User talk:Beroul

Beroul, very nice work on the Muslim Brotherhood articles. --AI 10:48, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Many thanks! --Beroul 11:53, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

MAB and the Muslim Botherhood

You seem to have done a lot of work on the Muslim Brotherhood article. There is a dispute on the Muslim Association of Britain page about whether it is a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood. If you have any information on this issule please could you contribute to the page. --JK the unwise 09:10, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know anything about that issue. The best suggestion I can make is to look for reputable academic sources, and be very sceptical of web sources. --Beroul 10:16, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Muslim Brotherhood

AI, I'd like to resolve our disagreement about Muslim Brotherhood; please read my comments on that article's talk page. --Beroul 09:50, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Beroul, I think you have done excellent contribution to the article and it's sub articles and I apologize if I have offended you. I only disputed the article because of what I have read in the media. After re-evaluation, I have decided to disregard the media and I view their opinions as most likely just propaganda and disinformation. In the future, my involvement on the subject will be strictly from a neutral point of view and to help resolve any disputes. Aloha --AI 18:47, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Many thanks for your encouragement. No apology is needed; on the contrary, I've greatly appreciated your politeness throughout this discussion. I would welcome your help in resolving any future disputes. I've made a couple of other comments on Talk:Muslim_Brotherhood. --Beroul 11:53, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi Beroul. I posted this on one of the MB talk pages, but thought i would post it to you personally since you obviously have quite the interest. The first one (the pdf) is very good. The second one is not so 'scholarly', but it sheds light on the shift the MB has chosen for its operation.

Just thought i would suggest people take a look at Mona El Ghobashy's (she's a professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her knowledge of Egyptian - and regional - politics is very impressive) article on the MB's evolution over the years in the International Journal of Middle East Studies. You can get a scanned pdf copy off felow Arabist's blog at The Metamorphosis of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. There's also an article in the Middle East Report on the MB's performance in parliament since they snatched a shocking 88 seats of parliament in November 2005, against all the odds of rigging, voter intimidation, vote-buying and violence set up by the Mubarak regime. Check it out at The Brotherhood Goes to Parliament. I think that's all i have for now.

Bassemkhalifa 12:13, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for your contributions

best J —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.157.144.220 (talk) 15:39, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Problems with Wikipedia

Beroul, I do not think it is fair at all that the article on the Muslim Brotherhood can exclude any criticism, yet any articles related to my religion (Scientology) is loaded with non-academic criticism, opinions and disinformation. Please help to rewrite those articles or at least tell the POV contributors there to follow the same standard as you have set in the Muslim Brotherhood articles. Peace. --AI 20:02, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to have to reduce my Wikipedia work soon when the academic year starts, but I've just made a contribution to Talk:Scientology to suggest this approach. --Beroul 11:53, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

I understand, school sessions are going to commence shortly which will also force me to spend less time contributing to Wikipedia and spend more time studying. I appreciate your suggestion at Talk:Scientology and hope the others will consider it. --AI 18:40, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Muslim Brotherhood articles - formatting

Excellent work on the Muslim Brotherhood series of articles. I have a question though. Why are there line breaks about every fifty characters in the source text? This makes editing very difficult for me, as I have to arrow down line by line to edit pages, using a screen reader, as can be seen on my user page. I've just spent time removing the line breaks at History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (1939-1954), but the process is tedious, and I wouldn't like to do it to all the articles. Is there a reason why you have done things this way, or is there a way of removing all the redundant line breaks? Graham 09:36, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Sorry about the line breaks; they're an artefact of a text editor I sometimes use. I don't know of a convenient way to remove them automatically, but I've just gone through the Muslim Brotherhood articles now, and I think I've removed all of the extra line breaks. Hope this helps. --Beroul 13:06, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, it is much easier to edit them now. Graham 10:47, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Citation style

Hi. I just recently switched the citation style in the article Hassan al Banna and the article on the History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria from Harvard referencing to Footnotes. I hadn't realized that there were guidelines that encouraged not changing them from one to the other. Before doing anything else I'll wait for a response, since you're the main contributor to these articles. Thanks, Joshdboz 14:57, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi!
- Metamusing 04:04, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

MB and Islamism

Hi. I'be been toying for a long time with trying to re-write the Islamism page which is just chock-full of hyperbole. It's very opinionated and suffers from the expected cpnflict between the anti-Terrorists and the Islamic defenders. A daunting task, no doubt. I thought it would be close to impossible to write something measured, academic and informative on such a controversy-sparking topic. That is, until i came accross your MB history page. Great work. I hope you, or someone else, could put a similar effort into the Islamism page and rectify all the untruths about it and related topics such as salafism, wahhabism and so forth.

forgot to sign: Bassemkhalifa 10:52, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Help on Islam and Slavery

Your help and expertise would be greatly appreciated on this topic. A reading of orientalism would be a good background to some of the problems with this article. Also these links are useful, but keep getting removed or edited out: [1] [2] [3] [4] Aaliyah Stevens 17:19, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Why did you remove the logo for the MB?

The Logo was cited in the information for the image itself from the ADL. It's also well established that it is the logo. If you ever seen one of their offices, it's prominently displayed on the outside of buildings. Angrynight 23:03, 13 May 2007 (UTC)