Filed under Muslim Brotherhood

Bored of Farmville? Try Tahrir Square, the game

An Egyptian games developer has released a Facebook game based on battles between protesters and thugs during the 2011 uprising Ahram Online Facebook game Tahrir Square Defense In May, Facebook users who are looking to waste a little time online will have a new option; a game called Tahrir Square Defense will allow them to … Continue reading »

Sign up for Mursi’s ouster, urges Egypt ‘rebellion’ group

A petition named “Tamarod” (meaning “rebellion” in Arabic) is gathering signatures to call for Mursi’s ouster. (Reuters) Eman El-Shenawi – Al Arabiya First, campaigners petitioned to send Egypt’s President Mohammed Mursi into space. It was an unusual stunt which gathered pace, but remained trivial all the same. Now, another group opposing the Islamist presidency appears … Continue reading »

Coptic schoolteacher detained for insulting Islam in Egypt

Coptic-Christian social studies teacher in Upper Egypt’s Luxor governorate is detained for four days pending investigation after being charged with insulting Islam     Ahram Online , Public prosecutors in the Upper Egyptian Luxor governorate on Thursday ordered the detention of a Coptic-Christian schoolteacher for four days pending investigation on charges that she had insulted … Continue reading »

How far Egypt’s Brotherhood-Salafist rivalry will go

If Egypt’s Salafists and Muslim Brotherhood are increasingly at each other’s throats, it is only because the liberal opposition has resoundingly failed     Hicham Mourad , The Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist El-Nour Party that dominated almost three-quarters of the seats in the People’s Assembly (the since dissolved lower house of parliament) and more … Continue reading »

Mob demands another lynching in Egypt’s Sharqiya

Angry residents of Zagazig in Egypt’s Nile Delta surround police station holding man accused of raping and killing seven-year-old girl     Ahram Online, Dozens of people in Sharqiya governorate have attempted to capture and publicly execute a man accused of raping and killing a seven-year-old girl, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported. Angry locals surrounded … Continue reading »

Lynching: Egyptians take law into own hands

Videos of brutal public executions have become increasingly common in Egypt. Experts say lynching phenomenon could spread to major cities     Sherif Tarek, Egyptians surround the bodies of two men hung by their feet in a bus station after being accused of theft in Samanod, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) north of Cairo, Egypt, … Continue reading »

Obama funded Egypt Islamic party head calls to kill Christians, march on Israel

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2013/05/egyptian-islamic-party-head-calls-to.html Lost in the glare of the media attention on Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood party are the smaller, completely insane Islamist parties to its right. (You know, the ones that make the MB appear “moderate” by comparison.) The Egyptian Islamic party, headed by Mohamed Abu Samra and Kamal Habib, is just one of these powderkegs that … Continue reading »

The Copts flee Egypt

Rumours of a Coptic exodus from Egypt have been circulating by word of mouth and on the Internet, but the truth may be less dramatic than the reports have made it appear, writes Michael Adel It happened before, notably in Iraq: on Islamists coming to power, Arab Christians have been forced to leave their homeland. … Continue reading »

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Hollywood Awards Gala

By Mark Tapson The Hollywood Bureau of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) had its 22nd Annual Media Awards Gala last Saturday at the Hilton in Long Beach, California, bringing together “American Muslims, TV and film studio executives, public officials, interfaith leaders, and media professionals to celebrate our honorees’ achievements in using the arts to … Continue reading »

Tourism marriage under the Muslim Brotherhood

  by Salama Abdellatif Human trafficking and latent prostitution CAIRO – The stench of dire poverty rises above the Hawamidiyya villages along the Nile, some 30 kilometers south of Cairo. It is not strange to see fancy cars, most of which have license plates bearing the words ‘customs’ or ‘tourism,’ parked along the lively corners … Continue reading »

Egypt pope warns Copts are scared

Pope Tawadros II says fear is driving many Coptic Christians to emigrate, attack on St Mark’s Cathedral was mostly due to ‘misunderstanding’     Ahram Online Pope Tawadros II, the 118th pope of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church (Reuters) Fear and worry has driven many Coptic Christians to leave Egypt, Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II said … Continue reading »