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Egypt’s Brotherhood head urges jihad for Jerusalem
CAIRO — The supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi emanated, called on Thursday for a jihad (holy war) to liberate Jerusalem from Israeli rule. “Jerusalem is Islamic … and nobody is entitled to make concessions” on the Holy City, said Sheikh Mohammed Badie in…
Egypt’s Morsi lists successes of first 100 days
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Saturday listed the accomplishments of his first 100 days in office to a packed Cairo Stadium of mainly Muslim Brotherhood supporters bussed in for the occasion. The ceremony, held to commemorate the 39th anniversary of the 1973 war against Israel, was a show of force…
Egypt court upholds dissolution of parliament
Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court on Saturday rejected an appeal by Islamists demanding the reinstatement of parliament, saying it was no longer legal, according to a judicial source. “The parliament no longer exists legally since the June 14 ruling by the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC)” deeming it unconstitutional and ordering its…
United Arab Emirates Islamists confess to forming military arm
Islamists detained in the United Arab Emirates have confessed to forming a secret organisation that includes a military wing aimed at establishing an Islamist state, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Members of the banned Al-Islah, or Reform, association, said they planned to topple the UAE regime, a federation of seven…
Bachmann’s anti-Muslim ‘brain’ draws laughs at Values Voter Summit
Frank Gaffney, president of the right-wing Center for Security Policy think tank, said at the Family Research Council Action Fund’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. on Saturday that Islam is a “brutally repressive doctrine” that is “bad for just about all human beings.” Gaffney, the man largely credited with…
Egypt TV head denies inciting president’s murder
A television channel chief and presenter denied calling for the murder of President Mohamed Morsi when his trial on incitement charges opened in the Egyptian capital on Saturday. “I merely criticized President Morsi,” Tawfiq Okasha told judges at the court appearance, an AFP journalist reported. “This is a political trial.…
Muslim group pleads for FBI help after family’s home hit with firebomb
The Center for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued its second call for a federal investigation on Thursday into the “possible bias motive” of whoever threw a firebomb at a Florida Muslim family’s home in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Nobody was hurt in the incident due to the unknown…
Republican lawmakers continue to defend Muslim Brotherhood claims
The five House Republicans who alleged the Obama administration had been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood have refused to back down, despite criticism from members of their own party. Reps. Trent Franks (R-AZ), Tom Rooney (R-FL) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) told The Hill on Sunday that the media was unfairly…
Cantor defends Bachmann: Anti-Muslim witch hunt is ‘about security’
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) on Friday refused to condemn Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) suggestion that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin, had infiltrated the U.S. government on behalf of radical Islamists in the Muslim Brotherhood. Last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) accused Bachmann…
Top Romney adviser Bolton calls Bachmann’s anti-Muslim witch hunt ‘legitimate’
Appearing on a radio show on Tuesday, John Bolton, presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s top foreign policy adviser, defended Rep. Michelle Bachmann’s (R-MN) call for an anti-Muslim witch hunt investigation to determine whether U.S. officials have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. “What I think these members of…
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