Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
There has been widespread condemnation of the violence directed against journalists covering events in Egypt–and there should be. But honestly, I don’t have a great deal of sympathy for those who have been attacked. Journalists have a job to do,
The Worker’s Paradise of North Korea, which has received soft treatment from an Associated Press reporter who recently visited there, just carried out the public execution of two people who read literature from South Korea. Family members of both were
How about a photo-trip down sharia-memory lane? Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) on the hustings for then-Senate-candidate Al Franken in October 2008 with Somali sharia court enthusiast Abdullahi Ugas Farah. —- The political atmosphere is toxic. I am not talking about
As the cliche goes, there are no coincidences in politics. Obama fundraiser group Code Pink just happened to have arrived in Cairo last week for the group’s ninth visit there in two years as part of its campaign to undermine
Pro-American, Egyptian blogger, Sandmonkey, was arrested in Egypt, beaten and has now been released. He recently Tweeted – more at link: will tell the story later . Thank you all. I just need to rest now. #jan25 I am ok.
In 1979, the overthrow of the Shah of Iran ushered in an Islamic theocracy; the face of that theocracy was the Ayatollah Khomeini but there was another group the Islamists desperately needed to help put him in power – the
Edward W. Lane in Turkish garb What forces might be fully unleashed beyond Egypt’s borders if the Mubarak government is replaced by one far less inclined toward restraining its denizens? A recent detailed study of Egyptian children’s textbooks, revealed their
The Muslim Brotherhood has long been a major political force in the Muslim world. Its power comes from a deep conviction among Muslims in general that its ideology represents True Islam and that it is the front line of defense
With fears that Islamist extremists might come to power in Egypt, there are dire warnings coming out of Moscow. Yulia Latynina, a talk show host and columnist warns in The Moscow Times that a “New Iron Curtain” is descending on
A report by the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission claims that China is making a play to control the global telecom industry. The Commission, which was established by congress, says that Chinese state-owned telecom companies are producing much
In trying to predict what Egypt’s next leadership will look like, two unlikely names keep popping up: Nelson Mandela and the United Nations. Mandela, to illustrate what Egypt lacks; the UN, to demonstrate what there might just be too much
As their nation’s capital descends into chaos and violence, one thing that continues to characterize this crisis in Egypt has been the behavior of its army – an army showing restraint. This is in a nation that in living memory
No sooner had Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak finished his speech on Tuesday evening vowing to step down in September, then pro-Mubarak and anti-Mubarak started throwing sticks and rocks at each other. Hosni Mubarak giving speech on Tuesday (Telegraph) Egypt’s president
Castro and the latest victim of his unilateral “law.” On December 3rd 2009 Alan Gross, a U.S. citizen distributing cell phones and computer equipment to Cuba’s Jewish community on contract for the U.S. Agency for International Development prepared to board
The pot finally came to a boil when on New Year’s Eve a suicide bomber ripped through parishioners at an Alexandria church, killing dozens of Christians. That same church was the site of another attack several years prior, when a
Karin McQuillan has a fascinating article at American Thinker regarding the instrumental role the Muslim Brotherhood played in closing the doors of pre-state Israel to Europe’s Jews and radicalizing Middle East populations against their own Jewish citizens. Particularly poignant is
Two women who traveled from Portland, Oregon to Cairo last week to participate in Code Pink’s latest Hamas-aid trip to Gaza ended up getting rescued by a big oil company–the kind Code Pink usually protests as killing the planet, when
With fears that the Muslim Brotherhood could gain power in Egypt, I thought it would be a good idea to put together a short CBN report on the group’s roots, ideology and goals. My hope was to get the average
During the summer of 2009, the British were fighting hard for Sangin. They were always outnumbered by Taliban and terrain. Casualties were high. Today, US Marines are paying in blood for the very same ground because, in part, they gave
Dick Morris has observed that President Obama’s tenure will be darkly remembered by our countrymen for his having “lost” Egypt. Since the effect of the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak collapsing imminently and its replacement by one dominated by the
Captain Owen Honors had his Navy career destroyed over those controversial videos. In newly released statements to investigators, he tells his side of the story. According to Honors, not only did his superiors encourage the videos, they were shown to
The woman known as “Jihad Jane” quietly stood before a federal judge in Philadelphia Tuesay and admitted plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist and to recruiting people to wage terrorist attacks. Colleen LaRose pled guilty to conspiracy to support terrorists,
Fjordman writes in today with a story from Spiegel Online that notes the concerted efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood, jihad men of the hour, to look normal and non-threatening for benefit of swooning world media. Spiegel begins by describing the
As Egypt’s much-anticipated moment of crisis arrived and popular rebellions shook governments across the Middle East, Iran stands as never before at the center of the region. Its Islamist rulers are within sight of dominating the region. But revolutions are
On today’s Secure Freedom Radio with Frank Gaffney, Frank is joined by The Grand Jihad author, Andy McCarthy who lays out how the Muslim Brotherhood operates strategically. McCarthy describes a strategic method of operation that serves to take and keep
