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unusual facts about Hassan al-Roueini


Hassan al-Roueini

On 23 March 2011 Major General al-Roueini welcomed US Defence Secretary Robert Gates to Cairo.


Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein

Despite being a strong Islamist, Hussein remained a loyal Bashir supporter following Bashir's rift with Hassan al-Turabi; the leader of the National Islamic Front, and quite possibly the most influential Sudanese Islamist, who had supported Bashir in his 1989 coup attempt.

Hassan al-Banna

Concerned with the increasing assertiveness and popularity of the brotherhood, as well as with rumours that it was plotting a coup, Prime Minister Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha disbanded it in December 1948.

After completing his studies at Dar al-‘Ulum in 1927, al-Banna became a primary school teacher in Ismailia, which was the location of the Egyptian headquarters of the Suez Canal.

He was appalled by the many conspicuous signs of foreign military and economic domination in Isma'iliyya: the British military camps, the public utilities owned by foreign interests, and the luxurious residences of the foreign employees of the Suez Canal Company, next to the squalid dwellings of the Egyptian workers.

Hassan Al-Qazwini

The Islamic Center of America asked him to join them the following year as their guest speaker during the holy month of Ramadhan and the first ten days of Muharram, commemorating the martyrdom of the beloved grandson of Prophet Muhammad, Imam Hussein.

Maher Hathout

The Investigative Project on Terrorism has said that some of the reformists cited by Hathout as advocating a pluralistic society, such as Hassan al-Banna, "are, in reality, extremists".

Philippe Rondot

In 1994, he was active in the capture of terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (aka "Carlos the Jackal") in Sudan, by tracking down Sánchez inside Sudan and making Sheikh Hassan al-Turabi and the Sudanese government admit that they were harboring him.

The Seekers of Truth and Justice

Khalil Ibrahim organized the Seekers of Truth and Justice that originally supported the National Islamic Front (NIF) and famous Islamist, Hassan al-Turabi.


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