On the same day that Rep. Peter King held the fourth “homegrown terrorism” hearing focused exclusively on Muslims, the White House released its Strategic Implementation Plan for Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States.
Tunisia’s Islamist party will uphold women’s rights and not try to impose strict Muslim values if, as many expect, it wins the first election since Tunisia’s revolution, its leader said.
We have mainstream Islamist movements related to the Muslim Brotherhood that clearly renounced violence some 20 years ago as a means of political struggle.
The contradiction between the United States’ official stance and its actual goals only lead to two conclusions: first, the United States is not actually concerned with spreading democracy, using it as a public relations tool….
When I first heard of the massacre that took place in Oslo last Friday, I wasn’t shocked as much as I was irritated. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw dozens of kids dead; it was as if whoever did that was heartless.
The killing of Osama Ben Laden might help to put a closure for the thousands of families who lost their loved ones to al Qaeda, and represents a major symbolic victory for governments waging the so called “War on Terror”.
What role the Muslim Brotherhood would play in a new Egypt and a changing Middle East. Yet much of what we know – or think we know – about the group’s ambitions, beliefs and history is clouded by misperceptions.
KEVIN Rudd, The Australian Foreign Minister, has said the international community “must engage” with the Muslim Brotherhood as Egypt prepares for democratic elections.
Having been an important player in Egypt’s political landscape for nearly a century, the Muslim Brotherhood is a force to be reckoned with. It cannot be ignored, and no amount of Glenn Beck-style hyperventilating will change that.
Egyptians will go to the polls on Nov. 28 to vote for positions in Parliament. In the last election, members of the Islamist political group, the Muslim Brotherhood, running as independents, won one-fifth of the seats.
“The Brothers reject all stupid threats against Christian places of worship in Egypt issued by anyone and under any pretext,” the group said.
This who so called ‘expert’ is trying his best to fight the Muslim minority in the US, and this won’t lead to the good of the United States in the near future.
In a recent statement, media spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood Dr. Essam al-Erian described the scheduled “Quran burning” as a “barbaric act, reminiscent of the Inquisition” .
Robert Spencer -by Lying deliberately and blatantly- is supporting dictatorship in Egypt, which definitely will lead to another Al Qaeda and another Ayman Al Zawahry.
The attacks of September 11, 2001, the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, and the war on terror, mainly Islamist terrorism, have strained the relations with the Muslim world, which considered the US and the West at war with Islam.
Commentary: The real threat in Egypt: Delayed democracy
No one in Egypt is talking about demolishing the peace treaty with Israel, even the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is standing against the Israeli violations against humanity.