Posted on Fri, January 20, 2012 at 00:57 am CET
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Who’s Winning in the Middle East? Everyone Outside the West Knows It’s The Islamists

And the Americans brought them to power… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab Spring • Democracy • Islamic Countries • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Religion • Security and Defense • The Middle East 
Posted on Thu, January 19, 2012 at 17:09 pm CET
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Iran: After Posing Nude, Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani No Longer Welcome in her Home Country

The controversy sparked by Aliaa Magda ElMahdy after posting a nude photo she took of herself on her blog is followed by another controversial posting of a nude photograph… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Democracy • France • Human Rights • Iran • Religion • Sharia Law • Shi'ism 
Posted on Mon, January 16, 2012 at 19:33 pm CET
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Ex-Muslim Sister gives insight into Brothers’s Subjugation, Discrimination of Women and Polygamy

In a time when Western intellectuals, politicians, and journalists are trying to explain that the Muslim Brotherhood isn’t a radical Islamist group… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Culture • Democracy • Egypt • Feminism • Global Islam • History • Human Rights • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • The Media 
Posted on Thu, January 12, 2012 at 20:44 pm CET
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Friedman Cheers as Egyptians Are Enslaved

Many in the West have so acted toward Egypt during the last year… Continue reading

Topics: Culture • Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Mon, January 9, 2012 at 23:20 pm CET
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Egyptian Coptic billionaire faces trial for contempt of Islam

A member of the ultra-conservative al-Gamaa al-Islamiya group filed a legal complaint against… Continue reading

Topics: Copts • Crethi Plethi • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Islamism • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Sat, January 7, 2012 at 15:09 pm CET
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Identity Among Middle East Christians

In the course of the present unrest across the Middle East and North Africa… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Copts • Culture • Egypt • Human Rights • Iraq • Lebanon • Religion • Syria • The Middle East 
Posted on Wed, January 4, 2012 at 21:47 pm CET
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Sunni versus Shia: The Middle East’s New Strategic Conflict

Conflicts between Sunni and Shia Muslims are not at all new, but… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Egyptian Revolution • Iran • Iraq • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Lebanon • Libya War • Politics • Religion • Security and Defense • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Syrian Revolution • The Middle East 
Posted on Mon, January 2, 2012 at 19:36 pm CET
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The Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab World and Islamic Communities in Western Europe

This study examines the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and other Arab countries in the wake of the past year’s regional uprisings… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Europe • Islamic Countries • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion 
Posted on Fri, December 16, 2011 at 19:46 pm CET
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Who’s the Leading Authority in Defining Islam? Ayatollah Western Media

The Washington Post has an article by Michael Gerson attacking Newt Gingrich’s warning that the imposition of Sharia law… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Salafism • Sharia Law • The Media • United States of America 
Posted on Thu, December 15, 2011 at 19:22 pm CET
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Sunni Realignments

Despite threats from Iran to withdraw financial aid and training for militants… Continue reading

Topics: Arab League • Hamas • Palestine Papers • Qatar • Religion • Sunni Islam • Syria • Turkey 
Posted on Tue, December 13, 2011 at 20:47 pm CET
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Middle East: We’re Going to Have a Revolution and We Can Do it the Hard Way or the Easy Way

Do I have to draw you a picture of how Islamism is just pretending to be moderate… Continue reading

Topics: Communism • Islamism • Jihadism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Salafism • Slavery in Islam • Sunni Islam • The Middle East 
Posted on Sat, December 10, 2011 at 13:14 pm CET
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The ‘Angry Arab’ Goes Mad

As’ad AbuKahlil spoke last month at a day-long “teach-in” at the University of California… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Christianism • Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • Anti-Zionism • Global Islam • Islamism • Jihadism • Multiculturalism • Religion 
Posted on Tue, December 6, 2011 at 21:26 pm CET
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Egypt: We’ve Heard What the Majority Thinks

Let’s figure out what the voting in Egypt means in concrete terms… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Politics • Religion • Salafism 
Posted on Sat, December 3, 2011 at 20:46 pm CET
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French minister of Arab origin: “There is no such thing as moderate Islam”

A French junior minister said in an interview published Saturday there was no such thing as moderate Islam… Continue reading

Topics: Algeria • Arab Spring • Crethi Plethi • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • France • Human Rights • Islamism • Jasmine Revolution • Multiculturalism • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Sat, December 3, 2011 at 18:13 pm CET
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Overviewing Shi’a-Sunni Conflicts

As we approach the end of the first year of what has been called the Arab Spring… Continue reading

Topics: Alawis • Arab Spring • Bahrain • Culture • Iraq • Lebanon • Religion • Saudi Arabia • Security and Defense • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Syria • Yemen 
Posted on Wed, November 30, 2011 at 00:25 am CET
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Who Killed The Next One Hundred People Like Rafiq Tagi? You Did

Can a single moderate whether secularist or someone who wants to interpret Islam in a more liberal way feel safe… Continue reading

Topics: Azerbaijan • Human Rights • Iran • Islamism • Religion • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, November 25, 2011 at 20:42 pm CET
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What Do Totalitarians Do When They Gain Power Democratically?

These politicians know precisely what they want to do… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • Religion • The Middle East 
Posted on Sun, November 20, 2011 at 16:57 pm CET
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Brothers in Arms: The Muslim Brotherhood Takes Over the (Sunni) Arab World

On November 28, Egyptians will vote for a parliament which will also write the country’s new constitution… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Sunni Islam • Syria • Tunisia • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, November 20, 2011 at 15:38 pm CET
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Aliaa ElMahdy is not afraid of being a woman despite harassment in Egypt

Aliaa Magda ElMahdy, a blogger and female activist, sparked controversy and attracted both criticism and admiration in Egypt after… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Culture • Democracy • Egypt • Global Islam • Human Rights • Religion • Salafism • Sharia Law 
Posted on Thu, November 17, 2011 at 19:36 pm CET
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Islam: What Does “Moderate” Islamist Mean?

Are Islamist parties portrayed as more moderate or pluralistic than they actually are… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Islamism • Religion • Tunisia • Turkey 
Posted on Thu, November 10, 2011 at 00:42 am CET
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How the Obama Administration Helps Kill the Chances for Arab, Turkish, and Iranian Democracy

Does this sound too extreme and alarmist?… Continue reading

Topics: Bahrain • Democracy • Global Islam • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Religion • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Wed, November 9, 2011 at 01:49 am CET
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Obama Administration Promotes Islamist Regimes; Insists They are Moderate

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech justifying Obama Administration Middle East policy changes everything… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Global Islam • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Religion • U.S. Middle East Policy • United States of America 
Posted on Sat, October 8, 2011 at 00:15 am CEST
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The Arab Spring and the Jews

Throughout the ongoing unrest in the Middle East and North Africa… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Global Islam • Iraq • Jew-Hatred • Libya • Libya War • Morocco • Religion 
Posted on Sun, August 21, 2011 at 00:55 am CEST
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Jesus Christ: The – politically correct – Way

A widely syndicated article by Reuters raises a number of important ethical questions about the media today… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Christianism • Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • Feminism • History • Multiculturalism • Religion • Rob Harris • The Media