FrontPage Magazine The title of a recent Al Khabar News report declares: “Morsi summons 3,000 jihadis from Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia, Somalia and Iran to be an Islamic army to strike the police and army forces” of Egypt. According to the report, Ibrahim Ali, a lawyer of various Islamic groups, said that 3,000 leaders and members of the Jihad Groups and the notorious … [Read more...]
Muslim Brotherhood Admits Supreme Guide ‘Rules’ Morsi
PJ Tatler During Egyptian presidential elections, one of the biggest criticisms against President Muhammad Morsi was that he was just a stooge for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide, Muhammad Badie — who recently called for a jihad on Israel. The logic was that Morsi's function was simply to fulfill the Guide's will, which is the absolute Islamization of Egypt. Of … [Read more...]
Ayman Zawahiri and Egypt: A Trip Through Time
Investigative Project on Terrorism Around 1985, current al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri fled his homeland of Egypt, presumably never to return. From his early beginnings as a teenage leader of a small jihadi cell devoted to overthrowing Egyptian regimes (first Nasser's then Sadat's) until he merged forces with Osama bin Laden, expanding his objectives to include targeting … [Read more...]
Did the Muslim Brotherhood Really Win Egypt’s Presidency?
The one and only positive point that every Western commentator, beginning with Barrack Hussein Obama, have pointed to regarding the victory of an Islamist president in Egypt, is that it was done through democracy—through elections, fair and square. It was the “will of the people,” and so must be respected. Yet, even that, too, is now under question. In fact, last week, … [Read more...]