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How One Arab Swallow Does Not Make a Spring

What was the main factor leading to failure or success of the Arab revolts… Read more

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab World • Crethi Plethi • Culture • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Iranian Protests • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Libya War • Muslim Brotherhood • Obamaism • Politics • Syrian Revolution • Yemen 
Posted on Thu, July 4, 2013 at 19:39 pm CEST
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Al-Qaeda’s Jihad on Anti-Morsi Egyptians

Will al-Qaeda wage a jihad to save Morsi and his Islamist agenda for Egypt… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Islamic Terrorism • Jihadism • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics 
Posted on Wed, July 3, 2013 at 00:22 am CEST
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Egyptian Armed Forces First Statement: “Call for Meeting the Demands of the People”

Tahrir Square erupts in joy after Egypt armed forces first statement… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics 
Posted on Tue, July 2, 2013 at 22:40 pm CEST
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Second Statement: Army Says It Won’t Take Power…Yet

The Egyptian army says it will not take power after all… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Muslim Brotherhood • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, July 2, 2013 at 22:21 pm CEST
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What Now in Egypt? Informed Speculations

These are speculations I’m thinking through but want to share them with you… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Muslim Brotherhood • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, July 2, 2013 at 21:57 pm CEST
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In Egypt, Army Threatens Coup while U.S. Policy has backed the Regime

Is the one-year-old experiment in Egyptian democracy going to end?… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Muslim Brotherhood • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, June 30, 2013 at 20:59 pm CEST
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Fools Rush In Where Statesmen Fear to Tread

What the heck is the U.S. line on the Middle East… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Obamaism • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Thu, February 14, 2013 at 15:38 pm CET
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Obama Says: I’m Backing Democracy and Human Rights; Egyptian Human Rights’ Activist: Not True!

We are continually told that Obama’s policy has been supportive of democracy and human rights, but this is not true at all… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Obamaism • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Thu, February 14, 2013 at 14:47 pm CET
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Open letter to Obama: You’re not Backing Democracy and Human Rights

Open letter to President Obama by Bahieddin Hassan… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Obamaism • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, February 2, 2013 at 17:07 pm CET
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On Mistaking Mohamed Mursi For His Mask

2012 will likely be remembered as the year that Islamists made the greatest gains in their quest for a new caliphate in the region… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Diplomacy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Jew-Hatred • Muslim Brotherhood • Obamaism • Religion • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, January 27, 2013 at 18:44 pm CET
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Western Leftists Back Islamists; Arab Counterparts Are Their Victims

The Western left were for decades apologists for repression carried out by the USSR, Soviet bloc, and other communist dictatorships, and now they are apologists for Islamist repression carried out against Arab leftists… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Multiculturalism • Political Correctness 
Posted on Mon, November 26, 2012 at 16:21 pm CET
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The Islamist Regime’s Game Plan for Egypt

What’s been happening in Egypt this week is as important as the revolution that overthrew the old regime almost two years ago… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • Religion 
Posted on Sun, August 12, 2012 at 11:05 am CEST
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Egypt: There Goes the Army; There Goes the Free Media; There Goes Egypt

So can you write “Arab Spring,” free elections, democracy in Egypt, and such things 100 times?… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • The Media 
Posted on Fri, June 22, 2012 at 17:36 pm CEST
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s Useful Idiots

You have to hand it to the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Israel • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics 
Posted on Mon, June 18, 2012 at 20:21 pm CEST
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Parallel Betrayals: Iranian Revolution and Arab Spring

Many are the lessons to be learned between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the current revolutions of the Arab world… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Egyptian Revolution • History • Iran • Muslim Brotherhood • Sharia Law 
Posted on Sun, June 17, 2012 at 19:10 pm CEST
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Egypt: Things to Think About as We Await the Presidential Election Outcome

While one can certainly sympathize with the idea of letting an elected parliament being allowed to take office… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, June 15, 2012 at 21:27 pm CEST
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Court Dissolves Egyptian Parliament; Army Takes Over; Civil War?

The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court has invalidated the parliamentary election there… Continue reading

Topics: Algeria • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • History • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Salafism 
Posted on Wed, April 11, 2012 at 22:26 pm CEST
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Muslim Brotherhood’s “Nahda Project”

After his release from prison in March 2011, the Deputy Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Khairat Al-Shater was reportedly tasked by the Brotherhood’s Guidance Council to perform a comprehensive review… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Wed, January 25, 2012 at 16:51 pm CET
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America and the Arab Spring

A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s feet… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Bahrain • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Iraq • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Israel • Jordan • Libya War • Muslim Brotherhood • Salafism • Syria • U.S. Middle East Policy • Yemen 
Posted on Mon, January 9, 2012 at 23:20 pm CET
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Egyptian Coptic billionaire faces trial for contempt of Islam

A member of the ultra-conservative al-Gamaa al-Islamiya group filed a legal complaint against… Continue reading

Topics: Copts • Crethi Plethi • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Islamism • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Wed, January 4, 2012 at 21:47 pm CET
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Sunni versus Shia: The Middle East’s New Strategic Conflict

Conflicts between Sunni and Shia Muslims are not at all new, but… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Egyptian Revolution • Iran • Iraq • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Lebanon • Libya War • Politics • Religion • Security and Defense • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Syrian Revolution • The Middle East 
Posted on Wed, December 14, 2011 at 20:03 pm CET
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Iranian speculations on Egypt’s Islamists: Shi’ite-style revolutionaries or Turkish-style democrats?

There have been various speculations in Iranian press on the significance of the Islamists’ victory and the nature of the Islamist faction in Egypt… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Egyptian Revolution • Iran • Islamism • Maghreb • Salafism • Saudi Arabia • Shi'ism • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam 
Posted on Sat, December 3, 2011 at 20:46 pm CET
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French minister of Arab origin: “There is no such thing as moderate Islam”

A French junior minister said in an interview published Saturday there was no such thing as moderate Islam… Continue reading

Topics: Algeria • Arab Spring • Crethi Plethi • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • France • Human Rights • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Multiculturalism • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Wed, November 23, 2011 at 19:48 pm CET
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Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Versus Army: Disastrous Elections or Bloody Civil War?

Only days before parliamentary elections, Egypt is in a huge crisis whose outcome will determine the future of almost… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Muslim Brotherhood • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, November 22, 2011 at 23:36 pm CET
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Cairo Riots: Military Junta and Muslim Brothers Alliance?

The riots in Cairo and other Egyptian cities do not count as the country’s second revolution this year… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood