Ahmadinejad Marks First Visit to Cairo of Iranian President in Over 30 Years Due to New Islamist Govt

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Cairo on Tuesday, marking the first visit of an Iranian president to Egypt in over thirty years. Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi welcomed Ahmadinejad at Cairo airport as he disembarked from the plane, Egyptian television footage showed. Ahmadinejad, who is the first Iranian president to visit Egypt since the […]

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Muslim Brotherhood Beats Naked Man Near Egyptian Palace to Strike Fear in Public

A former Egyptian presidential candidate told Al Arabiya TV in an interview on Sunday that the brutal dragging and beating of a naked man near the presidential palace last week was previously planned by the interior ministry in an effort to terrorize the public. Ahmed Shafiq, who lost the presidential race to Islamist President Mohammed Morsi […]

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Muslims Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids

According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s Great Pyramids–or, in the words of Saudi Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi’i, those “symbols of paganism,” which Egypt’s Salafi party has long planned to cover with wax. Most recently, Bahrain’s “Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs” and […]

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Responding to Rising Islamist Movements (VIDEO)

Senator Rand Paul (R–KY) will deliver remarks Wednesday at The Heritage Foundation laying out his ideas for “Restoring the Founders’ Vision of Foreign Policy.” A major portion of that speech is likely to focus on how the U.S. should deal with the rise of Islamist political movements. [youtube fmZEdzqNbEE nolink] The Obama Administration’s response to […]

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What Planet Does John Kerry Live On?

by Daniel Pipes February 3, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online The two-day old tenure of Secretary of State John Kerry got off to a flying start today with an astonishing statement from his ambassador to Egypt, Anne W. Patterson, at a joint ceremony in Cairo to mark the delivery of four American-made F-16 aircraft: […]

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Egypt’s Defense Minister: Egypt could Collapse

Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sisi warned Tuesday that Egypt could be facing collapse. Al-Sisi explained that military units have been stationed in cities next to the Suez Canal, where riots have broken out, in order to protect the canal. “The continuing conflict between political forces and their differences concerning the management of the […]

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Manufacturing ‘Islamophobia’ at UC Berkeley

by Cinnamon Stillwell FrontPage Magazine January 25, 2013 Scholars of the Middle East would do well to follow the lead of the Associated Press (AP), which last year struck the political term “Islamophobia” from the new edition of its widely used Stylebook, explaining that “‘-phobia,’ an irrational, uncontrollable fear, often a form of mental illness […]

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American Islamist Groups Shape Arab Revolutions

by David J. Rusin FrontPage Magazine July 31, 2012 Illustrating that the jihadist enterprise transcends all borders, American Islamist groups typically preoccupied with remaking the U.S. have been leaving their fingerprints on the campaign to exchange secular authoritarianism for religious authoritarianism in the Middle East. As these organizations labor stateside to nudge the governing class […]

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