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April 20, 2017

حقيقة مايحدث في سوريا من مؤامرات روسيا وأيرانية بالأتفاق مع نظام بشار الاسد





حقيقة مايحدث في سوريا من مؤامرات روسية وايران






اعزائي اليوم موضوع هام وخطير عما يحدث في سوريا والصمت الاسلامي العربي والحرب الضروس التي يخوضها اهلنا من المسلمين السنة ضد النظام العلوي الكافر والعلوية الايرانية والآلة الروسية  الكافرة ونظام بوتين عدو الاسلام (وتذكروا الغواصة النووية الروسية (k-141 كورسك )التي مات فيها زينة الشباب
سي والت رفض بوتين مساعدة الدول منها فرنسا والنرويج وغيرهم في انقاذ الغواصين فهو لايرحم ابنائه فما بالك بالمسلمين..انهم الكفرة المتعاونون شوعيون وعلويين ايرانيون وسوريون
وهنا لابد ان نوضح من هم العلويين لان كثيرا منا لا يعرف من هم:
العلويين

العلوية وتسمى كذلك النُصيرية هي طائفة من الشيعة الجعفرية الإثني عشرية، تتميز عن بقية الإثني عشرية بإيمانهم بالدعوة الباطنية، وهي سرية تعليم وممارسة العبادة، والتي يرون أنها نشأت عندهم لأسباب سياسية غير دينية، وذلك لحمايتهم في ظل الأخطار المحيطة
الطائفة المسماة بالعلويون أو النصيرية هي طائفة من الطوائف التابعة للشيعة. • إن للعلويين نفس تسلسل الأئمة الإثني عشر وقد افترقوا عن الإثني عشرية بعد   (سيدنا علي بن ابي طالب ..رضي الله عنه    الحادي عشر الحسن العسكري. •
العلويين تتبع سيدنا علي بن أبي طالب وتعدّه بمثابة إلههم الذي يجب أن يعبد ولا تخالف أوامره ،فقد ظهرت الطائفة العلوية بالقرن الثالث  
• إن مؤسس طائفة العلويين هو محمد بن نصير البصري النميري (توفي سنة270) • لقد واجه العلويين العديد من الاتهامات والكثير من الرفض لمعتقداتهم وطرائق عبادتهم وطقوسهم في مناسباتهم وبأفكارهم الإيمانية ونظرتهم إلى الحياة وكيفية التعامل بينهم وبين غيرهم فوصف الشيعة العلويين بالغلو في كل كل أمور الحياة ووصفهم السنيين بأنهم يقومون بإخفاء والتهرب من عقائدهم الحقيقية والتنكر لها والابتعاد 
 عن الاعتقاد بها أو الإلتزام بأحكامها و أوامرها .
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April 20, 2017

