“Muslim Brotherhood” on The Daily Caller

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)

Historian Bernard Lewis, 94, discussed the ongoing wave of anti-government protests across the Middle East in an interview published Friday in the Jerusalem Post. (more)

The term “useful idiot” is believed to have been coined by Vladimir Lenin. It originally described liberal Communist sympathizers in Western nations who, as the Soviet leader explained, would “sell us (Soviet Russia) the rope with which we will hang them (the West).” (more)

There are many lessons to be learned from the demonstrations in Madison, Wisconsin. First and foremost, workers in the public sector should never have been allowed to unionize. Once that happened, it was inevitable that civil servants would wind up being better paid and better pensioned than the folks in the private sector. That’s because they got to wind up negotiating with politicians who had nothing to lose by giving in to union demands. (more)

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, widely considered the preeminent Muslim Brotherhood theologian, returned to Cairo today to call on Egyptians to “guard your revolution,” according to The Christian Science Monitor. (more)

Both the left and right have been struggling to deal with the philosophical consequences of Hosni Mubarak’s fall from power in Egypt. Much of the right’s discussion has focused on the role the Muslim Brotherhood is playing in the day-to-day events of the Middle East. (more)

Reporting from Cairo — (more)

Political turmoil in the Mideast is par for the course, and political revolution tinged with religious overtones is a part of ancient Egyptian history. Back in the day, King Tut’s daddy, Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, changed his name to Akhenaten as the proponent of a then-revolutionary proto-monotheism focused on the sun (Aten). In a land with a plethora of gods and plenty of sun, but no Ray-Bans or SPF-anything, this endeavor was doomed to fail. And indeed, for his efforts, Akhenaten was banished from history for 3,000 years. (more)

CAIRO (AP) — Amnesty International has published the testimonies of two detainees who allege the Egyptian military tortured them while they were in custody in the days before the ousting of Hosni Mubarak. (more)

CAIRO, Feb. 15 (UPI) — The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt announced Tuesday that it began the processes necessary to become a formal political party. (more)

The recent popular uprising and military coup in Egypt has caused the historic and involuntary departure of the country’s 30-year dictator, Hosni Mubarak. His removal from power, and the earlier departure of Tunisia’s dictator, Ben Ali, marks the beginning of a new, uncertain period throughout the region. Arab people are purportedly demonstrating for freedom and democracy. If not careful, tyranny and Islamic religious repression may be what they get, with war the inevitable outcome. President Obama urgently needs to devise new strategies to effectively mitigate dangers to peace and security emanating from these uprisings. (more)

Former diplomat John Bolton distinguished himself from other prospective 2012 presidential candidates at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference by focusing almost entirely on foreign policy in a speech Saturday and slamming President Obama for his reaction to the crisis in Egypt. (more)

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty railed against President Barack Obama, like every other Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) speaker, but the likely 2012 presidential candidate surprised the audience with his high-energy delivery. (more)

On Thursday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak turned a crisis into a tragedy. His disastrous decision not to resign could very well lead to the end of Egypt as we know it. It will almost certainly lead to destruction. Mubarak is so tone deaf that he stoked the flames of the anti-Mubarak revolution. Now there is no way for this to end peacefully. The Egyptian crisis is now all but fated to end in tragedy. (more)

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is a secular organization. (more)

As Obama’s college classmate at Columbia, I was familiar with the teachings of our Marxist professors, Cloward and Piven. Following their strategy, Obama launched his original plan to distract America and overwhelm the system with Obamacare, cap and trade, the stimulus, extending unemployment benefits, card check, banning offshore oil drilling, suing Arizona for enforcing federal laws against illegal immigration, onerous new environmental and banking regulations, and even an attempt to make Puerto Rico the 51st state. We couldn’t keep up with all the socialist bills and proposals. That was precisely the point — create a crisis, overwhelm the system, and make our heads spin with multiple distractions. (more)