Tag: islamists

What a launch for Kerry, whose mental vapidity promises to make Hillary Clinton actually look good in retrospect.

David Cameron's response to infamous British MP George Galloway in parliament last week.

On Monday it was reported that Islamists burned down the Ahmed Baba Institute library.

The left has sided with the reactionaries and against their comrades in other countries because they hate their own countries’ systems more.

The US government will provide arms, money, and diplomatic support to a regime whose ruling forces openly evince hysterical antisemitism and call for genocide against Israel.

An organization that can seize about 1,000 hostages in the middle of Algeria, a country whose regime has been so tough on radical Islamists, is not dead.

The issue is simply this one: When you say something or do something or spend something whose side are you on?

It now remains to be seen whether the Salafi Jihadists will resort to violence to prevent or foil the parliamentary election.

U.S. influence is markedly less than we – or our enemies – think it is, or ever thought it was.

A large part of the problem with Obama’s policy is that he not only treated enemies as friends and did not pressure supposed friends that acted like enemies, he joined them.

In another time and place, a place called America, an attack on an American diplomatic mission would have been considered an act of war.

Offending Islam has become a national security issue involving all levels of government.

The problem nowadays is that an insane interpretation of international affairs seems to be a quality defining who 'the best people are.'

Two years after the beginning of the upheaval in the Arab world, the picture does not arouse too much optimism.

Egyptians want an Islamic state.

In the Middle East, secular movements are more poorly funded and more naïve about how to operate politically than the Islamists.

What happens, then, if the regime doesn’t give in and the army doesn’t stop the demonstrations?

Ideologues are dictators on steroids who don't moderate upon reaching power but dig themselves in.

When solidarity along group lines takes priority and the line is that all of “us” must unite against the “other” no matter what truth, logic, or justice dictates then that means serious trouble. And guess what? That is the line of the Obama Administration and its Newest Left supporters.

Recently an Egyptian Muslim posted a YouTube videotape of himself cursing Islam and its holy book, the Koran; then tearing it to pieces and throwing it in the garbage. On a talk show guests called for the man's death. Already under President Morsi's first two months, Islamists have become more emboldened—whether by pressuring women to wear the hijab, by killing a Muslim youth for publicly holding hands with his fiancée, or by disseminating flyers that call for the total genocide of Egypt's Christian Copts.

There is no doubting the Islamist revolution in Tunisia.

The latest anti-prostitution campaign in East London typifies an Islamist strategy, which is to create parallel communities for Muslims that do not interact with their non-Muslim neighbors. Islamists use these initiatives to present themselves as active members of the community, often picking on legitimate and understandable concerns. Their aim is to win new recruits and further their divisive agenda.

The next era in the Middle East will be dominated by the debate over whether Islamism is the way to go. Islamists will radicalize the regional scene, carry out terrorism at home and abroad, and inflict repression on their own people wherever they get power.

Let’s remember that the Islamists are still headed for control of Egypt. They might win the presidency in the second round. The parliament, which they run, is going to make the rules and write the constitution. If they don’t like who becomes president, they will reduce his powers.

From the outset of the revolts in other Arab countries King Abdullah was very concerned that a similar revolt could threaten his regime. He was therefore quick to announce reforms. He has also been trying to divert the attention towards Israel by blaming the Jewish state for the shortcomings and failures of the Jordanian government, just like other Arab leaders have been doing for years.

Statements come in annual Human Rights Watch report.