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Islamists are Worse Than Dictators
Who is worse, President Mohammed Morsi, the elected Islamist seeking to apply Islamic law in Egypt, or former President Hosni Mubarak, the dictator ousted for trying to start a dynasty? More broadly... more...
The Quality of Morsi
Egypt’s political crisis seems to be testing the conviction, long held in certain Western circles, that actually having to govern a modern nation-state will moderate Islamists. more...
News Update
Egypt’s opposition vows to keep the protests up against Morsi’s referendum. Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy Khairi Abaza weighs in. more...
Jeane Kirkpatrick Goes to Tahrir Square — Two starkly Different Visions of the Arab Spring
Thirty-three years ago, Commentary magazine published an article by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick that stands as one of the most influential essays in the history of American foreign policy. more...
News Update
FDD's Khairi Abaza explains what he saw while he was visiting Egypt. more...
Islamology 101
Google “Islamist” and you’ll get more than 24 million hits. Google “jihadist” and you’ll get millions more. Yet I bet the average American could not tell you what it is that Islamists and jihadists believe. more...
The Frank Gaffney Show
Sebastian Gorka discusses Turkey, its growing Islamization and the affect the Syrian civil war is having on that change. more...
Analysts: Egypt’s Military Won’t Buck the Brotherhood
Egypt's military played a decisive role in the 2011 uprising that ended the rule of dictator Hosni Mubarak in the face of a popular uprising. The generals are likely to stand aside this time, however, as... more...
News Update
FDD's Khairi Abaza weighs in on the protest in Egypt and why judges are on strike. more...
The John Batchelor Show
Egyptian President Mohammaed Morsi's power grab. more...
France Slated to Open First Gay Mosque
Muhammad Ludovic Lütfi Zahed, a gay French-Algerian man, is slated to open the first gay mosque at the end of November. The Turkish daily newspaper Hurriyet first reported... more...
Stakelbeck on Terror
FDD's Sebastian Gorka explains how America is losing the ideological war against Islamists. more...
Perceptions of the “Arab Spring” Within the Salafi-Jihadi Movement
“The popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain have not only shaken the foundation of the authoritarian order in the Middle East, but they have also hammered a deadly nail in... more...
The Mirage of the Arab Spring
We Americans are nice people. We don’t like to see anyone living under tyranny. So when protests broke out against the authoritarian regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, most of us were supportive of the men more...
The Great Salafi Gamble
In serving their patrons in Saudi Arabia, ultraconservative religious Salafis are stirring violent protests and flexing political muscle in North Africa and fledgling Arab democracies. But the instability they... more...
Zawahiri Calls on Muslims to Implement Sharia
Al Qaeda has released a statement written by Ayman al Zawahiri this past summer in which the terror chieftain outlines several goals for Muslims to strive toward. While failing to mention the toll al Qaeda's... more...
A Blind Spot
One area of study that has significantly grown over the past decade is that of radicalisation. How do individuals come to believe that violence is a proper response to current political problems or unjust... more...
Islamists Kill Scores at Nigerian Roman Catholic Church
A suicide bomber driving an SUV full of explosives crashed into a Catholic church in a Christian minority enclave of Nigeria during Mass yesterday, killing ten congregants and wounding at least 145. more...
Sinister Trend in Publishing
Saudi Arabia, a country in which book clubs are required to register for government licenses, is not known for its literary culture. Associating the Land of the Two Holy Mosques—ranked as the eighth “Most Censored... more...
Better To Elect Islamists Than Have Dictators?
"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable," economist John Kenneth Galbraith once said. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, dictators have been toppled and new leaders have begun to... more...
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