Tag: Islam

If you go to the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, you will see a moving tableau, a series of statues of the brave young Americans who stormed ashore on June 6, 1944 to liberate a continent from the grip of

Egypt’s new constitutional declaration has something in common with it’s previous consitution–Sharia law. The American Thinker juxtaposed the language of the old with the language of the new to show that little has changed. For example, Article 2 of the Muslim

In Egypt, the United States is once again confronted with a tough choice between backing the champions of the status quo ante–a military-endorsed regime that resembles that of deposed President Hosni Mubarak–or accepting an Islamic state. As much as anything

The following is adapted from an unpublished manuscript I wrote about my experiences as a freelance writer in Cape Town, South Africa, which included living for two years with a Muslim family in the industrial neighborhood of Salt River. Both

Dear Mr. President: Recent events in Egypt show the failure of your administration’s policies toward this largest of Arab countries. You helped in the overthrow of dictator Hosni Mubarak. Very well. Americans should shed no tears for Mubarak’s departure. He stayed in

The toppling of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi may give rise to more radical Islamic factions in the political realm and more violent groups outside of it.  According to the Los Angeles Times, Ansar al-Shariah in Egypt has formed after

The Fides agency has reported that Islamist supporters of Mohamed Morsi have burned down a Coptic Catholic parish as revenge for the ouster of the former Egyptian president. According to the report, groups of Islamists first looted the home of

(AP) By MAGGIE MICHAEL and TONY G. GABRIEL – Egyptian troops opened fire on mostly Islamist protesters marching on a Republican Guard headquarters Friday to demand the restoration of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, killing at least one. The shooting came

(AP) By BARBARA SURK – Syria’s President Bashar Assad claimed in an interview published Thursday that countries conspiring against Syria have “used up all their tools” in their campaign to overthrow his regime. The remarks came as Western-backed Syrian opposition

The new transitional government of Egypt will be led by the head of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court, Judge Adly el-Mansour. Egyptian Army General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi chose el-Mansour to take charge after Mohamed Morsi was ousted; el-Mansour will be sworn

On July 2, Judicial Watch announced it obtained documents showing the FBI labeled U.S.-born Anwar al-Aulaqi a “dangerous terrorist” and warned agents to “approach with caution” on February 4, 2002–the very day before al-Aulaqi spoke at a Pentagon luncheon. The declassified documents

(AP) Egypt turmoil grows as army deadline set to expireBy HAMZA HENDAWIAssociated PressCAIROWith a military deadline for a resolution to Egypt’s political crisis looming, the country braced for a showdown Wednesday after embattled President Mohammed Morsi insisted he will not

According to FBI documents released after a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act request, terrorist cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki, who was killed in 2011 by a drone strike in Yemen, spent his days immediately after 9/11 patronizing hookers and hanging with

(AP) Crowds march in Egypt, pushing for Morsi removalBy MAGGIE MICHAEL, SARAH EL DEEB and HAMZA HENDAWIAssociated PressCAIROHundreds of thousands of opponents of Egypt’s Islamist president poured onto the streets in Cairo and across much of the nation Sunday, launching

Although Imran Firasat was acquitted on a hate crime charge tied to his movie The Innocent Prophet, he continues to face the possibility of being deported from Spain back to Pakistan. He warns that if that happens, he will face

Radical Egyptian cleric Yusuf Qaradawi is considered so radical that the United States bans him from entering the country. Qaradawi, considered the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, has called for the killing of Jews and Americans. That history makes the June 13 White

Islamists are taking advantage of Twitter to spread their violent propaganda. Writing in the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point’s journal, independent academic investigators Nico Prucha and Ali Fisher state: Twitter has become the main hub for the active dissemination

The New York Times published a rather one-sided article about the growing anti-Islam movement in Myanmar. Muslims are a minority there and the country’s Buddhists monks are voicing a growing concern about the Muslim residents.  ‘You can be full of kindness and love, but

News emerged a few weeks ago in Arabic media that yet another fatwa had called on practicing Muslim women to travel to Syria and offer their sexual services to the jihadis fighting to overthrow the secularist Assad government and install Islamic law.

Political correctness is dangerous, even deadly, especially when it is practiced by one of the nation’s most important law enforcement agencies. Judicial Watch recently released hundreds of pages of FBI memos and other documents revealing that, in 2012, the agency

Saudi Arabia is expanding the Grand Mosque in Mecca, according to wire reports, which contains the Kaaba, so that 2.2 million people can visit there simultaneously. The area of the Mosque will be increased by 400,000 square metres (4.3 million square feet).