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Egyptian Islamists Urge Pope to Declare Islam a Peaceful Religion

(CNSNews.com) – Seven years after Sunni Islam’s foremost institution severed dialogue with the Vatican over remarks by Pope Benedict XVI, the Cairo-based Al-Azhar wants the new pontiff to open the door to resuming interfaith discourse by declaring Islam to be a peaceful religion. The proposal that Pope Francis make such a public declaration prompted Coptic […]

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Conflict with Palestinian Authority Better Than Making More Mistaken Deals

In a discussion of how he expects the Israel-Arab conflict to finally be resolved, Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon said that ideally Israel, Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority would cooperate on regional issues, thus resolving generations of enmity. “I am looking for true cooperation with these partners on matters of state and security,” including […]

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Egypt Sentences Employees of Foreign NGOs to Jail, US Aid to Egypt Unaffected

A Cairo court has sentenced 43 Egyptian and foreign employees of several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to jail sentences, ranging from one to five years for working illegally, the AFP news agency reported Tuesday. Among them, 27 defendants were sentenced in absentia to five years. Judge Makram Awad also ordered the closure of the NGOs, including […]

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Mohammed Morsi

Was Egypt’s president, Mohamed Morsi, behind the Benghazi attack

The terrorist attack in Benghazi is far more disturbing than previously thought. Although it has not been reported in the U.S. media, the possibility exists that the Egyptian government may have played an operational role in the attack. YouTube videos of the terrorist strike raise a serious problem that only an Arabic speaker would detect: some of […]

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Lawyer for Former Egyptian President Mubarak Denies His Client Gave a Newspaper Interview

The lawyer of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied on Sunday that a recent interview with the deposed president, published in the privately-owned Egyptian daily Al-Watan, took place. The lawyer, Farid El-Deeb, told the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram that the interview was a fabrication. The interview with Mubarak by journalist Mohamed El-Sheikh attracted mass attention as […]

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Egypt: Terrorists Planned to Bomb Cairo Embassies

Terrorists who were arrested in Egypt over the weekend were planning to attack the U.S. and French embassies in Cairo, Egyptian officials said Wednesday. The three are members of a terror organization, but Egyptian officials stopped short of admitting that the terrorists belonged to Al Qaeda. The U.S. embassy in Cairo warned American citizens to […]

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Radical Egyptian Cleric Visits Gaza

Radical Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi on Wednesday started a visit to Hamas-ruled Gaza, crossing via Rafiah, on the border with Egypt. AFP reported that Egyptian-born al-Qaradawi, who is a citizen of Qatar and close to the Muslim Brotherhood, arrived in Gaza shortly after 9:30 p.m. local time. Sheikh al-Qaradawi led a delegation of 50 clerics […]

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Egyptian Protesters Operated on Without Anesthetic

Senior Egyptian army doctors were ordered to operate without anesthetic on wounded protesters at a military hospital in Cairo during protests against military rule, according to an investigation commissioned by President Mohammed Morsi. The report into military and police malpractice since 2011, excerpts of which were presented in the British Guardian on Thursday, also alleges […]

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Obama Sends 140,000 Canisters of U.S. Teargas to Egypt’s Morsi

by Daniel Pipes April 14, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The Egyptian publication Al-Masry Al-Youm reports that the U.S. government has supplied five containers carrying 140,000 teargas canisters to Egypt’s Interior Ministry. It further reports that this shipment left Wilmington, Delaware, on Mar. 14 aboard the SS Jamestown and that it has […]

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