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After Paris: Charlie and Ahmed

Good muslim, bad muslim… Continue reading

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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

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If You Don’t Stand Up for Western Civilization It Will Fall

A small incident in an obscure court case in Minnesota shows why we need to understand properly the debate over Islam, Islamism, and Islamophobia… Continue reading

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Barack Obama, his rabbi and political Islam

President Barack Obama’s view of Judaism, Zionism, and Israel was very much shaped by his liberal and left-wing Jewish contacts… Continue reading

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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

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Turkey: Two More Steps Toward Islamism

In Washington DC they are still ridiculing the idea that Turkey’s government is Islamist… Continue reading

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The Incredibly Significant Missing Element in Egypt’s Revolution

As I always say, the most important stories about the Middle East are right there on the surface but are nonetheless neglected… Continue reading

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Islamic jihadist organizations in Egypt ideologically originating in the Muslim Brotherhood

From the 1970s to the late 1990s, militant Islamic groups in Egypt posed the greatest challenge to the regime in terms of internal security… Continue reading

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A profile of Sheikh Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Sheikh Dr. Yusuf Abdallah al-Qaradawi is a central figure affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood… Continue reading

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The Muslim Brotherhood in other Arab countries and in Europe

Muslim Brotherhood branches started emerging in the Arab world in the 1930s and 1940s… Continue reading

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The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s ties to its branches in Middle Eastern and Western countries

The Muslim Brotherhood emerged in Egypt as a fundamentally Egyptian Sunni-Muslim movement… Continue reading

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Profiles of prominent Muslim Brotherhood figures in Egypt

Most Muslim Brotherhood leaders and senior activists belong to the middle or upper-middle class… Continue reading

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The development of political discourse in the Muslim Brotherhood and the 2007 election platform

The changing economic, social, and political reality in Egypt, and the movement’s increasing integration into the local political system… Continue reading

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The Muslim Brotherhood’s stance on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

The Muslim Brotherhood’s stance on the existence of the State of Israel is dictated by its fundamental ideological principles… Continue reading

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The Muslim Brotherhood’s struggle against the various Egyptian regimes and other challenges facing it

In its 83-year existence, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has become the largest socio-religious movement… Continue reading

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The structure and funding sources of the Muslim Brotherhood

The Muslim Brotherhood has been outlawed in Egypt since the 1950s. Consequently, it has created an organizational structure designed to… Continue reading

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The Muslim Brotherhood’s education, preaching, and social activity

The Muslim Brotherhood emerged first and foremost as a movement that embodies an Islamic mission whose goal is… Continue reading

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The ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood

Since its very beginning, the Muslim Brotherhood was based on ideological foundations that first emerged as a result of… Continue reading

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The historical evolution of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

The Muslim Brotherhood is the largest religious-social movement in the modern era… Continue reading

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The Muslim Brotherhood

The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamic mass movement whose worldview is based on the belief that “Islam is the solution” and… Continue reading

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Muslim Brotherhood and Its Political Agenda: “Islam is the solution”

The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamic mass movement whose worldview is based on the belief that “Islam is the solution” and… Continue reading

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Watch What Anwar al-Sadat Said About the Muslim Brotherhood!

An Egyptian Christian (Coptic) group has put up a superb six-minute video of a speech by the late President Anwar al-Sadat about the Muslim Brotherhood… Continue reading

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Egyptian Politics Get Dangerously Messy

The issue now is a March 19 referendum on the constitutional changes proposed by a small army-appointed panel. The panel was… Continue reading

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Egyptian Revolutionaries Ungrateful to Obama Administration

Who’d possibly have thought it? Answer: Anybody who understands the Middle East. You see, the Obama Administration rushed… Continue reading

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No Problem Here? Egypt Apparently Has Already Ended Gas Shipments to Israel

There’s nothing to worry about, we are told, of course Egypt wants to get the money from gas shipments, right? Ideology and politics are… Continue reading