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    The Meaning of Egypt’s ‘Moderate’ Muslim Brotherhood

    Michael Coren on MRC TV: To pick just one Islamic Brotherhood lie, take “Copts are not real Egyptians.” The word “copt” is the “gypt” in Egypt. The Copts are the original Egyptians. Like the Jews in…

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    Egypt’s President – Death Is Our Goal

    Great. Egypt’s Constitution should be based on the Koran and Sharia law, presidential candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist movement Mohamed Morsi said. “The Koran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader, jihad is our…

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    Islamist Regimes = Skidmarks on the Undies of Life

    ‘Judgement day has come!’ ‘We will kill all the Jews.’ Some of the chants repeated at a rally in Cairo. It is simply nonsense to suggest, as some have done, that Muslims hate Jews because of Israel.…

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    Israel Is Worried

    And it is right to be. Mohammed ElBaradei says that Israel signed a treaty with Mubarak, not Egypt. Not one of the parties or movements which could potentially form part of a new Egyptian government is friendly,…

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    A Religion Cannot Be Bad…

    Nor can a culture. We all just have to accept one another and learn from one another. Yes. Lovely. Except that accepting this lovely idea means ignoring virtually the whole of world history. Andrew McCarthy at…

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    Nonie Darwish On The Enemy Within

    Nonie Darwish says she believes it was inevitable the Muslim Brotherhood would take edvantage of any civil unrest after what they would have seen as encouragement in President Obama’s Cairo speech: I foresaw that there could…

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    Christians in Egypt

    From The Barnabas Fund: As Egypt descends into deeper unrest … the country’s Christians are falling victim to the chaos as their shops are looted and essential supplies start to run out. The majority of Egyptian…

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    Thank God For Israel

    One sixth of one percent of the land in the Middle East. No oil. Not much in the way of natural resources. Constantly under threat. Yet what they have built, and what they give, is amazing. Pray…

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    Can Obama Really be That Naive?

    ‘Don’t worry about the Muslim Brotherhood’, President Obama is reported as saying, ‘they don’t have majority support.’ Maybe not, but they do have majority support for the majority of things they believe in – an islamist state,…

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    Cool Hats, Dudes

    More about Egypt a bit later, but for now, these tidbits from the Daily Mail: A handy supply of stones for peaceful pro-democracy protestors to throw at people who disagree with them:  And a selection of…

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    Egypt is Revolting

    And so is Tunisia. And Yemen. And Jordan. And Algeria. None of these are places I would choose to live. And since Islamic states generate most of the world’s refugees, I guess lots of other people…