Posted on Fri, June 3, 2011 at 01:27 am CEST
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It’s Official: I Announce My Candidacy to be Middle East Czar for the U.S. Government

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year… Continue reading

Topics: Satire • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Thu, June 2, 2011 at 15:16 pm CEST
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The People Have Voted and Barack Obama Is Not The Next “Muslim Idol”

How can anybody continue to spout nonsense about how President Barack Obama’s policies and endless attempts to… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Islamic Countries • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Tue, May 31, 2011 at 00:10 am CEST
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Iran Intensifies Fight against its Bahai Minority

At least 14 citizens belonging to the Bahai faith who took part in a higher education program for Bahai youth were arrested… Continue reading

Topics: Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Shi'ism • Shia Islam 
Posted on Sun, May 8, 2011 at 01:28 am CEST
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WikiLeaks: The Muslim Brothers in Syria: Could They Win an Election here?

In the wake of former VP Khaddam’s flirtation with the Muslim Brotherhood’s exiled leadership in January, and Hamas’s recent electoral victory… Continue reading

Topics: Muslim Brotherhood • Syria • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Sun, May 1, 2011 at 20:47 pm CEST
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Egypt: Pillar of Fire and Political Plagues Are Bad Signs

Gas flames shooting 65 feet high signal the birth of a new Middle East. That pillar of fire, unlike the Biblical one, indicates that Egyptians… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Democracy • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Gaza and Westbank • Muslim Brotherhood • Syria 
Posted on Mon, April 25, 2011 at 19:17 pm CEST
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Syria: Who Is the Opposition and When Is The Moment of Truth?

There’s a bit of a mystery regarding Syria. First, who is the opposition? Second, what will happen… Continue reading

Topics: Alawis • Christianity • Sunni Islam • Syria • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Sun, April 10, 2011 at 20:57 pm CEST
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Grand Mufti Claims Egypt’s Islam Is Moderate, But For How Long?

Well, without getting into things like official clerics endorsing suicide bombings, here’s what they don’t tell you… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Wed, March 30, 2011 at 18:59 pm CEST
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Who Really Made Egypt’s Revolution? The Story The Media Missed

The world’s eyes have been focused on Egypt’s dramatic revolution. Yet incredibly, the media, government intelligence agencies, and… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Sun, March 20, 2011 at 13:07 pm CET
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ElBaradei Stoned and Shoed: The Truth in Egypt Starts Coming Out

I want to call your attention to the event, discussed in this article, in which hundreds of Brotherhood supporters attacked presidential candidate Muhammad ElBaradei… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Zionism • Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Sun, March 13, 2011 at 02:30 am CET
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U.S. Middle East Policy and Those Little Ideas That Get Millions of People Killed

I listened again to President Barack Obama’s main speech on Egypt back during the revolution and two phrases caught my ear… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Egyptian Revolution • Islamism • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, March 13, 2011 at 01:57 am CET
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Turkey Remains an “Angry Nation” but could still serve as a Democratic Inspiration

Turkey remains an “Angry nation”, tormented by the many ghosts of its history, some of which still lurk in the shadows. Its political system… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Europe • Human Rights • Islamism • Kurdish People • Turkey 
Posted on Thu, March 10, 2011 at 23:33 pm CET
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Shahbaz Bhatti and the Death of Reason

My time in Pakistan was glorious. I taught bright, beautiful and hopeful students who saw the world not as a series of… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Global Islam • Human Rights • Islamic Fundamentalism • Pakistan 
Posted on Thu, March 10, 2011 at 20:09 pm CET
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New Study on Hate Crimes against Muslims Contradicts Claims of Islamophobia in America

The Center for Security Policy released a groundbreaking longitudinal study, Religious Bias Crimes against Muslim, Jewish and Christian Victims… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Semitism • Christianity • Global Islam • Islamophobia • Jew-Hatred • United States of America 
Posted on Wed, March 9, 2011 at 20:40 pm CET
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Egypt and the Middle East: Romanticism Meets Reality

The projected million-women march turned out just 400 and they were harassed and in some cases attacked. Meanwhile, thousands of Muslims and Christians… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Global Islam • Jasmine Revolution • Libya War • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, February 25, 2011 at 22:17 pm CET
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Changes in the Middle East? Much More Never Changes at All

In 1938 the Saudi diplomat Hafiz Wahbah secretly met with Zionist leader (and future Israeli prime minister) David Ben-Gurion… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Islamic Countries • Israel • Palestine Papers • Saudi Arabia • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, February 11, 2011 at 16:51 pm CET
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How Do We Know What Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Wants? Because It Tells Us!

