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Women In The Muslim World Need Genuine Reform

Ida Lichter, M.D. | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Islamic Dress, Women's Rights, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Women, Hijab, Female Circumcision, Arab Spring, Islam, Shirin Ebadi, Muslim-Reformers, Turkey, Aceh, Suffragettes, One Million Signatures Campaign, Women Reformers, Nigeria, King Abdullah, Reform, Iran, Fgm, Taliban, Political Islam, Azza Al-Jarf, Misogynist, Freedom and Justice Party, Tuareg, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, President Hamid Karzai, Discriminatory Laws, Oppressive Laws, Wahhabi, Kuwait, Islamists, Caning, Dissidents, Yemen, Islamic Holy Sites, Afghanistan, Wajeha Al-Huwaider, Rallies, Insurgency, Boko Haram, Religious Police, Feminists, Brutal, Muslim, Religion News

Is misogyny prevalent and gaining traction in the Muslim world and why did most women vote for Islamists in Middle East elections?

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Egyptians Hope Election Will Save Their Country From the Brink

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Egypt Protests, Amr Moussa, Abdolmoneim-Aboul-Fotouh, Egypt Revolution, Hussein Tantawi, Cairo, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt, Egypt News, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt Elections, Islamists, Abbaseya, World News

Tens of millions of Egyptians will head to the polls Wednesday to vote for the candidate they hope will move the country from a state of transition to one that is stable and ruled by a civilian government.

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Why Stability in Syria Matters

Claude Salhani | Posted 05.21.2012

The 14-month long spate of internal violence in Syria has friends and foes equally worried over the fate of the country's future, the stability of the region and the ever-present danger of the violence spreading from Syria to its neighbors.

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The Power of Apathy

Shahid Mahmood | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Civil Liberties, Homeland Security, Bahrain Anti-Government Protests, Islamists, Decade After 9/11islam, Politics News

On an Air Canada flight a few weeks ago, I sat in front of a group of Cenovus oil rig workmen. Before take-off, two of the workmen proceeded to viciou...

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Opportunity Missed

Amira Mohsen Galal | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Egypt, Islam, Secularism, Arab Spring, Egypt Revolution, Poverty Line, Tunisia Elections, Egypt Elections, Islamists, World News

Although the early uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt were markedly secular and free of ideology, it was Islamists in both countries that swept the board in recent parliamentary elections. Where did it go wrong for Arab liberal secularists? How can they reconnect with the masses?

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The Muslim Brotherhood Is Dead: Long Live The Freedom And Justice Party

H.A. Hellyer | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Egypt, Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt Protests, Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Islamists, Egypt Elections, Religion News

After Jan. 25, 2011, the MB leadership had a choice: transform the movement into a political party -- or remain as a movement. The choice had not been possible before due to political repression.

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One Muslim Does Menial Work For Sikhs To Atone For Beheading By Islamists

AP | SEBASTIAN ABBOT and ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Cleaning Shoes, Sikh, Islam, Video, Sikh Shrines, Pakistan, Interfaith, Muhammad Khurshid Khan, Muslim, Interfaith Dialogue, Beheading, Islamists, Religion News

HASAN ABDAL, Pakistan -- Thousands of Indian pilgrims barely registered the man in the orange bandanna and Ray-Ban sunglasses taking their shoes and s...

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The Race Is on to Be Egypt's Next President and It's One Heck of a Show

Carina Kamel | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Egypt Protests, Egypt Elections, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, Middle East, Arab Spring, Islamists, Elections Egypt, Egypt Presidential Election, World News

Watching events unfold in Egypt's presidential race over the past few weeks has been like watching a riveting television political thriller of the many episode variety.

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Why Islamists Winning Elections Is Good for Democracy and the War on Terrorism

Matthew VanDyke | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Libya, Democracy, Arab Spring, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt, Islamists, War on Terror, Terrorism, World News

Journalists, pundits and politicians seem increasingly obsessed with fears that Islamists winning elections in the wake of successful Arab Spring uprisings will prove detrimental to democracy, regional security, and the War on Terrorism. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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"Futile" - Coptic Christians Withdraw From Egyptian Constitution Committee

AP | AYA BATRAWY | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Egypt Constitution, Video, Coptic Church, Egypt, Islamists, Egyptian Christians, Religion News

CAIRO — Egypt's Coptic Church withdrew Monday from an Islamist-dominated committee to draft the nation's new constitution and a leading Christia...

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Setting Up Triage in Syria: Strategies to Save a Struggling Nation's Minorities

Kurt J. Werthmuller | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Religious Minorities, Kurds, Free Syrian Army, Syrian National Council, Alawites, Syria Protests, Syria Violence, Syrian Crisis, Islamists, Syria, Bashar Al-Assad, Arab Christians, World News

The world must not allow the Syrian crisis to "play itself out," as some analysts have suggested: This threat to the country's minorities (many of whom are unarmed) is simply too great, and the consequences too severe, to play this sort of Russian roulette on a national-societal scale.

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Motorcycle Bomb Wounds 15 Policemen

AP | By SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Turkey Bombing, Turkey, Terror, Kurds, Ankara Bomb, Turkey Kurds, Ankara Bombing, Turkey Bomb, Turkey Kurdish Conflict, Ankara, Islamists, World News

ANKARA, Turkey -- A remote-controlled bomb mounted on a motorcycle exploded in Turkey's largest city Thursday, wounding 15 police officers and one civ...

