Tag: Egypt

Thoughts on Cario and Benghazi

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by Victor Davis Hanson

NRO’s The Corner

We Seem to Have Learned Nothing from 9/11

I thought we had learned long ago on 9/11 that radical Islam hates the West not because of troops in Saudi Arabia, or Danish cartoons or Mr. Rushdie, or even, as Dr. Zawahiri and bin Laden once wrote, global warming and an absence of campaign-finance reform — or, this week, a low-rent, do-it-yourself crackpot video — but out of a deep sense of its own inferiority in a globalized world, whose causes run throughout traditional Middle Eastern society Continue reading “Thoughts on Cario and Benghazi” →

Storming Embassies, Killing Ambassadors, and ‘Smart’ Diplomacy

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by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

The attacks on the US embassy yesterday in Cairo and the storming of the American consulate in Libya, where the US ambassador was murdered along with three staff members — and the initial official American reaction to the mayhem — are all reprehensible, each in their own way. Let us sort out this terrible chain of events. Continue reading “Storming Embassies, Killing Ambassadors, and ‘Smart’ Diplomacy” →

It’s All Violence on Copts: From Sex Slavery to Calls of Genocide in Egypt

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by Raymond Ibrahim

Posts from Jihad Watch
Egypt’s Salafi Party Objects to Banning Sex Slavery

Considering that the abduction, enslavement, rape, and trafficking of Coptic Christian girls, especially minors, in Egypt is at an all time high — according to US lawyers, 550 such cases have been documented in the last five years — Egypt’s Constituent Assembly to the Constitution met yesterday to consider the inclusion of a new article, Continue reading “It’s All Violence on Copts: From Sex Slavery to Calls of Genocide in Egypt” →

Islam’s ‘Holy Month’ of Christian Oppression

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by Raymond Ibrahim

Investigative Project on Terrorism

The month of Ramadan, which ended earlier this week, proved to be a month of renewed Muslim piety on the one hand, and renewed oppression of non-Muslim minorities on the other. In Nigeria, for example, Islamic militants are living up to the assertion that “Ramadan is a month of jihad and death for Allah,” proving that killing Christians is not only reserved for Christian holidays — like Christmas and Easter, when militants bombed churches killing dozens — but is especially applicable during Islam’s Ramadan. Continue reading “Islam’s ‘Holy Month’ of Christian Oppression” →

Obama Administration’s War on Persecuted Christians

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by Raymond Ibrahim

Investigative Project on Terrorism

The Obama administration’s support for its Islamist allies means lack of US support for their enemies, or, more properly identified, victims — the Christian and other non-Muslim minorities of the Muslim world. Consider the many recent proofs: Continue reading “Obama Administration’s War on Persecuted Christians” →

MSM Facilitates Destruction of the Pyramids

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by Raymond Ibrahim

Frontpage Magazine

Because the article “Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin” went viral on the Internet — read nearly 400,000 times on FrontPage Magazinealone where it first appeared — as expected, the infamous “hoax” charge has been made to lull the West back to sleep. Continue reading “MSM Facilitates Destruction of the Pyramids” →

The Democracy Delusion and Obama’s Failed Mideast Policy

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by Bruce Thornton

Frontpage Magazine

The New York Times headline on Secretary of State Clinton’s visit to Egypt said it all: “US Is in a Quandary.” That’s putting it mildly. Better words for this administration’s foreign policy are “confused,” “contradictory,” and “delusional.” Continue reading “The Democracy Delusion and Obama’s Failed Mideast Policy” →

The World Is Changing Minute by Minute

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by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

We are witnessing a seismic shift in global affairs. The shake-up is a perfect storm of political, demographic, and technological change that will soon make the world as we have known it for the last 30 years almost unrecognizable. Continue reading “The World Is Changing Minute by Minute” →

Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids

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by Raymond Ibrahim

FrontPage Magazine

According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s Great Pyramids — or, in the words of Saudi Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi’i, those “symbols of paganism,” which Egypt’s Salafi party has long planned to cover with wax. Continue reading “Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids” →

The Evils of the Muslim Brotherhood

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by Raymond Ibrahim

Investigative Project on Terrorism

Egypt’s longtime banned Muslim Brotherhood — the parent organization of nearly every subsequent Islamist movement, including al Qaeda — has just won the nation’s presidency, in the name of its candidate, Muhammad Morsi. Continue reading “The Evils of the Muslim Brotherhood” →