Egypt cracks down on free speech, raids news site Mada Masr over Christian persecution coverage
Egyptian authorities raided one of the last independent news sites in the country, Mada Masr, after having arrested one of their editors the day prior. The news site has received international awards for its independent More...
Egypt reinstates President Sisi despite intolerance, hostility towards non-Muslims
Egypt’s President Sisi has reinstated a known Salafist extremist leader, allowing him to deliver sermons at an Alexandria mosque despite heavy opposition because of his reputation for intolerance. Opponents have More...
Adam Milstein vows to continue speaking out against Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and CAIR
Adam Milstein announced that he will continue to condemn antisemitic rhetoric from Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), even after he withdrew from a panel at the AIPAC Policy conference following More...
Egypt: Mahmoud Abou Zeid, Shawkan, released after spending over 5 years in prison
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails today’s release of Mahmoud Abou Zeid, the Egyptian photojournalist also known as Shawkan, after more than five and a half years in prison, but deplores that the fact that More...
University of Arizona students asked to compare Trump policies to Nazis
A University of Arizona student has reported that she was asked to compare President Trump’s policies to those of the Nazis in a course based on the history of the Holocaust. “Now that you have studied More...
Egypt: Abdel-Hady Rabie was sentenced to life for 2013 church burning
(International Christian Concern) –Abdel-Hady Rabie was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for burning a church in a Giza village in 2013. In Egypt, a life sentence is equal to twenty-five years. Rabie More...
Egypt handouts 75 death sentences to Muslim Brotherhood rebels, UN’s Michelle Bachelet says it’s ‘unfair’
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said today that she is extremely concerned that an Egyptian court’s confirmation of 75 death sentences on Saturday did not result from a fair trial, More...
ABC cancels ‘Roseanne’ after Roseanne Barr’s ‘abhorrent, repugnant’ tweet
ABC Networks has decided to cancel Roseanne. The decision comes after the show’s star Roseanne Barr made racist remarks on Twitter Tuesday, attacking former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, saying she’s the More...
Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, defended by Hillary Clinton, arrested for raping two women in France
The radical Islamic scholar that Hillary Clinton let back into the U.S. after a lengthy ban over terrorist ties is in jail on rape charges. This week a judge in France denied bail for Clinton’s pal, Tariq Ramadan, More...
Egypt court rules against Muslim Brotherhood extremists, Yusuf al-Qaradawi sentenced to life in prison
An Egyptian military court has sentenced eight people to death, including four in absentia, for alleged involvement in acts of violence in 2015. Yusuf Al Qardawi at the Third Annual Doha Educational Conference in More...
Egyptian journalist Ismail Alexandrani, Ismail Al Sayed Mohamed Omar Toufic, jailed two years, still no trial
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its call for the immediate and unconditional release of Ismail Al Sayed Mohamed Omar Toufic, a respected Egyptian journalist and researcher who was arrested by the Egyptian More...
Texas Rep Louis Gohmert mocked by atheists for attacking Robert Mueller, ’round up’ those who leaked
Rep. Louis Gohmert went on Fox News and gave an intense interview over the allegations against President Trump, wanting to “round up” and fire anyone James Comey talked to about Trump’s actions. quite a More...
King Abdullah talks Islamic State war, US not understanding ‘the rules’ as the battle headed to Libya
Speaking in an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes in Amman, King Abdullah the Second Bin Al Hussein said the world needs to adopt a “global perspective” in combating Muslim terrorists in both the Middle More...
‘Secret docs’: Obama administration, DOD warned of Benghazi attack
Judicial Watch announced that it obtained more than 100 pages of previously classified “Secret” documents from the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of State revealing that DOD almost immediately More...
Egypt closes thousands of mosques to battle against ‘extremism’
An Egyptian administrative court upheld the Ministry of Religious Endowments’ decision issued in September 2013 to close down neighborhood places of worship of less than 80 square meters (861 square feet), a move More...
ACLJ praises Netanyahu speech, targets President Obama for meeting with Muslim Brotherhood
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) said today the speech by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Congress provided a much needed warning about the dangers of a nuclear Iran. “Prime Minister More...
ISIS attack on Egypt: 27 killed to honor removal of Mubarak
An affiliate of the Islamist terror group ISIS has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly attacks in Egypt. The four attacks in North Sinai and Suez killed 27 people, security and medical officials told Reuters. The More...
UAE lists CAIR, Muslim American Society as terrorist groups with ISIS, Al Qaeda
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim American Society are each registering their outrage over reportedly being designated terrorist organizations by the United Arab Emirates. Michael More...
‘Fault Lines’ Book Review: Middle East crisis detailed for the ‘layman’
Author Donald Liebich explains his new book Fault Lines very well in the tagline “The Layman’s Guide to Understanding America’s Role in the Ever-Changing Middle East.” Liebich compiles a More...
Al Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri ‘kidnap Americans’ to trade for terrorists, free ‘The Blind Sheikh’
Al Qaeda Chief Ayman al-Zawahiri urged the kidnapping of American citizens in a recent interview with As-Sahab, according to the SITE monitoring service. When asked about his advice for Muslims to free Islamic More...
