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Al Jazeera is in my living room, on my TV. I did not order it or ask for it. Arabic is on my makeup, all of a sudden. I don’t know what it says. It could say “Death to the Infidel” for all I know, like, the Imam’s Muslim prayer that covertly damned our soldiers at the…
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Egypt's Black Bloc grew out of a struggle for liberation from an authoritarian system, only after non-violent civil efforts had failed. Not to be confused with America's Black Bloc, which is friend to likes of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's Black Bloc is an enemy to their country's new Islamist rulers and fights for democracy and…
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In FrontPage this morning, j'accuse: Barack Obama promised Tuesday that he would be taking lessons from the Boston Marathon jihad bombing: “When an event like this happens, we want to review every step that was taken, we want to leave no stone unturned, we want to see if there is in fact additional protocols and procedures that could be…
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“God is our Goal. The Prophet is our leader. The Quran is our constitution. Jihad is our way. Death in the service of God is the loftiest of our wishes. God is great, God is great.” This is the motto of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt as a vehicle to establish a…
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An Army Reserve unit undergoing training on religious extremism recently in Pennsylvania was told by an Army instructor that Evangelical Christians, Catholics, Mormons and Orthodox Jews are on the same level with Hamas, al-Qaida and the Ku Klux Klan. The training was part of the Army Reserve Equal Opportunity program. The slide that listed examples…
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It seems like every Sunday, there's a new face sitting in the pews of the Church of Saint Verena and the Three Holy Youth in Orange, Calif. Most are young professionals or families with small children and some have been living in the United States for a just few weeks. “The first waves of immigration,”…
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The current situation in the Middle East offers a clear example of what happens when amateurs face off against professionals – the amateurs end up with egg on their faces. Someone once said that whenever the savages fight the civilized, the savages always win. The same can be said when professionals face off against amateurs:…
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Over 10,000 ultraconservative Muslims demonstrated Friday in downtown Cairo to demand that Egypt’s new constitution be based on the rulings of Islamic law, or Shariah, in the latest tussle over the role of religion in the country’s future. The writing of the constitution has been fraught with controversy since last year’s political uprising that toppled…
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Police in Egypt and Yemen fired tear gas at protesters near U.S. embassies as angry protests against a movie mocking the Prophet Mohammed raged for a fourth day. Officials throughout the Muslim world were braced for violent eruptions following Friday prayers, as police and clerics appear to have tried to calm emotions. In Cairo, many…
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