All Art Is “Immoral,” Says “Moderate” Sheikh Al Azhar
By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive to Coptic Solidarity – Art has a largely negative impact on human morality. So says Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Egypt’s Al Azhar madrassa [...]
Trump to American Muslims: Embrace Christianity, Pay Jizya, or Die?
By Raymond Ibrahim -Published in Frontpage Magazine – As American liberals/leftists continue to portray Donald Trump’s immigration ban on seven Muslim nations in the worst possible [...]
American Historian: Trump Does Not Look at the Muslim Brotherhood Like Obama; I Expect It Will Be Banned
By Abdelaziz Al-Sharafy – Al-Watan American historian and analyst Daniel Pipes said he expects that the bill put forward by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a [...]
Fmr. Jordanian FM Marwan Al-Muasher: We Must Vanquish Terror Groups Ideologically, Not Just Militarily
By MEMRI – Former Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Al-Muasher said, in a recent TV interview, that the education systems in the Arab world had “failed miserably,” and that the [...]
To My Muslim Egyptian Friends, I Say I am puzzled
An open letter By: Lofty Basta, MD – My dears, I have to be frank with you. The massacre of 25 Copts and injuring of more than 60 worshipers in the Chapel near the Patriarchate of Egypt IS [...]
Muhammad Married to Mary? For Egypt’s Christians, No “Anti-Defamation of Religions” Protection
By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive for Coptic Solidarity – Recently during his televised program, Dr. Salem Abdul Galil—previously deputy minister of Egypt’s religious endowments for [...]
Egyptian Intellectual Dr. Khale Montaser: Islamic Extremism Does Not Stem From Poverty Or Ignorance; Our Interpretation Of Our Religion Is In Conflict With Modernity
By MEMRI – Egyptian intellectual Dr. Khaled Montaser said that while extremism was once considered to be the outcome of poverty or of one’s environment, this does not explain [...]
Rift escalates, becomes public between Sisi, Al-Azhar
By Al-Masry Al-Youm – President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s latest statements to Egypt’s Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb have publically revealed disagreement and tension [...]
Trump v. Radical Islam
By Judith Miller – City Journal – In his brief, blunt, and protectionist inaugural speech, President Donald J. Trump declared war on “radical Islamic terrorism,” using a [...]
Kuwaiti Writer: The Recent Passing Of The International Religious Freedom Act In The U.S. Indicates That The World Has Had Enough Of Muslim Religious Extremism
By MEMRI – In an article in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas, journalist Ahmad Al-Sarraf wrote about the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act recently passed by the U.S. administration. [...]
