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Islamaphobia Rapidly Spreads Through Europe
Pepe Escobar | Alternet Last Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel stunned the world by declaring, in front of young members of her party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), that...
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The Hater Party: How Right-Wing Candidates Have Turned Hate Into Political...
Source By Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) “Unemployed workers are lazy welfare queens,” said Sharron Angle, running for Senate in Nevada under the Tea Party banner, in one of her many speeches laced with...
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Mother Jones: Muslimophobia: Election Roundup
Source | By Jen Phillips — YouTube still from Josh Mandel campaign / fair use First, the good news: Many anti-Muslim candidates did not get elected Tuesday. Now the bad news: Alas, several anti-Muslim...
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TIME: What’s So Scary About Egypt’s Islamists?
By Aryn Baker and Abigail Hauslohner / Kafr Shibin Source Night settles over Egypt, and the women of Kafr Shibin, a small town in the Nile River Delta, are attending the election rally of a local...
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United States of Fear: How Right-Wing Lawmakers Will Use Absurd Terrorism...
Source | Stephan Salisbury There are some things to be thankful for. The woman who puzzled over Hispanics in her audience of high-school students and suggested they looked “Asian” was defeated in her...
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Meet Radical Islam’s Tech Guru
by Sarah A. Topol | Source CAIRO—Abdul-Jalil Al-Sharnouby, a bespectacled tech guru, talks a mile a minute about the Internet, often ruminating on unique visitors, Web hosts, and how to evade...
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We must engage Muslim Brotherhood, says Kevin Rudd
Source: The Australian Speaking in Cairo at the weekend, the Foreign Minister said it was important the Islamic group banned by ousted president Hosni Mubarak did not believe it had been shunned from...
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Five myths about the Muslim Brotherhood
Washington Post | By Lorenzo Vidino Even before Hosni Mubarak gave in to the throngs in Tahrir Square and stepped down as Egypt’s president on Feb. 11, officials in Western capitals were debating what...
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The Muslim Brotherhood After Mubarak
What the Brotherhood Is and How it Will Shape the Future Carrie Rosefsky Wickham With the end of the Mubarak era looming on the horizon, speculation has turned to whether the Muslim Brotherhood will...
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The Stream: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Source | By Ahmed Shihab Eldin As the Brotherhood aims for a position in the new government, Egyptian youth discuss the topic of Islamist politics. “You can’t dictate democracy,” I said to a woman...
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What Does the U.S. Want to Talk to the Brotherhood About?
Source | By: Nathan J. Brown In a confusing set of statements at the end of June, Washington appeared to be taking a bold initiative and denying it at the same time. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
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The dangers of secularism in the Middle East
CS Monitor | By Daniel Philpott, Timothy Samuel Shah, and Monica Duffy Toft Since the Arab Spring began last December, Western analysts have voiced a recurrent fear: that a long era of Arab stability...
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Commentary: MB and Democracy, Mutually Exclusive?
Ikhwanweb.com Latest events in the Middle East, particularly Egypt following the January 25 revolution, have proven that the conservative Muslim Brotherhood is the true pro-democracy advocate,...
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The Muslim Brotherhood Can Be a Moderate Voice in Islamist Politics
By Cameron Glenn | Source In a country struggling to navigate an unprecedented transition to democracy, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt is positioned to make a strong...
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“I Stayed to Fight”— Being a Muslim Immigrant in Post 9/11 America
Mona Eltahawy | Source For most of my life, the US was never anything more than vacation memories. My family visited almost 30 years ago for a vacation that marked the end of our years of living in...
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Commentary: The real threat in Egypt: Delayed democracy
Jackson Diehl wrote for the Washington post an op-ed on the “real threat in Egypt: Delayed democracy“: A lot of people in Washington seem to think so, though they are talking about it quietly so far....
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Don’t fear us: Tunisian Islamist leader
By Tarek Amara | Source The October 23 vote for an assembly that will draft a new constitution has pitted resurgent Islamists against secular groups who say their modern, liberal values are under...
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Tunisia and Egypt One Year On
anuary 25 marked the one-year anniversary of the inception of Egypt’s revolution against the dictatorship of the Mubarak regime, eleven days after the success of the Tunisian revolution, when its...
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Why Nations Start Dumb Wars: Is Israel Setting the Stage for Tragedy?
Netanyahu may calculate that an election-season Israeli attack might force the Obama administration to back a war and/or damage Obama’s re-election chances. Wars are fought because some people decide...
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A putsch against war
Generals and secret police chiefs get together for an attack on the politicians. In some countries, they arrest the president, occupy government offices and TV stations and annul the constitution....
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