(Reuters) – Leading Egyptian political parties will back a senior figure in the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) for the assembly’s speaker, with another Islamist group and a liberal party taking the deputy posts, an FJP official said on Monday. (more)
Egypt’s two leading Islamist parties won about two-thirds of votes for party lists in the second round of polling for a parliament that will help draft a new constitution after decades of autocratic rule, the election committee said Saturday. (more)
The parties that have received the most votes in Egypt’s elections are the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party and the Salafist al-Nour Party. Both are Islamist parties. Yet Western observers — including Obama administration officials — claim that the Muslim Brotherhood is a “moderate Islamist” group while the Salafists are radical. (more)
Ibn Warraq says the West has become gun shy in defending the values of Western civilization. (more)
“There has been a serious lack of study and analysis of the different branches of Islam and a failure to understand the agenda of Muslim Brotherhood front organizations in this country.” (more)
CAIRO (AP) — Anticipating a strong presence in the new Egyptian parliament, ultraconservative Islamists outlined plans Friday for a strict brand of religious law, a move that could limit personal freedoms and steer a key U.S. ally toward an Islamic state. (more)
Arab hate: A Muslim Brotherhood rally in Cairo’s most prominent mosque Friday turned into a venomous anti-Israel protest, with attendants vowing to “one day kill all Jews.” (more)
The White House has cautiously condemned Sunday’s attacks on Egyptian Christians by Islamists and security forces, but critics say its policies have spurred the country’s slide toward Islamic rule. (more)
There’s a new political timeline for Egypt. Apparently horrified by disorder and radicalization, the military junta has decided to slow things down. (more)
Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks, a member of the House Committee on Armed Services, had strong words Friday following the admission from Secretary of State Hilary Clinton that the Obama administration is engaging with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood with a policy of “limited contact.” (more)
President Obama came into office pledging a new approach to the Middle East. We were told that his middle name — Hussein — would give him unprecedented entrée to the corridors of power in that troubled region — and to the Arab street. (more)
Contemplating the end of his Latin American visit and the apparently imminent turnover of operations in Libya, President Obama said: “This is something that we can build into our budget. And we’re confident that not only can the goals be achieved, but at the end of the day the American people are going to feel satisfied that lives were saved and people were helped.” (more)
The Daily Caller has acquired the talking points that the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), a group with deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, supplied to its supporters as an aid in attacking the Muslim radicalization hearing New York Republican Rep. Peter King held Thursday. Save for Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s incoherent ramblings on Thursday, Democrats’ statements and testimony against King’s hearing, whether intentionally or unintentionally, largely mirrored MPAC’s talking points. (more)
National Public Radio released internal e-mails between now-ousted CEO Vivian Schiller, newly-appointed temporary CEO Joyce Slocum and other senior NPR officials in an attempt to push back on video released by conservative James O’Keefe suggesting that the organization was willing to take money from what it thought was a Muslim Brotherhood front group. (more)
National Public Radio has released an official statement responding to conservative James O’Keefe’s new video, in which NPR’s senior director of institutional giving Betsy Liley is heard telling a man acting as a member of a fictitious Muslim Brotherhood front group that NPR would take a $5 million donation from his organization and help protect the organization’s identity in the case of a government audit. But, NPR made no mention of its latest gaffe: saying it refused the $5 million donation when, in fact, the new video suggests the organization was open to accepting it. (more)
The threat of homegrown terror is real, as the terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Texas vividly illustrated. Today the House Committee on Homeland Security, under the chairmanship of Congressman Peter King (R-NY), held a critically important hearing on “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s Response.” Predictably, the liberal media is up in arms condemning the hearing and politically correct liberal groups have likened it to modern-day McCarthyism. (more)
“…more than half this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media.” (more)
Joining the ranks of those disappointed with what they saw of two National Public Radio (NPR) executives caught in an undercover sting disparaging aspects of American culture, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Tuesday called on Ron Schiller, one of the now former executives, to apologize for the comments he made about the Jews controlling the media. (more)
White House officials are boosting the visibility and clout of Islamic revivalist groups in the United States, and are sidelining the growing network of liberal-minded, modern American Muslims. (more)
The fallout from the video conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe released Tuesday morning has been devastating for NPR. However, Juan Williams, a former NPR analyst who was fired unjustly even according to NPR President Vivian Schiller, finally had his turn to sound off about the video, which apparently showed an NPR senior executive, Ron Schiller, making some disparaging remarks about the Tea Party, the Jewish people and Williams himself. (more)
