Until now, Israel has been satisfied with its “cold peace” with Egypt. This is a peace not between peoples, but between the security establishments of both countries, that cooperate in fighting the Muslim Brotherhood, of which Hamas is the Palestinian avatar, and other Jihadis in the Sinai, including remnants of ISIS. But with the normalization […]
Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar: Nothing should be more important than waging jihad in Allah’s way
“Reactions in the Muslim world to the recent publication of the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo were very harsh.” This was clearly evident, but it should serve as an exhibit of what normative Islam teaches regarding the penalty for blasphemy. Those who proclaim that Islam is inherently a “religion […]
Netanyahu to Visit Egypt on Official Trip: A Cold Peace Warming Up?
While in one direction – toward the Gulf – Israeli and Emirati and Bahrain businessmen are making deals, expanding trade, encouraging investments in each other’s countries, promoting tourism in both directions, now that the two Arab states have agreed to normalize ties with Israel – in the other direction, toward Egypt, with which Israel has […]
Egypt is dismissing imams based on Muslim Brotherhood ties, if US did this, hardly any imams would be left
Most major Muslim organizations in the U.S. are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, which has the stated goal (according to a captured internal document) in America of “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house.” Meanwhile, in Egypt, while the crackdown on the Brotherhood proceeds, the Egyptian government lets Brotherhood members […]
Egypt: Muslims screaming anti-Coptic slogans ransack Christian shops, attack Christians, one dead, two wounded
Al Mashhad Al Araby says that the man who was killed was stabbed in the neck, recalling Qur’an 47:4, “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks.” Cairo 24 says that one of the victims was “psychologically disturbed,” so we see that the “jihad attacks are just manifestations of mental illness” dodge, so popular in […]
Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, France and UAE conduct joint military exercises amid rising Turkish threat
In a significant move, the United Arab Emirates “is participating for the first time, along with new arrival France, in the joint Greek-Egyptian-Cypriot Medusa-10 training exercises being held Nov. 30 to Dec. 6 off the coast of Alexandria.” The presence of this alliance in the Mediterranean sends a strong message to Turkey, although “their true […]
Egypt reiterates refusal to link terrorist acts with Islam
Recall in 2015 the highly publicized call by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi for a religious “revolution” and reform of Islam, a call that drew global accolades. Sisi declared, among other things: “Is it possible that 1.6 billion people [Muslims] should want to kill the rest of the world’s inhabitants – that is 7 billion […]
Egypt: Muslim mob sets church on fire, attacks Christian homes and shops with stones and Molotov cocktails
Will the Islamophobia never end? The mob in this case is enraged over a Christian’s alleged “blasphemy” on Facebook. Authorities do nothing to stop the mob because all too often they are more sympathetic to the rioters than to their victims. An update on this story. “Egypt: Hundreds of Muslim villagers attack Christians after alleged […]
Egyptian Facebook influencer writes poem praising the Muslim who beheaded French teacher over cartoon
Bless your hand, O Chechen You’ve refreshed me, helped me to forget my sorrows They thought you are cold like Turbans [this refers to sheikhs] Who have high positions with tyrants You slaughtered them with your unbinding belief And you have slaughtered this culprit with Takbeer [Allah Akbar] When you meed Ahmed [another name for […]
Egyptian Former Movie Actor: ‘Islam is a Religion of Love, Peace and Coexistence That is Being Bullied by Macron’
A former movie actor is promoting Islamic jihad terrorism to Egyptian TV audiences by means of an anti-France campaign riddled fallacies and myths. In this Arabic-language video (the segment concluding at 5:28), Wajdi al-Arabi mixes historic events with fictions to propagate Islamic jihad, using bellicose rhetoric in a modern TV setting. Once a well-known […]