http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/16503-Egypts-Military-Savior.html Egypt’s Military: Savior? Military analyst Austin Bay points out, “For the near-term, how the Egyptian military promotes, thwarts, and/or negotiates the inevitable redistribution of power among individuals and factions within the country is the most critical issue.” Bay then reviews the reduced power of the military in Turkey and Iran following Islamists rise to […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2011/02/02/why_america_always_gets_revolutions_wrong Revolution is the word of the day in the Middle East. The reaction in the American media and government is pure puzzlement. Who is revolting? Why? Should we support them or oppose them? The fact that nobody seems to know what in hell is going on in Egypt, Tunisia, Albania and Jordan is yet […]
http://townhall.com/columnists/HumbertoFontova/2011/02/02/the_cuban_hostage_crisis,_day_400 On December 3rd 2009, Alan Gross, a U.S. citizen distributing cell phones and computer equipment to Cuba’s Jewish community on contract for the U.S. Agency for International Development, prepared to board a plane homeward at Havana’s International Airport. Hovering nearby, but unnoticed by Mr. Gross, were plainclothes officers of Castro’s KGB-trained secret-police. As the […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8586/pub_detail.asp Somalia in Need of New Approach Two Decades after State Collapse J.Peter Pham, PhD Last week marked the twentieth anniversary of the night when Mohamed Siyad Barre, president of the last entity that could plausibly be described as the government of Somalia, fled Mogadishu in his once proud army’s last functional tank, leaving behind […]
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/victory-city-halts-illegal-construction-on-sheepshead-bay-mega-mosque-on-quiet-brooklyn-resindetial-.html Victory in Sheepshead Bay: City Halts Illegal Construction on Mega-Mosque on Quiet Residential Street Why here? Kudos to the Bay People. Earlier today I posted on the flagrant Islamic supremacist violation of work orders and ordinances on a small residential street in Sheepshead Bay in obvious contempt for rule of law. The good people […]
THANKS TO PAMELA GELLER AT ATLAS SHRUGS An estimated one million people are protesting in Egypt, 250,000 in Cairo square. Thousands are fleeing as foreign countries step up evacuations.
http://translating-jihad.blogspot.com/2011/02/international-union-of-muslim-scholars.html International Union of Muslim Scholars Issues Statement in Support of the Egyptian Protests; Calls the Protests a ‘Jihad’ Just like the Muslim Brotherhood, they’re also talking about the new government in democratic and constitutional terms–for now. See the original Arabic here. The International Union of Muslim Scholars Calls on al-Azhar and the Egyptian Elite […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8587/pub_detail.asp In 2008, former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, was quoted as saying, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” As stunningly opportunistic as that statement was to many, it was, […]
Obama’s Brotherhood Moment Posted By Robert Spencer http://frontpagemag.com/2011/02/02/obamas-brotherhood-moment/print/ Game over: Barack Obama has endorsed a role for the Muslim Brotherhood in a new, post-Mubarak government for Egypt. This should come as no surprise. Obama has behaved consistently all along, from his refusal to back the protesters in Iran, who were demonstrating against an Islamic Republic, […]
Red Carpet for Islamists Posted By Stephen Brown URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/02/02/a-presidents-red-carpet-treatment-for-islamists/ All signs from Egypt and U.S. leadership now point to an increased role for the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egyptian politics — a terrifying reality that has just been given a blessing by the Obama administration, no less. In a highly disturbing departure […]