South Sinai returns to scope of militancy after period of calm





South Sinai returns to scope of militancy after period of calm

The attack that left one lower ranking officer dead was followed by contradicting statements and news reports
نتيجة بحث الصور عن صور عما يحدث في سيناء
A militant attack on a checkpoint near Saint Catherine road in South Sinai left on Tuesday night one lower ranking police officer dead and three other security personnel injured—a move that returns militancy to the once calm and secure southern part of the restless peninsula.
According to the official narrative, the Interior Ministry said that “a number of militants” opened fire from an elevated mountainous area opposite the checkpoint on the Saint Catherine Road, which is near the Saint Catherine Monastery.
The Saint Catherine Road extends from the city of El Tor in western South Sinai and extends to Nuweiba in the east.
The ministry added that the police forces stationed in the checkpoint returned fire and injured some of the attackers, who later managed to flee.
A Bedouin tour guide at Saint Catherine told Daily News Egypt that the attackers used motor bikes to execute the attack, saying that the area is rarely a scene of similar attacks. “These checkpoints mainly handle checking IDs, narcotics, and liquor, as well as arresting fugitives, but never engaging with militants,” he added.
He said that after the attack, the army took to the roads in South Sinai, along with the intelligence apparatus of the police. He added that two people were detained and are currently being interrogated.
Meanwhile, at the time of print, state media reported that police forces killed one of the perpetrators allegedly involved in the attack.
After the attack, the security director of South Sinai, general Ahmed Al-Tael, told privately-owned newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm that casualties resulted after one police conscript shot “by mistake” four other members at the checkpoint.
After the official narrative was reported, Al-Tael confirmed that it was an attack.
Currently, forces from the Egyptian third field army are securing the main entrances and highways of the area. Similarly, the prosecution has started investigating the incident.
A state of confusion dominated information about the attack amid reports that the monastery was attacked. However, Father Gregory of the monastery told local media that the attack didn’t affect the monks or the priests living in the area.
Hours after the attack, the Islamic State-affiliated Amaq News Agency claimed responsibility for the attack. Usually, when militants from the group execute attacks outside of North Sinai, either Amaq News Agency or the “Islamic State in Egypt” publishes statements to claim responsibility for the attacks.
But when attacks take place in North Sinai, statements with the watermark of Sinai Province are published to claim the attacks. The group considers Sinai as part of a bigger “Caliphate”.
The militant group is rarely active in South Sinai.
The latest attack prior to this one, which was not claimed by the Islamic State, took place in January 2016 in Hurghada in the Bella Vista Resort, where two militants entered the hotel and stabbed three tourists, one Swedish, and two Austrian nationals, none of which were killed. The two militants were arrested and sent to trial, where they received a life sentence.
In February 2014, militant group Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis, who would later pledge allegiance to the Islamic State, claimed a bomb attack on a tourist bus in Taba, killing two South Koreans and an Egyptian driver. It was a suicide attack. The militant group said that the attack, which was the first to take place after the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated president Mohamed Morsi, was aimed at “raging an economic war” against what they called a “regime of treason”.
On 7 October 2004, three bombs ripped through tourist hotels in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 34 and injuring 171. One of the bombs went off in Taba, which claimed the lives of 31 and caused ten floors of the hotel to collapse. A majority of the victims were Egyptian.
Dahab, also in Sinai, was struck by three bombs on 24 April 2006, killing at least 23 people. Again, a majority of the victims were Egyptian.
Last week, the Israeli government renewed its calls that all tourists in the Sinai region leave immediately, citing intelligence that attacks are imminent.
Egypt’s security forces have been trying to stop the flow of militancy from North Sinai to South Sinai.
In a January interview with Al-Watan newspaper, Al-Tael said that police and army forces are doing their best to “enhance a buffer zone” between the two governorates to prevent the leakage of militants from the north to the south of the peninsula. He added that the security apparatus is relying on the Bedouins and tribesmen of South Sinai to secure and guard caves and underground passages.
Since January, the sophistication of the military operations by Sinai Province has relatively decreased, leading the group to rely on single targeting, such as attacking Coptic civilians, drive-by attacks, assassinations, or random improvised explosive device (IED) bombings.
According to officials’ statements and assertions by the military, operations in North Sinai have succeeded in limiting the activity of the group; however, on an almost weekly basis, casualties have been reported because of the group’s operations. The army and several pro-state media outlets launched a campaign to highlight the army operation in Jabal Halal, citing sweeping victories and announcing the near end of the extremist group.
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April 20, 2017

Brotherhood vows to remain ‘peaceful’, calls for unity on third Rabaa anniversary





Brotherhood vows to remain ‘peaceful’, calls for unity on third Rabaa anniversary

Former leading figure claims Rabaa Al-Adaweya sit-in was armed, amid discontent from current members

