- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community by Abdelsamad_ahmed http://abdelsamad_ahmed.instablogs.com/ - Latest Popular Stories powered by Instablogs Community. http://www.instablogs.com/site-img/insta-slogo.gif Instablogs Community http://abdelsamad_ahmed.instablogs.com/ en-us Instascript 2.0 http://www.instablogs.com Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:45:59 +0000 Dispute hints at rift in Egypts Muslim Brotherhood http://abdelsamad_ahmed.instablogs.com/entry/dispute-hints-at-rift-in-egypts-muslim-brotherhood/ http://abdelsamad_ahmed.instablogs.com/entry/dispute-hints-at-rift-in-egypts-muslim-brotherhood/ Ahmed

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was swift in its rejection of reports that its leader resigned after a row with conservatives, but the crisis exposed a profound rift among the Islamists, analysts said. The Brotherhood was reacting to front page...

]]> Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was swift in its rejection of reports that its leader resigned after a row with conservatives, but the crisis exposed a profound rift among the Islamists, analysts said.

The Brotherhood was reacting to front page reports in the Egyptian press on Monday that Supreme Guide Mohammed Mahdi Akef stormed out of a meeting at the weekend, saying he quit.

Akef reportedly clashed with conservative leaders over the appointment of senior member Essam al-Erian, who is associated with the Islamist group’s reformist wing, to the Brotherhood’s politburo.

The dispute has been brewing since the recent death of Mohammed Hilal, which opened a seat in the group’s politburo. The conservatives reportedly blocked Erian when he was nominated.

On the face of it, analysts said, it was a mere power struggle, pitting an old guard that survived the harsh crackdown by former president Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1960s against relatively new and moderate newcomers such as Erian.

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:45:59 +0000 EgyptRiftEgypts Muslim Brotherhood Pluralism looms large in Egyptian Religious Debates http://abdelsamad_ahmed.instablogs.com/entry/pluralism-looms-large-in-egyptian-religious-debates/ http://abdelsamad_ahmed.instablogs.com/entry/pluralism-looms-large-in-egyptian-religious-debates/ Ahmed

Writing in his weekly newspaper column, Gamal al-Banna said recently that God had created humans as fallible and therefore destined to sin. So even a scantily clad belly dancer, or for that matter a nude dancer, should not automatically be...

]]> Writing in his weekly newspaper column, Gamal al-Banna said recently that God had created humans as fallible and therefore destined to sin. So even a scantily clad belly dancer, or for that matter a nude dancer, should not automatically be condemned as immoral, but should be judged by weighing that person’s sins against her good deeds.

]]> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:55:57 +0000 PluralismEgyptian Religious Debatesconservatives Prisoner Reported Died of Abuse in Iran http://abdelsamad_ahmed.instablogs.com/entry/prisoner-reported-died-of-abuse-in-iran/ http://abdelsamad_ahmed.instablogs.com/entry/prisoner-reported-died-of-abuse-in-iran/ Ahmed

In what may be the first admission that a prisoner died from abuse by Iranian prison authorities in the wake of post-election unrest, a semiofficial news service reported Monday that the son of an adviser to a prominent conservative politician had...

]]> In what may be the first admission that a prisoner died from abuse by Iranian prison authorities in the wake of post-election unrest, a semiofficial news service reported Monday that the son of an adviser to a prominent conservative politician had died of “physical stress, conditions of imprisonment, repeated blows and harsh physical treatment.”

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