Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently expressed allegiance to “one nation, one flag, one religion, one state”… Continue reading
Media outlets tiptoeing around Islam are a dime a dozen, but the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stands apart for the egregiousness of its self-censorship and bias… Continue reading
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the center of Diyarbakır for a celebration of the Prophet Muhammad’s birth. The event was organized by a coalition of NGOs affiliated with the radical Sunni Islamist organization known in Turkey as Hizbullah… Continue reading
We all know that the number of Muslims who explicitly put forward a systematically coherent moderate theology of Islam is very small… Continue reading
Alongside the battle of the radical Islamists to murder Jews is the battle to seize and maintain control of the Muslim community… 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
Traditionally, the Islamic states have had to reach out to Western capital markets to obtain funding for major projects. Islam’s prohibition on the collection of interest made it difficult to… Continue reading
Female workers should “breastfeed” their male co-workers in order to work in each other’s company… 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
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
The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, whose members are both trans-Jordanian and Palestinian in origin, is the main opposition in the country… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood was established in Syria in 1945 by disciples of Hassan al-Banna. At first it focused on educational and societal activities… Continue reading
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
Muslims who kill in the name of their religion frequently evade punishment in Western courts by pleading insanity or mental incompetence… Continue reading
And yet the West — with all its institutions of higher learning, including governmental agencies dealing with cultural and religious questions — is still thoroughly “confused” as to what Islam teaches… Continue reading
Claude Guéant, the French interior minister, sparked a firestorm last month when he praised Western values as “superior” to the oppressive ones found elsewhere, namely the Islamic world… Continue reading
It is the year 2012, yet the hysterical hatred for Israel in the Arabic-speaking world and among Muslims in general has only increased… Continue reading
A power struggle between the AKP and the Gülen movement is unraveling… Continue reading
In the recent destruction of Commonwealth war graves in Benghazi, Libya, you can see not just the desecration of graves, but attacks on crosses… Continue reading
Arab/Muslim apartheid comes in many forms, and some victims have been subjected to more than one… Continue reading
What do you tell soldiers who are risking their lives on Middle East battlefields about the people they are fighting for and against simultaneously?… Continue reading
Why Islamic religious law prohibits the development of nuclear weapons… Continue reading
It may be useful to examine one of those aspects that are regularly distorted: the Muslim conquests… Continue reading
The new Middle East strategic battle is heating up and this is only the start… Continue reading
Invited on “Morning Joe” last Tuesday to discuss Christian persecution, the hosts turned the focus to interrogating Graham on whether he thought President Barack Obama was Christian or not… Continue reading
Nageeb Kashgari is a young man in a lot of trouble… Continue reading
Is the problem Islam or Islamism? Muslims or Islamists?… Continue reading
Lebanese society has had a remarkable ability to overcome deep-rooted sectarian and religious divides that could readily have imploded less problematic countries… Continue reading
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