“The Muslim Brotherhood will have a significant role to play in post-Mubarak Egypt. And that is good thing.” — Reza Aslan “Egypt secularists pull out of constituent assembly,” from AFP, March 28 (thanks to all who sent this in): CAIRO “” Liberal and leftist parties have pulled out of a panel drafting Egypt’s new constitution, […]
Egyptian MP: We will insist on applying Sharia in Egypt
I tried to tell you. “We will insist on applying Sharia in Egypt, Islamist MP says,” from al-Arabiya, March 27 (thanks to Ashraf): Egypt’s Construction and Development Party (CDP) “won’t give up the application of the Sharia [Islamic law]” in Egypt, an Egyptian MP representing the party told an Egyptian daily on Monday. CDP is […]
Egypt: Muslim cleric calls for implementation of Sharia punishments: crucifixion and amputation
I tried to tell you. “Egyptian Cleric Muhammad Hussein Yaaqub Calls for the Implementation of Islamic Punishments in Egypt: Execution, Crucifixion, and the Amputation of Opposite Hands and Feet,” from MEMRI, March 16: Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian cleric Muhammad Hussein Yaaqub, which aired on Al-Nas TV on March 16, 2012 : […]
Egypt: Islamic parties are majority on constitutional panel
Similar to a question posed last week: can something be newsworthy, and yet entirely expected? A democracy is only as good as the values that inform its participants. Much also depends on who is allowed to participate in the first place. An update on this story. “Islamists are majority on Egypt constitution panel,” from the […]
Egyptian Cleric: No to Mother’s Day””Even if it Saddens Mothers
Sheikh Yassir al-Burhami, an influential leader in Egypt’s Salafi party””which won some 25% of the nation’s votes, second only to the Muslim Brotherhood””just issued a fatwa banning any participation in Mother’s Day, which is celebrated March 21st in Egypt. According to
Egypt’s Top Presidential Candidate: “˜Sharia Must be Applied”
Yesterday at a conference, Dr. Abd al-Mun”˜im Abu al-Futuh“”the most popular presidential candidate in Egypt and a leading Muslim Brotherhood figure””declared that “Islam must be upheld and Sharia must be applied; nor shall we permit the methods of the former regime””imprisoning our sons simply because they are committed to religion [Islam] and because they go […]
Robert Spencer: Egypt Designates Israel Its Top Enemy “” Obama Restores Military Aid
To Egypt, that is. My column in FrontPage this morning: Egypt’s parliament, which is dominated by two pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist groups, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists, voted unanimously last Monday to expel Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, and signaled that the Camp David Accords would soon be a thing of the past: Egypt, the parliamentarians […]
As Egypt’s parliament dubs Israel its “number one enemy,” Obama resumes military aid to Egypt
Egypt’s parliament, which is dominated by two pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist groups, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists, voted unanimously last Monday to expel Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, and signaled that the Camp David Accords would soon be a thing of the past: Egypt, the parliamentarians declared, would “never” be Israel’s ally. In fact, Israel was […]
Egyptian presidential hopeful and former Hamas-linked CAIR official Bassem Khafagi: “I was the first to expose the notion of ‘moderate Islam,’ which is used as a means to canonize a ‘non-Islamic Islam'”
Hamas-linked CAIR constantly insists that Muslims in the U.S. are moderate, don’t subscribe to the elements of Islamic law that conflict with the U.S. Constitution, and reject and abhor Islamic terrorism. So did Khafagi change his mind about “moderate Islam” when he went back to Egypt? Or does he think Islam should be moderate in […]
Shocker: Egypt’s Islamic parties vote to have themselves dominate panel that will write constitution
More on this story. The arrangement of “half for us, half for all the rest of you” allows the Islamic parties to go through the motions of seeking input from other parties, but with substantial leverage to say “that’s nice,” and do what they please. The Muslim Brotherhood is cast here as the more moderate […]