The Salafi Nour Party has criticized the government for plans to borrow from international financial institutions rather than implementing an austerity plan.
“We are against usurious deals,” said party spokesperson Mohamed Nour. “Before borrowing, (...)
The Nour Party has formed a legal committee to prepare a new constitution for the country, said Emad Abdel Ghafour, president of the Salafi Nour Party.
“It would be based on previous constitutions and experiences so as to arrive at the best (...)
Salafi Nour Party Chairman Emad Abdel Ghafour has called on all political parties and movements to help end clashes between protesters and the armed forces in and around Tahrir Square that have been ongoing since Friday. He called for dialogue (...)
The Salafi Al-Nour Party is investigating a recent incident whereby a prominent statue in Alexandria was covered during a recent party rally in a public square.
The statue depicts Zeus, the Greek mythological god, as mermaids standing on a marble (...)
The Islamist Coalition, which includes the Salafi-led Nour and Asala parties and the Jama'a al-Islamiya's Construction and Development Party, announced is fielding 693 candidates in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
“We will win at least 30 (...)
Islamist presidential hopeful Hazem Abu Ismail has called for a massive protest next Friday under the slogan "One Demand" to pressure Egypt's de facto military rulers to hold the presidential elections on 1 April 2012.
Abu Ismail held a seminar on (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood has criticized the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) for its sluggishness in issuing a law that politically isolates those who corrupted political life before the revolution, especially members of the dissolved (...)
Salafi leader Mahmoud Amer has said there should be conditions on women running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, namely that they should be veiled, and that they should not talk to men except when utterly necessary.
Three Salafi parties, the (...)
Prominent Salafi leaders on Thursday reiterated calls for applying Islamic Sharia law in Egypt in place of the man-made laws currently governing the country.
In a conference held by the Salafi-led Asala Party in Matariya neighborhood in Cairo, (...)
Islamist parties called on military Chief of Staff Sami Anan during a meeting on Saturday to end the state of emergency, apply the Treachery Law against former National Democratic Party (NDP) members, hand over power to a civilian government before (...)
The Salafi Scholars' Shura Council is considering fielding candidates in single-winner districts in the upcoming parliamentary elections, council head Gamal al-Marakby has said.
The council includes religious leaders such as sheikhs Mohamed Hassan (...)
“We aim to form a coalition of all Salafi and Islamist parties before the parliamentary elections,” Nader Bakar, a leading member of the Salafi-led Nour Party, has said.
“We are in touch with the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party,” he (...)
A group of Salafis have launched the Islah Party, the fourth political party to be formed by Salafis since the 25 January revolution, according to a party spokesperson. The other three Salafi parties are Nour, Asala and Fadila.
Khaled Mansour, a (...)
Informed sources claim a delegation of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group, headed by Deputy General Guide Khairat al-Shater, met with the military council on Monday, hours before the group announced that it would boycott Friday's million-man (...)
The Jama'a al-Islamiya submitted an application on Tuesday to form its first political party, listing in its several thousand founding members a handful of Copts and over 100 women.
The application for official registration of the Building and (...)
A group of Islamist scholars is preparing a draft constitution for Egypt based on the Quran and Sunnah, with the aim of steering the country towards an Islamist model of government.
The group has named itself the Reform Rights Authority, and (...)
Mohamed Mokhtar al-Mady, the head of the Legislative Committee of the largest Salafi group in Egypt, said on Monday that those who are against the Islamists rising to power are infidels. “They are Satan's followers,” he said.
“Why are people afraid (...)
Two newly formed liberal parties, the Social Democratic Party and the Free Egyptians Party, presented their applications for establishment to the Political Parties Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
The committee, however, declined to receive the (...)
Salafi Scholars Shura Council member Gamal Marakby has announced that the council is currently communicating with the likely presidential candidates to learn more about their electoral programs and to demand they amend all anti-Islamic laws should (...)
A number of Shia and Sufi leaders on Tuesday submitted a notification to the attorney general, accusing Salafi leaders of inciting sectarian strife by burning down churches and the shrines of religious figures.
They also presented a CD with (...)
When Islamists and Muslim Brotherhood members make mistakes, the media highlights them to frighten people, said Mohamed al-Beltagui, a Brotherhood leader, at a conference in Shubra al-Kheima on Friday.
Beltagui also said the group is being dragged (...)
The Jama'a al-Islamiya decided to form a political party to run in the next parliamentary election.
“But we won't field a candidate in the presidential elections,” said Abdel Akhar Hammad, head of the group's elections committee.
Translated from the (...)
Muslim Brotherhood General Guide Mohamed Badie on Saturday inaugurated a new branch for the group in the Moqattam neighborhood.
The inauguration was attended by thousands of group members, representatives of political parties and forces, leaders of (...)
A group of Salafi Muslims based in Cairo are in the process of collecting signatures before the establishment of a political party to be named the Fadila (meaning virtue) Party.
According to founding members, the party will aim to spread justice and (...)
The High Elections Commission (HEC) announced on Sunday that a security force had been sent to control the situation in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Qena after rumors circulated that gunfire was exchanged between candidates' supporters to (...)