The Worst Club in the Middle East
Gathering of Rogues Tarnishes U.S. Allies
Rached Ghannouchi
Holy Wars
Not Muslims against infidels – Muslims against Muslims.
Op-eds
Springtime for Salafists
Rampaging Islamist vigilantes are cracking down on free expression -- and ruining Tunisia's Arab Spring.
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Ansar al Sharia Tunisia Calls for Islamist Solution to Political Crisis
The assassination of a prominent opposition leader has sparked a political crisis in Tunisia. Chokri Belaid, a politician who had spoken out against the ruling Islamist Ennahda party and Salafist...
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Ansar al Sharia Egypt Releases Founding Statement
Ansar al Sharia Egypt has published its founding statement online. The group says that "preaching and jihad are two wings that are indispensable to the spread of Islam," according to a translatio...
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The Great Salafi Gamble
In serving their patrons in Saudi Arabia, ultraconservative religious Salafis are stirring violent protests and flexing political muscle in North Africa and fledgling Arab democracies. But the in...
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‘Moderate’ Islamist Leader in Tunisia Strategizes with al Qaeda-Linked Salafists
The leader of the supposedly moderate Ennahda political party in Tunisia has been caught on tape strategizing with Salafists to gain control of the country. In the video, he also acknowledged con...
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The Islamist Road to Democracy
Muslims cannot be dragged to an embrace of secularism and the liberal values that spring from it.
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‘Islam Is Islam, And That’s It’
The Arab Spring was not hijacked
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A Tunisian Islamist Looks to the Future
Earlier in the week Israel Hayom reported that the new Tunisian constitution may include &ldqu...