Remember when the Salafists were a Tiny Minority of Extremists? They got almost 29% of the second round of voting in Egypt’s elections, and depending on the report, about a quarter of the first round. On one hand, they may not be toning their rhetoric down much because they simply don’t have to. They have […]
Egypt’s Christians under jihad attack seeking to come to U.S.
In the U.S., Islamic spokesmen insist that the idea that non-Muslims must be offered conversion, subjugation or death (cf. Qur’an 9:29; Sahih Muslim 4294) is “Islamophobic” misunderstanding of Islam. Somehow Kirolos Andraws ran afoul of Islamophobic Misunderstanders of Islam in Egypt, where they appear to abound. “Egypt’s Embattled Christians Seek Room in America,” by Lucette […]
Egypt: Islamic parties take 65% in second round of voting
Weren’t the Salafists and their supporters supposed to be a Tiny Minority of Extremists? “Main Islamist parties take 65% of second-round votes,” from Agence France-Presse, December 24: AFP – Egypt’s main Islamist parties won 65 percent of votes for party lists in the second round of a historic election for a new parliament after Hosni […]
“Much of the uplifting narrative about the Arab Spring was based on wishful thinking in the West”
As we tried to tell you. “The terrifying truth behind the so-called Arab Spring,” by John R. Bradley for the Daily Mail, December 20 (thanks to Thomas Pellow): Stripped above the waist “” save for her bright blue bra “” the protester lies in a street just off Cairo’s Tahrir Square, seconds before a soldier […]
Surprise! Egypt’s military moves to portray detained protester as “woman of questionable morals”
But the army’s morals are clearly above reproach That protester stepped out of line, and forfeited her right to “protection.” Again: Muslims took to the streets, incited by state media, to “protect” the army from uppity Christians in the October 9 massacre. Now that soldiers have done this to a Muslim woman in an abaya, […]
Egypt: Islamic parties continue to dominate in second round of elections
The White House has said the democratic process is the important thing here. But a democracy’s ability to protect human rights and civil liberties is only as good as the values that inform its participants. These elected officials are the people who are set to draft the country’s next constitution. “Islamist parties dominate Egypt election,” […]
Secretary of State Clinton: Women sidelined in Egypt transition
She supported the “transition to democracy.” She’s the Secretary of State — she must have known that the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic supremacists were driving that transition. And now she is surprised? “Clinton says women sidelined in Egypt transition,” from AFP, December 16 (thanks to EH): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday […]
Egypt: “He has to be slaughtered today, that means he has to be slaughtered today”
More on the collective extrajudicial punishment inflicted on Copts in yet another recent incident in Egypt, “while the security forces stood there watching.” “Family of Murdered Egyptian Christians On the Run Due to Muslim Terror,” by Mary Abdelmassih for the Assyrian International News Agency, December 15: (AINA) — Two weeks after the murder of two […]
We tried to tell you: Hamas sets up forward bases, rocket production facilities in Sinai
Sinai threatens to become an intentional blind spot and site of selective sovereignty within Egypt, perhaps not unlike Pakistan’s frontier provinces. As described below, the area is largely demilitarized according to the Camp David Accords, but this situation may at some point be used to make Israel choose between an area “militarized” by jihadists, or […]
Islamic supremacist parties’ electoral success in Egypt has Coptic Christians worried
I tried to tell you. Among the many noteworthy aspects of this article is the fact that the Copts know full well that Sharia means denial of rights to women and non-Muslims. Only in the West, where no one knows anything about Sharia, can deceptive Islamic apologists get away with claiming that Sharia is nothing […]