley Telhami’s annual survey of Arab public opinion is out this week. It shows me that Barack Obama, who is due here in Cairo on June 4 to give an address to the Islamic world, has the chance to significantly reverse negative Arab attitudes toward the U.S. His mere election has already produced some welcome changes for the better.

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Continued police threats against blogger Dia Gad The blogger has received many phone calls from the State Security officers ordering him to go to them, he received one of these phone calls while he was at the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and the Executive Director of the Network answered the phone call in which the State Security officer repeated his threat; asking Dia to go to them "for his own good".

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State Prosecutor Detains 19 MBs, Releases 12 Others Cairo State Supreme Security Prosecutor extended yesterday detention of18 MB members from Fayoum for 15 more days on charges of affiliation to a band group [MB] and possession of publications promoting the group’s activities, while deciding the release of Sayyed Zaki, member of the group.

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A New Secretary-General Replaces Tarek Al-Hashemi It added that the head of the parliament Iyad Al-Samarraei won the post of Deputy Secretary-General and there has been a renewal for Mohsen Abdel Hamid as the Head of the Shura Council of the party, in addition to the winning of a number of members with the membership of the party’s political bureau.

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Katatni: MB Would Welcome Effective Debate With Obama During... Regarding the MB’s stance on holding a dialogue with Obama, El-Katatny said that the MB openly announces that “whoever wants to hold a dialogue with us in public, they’re welcome. As for the secret files and dark agenda, the MB has no relation with them, and this rule applies to the American president as well as other presidents.”

2	Israel’s little Hitler Hence, the entire humanity is urged to combat and defeat the new Nazism now thriving in Israel. The fact that this Nazism is having a Jewish garment is totally irrelevant. Evil doesn’t become kosher or innocuous when done by Jews.

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MB Detainee’s Health Deteriorates While in Custody His wife, Dr. Nihal Badea after visiting him stated that his condition is unstable and worsening due to the stress of his arrest and detention. Dr. Badea also described the condition in Al-Mahkoum prison as "inhuman" where her husband gets to sleep on the floor which has high level of humidity, in addition to the lack of proper medical care for his heart condition

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MB Chairman Expresses Condolences For Dealth of el Shater’s ... Mr. Mohamed Mahdi Akef (MB Chairman) expressed his condolences for the death of the mother of Eng. Khayrat El-Shater (the Second Deputy Chairman of MB) who died yesterday morning and asks Allah to grant her mercy and peace and grant her family patience. Ikhwanweb offers its condolences and ask Allah to accept her among righteous people “To Allah We Belong and To Him We Will Return)

2	Expanded Electronic Campaign Against Torture 1st July The youth announced on their website “ANGRY” that the campaign will start to deploy and collect signatures from the 1st of June and will continue until the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26th June 2009.

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Large Delegation, Mostly Americans Launch Campain Urging Oba... CODEPINK, a women-led peace group, has led several delegations to Gaza to witness, firsthand, the devastation caused by the 22 day Israeli military attack on the Gaza Strip that began in December, 2008. The group is particularly concerned about the children of Gaza, who make up more than half of the population. Approximately 400 children were killed during the 22 day attack and an estimated 1,346 Gazan children were left without one or both of their parents as a result of the recent Is

2	Syrian MB Hails Release of Journalist Michael Kilo The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria sincerely congratulates Mr. Michel Kilo for his freedom, after being unjustly imprisoned for three years, which only increased his determination to pursue justice and freedom for the Syrian people

2	Palestinian prisoner blinded in Israeli jail He noted that Najar was now in need of a speedy cornea transplant operation, and called on legal and international societies to pressure the IOA into releasing Najar to enable him undergo the surgery and restore his eyesight.

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Prosecutor Detains 4 MB Leaders For 15 More Days The Fifth District Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to renew the detention order of four Muslim Brothers in Ismailia and North Sinai governorates for 15 days. The four are - Dr. Hisham Al-Souli, head of Muslim Brotherhood administrative office in Ismailia, Alaa El-Deeb one of MB figures also, North Sinai Muslim Brotherhood figures Dr. Adel Mustafa and Mahmoud Saeed.

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Obama Told to Support Mideast Democracy "We believe that it would be a terrible mistake if the new administration, in its attempt to distance itself from the failed policies of the Bush administration, would go back to the previously tried and failed policies of supporting oppressive regimes and dictators," Radwan Masmoudi, President of the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID), told IslamOnline.net.

2	Italian senator condemns world silence towards Gaza siege He said that the “Hope” convoy faced various difficulties over the past three weeks and especially in the past couple of days when the Egyptian authorities refused to allow it access into Gaza but finally agreed to let it enter.

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Mandela: The IOA released prisoner Nawal Al-Sa’di The institution added that Nawal lived in very cruel conditions during her detention, especially as a result of her concern for her children who were left without a breadwinner after her husband was administratively detained in Israeli jails. Her brother and other relatives are also in detention.

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Press conference to announce the issuance of the Annual Repo... The report also provides a big list of books and magazines that have been confiscated in 2008, and the bodies which confiscate literary works by legal means, and bodies that confiscate publications in violation of the law; noting with concern that the latter is the most prominent cases in the list of confiscated works.

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Judaizing Jerusalem, Closing The Aqsa Foundation Our report aims to uncover the Israeli efforts to Judaize the city of Jerusalem by destroying the Arab and Islamic features in the city. These efforts have been recently intensified; the process has been recently accelerated. This report is the last wakeup call to the world to rescue this iconic city from the intolerant and hateful ideology adopted by Israel against all non-Jewish in the city of Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory. Israel is using military supr

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Full speech of UK Secretary Miliband, Engage Muslim World, ... To broaden the coalition and win consent, we need to understand the Muslim world better, or we will risk undermining the force of our own argument, as I have sometimes done when using the labels ‘moderate’ and ‘extremist’; we need to hold fast to our own values and support those who seek to apply them, or we will be guilty of hypocrisy; and we need shared effort to address the grievances, socio-economic and political, that are perceived to keep Muslims down, and in fact do.

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MB and Salafi Candidates Lose Ten Seats in Kuwaiti Elections In a comment to Dr. Mohamed Habib (Deputy Chairman of Muslim Brotherhood group) he stated to Ikhwanweb that the results of elections reflect a dissatisfaction with the government and opposition because of the ongoing political deadlock and instability, therefore, voters wanted to put an end to this path.He added that it was the lack of actual programs for practicing real democracy in itself that made Kuwait reach a political deadlock.

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Qaradawi: Muslims’ support for Palestine is a must and not a... "We should gather together all those supporting the Palestinian issue from the East and from the West whether they are Arabs, Muslims or Christians, international figures or institutions if we want this issue to win the battle against the occupation", asserted Qaradawi as he addressed the International Popular Congress for Supporting Palestine.

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Human Rights Solidarity calls for an Independent Investigati... International human rights organizations; Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International (AI) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) repeatedly called for the release of Mr. al-Jahmi, and repeatedly warned against depriving him of very critical medical care that he needed.