As Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi said that virulent anti-Semitic comments which he reportedly said prior to his election were taken out of context, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) released another video which depicts him making similar comments. The latest video is an address delivered by Morsi, which was posted on the Internet
About 50 Arabs mounted an assault on Rachel's Tomb, just outside Bethlehem, Wednesday evening. They threw pipe bombs, fire bombs and rocks at the security forces guarding the compound, injuring one soldier lightly. The soldier, who was hit by a rock, received medical treatment on the spot and did not require hospitalization. The
An Egyptian historian has fingered the Muslim Brotherhood as being responsible for the country's Jews fleeing Egypt. The history professor, Khaled Fahmi, made the remarks during an interview which aired on Al-Nahar TV on January 3, 2013. They were translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). "The Muslim Brotherhood bears
From Africa to Qatar, this old documentary show footage of a Muslim slave market. In the clip Arabs and African Muslims are buying and selling other Africans as slaves. We come to know that Arab orphanages serve as training schools for sex slaves, and in Arabia we see ‘slave parties’ meant to bring, negotiate
In an interview on Saudi Arabian TV December 27, 2012, Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Executive Director Nihad Awad declared that “Islam and the U.S. are twins, linked by common values. The values upon which the U.S. was founded are the same values advocated by Islam: Freedom, and especially freedom of religion, freedom of
A radical Salafist preacher who is a proponent of anti-vice police recently shocked Egyptians when he appeared on primetime television to urge women to wear headscarves to avoid being raped. The preacher's comments have since been refuted by the country's head Islamic legal official, who regarded them as "idiotic." "I was once asked: If
When the D. Cappucino café opened its doors last May it attracted little attention outside of Cairo’s upscale Nasser City neighborhood. But a political crisis that has polarized Egypt and set liberals and Islamists at loggerheads has suddenly focused nationwide attention on the café, which caters to conservative values. The café is identical
Hamas is continuing to incite and encourage Arab children to carry out acts of terrorism. A video translated and released by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) shows the wife of a Hamas member of parliament saying that an Arab woman's role is "to instill love of jihad and martyrdom in her children."
A prominent Saudi Islamic scholar was reported on Wednesday as saying wrestling and other dangerous games are prohibited in Islam because they harm the body. Sheikh Ali Al Hikmi, a member of the 7-man Supreme Scholars Authority in the Gulf Kingdom, said Muslims are not permitted to hurt themselves under any circumstances. “Therefore,
A city in Indonesia's Islamic law stronghold of Aceh will ban women from straddling male drivers on motorbikes, its mayor said on Wednesday, dubbing the position "improper". The move comes after leaders from the country's only province ruled by strict sharia law drafted a series of new bills including banning women from wearing tight
