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Although President Hosni Mubarak does enjoy general support, the strong, outlawed Muslim Brotherhood poses a serious threat if an open election were to be held. Members of the Brotherhood have run as independents on the platform that “Islam is the Solution.” While such an assertion is not troubling in itself, as Islam does indeed offer many positive moral lessons, many of the tools of the organization are troubling. The Brotherhood claims to have divorced itself from violence, but reporting by journalists for Newsweek and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) shows that despite their...
...activist of the Islamic Alliance Party, perhaps the most hard-line of Iran's conservative factions, she is hard at work running a weekend of programs commemorating the martyrdom of three of the most venerated figures in Shi'ite Islam, the Prophet Muhammad, his grandson Imam Hassan and the only one of Shi'ism's original twelve imams buried in Iran, Imam Reza...
...State TV presents Iran, and Islam in general, as being under a concerted assault by the U.S. and its allies. One presenter asks his guest, "In this region, Iran has had the most number of elections in the past 30 years. Why is it constantly accused by the West of lacking democracy...
...southern Lebanon in July 2006 during the tragic Second Lebanon War. There were harbingers of this day. In January 2002, when Karine-A, a ship loaded with 50 tons of bullets, missiles and mines, was caught in the Red Sea, substantiating the long-suspected link between the Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran and Sunni terror groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Palestinian Authority. The lesson is now clear: Israel is no longer merely dealing with a localized Palestinian threat, seeking to plant bombs in the heart of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Israel is immersed in a larger...
...Israeli citizen and an ex-solider in the Israel Defense Forces, the Second Lebanon war opened my eyes to the new dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The reality of fundamentalist Islam, to which due to its geographic location Israel is uniquely susceptible, has several implications. Whereas the Israeli government has not yet formally acknowledged these implications, I believe the day will soon come when it will have no other recourse. The days of the “Palestinian-Israeli conflict” are over. Questions such as the refugee right of return and the fate of Jerusalem have lost...