Morsi’s ouster and the ensuing violence that erupted during and following the dispersal of the Rabaa Al-Adaweya and Al-Nahda Square sit-ins in August 2013 led to mass violence across Egypt.(Photo by Aaron T. Rose/DNE )
As the third anniversary of the violent dispersal of pro-Mohamed Morsi sit-ins passed quietly without protests or any commemoration events in the streets of Egypt, the currently outlawed Muslim Brotherhood maintained in several statements by its leaders that it will continue its “peaceful revolutionary mobalisation”.
Mahmoud Ezzat, the current deputy supreme guide of the Brotherhood, which lost hundreds of its supporters in the deadly dispersal of the Rabaa Al-Adaweya and Al-Nahda encampments on 14 August 2013, said that “sacrifices will continue until the people achieve their consciousness and gather around its revolutions to confront the counter revolutionaries.”
Ezzat said that the Arab Spring was a civilised, peaceful movement but was plotted against by “imperialist forces that incited sectarianism and supported tyrants and military coups, and stood silent about human rights violations… which resulted in the death of peaceful revolutionaries.”
The statement, which was published on Sunday, cited Turkey and Tunisia as successful examples of the “Islamic Ummah”.
In Egypt, Ezzat said that “peaceful resistance” continues and described it as “the key saving Egypt from a destructive explosion”.
The Brotherhood faced a violent crackdown following the military led ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. Many of the group’s members and leaders are facing harsh prison sentences in cases related to terrorism charges, are wanted by the regime, or were killed in clashes with security forces.
The Brotherhood has been accused by the state and public opinion of forming militant groups throughout the country, which have been charged with recent acts of violence, assassination attempts, and bombings, most of which have targeted state institutions and police forces. The group, nevertheless, has consistently rejected these accusations, arguing that “they will never abandon their peaceful protesting tactics”.
However, this all challenged after Ahmed El-Mogheer, a former senior member in the group’s youth sector, wrote in a post published on the anniversary of the dispersal that the “sit-ins were armed” with AK-47s, birdshots, Molotov cocktails, and hand grenades.
El-Mogheer, who is wanted by Egyptian security forces in many cases and whose whereabouts is unknown, talked about the “Tiba Mall Brigade”.
Tiba Mall was one of the entrances to Rabaa Al-Adaweya square where concentrations of the protesters, usually young males with sticks and helmets, staged patrols to secure the sit-in.
But, El-Mogheer argued: “Rabaa was full of weapons, enough to back off the army and the police.” He hinted that one upper ranking member ordered the weapons to be evacuated, adding that the youth considered this to be treason.
El-Mogheer added that the Tiba Mall entrance was known to be the destination of young Jihadists who “refused democracy, parties, and plurality”.
The post, which was removed by El-Mogheer, mentioned that the young people, armed with machine guns and birdshots, fired back at the army.
According to the security and state’s narrative in the aftermath of the dispersal, around 15 rifles and birdshots were found, as well as dozens of motorcycle helmets and shields.
The post was widely shared and reported on by pro-military supporters and the media, who asserted that this is “an eyewitness from the Brotherhood who confirmed the militancy of the sit-in”. Others used the statements to justify the killings.
However, a source in the Muslim Brotherhood, who preferred to remain anonymous, said that the statements are “absurd” and “contradict the truth”. “If the revolutionaries were armed, the number of casualties wouldn’t have been so high,” said the source.
Another member of the ultraconservative Salafist Front said that El-Mogheer was not a leading figure in the sit-in, adding: “he barely entered the sit-in’s headquarters where all the decision makers were based.”
Hours before El-Mogeer’s controversial testimony, the Muslim Brotherhood released a general statement saying: “the anniversary of the massacre is not a Karbalai event where we weep every year, but we commemorate every day, by working hard to foil the coup.”
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April 20, 2017

Al-Azhar rejects accusations of promoting sectarianism





Al-Azhar rejects accusations of promoting sectarianism

A new social media campaign was launched to support Al-Azhar and stand in solidarity with its leaders
Egypt-based major Islamic Sunni institution Al-Azhar has strongly denounced on Sunday endeavours by the Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders to publish a cartoon that allegedly offends Islam.(DNE Photo)
Al-Azhar’s Committee of Senior Scholars rejected on Tuesday the criticism accusing it of supporting or promoting extremism through its scholarly curriculums.
In an issued statement, the committee stressed that Islam forbids attacking human beings—regardless of their religion—or targeting places of worship.
Al-Azhar’s Committee of Senior Scholars is the highest Islamic board, presided over by the institution’s Grand Imam and composed of prominent Islamic scholars.
The committee held a meeting in the presence of Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayeb to discuss the criticisms and what they called a “campaign” by some media outlets and politicians against Al-Azhar’s teachings, in which the institution was accused of “nurturing sectarianism and terrorism.”
“Millions have graduated from Al-Azhar all over the world, and they were mandated to teach righteous Islamic teachings that spread peace and stability between Muslims and other people,” the committee’s statement read.
The committee stands side by side with the Coptic Church against the latest attacks, according to the statement.
A new social media campaign was launched in support of Al-Azhar on Facebook by dozens of young Egyptians, who said that they feel the biggest Islamic institution represents them and defends their identity.
A source in the campaign told Daily News Egypt that the campaign, named “Stand with Azhar!”, aims to highlight that “the raid on Al-Azhar targets the nation’s identity and it [the raid] accuses Al-Azhar of all social and political problems. However, the whole country needs to review its policies and education system.”
Al-Azhar faced a storm of criticism following the attack on two churches during Palm Sunday celebrations early this month, which claimed the lives of 45 people and injured dozens.
Criticism against Al-Azhar has increased by public figures and media outlets after President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s speech, which asserted the need to renew religious rhetoric and form a new body to fight terrorism.
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April 20, 2017

