by Raymond Ibrahim  •  June 25, 2012 Cross-posted from Jihad Watch Sheikh Mubarak al-Bathali of Kuwait recently objected to the name of the late Egyptian singer, Umm Kalthum (1904-1975), widely regarded as the greatest female singer in Arab music history. He insisted that "Umm Kalthum is the [name of the] daughter of the Messenger of Allah and lord of humanity [Muhammad], … [Read more...]

by Raymond Ibrahim  •  Jun 22, 2012 at 4:56 am Cross-posted from Jihad Watch The true face of the "Arab Awakening' continues to manifest itself. According to Al Sawt, prosecutors associated with Jordan's Salafi movement have brought a lawsuit to the Sharia Court of Amman—a lawsuit being called "the first of its kind" in modern Jordan: they are charging a man with "apostasy … [Read more...]

An Animosity That Seeks Any Excuse to Attack Originally published by the Gatestone Institute As Egypt's presidential elections come to a close, with the Brotherhood claiming presidential victory, the future of Egypt's indigenous Christians, the Copts, looks bleak. Earlier, after the first presidential elections of May 23-24, any number of Islamists denounced them, bemoaning … [Read more...]

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...]

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...]