Looks as if he is eager to honor the Camp David Accords. “Pundits and politicians are already ringing the alarm bells. The common refrain you hear in the US: The Middle East is being overrun with religious radicals bent on oppressing women and destroying Israel. That is nonsense, of course.” — Reza Aslan Of course! […]
Egypt: Security forces fire on anti-Muslim Brotherhood protesters in Tahrir Square
“Arab Spring” democracy in action. The Muslim Brotherhood does not intend to lose the power it has worked so long to attain. “Gunmen fire on protesters at Cairo’s Tahrir Square,” from the Associated Press, December 31 (thanks to all who sent this in): CAIRO (AP) “” Gunmen drove into Cairo’s Tahrir Square before dawn Monday […]
Egypt: In the name of morals and Sharia, media freedoms may contract
An object lesson in why our hopelessly compromised pro-jihad pseudo-journalists in the U.S., such as Christiane Amanpour, Manya Brachear, Bob Smietana, Kari Huus, Dave Weigel, Michael Kruse, Eli Clifton, Alex Kane, Adam Serwer, Max Blumenthal, etc., are cutting their own throats by propagandizing for Sharia and defaming freedom fighters. “In the name of morals and […]
Muslim Brotherhood Egypt: Opposition leaders investigated for treason
“Arab Spring” democracy in full flower! “Tensions rising in Egypt as opposition leaders are investigated for high treason,” from Asia News, December 28 (thanks to Pamela Geller): Cairo (AsiaNews) – Egypt’s public prosecutor, Talaat Ibrahim Abdallah, has ordered an inquiry into the leaders of the National Salvation Front, Hamdeen Sabahi, Amr Moussa and Mohammed ElBaradei. […]
Egypt seeking to forge “tight” relations with jihad terror group Hizballah
Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel increasingly becoming a paper fiction under the Muslim Brotherhood regime. “Egypt to pursue relationship with Hezbollah,” from the Jerusalem Post, December 29 (thanks to Block Ness): In shift from Mubarak-era policy, Egyptian ambassador to Lebanon says Brotherhood-dominated Egypt will engage terror group. In a dramatic policy shift, Egypt will seek […]
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood government seeking “total control of the media”
I expect that some of our hopelessly compromised pro-jihad pseudo-journalists such as Christiane Amanpour, Manya Brachear, Bob Smietana, Kari Huus, Dave Weigel, Michael Kruse and their ilk are hurrying over to Cairo now, eager to aid the Muslim Brotherhood in its conversion of the nation’s media into its own propaganda organ. “Brotherhood’s Shater seeks “˜total […]
Egypt: Church representative resigns from Shura Council, says it’s dominated by Islamic supremacists
As Egypt continues its gallop toward Sharia. “Church representative resigns from Shura Council,” from Egypt Independent, December 27: The Shura Council member recently appointed to represent the Evangelical Church resigned Thursday, citing concerns the upper house of Parliament is dominated by Islamists. Nadia Henry was one of the 90 members chosen by President Mohamed Morsy […]
Sinai: Sharia group threatens “very harsh” punishments for smoking, drug use
Looks like they have a fight on their hands “There’s really no such thing as just Sharia, it’s not one monolithic Continuum – Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways over the 1,500 years in which multiple and competing schools of law have tried to construct some kind of civic penal and family law […]
Egypt: Islamic supremacist leader says Egypt wants Sharia, “some rejected the Constitution because it does not enforce Sharia strictly enough”
Aboud al-Zomor needn’t worry. The Egyptians are going to get Sharia. “Jama”a al-Islamiya: Egyptians want Sharia,” from Deutsche Presse Agentur, December 27: Egyptians voted for the Constitution because they believe in the nation’s Islamic identity and want the application of Sharia, said Jama”a al-Islamiya member Aboud al-Zomor. Zomor was convicted of plotting late President Anwar […]
Egypt: Cartoonist accused of blasphemy for mocking Muslim clerics’ call to vote for Sharia constitution as part of path to Paradise
"If you had said “˜yes,” you wouldn’t have been driven out of paradise. Life is about fortune, father." The clerics said, Vote yes for the Sharia constitution and you’ll be on the way to Paradise. And now even mocking that ludicrous call is, for some, blasphemy in Egypt. “Islamist lawyer accuses Al-Masry Al-Youm cartoonist of […]