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 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 Tue, December 18, 2012 at 23:55 pm CET
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Egypt “Democratically” Adopts an Anti-Western Dictatorship

What are the next steps for Mursi?… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion 
Posted on Fri, December 14, 2012 at 21:39 pm CET
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Analyzing Egypt

Whatever the outcome from the upcoming referendum to begin on Saturday in Egypt for the draft constitution, the superior position of the Islamist factions is unlikely to be overthrown in the near future… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Economy • Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Tue, December 11, 2012 at 21:05 pm CET
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Mishandling Mursi

Only a week after being praised by the Obama Administration for his supposed helpfulness in ending the fighting in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, Egyptian President Mursi apparently decided to cash in his praise “chips” early… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Obamaism • Political Correctness • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, December 11, 2012 at 18:35 pm CET
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A Turning Point in Egypt: Not on Direction But on the Speed of Islamist Transformation

A critical moment has arrived for Egypt. But what does it mean?… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion 
Posted on Mon, December 3, 2012 at 23:49 pm CET
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Egypt’s New Constitution: Laying the Basis for an Islamist, Sharia State

Egypt’s population will be given two weeks to consider the Constitution, which has 236 articles, that will govern their lives for decades to come… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Human Rights • International Law • Islamism • Politics • Sharia Law • Sunni Islam 
Posted on Fri, November 30, 2012 at 19:22 pm CET
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Revolutionary Islamism Overshadows the “New Egypt”

What are the early warning signs of an Islamist totalitarian state… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Egypt • Human Rights • Islamism • Jihadism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Sat, July 21, 2012 at 22:13 pm CEST
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Muslim Brotherhood ‘Democracy’

Prior to Egypt’s presidential elections, Islamists made clear that the electoral process was an obligatory form of “holy war”… Continue reading

Topics: Copts • Democracy • Egypt • Jihadism • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Fri, July 13, 2012 at 21:06 pm CEST
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Obama’s spectacular failure

Obama came into office with a theory on which he based his Middle East policy. His theory was that jihadists hate America because the US supports Israel… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Egypt • History • Islamic Terrorism • Jihadism • Obamaism • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy • War on Terrorism 
Posted on Tue, June 26, 2012 at 21:25 pm CEST
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The Evils of the Muslim Brotherhood

Egypt’s longtime banned Muslim Brotherhood has just won the nation’s presidency, in the name of its candidate, Muhammad Mursi… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Christianism • Copts • Egypt • Islamism • Jihadism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Sharia Law 
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 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 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 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 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 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