Opinion

The Pharaoh Weeps

Then came the Egyptian revolution in January and February 2011. Today, the subway that transports roughly 4 million passengers a day throughout this vast...

What Real Persecution Looks Like

Merely having the Christian Scriptures, which likely were smuggled across the border from China, put the unknown woman under suspicion of converting to Christianity,...

The United States and The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

We cannot prevent this, but we can make our attitude clear. In fact the Obama administration has, somewhat late and somewhat weakly, expressed disagreement,...

The Disaster of Middle East ‘Democracy’

In the United States, when the Union army of occupation withdrew from the South, years after the Civil War, majority rule returned to the...

US Aid to Egypt Is Counterproductive

For example, because of their ideological beliefs, the MB did not promote the country’s tourism industry, which has been a vital piece of the...

It’s a Charity! It’s a Movement! It’s the Muslim Brotherhood!

The group was founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, who advocated mixing religious studies with political activism to cultivate a more moral Muslim youth,...

New Laws Would Cripple Egyptian Democratic Institutions

Foremost among these is legislation that would regulate nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) — the building blocks of democracy. As in many other countries, Egypt’s independent...

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