Egypt\’s new president may lack real foreign policy clout for now, but the mere fact that a Muslim Brotherhood man is at the helm of the biggest Arab nation will embolden fellow Islamists seeking revolutionary change around the Middle East.
A Palestinian gunman and an Israeli soldier were killed in a shootout on the Gaza Strip-Israel border.
Islamist groups including the Muslim Brotherhood condemned a visit to the Al-Aksa Mosque by Egypt\’s grand mufti, one of the country\’s highest religious authorities.
Ten suspected Islamic militants were arrested in France in the second mass arrest there in recent days.
On Nov. 4, 1979, Islamist students and militants loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini took over the American Embassy compound in Tehran and captured 52 Americans — a diplomatic crisis that lasted 444 days. Simon Sion Ebrahimi, a local Iranian Jewish author, remembers that day well. It was the same day employees at his accounting firm, which faced the American Embassy, took him hostage.
A radical Islamist party in Egypt said it will respect the country\’s peace treaty with Israel.
The Muslim Brotherhood\’s party will seek to extend a lead over hardline Islamists in run-offs in Egypt\’s parliamentary vote Monday, with liberal parties struggling to hold their ground in a political landscape redrawn by the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.
Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Islamist militant, was killed in Yemen on Friday in a CIA drone strike described by President Barack Obama as \”another significant milestone\” in efforts to defeat al Qaeda.
Back in 2002, when the Second Intifada was raging, she would regularly put on a hijab and attend Islamic conferences all over Southern California. She was there to document the hateful venom that often permeated these events, reporting her findings to private investigators of radical Islam in America.
Suicide bombers will target Paul McCartney unless he cancels his concert in Tel Aviv, a Muslim cleric said
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