Investigative Project on Terrorism A report issued by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) in September shed light on a new approach in the discourse about jihad. Saudi writer Khaled Al-'Ghanami wrote an op-ed in the al-Watannewspaper and 'Abdallah Al-Naggar wrote one in the Egyptian al-Gomhouriyya that call for suppression of calls to violent jihad. They both … [Read more...]

by James Heiser The New American Over seven years have passed since President Bush declared victory in Iraq, and two months have now passed since Obama declared that same conflict to be over, but for Christians in the Middle East, such talk of victory is hollow. For centuries, Christians living under Muslim domination have endured cycles of persecution and tolerance, but now … [Read more...]

by Ryan Jones Israel Today Magazine Egypt has parliamentary elections coming up next month and an important presidential election next year. As with similar regimes throughout history, the current rulers of Egypt need a scapegoat to take the voters' attention off its disastrous social and economic policies (after all, rigging elections is so tedious). Unfortunately for … [Read more...]

The Wire Raymond Ibrahim's opinion piece for Hudson New York is in marked contrast to Robert Fisk's portrayal of the Palestinians as the most oppressed Christians in the Middle East. Yesterday, Robert Fisk's front-page story in The Independent, 'Exodus: The changing map of the Middle East', discussed the rapidly dwindling number of Christians in the region. Fisk highlighted … [Read more...]

FrontPageMagazine.com On Wednesday morning, October 20, 2010, Dr. Monir Dawoud, president of the American Coptic Association, led a rally in front of the United Nations' New York headquarters to "demonstrate [against] the impending massacre and ethnic cleansing of our people — the Coptic-Christians of Egypt — by the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood groups helped by the Egyptian … [Read more...]