[Mb-civic] FW: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood !!!

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From: Samii Shahla <shahla at thesamiis.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 01:44:26 -0400
Subject: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood !!!

This so-called 'reform' does not sound good to me:


BBC
04/06/05

  Egypt students rally for reform

  Thousands of Egyptian university students have demonstrated angrily
against the government, in the largest such protest yet to be staged.

  The students - mostly from the Muslim Brotherhood movement - marched
at five campuses in Cairo and the Nile Delta.

  Hundreds of police prevented them from taking their protests outside
university gates onto the streets.

  Islamists, liberals and nationalists want an end to Egypt's
24-year-old state of emergency.

  They also called for an end to the presidency of Hosni Mubarak.

  Mr Mubarak has been the country's leader since 1981. He is hoping to
win a fifth term in office in elections in September - for the first
time in a multi-candidate poll.

  Campus protests

  Reports quoting police say 4,000 students marched inside the grounds
of al-Azhar university in the historic heart of old Cairo.

  Many students at this important seat of Sunni Muslim learning flashed
V for victory signs and waved small copies of the Islamic holy book,
the Koran.

  About 1,000 protesters were reported at each of Cairo's Ain Shams and
Helwan universities.

  Protests at the universities in Kafr al-Sheikh and Mansoura in the
Nile Delta attracted about 2,000 students apiece, reports say.

  In addition, many students called for an end to the authorities'
security control over student elections.

  "It is all part of the reform... we want to change students' elections
bylaws," said Ain Shams student Khaled Sultan.

  Security forces have recently arrested hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood
members at protests and in raids designed to prevent demonstrations,
under the authority of the controversial emergency law.

  Under growing US pressure, Egypt has been moving slowly towards
reform, with Mr Mubarak allowing rival candidates to appear on the
ballot paper.

  Until this year, electors could only accept or reject a single
candidate chosen by parliament, which is dominated by Mr Mubarak's
National Democratic Party.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4413843.stm

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