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Egypt confiscates assets of 16 Muslim Brotherhood members: Committee
[AlAhram] An Egyptian governmental committee tasked with appraising and seizing the funds of members of the banned Moslem Brüderbund group announced on Thursday that it confiscated the assets of 16 Brotherhood members, al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.Among those whose assets were confiscated are the children of Brotherhood spiritual leader Sheikh Youssef El-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Lifeon Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization.Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... , who currently resides in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... In July, El-Qaradawi’s daughter and her husband Hossam Khalaf, a leading member of the Islamist Wasat Party, were tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! on charges of planning terrorist attacks on security forces. Cairo has been demanding that Qatar hand over the 90-year-old El-Qaradawi, who is wanted in connection with various criminal cases related to terrorism and inciting against the government. The committee also announced the confiscation of the Cairo Portal company for publishing and distribution, which is owned by Abdel-Wahad Ashour and Sherif Ashour, who the committee says are members of the Brotherhood. Cairo Portal was blocked in Egypt in July but was later restored after being put under new administration. The committee also announced that it confiscated 37 branches of the popular Alef bookstore in several governorates including Cairo, Giza, Assiut, Ismailia, and Menoufiya. Alef bookstore's parent company is owned by businessman and economist Omar El-Shenety, whose assets are currently frozen over suspicions that he is a member of the Brotherhood. The cultural adviser of Alef Emad Adly told al-Ahram Arabic website that the bookstores are still operational and that head of the Egyptian Publishers Union Adel El-Masry issued a statement saying that the chain has no legal or financial problems. Adly added that confiscation order is to ensure that the bookstore's shareholders are not members of the Brotherhood. The committee has delegated the state-owned Akhbar al-Youm investment company to manage Alef bookstore. Akhbar al-Youm will also manage Business News company, which owns and manages Daily News Egypt, the Business Media group for advertising and the Capital Markets institute. Business News company, which also owns El-Borsa News, was confiscated in December after one of its shareholders, Mostafa Sakr, was officially accused of being a member of the Brotherhood. The committee also said that it is putting under new administration 11 formerly Brotherhood-owned schools that have been seized in recent years. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-18 |
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