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Our Nation's Religious Quandary

Hedieh Mirahmadi | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: FBI Terror Watch List, Muslim American, Muslims, Islamists, Robert Mueller, William Gawthrop, Shariah Law, Anti-Muslim, Radical, Abrahamic, Politics News

The real big question, however, is given America's trepidation to mix church and state, how will federal agencies like the FBI determine the appropriate pedagogical approach to defining Islam?

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The End of Pan-Arabism Redux

Dr. Michael Sharnoff | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Syria, Egypt, Islam, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Saddam Hussein, Middle East, Tunisia, Arab Nationalism, Islamists, Islamism, Hosni Mubarak, Libya, Pan-Arabism, Muammar Gaddafi, World News, Arab Spring, World News

Islam -- not Marxism, socialism, nor liberalism or nationalism -- is the only authentic ideology indigenous to the Arab world. Unlike the West, the Arab world has not undergone a reformation separating religion and state, and religion continues to play a major role in Arab society.

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King Abdullah's Growing Anxiety Over the Two-State Solution

Dr. Michael Sharnoff | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Jordan Economy, Jordan West Bank, Jordanian Option, Middle East, King Hussein, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Islamists, King Abdullah, Israel Jordan, Jordan Palestinians, Business, World News, Syria, World News

Jordan fears that in the absence of a political solution, Israel, the Palestinians or perhaps the international community would eventually seek to solve the crisis at Jordan's expense

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What Do We Expect From the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists?

Alaa Al Aswany | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Egypt Protests, Hosni Mubarak, Tarek El-Bishri, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt Islamists, Islamists, World News

Either your understanding of religion drives you to insist on the right thing and to defend the rights of those who are wronged, or it makes you see your opponents as atheists, degenerates and mercenaries undeserving of rights.

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"The Revolution Will Spread Throughout the Muslim World - and Beyond"

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Hosni Mubarak, Arab Spring, Muslim Brotherhood, Rachid Ghannouchi, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia, Islamists, Tunisia Elections, Arab Awakening, Tunisia Revolution, World News

People call him "The Godfather of the new Islamist Middle East." Rachid Ghannouchi, whose Ennahdha party won Tunisia's first free elections last November, does indeed spearhead the post-Arab Spring Middle East.

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Mind Over Jihad

Fahad Faruqui | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Islamic Militants, Jihad, Islam, Radical Islam, Islamists, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, Islamic Extremism, Counter Terorrism, Department of National Defense, Religion News

With the growing difficulty to prevent radicalization and rehabilitate militants, there is a lot more that needs to be done by parents, imams, scholars, teachers and the entire society to promote the message of mercy and compassion.

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U.S. Public Diplomacy and the Arab Islamists

Philip Seib | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Egypt, Islam, Freedom and Justice Party, Islamists, Public Diplomacy, Qatar, US Foreign Policy, Ennahda Party, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, World News

The Islamists who were once viewed as adversaries by American policymakers are now in the mainstream of Arab politics. In Egypt and other Arab states, their efforts are helping to stabilize emerging democracies. U.S. public diplomacy needs to catch up with this new reality.

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How Will Egyptian Islamists Rule?

Dr. Michael Sharnoff | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Hosni Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, Business, Middle East, Egypt, Islamists, Egypt Economy, World News

While it remains to be seen if Egypt's Islamists will govern with an "Egypt-first" approach, historical precedents suggest that they may turn increasingly xenophobic and engage in foreign gambits.

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Islamists Win Second Round In Egypt's Vote

AP | Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Video, Egypt, Egypt Elections, Egypt Islamists, Islamists, Egypt Elections Islamists, Egypt Tahrir, Tahrir, World News

CAIRO — Islamist parties have consolidated earlier gains in Egypt's multistage parliamentary elections, winning nearly 70 percent of the seats d...

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The Shariah Was Made For Man -- And Not Man For The Shariah

Mustafa Akyol | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Quran, Islam, Arab Spring, Imam Shatibi, Islamists, Middle East, Namik Kemal, Rachid Ghannouchi, Sharia, Islamic Law, Religion News

The fundamentalists do not realize that their blind literalism could lead them to follow the letter of the law, but betray its intents.

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Chicken Little and the Arab Spring Elections

John Feffer | Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Arab Spring, Muslim Brotherhood, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Islamists, World News

Citizens went to the polls in Tunisia, Morocco, and Egypt. After Islamist parties won three elections in a row, columnists and pundits in the West threw up their hands in horror.

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Muslim Brotherhood Leader: Fears Of Islamization Are Overblown

AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Video, Egypt Elections Muslim Brotherhood Victory, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt Elections 2011, Egypt, Egypt Elections Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt Elections, Islamists, Egypt Islamists, World News

CAIRO — The leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group expected to dominate the country's next parliament, said it does not seek t...

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'Emerging Threat' From Nigeria, House Panel Report Warns

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Foreign Terrorists, Video, Counterterrorism, Patrick Meehan, Boko Haram, Terrorism, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Nigeria, House Homeland Security Committee, Islamists, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A House Committee on Homeland Security panel released a report Wednesday detailing what it says is an emerging threat from a Nigerian Is...

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