by Chris Mitchell CBN For those following the news about the Egyptian elections, an article by Raymond Ibrahim is revealing. Since voting ended Sunday night, headlines such as "Muslim Brotherhood Candidate Wins Election" have been trumpeted on different news sites. I saw one of those headlines on the Drudge Report only to open the story up and find the Muslim Brotherhood … [Read more...]
Egypt: Mosque “Prayer Leader” Stabs Nephew to Death
by Raymond Ibrahim • Jun 20, 2012 at 2:15 pm Cross-posted from Jihad Watch According to Egypt's Al Dostor, earlier this month in Tanta, Egypt, an imam of a mosque—a prayer leader and model of Muslim piety—slaughtered his own nephew with a knife because the latter refused to marry the imam's daughter. Along with the nephew, a 27-year-old teacher who died of several stab … [Read more...]
Egyptian Election: Islamist Victory or Deceptive Strategy?
Originally published by the Gatestone Institute Has anyone stopped to ask where the headlines "Muslim Brotherhood Wins Egypt's Presidential Election!" originate? They come, of course, straight from the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies—particularly the Qatar-based Islamist propaganda machine, Al Jazeera—and were then unquestioningly picked up and spread like wildfire by the … [Read more...]
Parallel Betrayals: Iranian Revolution and Arab Spring
Published in FrontPage Magazine Many are the lessons to be learned between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the current revolutions of the Arab world. Consider the issue of the hijab, the female "veil"—the proliferation of which, according to one former Islamistand associate of al-Qaeda's Ayman Zawahiri, is associated with a Muslim society's downward spiral into oppression … [Read more...]
Islamic Terror vs. Norway Massacre: Chicken or Egg?
Translations of this item: German Ever since last year's Norway massacre, when Anders Breivik killed some 70 people, the relativists and Muslim apologists of the world felt exonerated: for here at last, thought they, was proof positive that terrorism had nothing to do with Islamic teachings per se. If Christianity cannot be blamed for Breivik, why blame Islam … [Read more...]