In the scores of articles that have appeared about the Muslim Brotherhood, I have not seen scarcely a single one in a newspaper that suggests the group might cause some alarm… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Sun, February 6, 2011 at 21:56 pm CET
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Do Egyptians Want a Relatively Secular, Stable Democracy?

Here is the real issue: What do the masses want? Remember, it is the people of Egypt — especially in an election — that will determine the outcome, not just… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Egyptian Revolution • Eurabia • Global Islam • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • The Media 
Posted on Wed, February 2, 2011 at 22:38 pm CET
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What’s Really Wrong with Western Understanding of the Middle East?

Rarely has a mass media article shaken me up as this one does. It is a rare, intense, view of what the Middle East is really like nowadays, though it is about Pakistan, on the eastern end of the region… Continue reading

Topics: Egyptian Revolution • Global Jihad • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Pakistan • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, January 14, 2011 at 01:18 am CET
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Christians and Jews Under Attack

The main threat to the Jewish people today is no longer physical, as it was in the past. Rather, it is directed at the legitimacy and survival of the State of Israel itself, the Jewish State… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Christianity • Global Islam • Israel • The Middle East 
Posted on Thu, December 23, 2010 at 01:59 am CET
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Poll Reveals Frightening Popularity of Revolutionary Islamism

There’s a lot of interesting material in the Pew Foundation’s latest poll of the Middle East, a survey that focuses on attitudes toward Islamism and revolutionary Islamist groups. The analysis that accompanies the poll… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Global Islam • Global Jihad • Hamas • Hezbollah • Islamic Countries • Islamism • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam 
Posted on Fri, July 23, 2010 at 16:53 pm CEST
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The Religion of Peace and the Crusades

Now let us deal with the serious deficiencies in the Muslim understanding of the Crusades. Though it is now in vogue among Muslims to portray the Crusades as savage offensives… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Global Islam • Global Jihad • The Crusades 
Posted on Tue, June 29, 2010 at 18:11 pm CEST
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Israeli Arabs Involved in Violent Terrorist Attacks

Seven Israeli Arabs allegedly affiliated with al-Qaida and global jihad terrorist elements were indicted on Monday for allegedly murdering a Jewish taxi driver last year and carrying out a string of attacks against… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Semitism • Anti-Zionism • Global Jihad • Israel • Jew-Hatred • Salafism 
Posted on Wed, May 12, 2010 at 17:00 pm CEST
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One Nation’s Capital Forever

Jerusalem and the Jewish people are so intertwined that telling the history of one is telling the history of the other. For more than 3,000 years, Jerusalem has played a central role in the history of the Jews, culturally, politically, and spiritually… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • History • Israel • Jerusalem • Palestinian Authority • The Middle East • UN Resolution 242 • United Nations • War of Independence 
Posted on Sat, May 8, 2010 at 13:15 pm CEST
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“Slavery Is A Part Of Islam”

Sheik Saleh Al-Fawzan is a leading Saudi Government cleric and author of the country’s religious curriculum and he believes Islam advocates slavery. Remember that Saudi Arabia… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • Islamism • Islamofascism • Saudi Arabia • Slavery in Islam • Wahhabism 
Posted on Wed, May 5, 2010 at 00:37 am CEST
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The Pseudo-Golden Rule or Do Unto Which Others?

Muslims are very sensitive about the lack of a Golden Rule in Islam. So, when you bring this up they always rush to assert that Muslims love everybody, in particular, Christians and Jews. I argued that Islam had no Golden Rule… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Islamism