Posted on Mon, June 24, 2013 at 21:20 pm CEST
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How to Understand Islamism: Read What its Leaders Actually Say

It’s easy to see why al-Qaradawi is the leading Sunni Islamist thinker in the world today… Continue reading

Topics: Communism • Global Islam • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion 
Posted on Fri, November 23, 2012 at 21:58 pm CET
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Egypt’s Islamist President Assumes Dictatorial Powers

Egypt’s President Morsi assumes sweeping powers, branded new pharaoh… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • Religion • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, November 20, 2011 at 01:05 am CET
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Why Do Western Elites Minimize Radical Threats in the Middle East?

Why cannot Western elites see this kind of lightly camouflaged extremism… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Palestinian Authority • Tunisia 
Posted on Mon, November 7, 2011 at 01:30 am CET
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The Arab Political Left and the Islamist Drive for Power

In the “good old days” of Stalinist Communism, the Left would have called the Islamists, “clerical fascists”… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Tunisia 
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