Hosni Mubarak, the Shah of Egypt, cracks down on the Muslim Brotherhood
A few days ago, Hossam posted about the arrest and imprisonment of Khaled Hamzah Salim, an Egyptian engineer and the Editor-in-Chief of IkhwanWeb.com, the English-language website of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, for whom George Bush and Condaleeza Rice have never failed to show their great appreciation, is currently in the process of thwarting efforts by the Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt’s most cogent political social force outside of the regime apparatus) to participate in upcoming municipal elections around Egypt (which already were delayed for 2 years back in 2006 because Mubarak feared that the Muslim Brothers would sweep in the elections).
According to Hossam, Khaled Salim was one of the leading individuals encouraging younger members of the Brotherhood to take an active role through new media like blogging. Abdel Mon`im I believe was the one who broke the news of Khaled’s arrest at his blog Ana Ikhwan–some might recall that Abdel Mon`im himself was the victim of Mubarak’s repressive crackdown and was held in prison from April to June of 2007. [Read more →]
