Has anyone stopped to ask where the headlines “Muslim Brotherhood Wins Egypt’s Presidential Election!” originate?… Continue reading
Many are the lessons to be learned between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the current revolutions of the Arab world… Continue reading
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
The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court has invalidated the parliamentary election there… Continue reading
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
Egypt’s fate, I think, will not be settled by the June 16-17 second round presidential election… Continue reading
While the Brotherhood claims victory, the election was actually a defeat for the Brotherhood and Islamism… Continue reading
It’s once again time for that exciting game of Spin the Polls by the Pew Foundation. Here are the rules… Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
Iraq is in a mess. Violence continues. Factionalism leads to endless bickering. Corruption is at high levels. Christians live in fear or flee altogether. Islamism is constantly creeping forward… Continue reading
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
The Muslim Brotherhood branch in Tunisia is relatively new. It was established in the 1970s by… Continue reading
The Movement for Unity and Reform (MUR), affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Morocco, was founded in 1996… Continue reading
In Lebanon the Muslim Brotherhood works through Al-Jama’ah al-Islamiyya, an organization established in 1964… Continue reading
Qatar became a Muslim Brotherhood stronghold in 1954, when a group of its activists found refuge there… Continue reading
The first Muslim Brotherhood activists came to Saudi Arabia in the first half of the 1950s… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan has a strong social, organizational and political foundation… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood apparently began its operations in Algeria in the 1940s… Continue reading
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