Posted on Sat, June 23, 2012 at 13:58 pm CEST
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Egypt: Islamists vs. Copts

The future of Egypt’s indigenous Christians, the Copts, looks bleak… Continue reading

Topics: Copts • Culture • Egypt • Islamism • Jihadism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Salafism • Sharia Law 
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 Wed, June 20, 2012 at 20:28 pm CEST
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Egyptian Election: Islamist Victory or Deceptive Strategy?

Has anyone stopped to ask where the headlines “Muslim Brotherhood Wins Egypt’s Presidential Election!” originate?… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Politics • The Media 
Posted on Tue, June 19, 2012 at 21:17 pm CEST
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Thoughts on Iran, Nuclear Weapons, and Tehran’s Regional Role

Months ago, I wrote that the hysteria about Israel allegedly being about to attack Iran and the argument by some that Israel should do so were nonsense… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Iran • Israel • Security and Defense 
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 Mon, June 18, 2012 at 16:25 pm CEST
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Muhammad Mursi Will Use Street Power for Egyptian Presidency

The goal from the outset of the Tahrir Square revolution early last year was to get the Muslim Brotherhood installed in government through the ballot box… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Egypt • Islamism • Obamaism • Politics • Religion • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Mon, June 18, 2012 at 15:06 pm CEST
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Muslim Brotherhood Claims Victory in Presidential Elections; Signals Egyptian-Islamist/Hamas Jihad Against Israel?

A group of terrorists has attacked Israel from Egyptian territory Monday morning. As for the presidential election, the Brotherhood candidate, Muhammad al-Mursi, seems the likely winner… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Hamas • Islamic Terrorism • Islamism • Jew-Hatred • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • Religion • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy 
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 Fri, June 15, 2012 at 20:57 pm CEST
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The Wild Card in Arab “Democratic” Politics: Extra-Parliamentary Violence

Consider just a small part of what’s gone on in Tunisia, a relatively moderate country where the radical Islamists “only” got 40 percent of the vote… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Religion • Salafism • Tunisia 
Posted on Mon, June 4, 2012 at 16:22 pm CEST
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Egypt’s Presidential Election: Moderate Establishment vs. Totalitarian Revolutionaries

Egypt’s fate, I think, will not be settled by the June 16-17 second round presidential election… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics 
Posted on Sun, May 27, 2012 at 22:43 pm CEST
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Egypt’s Presidential Election is a Defeat For the Islamists

While the Brotherhood claims victory, the election was actually a defeat for the Brotherhood and Islamism… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics 
Posted on Thu, May 24, 2012 at 21:25 pm CEST
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Egypt: If There’s No Danger of Radicalism and Islamism Why Can’t You Provide Evidence?

Consider one fact that demolishes the apparatus of nonsense about moderate Islamists and the credibility of those claiming there is nothing to worry about… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Religion 
Posted on Mon, May 21, 2012 at 21:00 pm CEST
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A Sentence by the State Department Sentences The World to Disaster

If I’ve ever seen a single sentence that spells disaster in the Middle East it’s this one… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Jew-Hatred • Politics • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, May 11, 2012 at 23:05 pm CEST
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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

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion 
Posted on Sun, April 29, 2012 at 19:17 pm CEST
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Experts Agree: Anti-American Repressive Radicals Taking Power in the Middle East Makes the World A Better Place

Michael Hirsh has responded to my critique of his article. Amazingly, yet typical of our era, he didn’t engage with a single—not a single—idea I presented… Continue reading

Topics: Islamism • Liberalism • Political Correctness • Politics • The Middle East • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, April 24, 2012 at 21:00 pm CEST
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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

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Egypt • Islamic Terrorism • Islamism • Israel • Jihadism • Palestinian Terrorism • Religion • Security and Defense 
Posted on Mon, April 23, 2012 at 20:17 pm CEST
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Egypt’s Elections: Titanic of Western Interests, Meet Iceberg of Islamist Revolutionary Zeal

Egypt will hold its presidential election May 23-24 with a possible run-off on June 16-17. It is impossible at this point to predict what’s going to happen but I can make a good guess… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Sun, April 15, 2012 at 20:32 pm CEST
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What’s The Proper U.S. Middle East Policy? It’s Simple Though Not Easy

Since there is so much bad policy on the Middle East to critique and since there’s no hope of the Obama Administration listening to alternative strategies… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Islamism • Politics • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, April 15, 2012 at 15:07 pm CEST
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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

Topics: Global Islam • Islamic Fundamentalism • Religion • Sharia Law 
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 Mon, April 9, 2012 at 20:48 pm CEST
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The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

Following the uprisings in the Arab world and since the overthrow of the Mubarak regime, the status of the Muslim Brotherhood has risen significantly both in Egypt and with the international community… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Global Islam • Islamism • Jihadism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion 
Posted on Sat, April 7, 2012 at 18:46 pm CEST
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After the Arab Spring, Salafists are Moving Closer to Changing the Face of the Maghreb

Now the initial euphoria about the Arab revolts has subsided, it’s clear the ‘Arab Spring’ will not bring a liberal, secular, Western (or Islamic) model of democracy to the Arab world… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Arab World • Crethi Plethi • Democracy • Islamism • Maghreb • Mauritania • Religion • Salafism 
Posted on Wed, April 4, 2012 at 20:29 pm CEST
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U.S. Government and Media Cheer Muslim Brotherhood Regime in Egypt

A year ago we were told that Egypt was going to become a moderate democratic state ruled by hip Facebook kids. Now Egypt is going to become a moderate Islamist republic ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Salafism 
Posted on Sat, March 17, 2012 at 20:40 pm CET
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Egypt is a Volcano, The West Snoozes, But Israel Won’t Play the Role of Pompeii

Those who are, or will soon be, governing Egypt view themselves as being at war with Israel for all practical purposes… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Zionism • Egypt • Israel • Jew-Hatred • Politics • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy