International media outlets shed light on several subjects about Egypt including the Muslim Brotherhood trials and latest up-dates, homosexuals freedoms in Egypt and the status of ISIS in the Arab region. Al-Monitor Erdogan defends Brotherhood's Qaradawi after arrest warrant Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was angered by the news of the Interpol issuing an arrest warrant against Youssef al-Qaradawi, the ideological leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, expressing his resentment publicly at the Fifth Religious Council in Ankara on Dec. 8. Erdogan attacked the current Egyptian President, accusing him of controlling the Interpol. Based on this instruction a step is being taken for the arrest of Youssef al-Qaradawi, president of the [International] Union of Muslim Scholars.
In June 2013, Qaradawi released a written statement in response to the Gezi Park protests and called on everyone to support Erdogan against foreign conspiracies. He said the opposition protesting in Taksim Square is a minority and they should respect the opinion of the majority and refrain from destructive behavior. Qaradawi also stressed that Erdogan's success was because of the help of Allah. Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/12/qaradawi-egypt-turkey-interpol-arrest-warrant-brotherhood.html Deutsche Welle Egypt refers hundreds to military tribunals Deutsche Welle covered the latest development s of the Muslim Brotherhood trials, saying that the Egyptian authorities referred 438 supporters of former Islamist president Mohammed Morsi to military tribunals Saturday in relation to violence stemming from protests in Cairo last year. The first case to be handled by the military tribunals, 139 Morsi backers are expected to stand trial over the deaths of three policemen in the southern province of Minya. The second case will include 299 Morsi supporters tried in connection with the deaths of five civilians in clashes between Islamist protesters and government forces and the burning of the Beheira provincial government headquarters in Damanhur. Read more: http://www.dw.de/egypt-refers-hundreds-to-military-tribunals/a-18127744 The Washington Post Cairo bathhouse raid spreads fear in Egyptian gay community The Washington Post, highlighted that the crackdown on the Egyptian gay community, following the scandalous detention of men in a public bathhouse in front of TV cameras came part of a series of police busts at suspected meeting places of homosexuals across the country. The paper cited statements of an unidentified homosexual activist, that "there is a lot of fear in Egypt's gay community," he added: "Many people want to leave the country." The author claimed that Egypt's interior ministry did not respond to repeated requests for comment on the detentions at the bathhouse, and it was not clear what charges the men might face. The article also claimed that when protesters rose up to oust the long-ruling Mubarak in 2011, many gay, lesbian and transgender Egyptians had hoped they would finally be able to secure their place in a new, democratic system, but now many gay Egyptians are living in fear. The article also denounced the role of media at this incident and mentioned opinions of an activist saying: "This is the first time I have seen such close coordination between the media and the security forces". Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/cairo-bathhouse-raid-spreads-fear-in-egyptian-gay-community/2014/12/13/2b332d96-7fc8-11e4-b936-f3afab0155a7_story.html The Sunday Times UK terrorists turn Isis stronghold into ‘little London' The Sunday Times article, shed the light on a town in Syria controlled by ISIS, populated by so many British jihadists that it has been nicknamed "little London" by one of the few western prisoners to be released alive by the Islamist group. Ahmad Walid Rashidi, a Danish charity worker, said English and German were commonly spoken in Manbij, a town in the north of the country, because of the high number of foreign fighters who had settled there.
