This is revealing of Morsi’s perspective. The Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, was the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a man who had plotted to murder Americans in the hundreds of thousands by blowing up the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in New York. To release him would be a spectacular endorsement […]
#MyJihad in Egypt: Muslims protest fall of Islamic Spain and vow to recapture it
Islamic theology holds that whenever a land belongs to the House of Islam at any time, it belongs by right to the house of Islam forever. “And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter.” — Qur’an 2:191 “Egyptians […]
#MyJihad in Egypt: Jihadist plot to attack church with explosives and weapons foiled
As Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas, some Muslims in Rafah remind them of what jihad means. “Egypt army foils bid to attack Coptic church,” from AFP, January 7 (thanks to all who sent this in): Cairo: The Egyptian army foiled a bid early on Monday to attack a Coptic church in the Rafah border town with […]
Egypt: Morsi consolidates his power, filling his cabinet with pro-Sharia Islamic supremacists
“The Muslim Brotherhood will have a significant role to play in post-Mubarak Egypt. And that is good thing.” — Reza Aslan “Egypt’s Morsi remakes cabinet, increasing Islamist presence,” by Abigail Hauslohner for the Washington Post, January 6 (thanks to Mackie): CAIRO “” Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi rebuilt his cabinet Sunday, replacing 10 ministers and amplifying […]
Egyptian lawyers say Obama gave Muslim Brotherhood $1.5 billion
Surprised? “Muslim Brotherhood took “˜billions” from Obama: Egypt lawyers,” from al Arabiya, January 4 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has been accused of taking 10 billion Egyptian pounds (U.S. $1.5 billion) from the American government, according to claims by Egyptian lawyers. An immediate investigation into the accusation was ordered by Prosecutor […]
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood top dog says calls to drop Sharia constitution “punishable by law”
As I said a few weeks ago, the referendum on the constitution in Egypt heralded “the end of the brief era of any meaningful voting in Egypt, and of any hope on the part of women and Egyptian Christians for equality of rights before the law.” And now here we are. “Brotherhood leader: Calls to […]
Morsi in 2010: Israelis are “blood-suckers…warmongers, the descendants of apes and pigs…All ties of all kinds must be severed with this plundering criminal entity”
The Qur’an says in three places that Allah transformed the Sabbath-breaking Jews into apes and pigs (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166). “The Muslim Brotherhood will have a significant role to play in post-Mubarak Egypt. And that is good thing.” — Reza Aslan “Pundits and politicians are already ringing the alarm bells. The common refrain you hear in […]
UAE arrests Muslim Brotherhood cell training Islamic supremacists to overthrow non-Sharia governments
“The Muslim Brotherhood will have a significant role to play in post-Mubarak Egypt. And that is good thing.” — Reza Aslan “Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood cell detained in UAE: report,” from Reuters, January 2 (thanks to Voice of the Copts): The United Arab Emirates has arrested an “Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood cell” that trained local Islamists in […]
Egyptian Muslim cleric: When the Mahdi comes, all the Jews on earth will be killed
Muhammad said that “the last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; […]
“Whoever Fights Us, Fights Islam”
Over at Gatestone Institute (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I discuss why it is that secular, moderate, or liberal Muslims””so long as they define themselves as Muslims“”are destined to lose the debate with their more radical brethren, in the context of ongoing events in Egypt: In the ongoing conflict between those Egyptians who strongly oppose a Sharia-based constitution””moderates, […]