Influential cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, slammed on Sunday the Lebanese Hizbullah terrorist group as the “party of Satan” that seeks to “sow discord” among Muslims. Speaking to Al Arabiya, Sheikh Qaradawi lamented his previous defense of Hizbullah and Iran at a time when major Muslim scholars,
In a new report presented to members of the European Parliament, NGO Monitor details the damaging impact of highly secretive European Union funding for radical political advocacy Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). According to the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor, EU funds are going to organizations involved in anti-Israel boycotts and violent demonstrations, which undermine the EU's efforts
Arabs are the culprits behind the destruction Saturday of agricultural fields operated by the Jews of Hevron, say the local Jews. According to a resident of Hevron, Haim Bleicher, some of the Jews discovered the destruction, which included the uprooting of saplings, during their Sabbath family outings. The plot is part of a larger
Minority Copts in Egypt continue to live with discrimination, oppression and persecution from the Islamic majority. Muslim attacks on Christians, random and unprovoked, are based on jihad and often sanctioned by the state -- Coptic victims often hauled off to jail for the crimes committed against them. In 1,400 years, not one Egyptian Muslim authority
Erdogan thought he was immune to such an Iranian invasion. Erdogan was wrong. On 22 June, 1941, Hitler's Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union with over 4,000,000 soldiers under Operation Barbarossa. By signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop August 1939 pact, General Secretary Stalin thought the Soviet Union was immune to such a Nazi onslaught. Stalin was
Syrian troops buoyed by victory in Qusayr were preparing Sunday to launch a northern offensive, a security source said, as the conflict came to the streets of Beirut where a demonstrator was killed. At a protest outside the Iranian embassy against the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah’s direct involvement in the Syrian conflict, a man
A 13-year-old Egyptian girl has died while being circumcised at a private village in the Daqahliya governorate north east of Cairo, Egyptian media reported on Sunday. “We left our daughter with the doctor and the nurse. 15 minutes later, the nurse took my daughter out of the operation room to a nearby room, along
The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s associate dean, Rabbi Abraham Copper, declared the cartoon was “so virulently ant-Semitic it would make Hitler and Himmler weep tears of joy.” Recently, a leading Norwegian daily published one of the worst anti-Jewish caricatures, depicting Jews torturing a baby during a circumcision and Rabbi Cooper was referring to that travesty.
Liberal-minded Egyptians and supporters of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood now share one thing: the rival sides are closely following protests in Turkey, a country that has provided the heavily polarized and increasingly impoverished Egyptians with a tantalizing model for marrying Islamist government with a secular establishment and achieving prosperity along the way. Turkey, a
Sudan may reverse its decision to close cross-border oil flows from South Sudan but its neighbor must stop supporting rebels, Sudan's Information Minister said on Sunday. “We plan to close the oil pipelines within 60 days... but we might reverse the decision,” Ahmed Belal Osman told reporters. “The door is open for rational thinking...