The president in the White House





The president in the White House

The phone call between the two presidents, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Donald Trump, and most importantly, the awaited visit by Al-Sisi to Washington both have several reasons that can be categorised into two segments. First, the regional perspective. This is a phase in which lobbyists use all their methods of influence to serve countries and …

Moataz Bellah Abdel-Fattah
The phone call between the two presidents, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Donald Trump, and most importantly, the awaited visit by Al-Sisi to Washington both have several reasons that can be categorised into two segments.
First, the regional perspective. This is a phase in which lobbyists use all their methods of influence to serve countries and groups which the former work for, in order to put specific causes in the agenda of the American president. This is what was done by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he asked to visit the White House after the president’s inauguration.
Arab countries must have their own word especially that they have become an arena for regional non-Arab conflicts. From the point of view of the United States, Egypt is considered the main partner in the region, and the American president must hear directly from the leaders of the region their views about solving the region’s issues.
Egypt and its current leadership have proven that they are more realistic in terms of its solutions compared to many surrounding countries; hence, it is necessary not to leave the arena to Israel or two countries that prefer their national interests over the region’s general stability.
Moreover, Egypt needs international support to maintain its water security and receive proper support in its war on terrorism, especially seeing that the American president seems to be understanding of the dilemma of religion trade in the region.
The Arab-Israeli conflict will enter a dangerous phase if the American president fulfilled his promise to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The possibility of, specifically this president compared to any other American president, actually making this happen is very high. Because this president does not see himself as a partisan one, he rather disavows republican leadership and declares overtly that he will do what he thinks is in the country’s best interest, despite those who claim that the they are experts who know what should be done for America’s best interest.
There is a possibility that this man would make the decision to move the embassy the way he strongly condemned the US for refraining from voting in the UN security council vote condemning Israeli settlement expansion.
It is better for everyone if that man does not move the embassy, and we must make the dangers of this decision clear to him given the impact it will have on Palestine, the Arab world, and internationally.
The only gain for us Arabs from such a decision would be for Trump to declare that he will move the embassy to West Jerusalem, while admitting that East Jerusalem is an occupied land. This way, we will have taken a small step on the path of American recognition, then an international one, of the fact that it is not Israel’s right to join East Jerusalem to Israel in accordance with many international decisions in this regard.
The second segment is from a local perspective. Egypt is a country that is economically ambitious and requires from the US financial and material support, whether through modern technology, allocating more grants, injecting more investments, or even removing the travel warning for Americans visiting Egypt.
Egypt has one of the strongest armies in the region with armament deals that are mostly without American manufacturing, which means that the US has lost its military partnership with Egypt after the US stopped providing aid to Egypt prior to Trump’s victory and the resumption of aid.
There is a large responsibility on Al-Sisi to provide an integrated Egyptian vision for the problems of the region to the new resident of the White House.
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April 20, 2017

Arab league, Dar Al-Ifta call for international reaction to Israeli violations against Palestinian prisoners






Arab league, Dar Al-Ifta call for international reaction to Israeli violations against Palestinian prisoners

