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The Muslim Brotherhood: Origins, Efficacy, and Reach 27 Aug 2013 | 02:45 am
Note: The following essay, commissioned and written nearly a year ago but only recently published, has, in light of the June 30 Revolution and ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, been slightly ...
Writing the bin Laden Story 25 Aug 2013 | 05:49 pm
Great, definitive biographies are rarely written by their subjects' contemporaries. Generations often pass before sufficient evidence can be amassed, analyzed, and written into a narrative by a skille...
Bay'ah to Baghdadi: Foreign Support for Sheikh Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham 25 Aug 2013 | 05:12 pm
Over the past couple of months, jihadi media outlets have circulated numerous photos and statements indicating support from various places abroad for Sheikh Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State ...
EU Challenges the UN and OIC on Press Freedom 25 Aug 2013 | 05:09 pm
The European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg passed two resolutions Thursday, each detailing a set of recommendations to protect the rights of journalists to speak and print freely. 21 "The EU, as a com...
Undaunted: Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff's Fight for Free Speech 25 Aug 2013 | 05:06 pm
The self-proclaimed Austrian "anti-jihad" and "anti-sharia activist" Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff appeared on June 21, 2013 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC, at an event co-sponsor...
World learns to manage without the US 23 Aug 2013 | 09:34 pm
The giant sucking sound you here, I said on August 15 on CNBC's The Kudlow Report, is the implosion of America's influence in the Middle East. Vladimir Putin's August 17 offer of Russian military assi...
A Terror Leader Behind Bars in Egypt 22 Aug 2013 | 01:14 am
The supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, the head of the Islamist snake, Muhammad Badie—who had slipped security forces by traveling in and out of the Brotherhood torture camps (known as "peacefu...
Morsi detained, bloodbath in Egypt 21 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am
As Egypt explodes in what could be civil war, with a reported death toll of at least 628 dead and rising in clashes between security forces and Islamists that began August 14, many are wondering, what...
Pessimism clouds any survey of Islamist protests in Iraq 20 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
Despite a decline in media coverage, Sunni Arab protests in Iraq continue to occur. The demonstrations reflect a widespread feeling of marginalisation among Sunni Arabs. Yet there has been scant analy...
Mubarak's Muslim Brotherhood Prophecy 20 Aug 2013 | 03:27 am
In a video of Hosni Mubarak when he was still Egypt's president, the strategies of which he accuses the Muslim Brotherhood have come to pass. What follows are Mubarak's words from a conference in Egyp...
