Egyptian Islamic Labour Party

The Egyptian Islamic Labour Party (formerly the Socialist Labor Party Arab حزب العمل الاشتراكى Hizb al - ʿ amal al - ištirākī ), is an Islamist political party in Egypt. She was banned from 2000 to 2011 and is currently a member of the Democratic Alliance for Egypt.

Political Ideology

The party was established on September 9, 1978 by Ibrahim Shukri and others as successor to the young Egyptian party, was originally a socialist party. Since 1986, the party has been subjected to a major ideological change, which made ​​her the Islamist party. This change was in the fifth party conference in 1989, which was held under the title "Reform for an Islamic Perspective", demonstrates.

In September 2006, the party attracted international media attention. After the so-called Pope Quote of Regensburg, which is part of a lecture of Benedict XVI. about Islam, she was accused of this ignorance and insulting the Prophet Mohammed and called for protests.

Election results

The party and a few others boycotted the parliamentary elections in Egypt in 1990, because of the additional section of the electoral law of 1972 forbade united party lists and the Socialist Labor Party wanted to join forces with the Muslim Brotherhood to capture more votes in the elections.

Ban

On 20 May 2000, the Egyptian Committee decided on Political Affairs ( the committee responsible for approving the establishment of political parties in Egypt) to freeze the activities of the Working Party and to suspend his newspaper al Shaab. The Committee referred to Article 17 of the Political Parties Act, which enables them to suspend activities of a party - as a means of ending a decision or action by a party that is in contrast to the higher interests of the country.

The committee based its decision on the division within the ranks of the Party: A group led by Ahmad Hamdi, a member of the party executive, and the other by Ahmad Idris. The Committee's decision was related to the official complaint, which was introduced by the party members who expressed concern for the party chairmanship. The two party members also asked for the suspension of the publication of Al- Shaabs and to the freezing of the bank accounts of the party. The Labour leader, Ibrahim Shukri, described these claims as illegal.