After the announcement of the Syrian Army forces entering Aleppo’s Umayyad Mosque, Al-Alam News Network correspondent reports from inside the mosque for the first time. The Umayyad Mosque is also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus.Al-Alam network correspondent said on Tuesday that the Syrian army and its allies entered ...
Read More »Sectarianism: A Tool of the Enemy
Sectarianism is a tool of the enemies, and we need to make the Great Satan and its stooges hear us loud and clear: we will not let them divide us! Source: PureStream
Read More »Why does the Islamic World remain silent?
#OneUmmah #UnityWeek #TheMessengerUnites The Muslim Ummah is under attack. Our enemies are doing everything to divide us and to stop us from waking up. They want us to remain silent in the face of the atrocities and crimes they commit on our brothers and sisters. We know this.The question is ...
Read More »The Brotherhood ‘deviated’ from original focus
Daily News Egypt interviews former Muslim Brotherhood member Kamal Helbawy to discuss his history with the group, reasons for his departure, and the future of the now outlawed group. Not many people have spent more time in the Muslim Brotherhood as Kamal Helbawy. The 75-year-old spent decades in the Gulf, ...
Read More »Sisi takes 93% of the vote in election marred by dismal turnout
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who toppled Egypt’s first freely elected leader, took more than 90 percent of the vote in a presidential election marred by a dismal turnout, provisional results showed on Thursday, as he joined a long line of leaders drawn from the military. A low turnout figure ...
Read More »Mubarak celebrates his 86 birthday with roses and supporters
As you reach Maadi Military Hospital on the outskirts of Cairo, a soldier guarding the main door asks you about the room you intend to visit. In this hospital near the Nile, resides ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Today, Mubarak will celebrate his 86th birthday. He is expected to make ...
Read More »Egypt “humiliates” travelers from Gaza
Naser Abu Shammala had quit smoking a few years ago. But the stress of waiting to travel from Gaza led him to resume. A Canadian citizen, Abu Shammala had been living outside his native Gaza for fifteen years. Two months ago, he returned to visit relatives. When The Electronic Intifada met him, ...
Read More »Egypt’s Sisi quits to run for presidency
Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Wednesday he had quit the military to run for president and vowed to rid the country of “terrorism” almost nine months after he toppled its elected leader. Sisi, who was also defense minister, faces no serious competition in the election — likely before ...
Read More »Trial of 1,200 Mursi backers opens, ajourns in Egypt
A court in Egypt adjourned the mass trial of more than 1,200 supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohammed Mursi after a brief hearing on Saturday, state media reported. The country’s biggest trial since the army removed Mursi last July after a turbulent single year in office was adjourned until Monday. ...
Read More »Egypt sentences 26 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death
An Egyptian court sentenced 26 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges of forming a “terrorist cell” aimed at attacking the Suez Canal. The 26 defendants have been sentenced in absentia. Meanwhile, the Northern Cairo Criminal Court sentenced a 27th defendant to 15 years in prison. The accusations ...
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