Over 100 deaths by abuse in Egyptian prisons in 2014: Report(AFP Photo)
The Dar Al-Ifta and the Arab League condemned on Monday the alleged violations committed by the Israeli authorities against Palestinian prisoners, calling upon human rights organisations and the international community to intervene.
A statement by the Dar Al-Ifta described the violations in Israeli administrative detention against Palestinians as a “war crime”. The religious institution stated that penalties must be imposed on Israel for its violations, such as banning prisoners from the simplest facilities according to the 4th Geneva conventions signed in 1949.
On the other hand, the Arab League called upon the United Nations and the UN Security Council to pressure Israel and save the Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas asserted the continuation of support to the detained Palestinians in Israeli prisoners, while calling upon the international committee to intervene and rescue the prisoners.
Similarly, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki said, in an official statement, that the ministry called all of its diplomats to exert all their efforts to advocate Palestinian detainees’ rights all over the world and to call for international human rights organisations’ intervention.
On Monday, around 1,300 Palestinian prisoners went on a hunger strike to have their demand approved, according to Palestinian officials.
Taha El-Khateeb, a Palestinian political analyst, told Daily News Egypt that on top of the list of prisoners’ demands were the availability of a telephone in order to call relatives, restoring previous systems of visits to allow relatives to visit twice a month, increasing the period of the visit from 45 minutes to an hour and a half, and terminating previous decisions which obligates detainees to pay for their medical expenses.
El-Khateeb said that, previously, the Israeli Prison Service was responsible for covering treatment expenses, but this was stopped last year, causing outrage among the prisoners.
“Before we talk about Arab solidarity, we need a Palestinian-Palestinian cooperation that includes all political factions to advocate detainees’ rights in the occupation prisons in the first place. Israel refused to pay medical expenses to the Palestinian detainees. How can any detainee afford that?”
The political analyst highlighted the story of Karim Younes, one of the 1,300 Palestinians prisoners who joined the hunger strike, saying that he was detained by the Israeli occupation forces in 1985. According El-Khateeb’s estimations, there are 6,000 prisoners in Israeli detention centres.
“Younes should be treated as a ‘prisoner of war’. He was an Arab citizen of Israel, and he got detained without accusations,” El-Khateeb added.
He explained, “Palestine needs an urgent meeting for Arab foreign ministers to issue an international decision to the Security Council in order to stop the prisoners’ suffering, not only release condemning statements.”
The primary reaction by the Israeli prison administration so far, according to several local Palestinian outlets, was the threat of moving the prisoners to El-Nakb Prison.
The prison is located in El-Nakb desert near the Egyptian borders and has a number of Palestinian prisoners who got detained after their participation in the second Intifada.
Tarek Al-Moamer, a Palestinian political researcher said that “occupation authorities threatened prisoners to move them to El-Nakb Prison to break their collaboration and divide them.”
He added that Israeli officials know well that hunger strikes can be an effective tool to achieve demands, citing previous acts of striking throughout the years.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

April 19, 2017

Egypt, Ethiopia discussions confirm strength of bilateral relations





Egypt, Ethiopia discussions confirm strength of bilateral relations

sisi with Workneh Gebeyehu, the Ethiopian foreign affairs minister
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi asserted Egypt’s interest in strengthening and developing its relations with Ethiopia in various fields during his meeting with Workneh Gebeyehu, the Ethiopian foreign affairs minister, on Wednesday.
During the meeting, both officials discussed bilateral relations and ways to advance them, as well as highlighting the strength of their relations.
The Ethiopian minister welcomed the progress of their bilateral relations over the past three years. He further delivered to Al-Sisi a letter from Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn, confirming the bilateral relations of both countries.
The meeting took place in the attendance of Egypt’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Sameh Shoukry.
The Ethiopian minister welcomed the progress made over the past three years on the course of bilateral relations between the two countries.
He also affirmed his country’s commitment to achieve the common interests of the two countries, pointing to the importance of regular communication and consultation between the two countries in order to enhance mutual cooperation and contribute to building trust on the official and popular levels.
Regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam issue, Al-Sisi stressed on the importance of positive interaction with the company responsible for implementing studies to conclude it as soon as possible.
Al-Sisi continued his statements in this regard, stressing on the necessity of continuing cooperation between the two countries in order to optimise the utilisation of all shared water resources in the Nile Basin, taking into account the development of all countries, without preventing any of their rights.
There has already been tension between Egypt and Ethiopia in recent years regarding the dam’s construction, due to the impact on Egypt’s share of water.
Al-Sisi praised the multiple meetings held with the Ethiopian prime minister, the latest having been on the sidelines of the recent AU summit in Addis Ababa.
The meeting also discussed a number of African issues of common concern, stressing the importance of enhancing coordination and consultation between the two countries in order to advance efforts to establish peace and security on the African continent, both within the framework of the African Union and within the framework of the current membership of the two countries in the United Nations Security Council.
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