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With Hosni Mubarak stepping down Friday, Egypt’s future remains uncertain. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Armed Forces has taken temporary power with expectations of elections still set for the fall. “Egypt is free!” chanted the hundreds of thousands of people gathered

If the Muslim Brotherhood gains prominence in a future Egyptian government, Imam Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a key spiritual guide, might return to his native land to help drive theological rule, writes Hudson Institute visiting fellow Lee Smith. Qaradawi, who now lives

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood announced it will enter talks with Vice President Omar Suleiman about “the process of [President Hosni] Mubarak leaving office, the right to protest in public places and guarantees for their safety,” an MB spokesman told Reuters. The

Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s odd behavior – telling colleagues that the United States was at war with Islam, justifying suicide bombing and saying his religious loyalties outweighed his oath to protect America – provided ample justification to kick him out

Hundreds of thousands of people crammed into Tahrir Square in Cairo Tuesday demanding the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Estimates of the crowd ranged from 200,000 to the organizers’ goal of 1 million people – news reports described the

The protests against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak show little sign of relenting. The dismissal of the previous government, and swearing in of new ministers Monday did little to assuage those demanding Mubarak’s ouster. There are calls for 1 million people

Al-Jazeera English is showing live broadcasts from the Egyptian capital, where law and order appear to be breaking down. Protestors have been ordered home under a 6 PM curfew. Al-Jazeera English is reporting that many people are trying to force

A radical imam deported from Canada in 2007 was arrested by U.S. border authorities who found him hiding in trunk of a BMW near the U.S.-Mexican border earlier this month. Authorities say Said Jaziri paid $5,000 to members of a

The United States and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned remarks by UN human rights expert Richard Falk about “awkward gaps and contradictions in the official explanations” of the 9/11 terror attacks. The US ambassador to the United Nations also

Islamist militants from Russia’s volatile North Caucasus’ region are suspected in the bombing of a terminal and café in Moscow’s busiest commercial airport, the Guardian reports. The attack at Domodedovo airport is the second suicide bombing in a year targeting

Will the Jasmine Revolution that toppled Tunisian strongman Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali create more political freedom and liberty for Tunisia’s people? Or could it pave the way for creation of an Islamist-dominated state that imposes harsh new curbs on civil

Two westerners who gave up seemingly comfortable lives to wage terrorist attacks are singled out for praise in the latest issue of Inspire, al-Qaida’s English-language magazine. Though he killed only himself, Taimour Abdulwahhab al-Abdaly, responsible for the first suicide bombing

Church bombings kill scores in Iraq, Nigeria and Egypt. Iran rounds up dozens of Christians for allegedly being “hard-liners” who threaten the Islamic republic. An Egyptian police officer opens fire on a crowded train, targeting only the Christian passengers. For

A new English-language jihadi forum offers sections dedicated to military preparations and speeches by Anwar al-Awlaki. Al Mojahden English Network, founded by the Iraq-centered Al Mojahden Electronic Network, is another addition to the proliferation of English sections on major jihadi

Several new reports illustrate how Iran and Syria continue to aid terrorist groups that target Israeli civilians by providing weapons and terrorist training to jihadist organizations on Israel’s borders. In Gaza, Hamas and other terror groups have fired thousands of

The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) attitude toward law enforcement in terrorism investigations has been put to rest by the group’s San Francisco chapter. “Build a Wall of Resistance,” a poster announcing a Feb. 9 event published on the group’s

American-Muslim groups were swift to issue statements condemning New Year’s Eve bombing attacks at a Nigerian army barracks and at a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt. But those same groups have been silent since Tuesday’s assassination of a moderate Pakistani

Violent Islamist extremism is akin to mental illness and not rooted in poverty, memories of Western imperialism, and anger over the Israeli-Palestinian situation, Robert Sibley writes in Monday’s Ottawa Citizen. This is ignored by the chattering class, Sibley writes, which

U.S. Islamist groups like the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) have reacted hyperbolically to news that the incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King (R-NY), plans to hold hearings on American Muslim radicalization. But Zuhdi Jasser,

Egyptian journalist ‘Ata Abd Al-Aal told an Egyptian religious channel that “the U.S. will be transformed into an Islamic Republic” due to the large number of converts each year. He also gave advice on how to raise the number of

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the conviction of Hassan Abu-Jihaad for providing material support to terrorists and leaking information about the deployment of the USS Constellation battle group to jihadists. Abu-Jihaad, a former signalman on the USS Benfold,

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has discovered a plot to poison food in U.S. hotels and restaurants, CBS News reports. The plot, uncovered earlier this year, involved the simultaneous poisoning of food served in hotels and restaurants across the

Yemeni authorities in Sana’a prevented a bomb attack on a car carrying four U.S. Embassy personnel, the U.S. State Department reported Thursday. On Wednesday, police caught a Jordanian citizen as he attempted to plant explosives next to the car, which

One of the nation’s leading Islamist political organizations hosts its annual convention this weekend, opting to showcase a slew of radicals and terror apologists on its program. The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) is calling this Saturday’s conference at the

A leader of a homegrown terror cell plotting an attack that would be “bigger than the World Trade Center” was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday. A federal judge rejected the pleas of leniency from Abdul Kadir, a former

An email received by Swedish news agency TT warned “now your children, daughters and sisters die like our brothers’ and sisters’ children die.” Shortly afterwards, one person was killed and two were injured in Sweden’s first terrorist attack Saturday evening.

Arab-American leaders defended veteran journalist Helen Thomas, as her alma mater pulled an award named in her honor. Wayne State University’s decision to disassociate itself with Thomas was a response to the most recent controversial comments by the veteran White

A database used by Islamist groups to support claims that the Muslim community is responsible for helping to break up one-third of terrorist plots is based on flawed and selective use of data, an Investigative Project on Terrorism analysis shows.

An Islamist organization whose stock in trade is criticizing U.S. counter-terrorism efforts has been invited to train Transportation Safety Officers at Los Angeles International Airport. According to a press release by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), the organization recently

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates dismissed Tuesday a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s alleged targeted killing program, saying a federal court “lacks the capacity to determine whether a specific individual in hiding overseas, whom the Director of National Intelligence

The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) is preaching a global Caliphate and Islamic Shari’a law over America to its members, according to the 2010 ICNA Member’s Hand Book. This is a very different message than the group’s public outreach

Widespread banking and economic sanctions against Iran are drying up investments and fomenting internal discord, two top government officials testified before a congressional committee Wednesday. But they acknowledge that, so far, the restrictions have not had the desired effect of

The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom visited and praised a well-known extremist mosque in London Monday, and invited its youth to participate in an embassy-funded initiative to travel to the United States. The East London Mosque(ELM) hosted recent speeches

Throughout her career, journalist Asra Q. Nomani has never shied away from challenging conventional wisdom among Muslims when it comes to Islamist extremism and the threat of terrorism. In her latest article at the Daily Beast website, Nomani makes the

It took just $4,200 for al-Qaida of the Arabian Peninsula [AQAP] to launch its latest attempted attack, “Operation Hemorrhage,” the bombing of Western targets and cargo planes with mail bombs, according to a special edition of the group’s English language