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What We Can Learn from the Attacks on U.S. Embassies
1. Fear of a Black Flag (or It’s the Salafists, Stupid) Ordinary Egyptians, Libyans and Yemenis didn’t come across the latest insults to their religion because...
Hizballah Fears al-Qaeda-Type Attacks from Lebanese Sunnis
A day after the radical Salafist Sunni preacher Sheik Omar Bakri was arrested last month, having been sentenced in absentia by a Lebanese court to life...
The Rise Of The Salafis
In the 13 months that Mohammed Abdel-Rahman has been protesting outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo, he has become so familiar to American officials that they...
After Protests, Tunisia’s Salafists Plot a More Radical Revolution
In a park hidden from the road and strewn with trash, two young Salafist men dressed in the traditional garb of gray tunics and sandals laid out their plan for...
Religious Flowering -- and Splintering -- Comes to Cairo: Inside the Salafist Revival
Friday noon prayer at the al-Tawhid mosque in Cairo used to be led by a state-appointed imam. And his sermons were downright boring, says Ibrahim Abdel Alim, a...
What the Salafists Want: An Interview with the Blind Sheik’s Son
He wants his father freed and he wants shari’a imposed unquestioningly on Egypt. Other than that, Mohammed Abdel Rahman doesn’t want to cause trouble
Why the U.S. May Be Secretly Cheering a Muslim Brotherhood Run For Egypt’s Presidency
Liberals and secularists are furious at the decision this week by Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to name Khairat al-Shater as its candidate next month’s presidential...
Benghazi Baloney
Scott Shane has a fine piece of analysis today about the real issues involved in the Benghazi imbrogliowhich is to say the issues not being raised by the...
Democracy, Egyptian Style
To listen to Kamal Habib extol the democratic ideal is to slip into a parallel universe where down is up and black is white. This is, after all, the co-founder...
Why America should go slow on declaring victory in Libya - or making promises
[co-written with Michael S. Smith II of Kronos Advisory LLC] The demise of Col Qaddafi, a despicable despot who should have met this or a worse fate sooner, will...
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Tunisia bans Salafist group's meeting
Interior ministry says annual congress would be in violation of law and represents threat to public order. ...
Egypt's challenge: Free to speak
Egypt's new freedoms open the way for satirists and Salafists ...
Germany Arrests 4 and Bans Groups Linked to Salafism
Four men associated with a growing ultraconservative Islamic movement were accused of plotting to kill the leader of a far-right political party. ...
