Political Islam vs. Modernity
The conception of the modern state: modern Islamists are unable to understand or accept or even admire the modern state system, which is the product or the result of centuries of political, [...]
Cairo, City of Fights: The Promise of Egypt’s Revolution Dies Out
By early Friday afternoon, a small scrum of screamers had gathered in Tahrir Square. But the group was hardly big enough to disrupt traffic. An even smaller bunch congregated near the Mogamma, [...]
Why Revolutionary Sunni Islamism is the World’s Greatest Strategic Threat and None of It Is Moderate
Some ask why I use the word “Islamism” and the reason is because this is a specific, conscious set of organized political movements. However theology is related to this issue the problem is [...]
Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood
But something happened to the GOP in the Bush years. For all the welcome understanding that Bill Clinton was wrong — that the jihad could not be indicted into submission — the Bush [...]
NGO: Armed Gangs Plunder Minia’s Copts and Impose Tributes on Them
A delegation of Justice and Development Human Rights Organization has monitored a number of attacks and blackmails by armed gangs against the Christians of Al-Minia Governorate, namely the [...]
Obama Administration Met with 30 Brotherhood Members Before Egypt’s Presidential Elections
Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, professor of Political Sociology and Director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, recently revealed important details about separate negotiations between [...]
EU Doesn’t Care About the Fate of Christians in the Middle East, Says Beirut Patriarch
Interview with His Beatitude Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III., Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church in the Middle East and one of the seven Patriarchs in this region. The Syriac Catholic Church is [...]
Persecution of Christian Copts in Egypt on Rise as Muslim Brotherhood Consolidates Power
On August 14, 2012, a publication called El Fegr posted a copy of a letter inciting violence against Christians. The title of the letter is “An Urgent and Important Notice.” [...]
Copts Threatened for Selling ‘Filthy Idols’
Youm-7, one of Egypt’s popular secular media that was recently attacked by Muslim Brotherhood supporters, reports that at least seventeen Christian bookstores in Shubra, one of [...]
