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15 weeks 18 hours ago - Egypt

The public policies of Egypt's Nour Party, which represents the country's ultraconservative Salafi Muslim community, are anything but easy to predict. Today, Nour leaders have simultaneously come out in favor of media censorship and democracy-advocating, US-funded NGOs under investigation.

Nour Party chairman Emad Abdel Ghafour said that his party had gone to the US-based National Democratic Institute for training on public opinion polls and monitoring party manifestos and that "there's no doubt" their work "was a type of enrichment of political life".

On Wednesday, MPs from Ghafour's party expressed distrust for the media and requested that parliament sessions not be broadcast live.

“It’s irreligious to let people see government officials insulted,” Abdel Aziz al-Aqrasa said.

Tags censorship, NGO, nour, salafis
18 weeks 3 days ago - Egypt

Leading Egyptian political parties have agreed on a power-sharing arrangement that would see the country's largest party - the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood - take the position of speaker in the first parliament since the end of Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule.

Under the agreement, signed by at least six parties, the Freedom and Justice Party would choose the speaker of parliament while the fundamentalist Salafi Nour Party and the conservative secular Wafd Party would choose the two deputy speakers.

Official results of the election for the People's Assembly, the larger and lower house of parliament, are set to be announced on Friday, and the first session of parliament is scheduled for the following Monday.

The Freedom and Justice Party has nominated Secretary-General Saad el-Katatny, a former member of the Brotherhood's executive bureau, to be speaker.  

Tags Muslim Brotherhood, parliament, salafis
26 weeks 6 days ago - Egypt

Tamer el-Ghobashy, a Wall Street Journal reporter in Egypt to cover the elections, posted this tweet from Tahrir Square. rabid Egyptian football fans, or ultras, made up some of the January revolution's front-line shock troops and are known for inventing vulgar chants for football matches. Salafis, meanwhile, are some of the country's most conservative Muslims.

 

TamerELGNear Salafi loud speaker, small group of soccer ultras chanting obscene and hilarious anti-SCAF chants. #tahrir #EgyptFri Nov 18 13:43:43

Tags salafis, Tahrir, ultras

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