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Kuwaiti Elections: Islamists Rise And Start of Real Democracy

The Kuwaiti parliamentary elections (KPE) represent a critical turning point towards real democratic

98 Muslim Brotherhood Detainees Released

The High State Security Prosecution Thursday July 4, 2006, decided to release on bail 98 of detainees belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood while it extended the detention of 31 others.

9000 to 1

Recent editorials in the New York Times and Washington Post (among others) about how the Palestinians are getting their come-uppance in the current bombing of Gaza are so far removed

Back to “serving the people”

I don’t know when, but it was likely sometime during the 1990s Dirty War that the Egyptian Interior Ministry decided to change its motto, usually printed on dusty signs that

Western Union Profiles Muslim Names

Money transfer agencies like Western Union have delayed or blocked thousands of cash deliveries on suspicion of terrorist connections simply because senders or recipients have names like Mohammed or Ahmed,

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to make a movie

The Muslim Brotherhood is pressing on with arguably its most ambitious endeavor to date. A movie. The theme is the life of the outlawed group’s founder, social and political reformer