Opinion

Egypt Becoming An Islamist State May Be Inevitable?

Meanwhile, since the presidency of Gamel Abdel Nasser (1956-1970), the Egyptian government has practiced steam control with the Brotherhood, looking the other way as...

My Brother My Enemy :
America and the Battle of Ideas across the Islamic World

While Smucker, a foreign journalist for publications including U.S. News and World Report and Time, appears sincere in his search for peaceful solutions, he...

An Islamist Constitution for Egypt

Mursi’s honeyed electoral rhetoric is unable to bridge the chasm of distrust that divides the Islamists and the non-Islamists. How can Egyptians believe Mursi...

Facebook Meets Brick-and-Mortar Politics

What happened to the “Facebook Revolution”?Actually, Facebook is having a bad week — in the stock market and the ideas market. As a liberal...

Future Remains Clouded for the Christian Copts in Egypt

On March 12, 2012, a judge sentenced the police officer to death. Samia Sidhom, the managing editor of a Cairo newspaper, said the ruling...

Egypt’s Nightmare: Islamists or the Military?

Traditionally the Muslim world has resorted to brute military force as the only way to restrain and contain the Islamists. But either choice has...

Salafi Leader: No Freedom in Islam; Apostates Must be Persecuted

For the record, the "agreed upon hadiths" that Burhami indicated, are, in fact, unequivocal in regards to the crime of apostasy. The most canonical...

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