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Turkey’s Middle East Policy of Seeking To Gobble, Gobble Up the Middle East Makes Enemies of Everyone

Countries may vary, but civilization is one, and for a nation to progress, it must take part in this one civilization… Continue reading

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Not a “Slip of the Tongue”: Only “One Religion” Is Recognized as the Basis of the Turkish State

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently expressed allegiance to “one nation, one flag, one religion, one state”… Continue reading

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What Do Egyptians Want? A Democratically Elected Islamist Dictatorship

It’s once again time for that exciting game of Spin the Polls by the Pew Foundation. Here are the rules… Continue reading

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Is Islam Innately Evil? Is Islam Innately Good? Why This Debate is A Waste of Time

We all know that the number of Muslims who explicitly put forward a systematically coherent moderate theology of Islam is very small… Continue reading

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Regime Change in Iran?

There is every reason to believe that the Islamic Republic’s days are numbered… Continue reading

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Libya: Assessing Berber Prospects

One reason the term “Arab Spring” is a misnomer is because of the participation of non-Arabs, including Kurds in Iraq and Syria as well as Berbers in Morocco and Libya… Continue reading

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The Jihadist Roots of the Norway Massacre

Anders Breivik, who went on a shooting spree in Norway last year, killing some 70 people, recently confessed his inspiration: al-Qaeda, the jihadists par excellence of the modern world… Continue reading

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Sinai Bedouin, Palestinian and al Qaeda gangs are plotting Terrorist Attacks to blow up the Egyptian-Israel Peace Accords

Their plans entail sending terrorists across the Egyptian Sinai border for attacks on Israelis to generate Israeli military incursions into Egyptian territory in hot pursuit of the perpetrators… Continue reading

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How the Media Whitewashes Muslim Persecution of Christians

When it comes to Muslim persecution of Christians, the mainstream media (MSM) has a long paper trail of obfuscating. Of course, the media’s obfuscation serves a purpose… Continue reading

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Who Gets to be the Caliph?

Who gets to be the caliph? After all, if you want to have a caliphate , as revolutionary Islamists do with much popular support among Muslims… Continue reading

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The Piety Premium of Islamic Bonds

Traditionally, the Islamic states have had to reach out to Western capital markets to obtain funding for major projects. Islam’s prohibition on the collection of interest made it difficult to… Continue reading

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Can Afghanistan Be Rescued?

U.S. president Barack Obama entered office with a bold plan to combat Afghanistan’s escalating insurgency… Continue reading

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Islamic ‘Adult Breastfeeding’ Fatwas Return

Female workers should “breastfeed” their male co-workers in order to work in each other’s company… Continue reading

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Remolding Compulsory Education, the AKP Erases a Secularist Legacy – and Seeks to Check the Gülen Brotherhood

The passage of the bill that remolds compulsory education in Turkey erases the legacy of the secularist military intervention fifteen years ago… Continue reading

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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

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The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe

Over the next several decades it gradually established itself in other European countries and became responsible for the spread of radical Islam in the West… Continue reading

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The Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia

The Muslim Brotherhood branch in Tunisia is relatively new. It was established in the 1970s by… Continue reading

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The Muslim Brotherhood in Morocco

The Movement for Unity and Reform (MUR), affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Morocco, was founded in 1996… Continue reading

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The Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon

In Lebanon the Muslim Brotherhood works through Al-Jama’ah al-Islamiyya, an organization established in 1964… Continue reading

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The Muslim Brotherhood in the United Arab Emirates

Qatar became a Muslim Brotherhood stronghold in 1954, when a group of its activists found refuge there… Continue reading

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The Muslim Brotherhood in Saudi Arabia

The first Muslim Brotherhood activists came to Saudi Arabia in the first half of the 1950s… Continue reading

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The Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan

The Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan has a strong social, organizational and political foundation… Continue reading

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The Muslim Brotherhood in Algeria

The Muslim Brotherhood apparently began its operations in Algeria in the 1940s… Continue reading

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The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan

The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, whose members are both trans-Jordanian and Palestinian in origin, is the main opposition in the country… Continue reading

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The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

The Muslim Brotherhood was established in Syria in 1945 by disciples of Hassan al-Banna. At first it focused on educational and societal activities… Continue reading