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Egyptian <http://globalmbreport.org/?p=3369> Muslim Brotherhood Says Facebook Closed Account Of Affiliate Site The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has reported that Facebook has shutdown the groups Ihkwanwiki account and blames the US government for the decision. According to the report <http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=26058> : The US-based social networking site Facebook has shut down the Muslim Brotherhood's account ikhwanwiki with no right. The group, which had approximately 2650 members, was established in an attempt to raise worldwide awareness to the group's cause calling for peaceful reform and give an insight to the true essence of the MB group. None of the group's administrators were given any notice from Facebook that they had violated terms or conditions, and were given no direct reason as to why they had had their accounts disabled. It is clearly a political attack against the MB who enjoys popularity both in Egypt and abroad. The Ikhwanwiki administration believes that all political ideas and discussion should be free of censorship on the internet, but wishes to expose this hypocrisy, which often surrounds debate concerning the MB issue. MB pages are frequently censored or hacked however the group is determined to continue on, despite Facebook's censorship. The group's account never posted anything hateful or threatening stressing it is Facebook that is revealing itself to be hateful and practicing censorship towards groups organizing for progressive and peaceful social change. Apparently the U.S. government and big corporations have great influence over Facebook policies and decisions. According to a report <http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100702/FOREIGN/70701 9902/1140> in the UAE-based National newspaper, Ihkwanwiki <http://www.ikhwanwiki.com/index.php?title=%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D8 %A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9> itself is part of a suite of Brotherhood-affiliated websites which also includes IhkwanBook, IkhwanWeb, and IkhwanGoogle. Each of these sites attempts to replicate its mainstream counterpart such as Wikipedia, Facebook and Google. A previous post <http://globalmbreport.org/?p=3247> discussed the launch of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's version of the social networking site Facebook, to be called IkhwanBook. The Egyptian Brotherhood is known to be quite active <http://globalmbreport.org/?p=1003> on Facebook. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood can be considered to be the "mother" organization of what is referred to in these pages as the Global Muslim Brotherhood which developed <http://globalmbreport.org/?p=5> as Muslim Brothers fleeing Egypt settled in Europe and the United States, as well as other places, throughout the years. The global network has since eclipsed the Egyptian organization as evidenced by global Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi's decision <http://www.cesnur.org/2004/qaradawi.htm> to turn down the leadership of the Egyptian organization when it was offered to him in 2004. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
