The Muslim Brotherhood’s second great theorist, after its founder Hasan al-Banna, was Sayyid Qutb, the father of modern jihad theory. He sharpened his distaste for the West while living in the United States from November 1948 to August 1950. While hospitalized for a respiratory ailment in Washington, D.C., in February 1949, he heard of the […]
Egypt: Al-Azhar scholar calls for “apostate” FEMEN protester to be arrested and tried for parodying Islamic call to prayer
Alia al-Mahdi could be imprisoned or even executed on such charges. Will the world human rights community rush to her defense? Or will it abandon her since it is “racist,” “extremist” and “bigoted” to have a low opinion of Sharia? “Egypt’s FEMEN favorite Alia gets feisty on social media: Feminist flasher tackles Islam’s call to […]
Egypt’s constitution will oblige parliament to regulate church construction “in a way that ensures that Christians perform their religious rites freely”
According to Sharia, the dhimmis, the subject non-Muslim “People of the Book” in the Islamic state, are “forbidden to build new churches” (‘Umdat al-Salik, O11.5(7)). This is not perfect, but it is better than that. “Egypt’s constitution will oblige parliament to regulate church construction,” by Gamal Essam El-Din for Ahram Online, November 30: The finished […]
Egypt: Muslims burn down Christian homes over relationship between Muslim girl and Christian boy
Islamic law forbids Muslim women from marrying Christian men. When the “reports surfaced of a relationship between a Muslim girl and a Coptic boy,” the two families “held reconciliatory talks,” but they “fell through after ‘Muslims burnt down the house of the boy”s father and an adjacent house.’” Now that’s “dialogue.” “Sectarian violence in Minya […]
Egypt’s interior minister accuses Muslim Brotherhood of financing Islamic groups tied to al-Qaeda
Not a big surprise. The Muslim Brotherhood and jihad groups have the same goal: the imposition of Sharia. They just differ in the means by which to gain power. “Muslim Brotherhood ‘financing terror,’” from AFP, November 24: Cairo – Egypt’s interior minister on Saturday announced the arrest of dozens of “extremists” and accused the Muslim […]
Egypt investigates disappearance of author critical of Islam after Muslim cleric declared him an Infidel and called for his murder
Hamed Abdel-Samad “An Egyptian newspaper report said he had been abducted.” He could be dead by now. But remember: the real problem is “Islamophobia.” “Egypt investigates disappearance of author critical of Islam,” from Reuters, November 26 (thanks to Twostellas): Police in Cairo are investigating the disappearance of an Egyptian-born German author and critic of Islam, […]
Egypt: Coptic rep threatens to withdraw from constitution committee over Sharia provisions
Bishop Paula and Nour Party rep Younis Makhioun The Muslim Brotherhood is down but by no means out, and meanwhile, the Salafis are still pushing for Sharia in Egypt. The Copts will have none of it, as they know that that means their subjugation as dhimmis and institutionalized discrimination and harassment. “Islamists, Coptic Church exchange […]
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi spied for Hamas and al-Qaeda
The police officer who discovered this was murdered a week after he revealed it. And through all this Morsi kept the loyal support of the Obama Administration. “Assassinated police officer disclosed evidence Morsy spied for Hamas: Sources,” by Tarek Wageeh for Al-Masry Al-Youm, November 21: Prosecution investigations on assassinations of senior police officer Mohamed Mabrouk, […]
Kerry: Egyptian revolution “stolen” by Muslim Brotherhood
It is not at all clear that “those kids in Tahrir Square, they were not motivated by any religion or ideology,” or that the “revolution” got “stolen” by the Muslim Brotherhood. There were early signs that the Brotherhood was the driving force behind the anti-Mubarak protests. However, this is further indication of Kerry’s distaste for […]
No point negotiating with current authority: Egypt’s Brotherhood leaders to EU
Apparently they still are confident that with Obama’s continued backing, they will return to power. “No point negotiating with current authority: Brotherhood leaders to EU,” from Al-Masry Al-Youm, November 15: A source close to the Muslim Brotherhood said that the meeting of Brotherhood figures Mohamed Ali Beshr and Amr Derag with Bernardino Lion, the European […]