The ripple effect of the Hamas-Hezbollah fight is likely to reach Lebanon A few hours after a security meeting between Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas issued a statement on Monday calling on Hezbollah to withdraw from Syria, adding that the Party of God’s role in Syria “increased sectarian polarization.” Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al … Continue reading »
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When Resistances Collide
While reports last week of Hamas members in Lebanon being ordered by Hezbollah security officials to leave the country have since proven false, they have nonetheless revived questions about the state of relations between the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militia-cum-party and its Lebanese Shiite Islamist counterpart. Having both firmly sided with opposing camps in the … Continue reading »
Hezbollah fighter details ops in Qusayr
by Mona Alami Hezbollah’s implication in the nearby Syrian war has been reported by numerous media outlets. In order to discuss the real scope and depth of the party’s involvement in the Syrian conflict, NOW talks to Hezbollah fighter Abou Ali, who has been deployed to Qusayr. Why are you fighting in Syria? … Continue reading »
Phone transcripts show Hamas helped triggering Egypt’s revolution
By Missing Peace What first looked like another Middle East consparicy theory now turns into a sort of Wikileaks scandal. Hamas worked together with the Muslim Brotherhood in triggering the violence that led to Mubarak’s downfall in 2011. The daily Al-Masry Al-Youm has published details of telephone transcripts between Muslim Brotherhood figures and Hamas officials, in … Continue reading »
When Terrorists fall out..
By Barry Rubin One of the reasons why the Middle East situation is less fearsome than it might seem is that the radicals and terrorists are not united at all but battle among themselves for tactical, doctrinal, ethnic, and ambition-related reasons. Despite their daily, bloodthirsty howls for Israel’s destruction, for example, … Continue reading »
Egypt: Islamic Jihad Spreads its Wings
The Egyptian judiciary is “pulling the country into an abyss,” the Islamic Jihad movement warned on Monday following news that the South Cairo Criminal Court had ruled to release former President Hosni Mubarak from his pre-trial detention. The ousted president is being retried on charges of ordering the killing of protesters in the 25 January … Continue reading »
Indoctrinating Children Hamas Style
Palestinian children presented as warriors in Hamas clip A Hamas video encouraging the participation of children in terrorism has been broadcast on Hamas TV. The video, which focuses on Ahmed Yassin, Hamas founder and religious leader killed by Israel, portrays young children as the continuation of Yassin. Children are shown in uniforms, holding rifles and … Continue reading »
Hamas cracks down on low-cut jeans
Gaza rulers panned for banning stylish hairdos, beating up boys with fashion sense By Times of Israel staff Low-cut jeans image via Shutterstock The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip is getting flack from rival lawmakers and rights groups over a ban on “Western garments and stylish haircuts.” According to a report from the Chinese Xinhua … Continue reading »
Tunisia: Acting President receives delegation of Hamas and Islamic Jihad
“Pundits and politicians are already ringing the alarm bells. The common refrain you hear in the US: The Middle East is being overrun with religious radicals bent on oppressing women and destroying Israel. That is nonsense, of course.” — Reza Aslan Of course! More glories of the beautiful, democratic “Arab Spring”: “Tunisia: Acting President Marzouki … Continue reading »
Hamas’ dilemma with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Recent developments have strained relations between Egypt and Palestinian resistance faction Hamas Hicham Mourad , Recent weeks have witnessed a campaign against Palestinian resistance faction Hamas in several Egyptian media outlets due to the alleged involvement of the group – which has governed the Gaza Strip since mid-2007 – in the attack that … Continue reading »
How the U.S. Aids Hamas Through the Palestinian Authority
On February 5, 2013, the reconstituted US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa held a subcommittee hearing on the subject of “Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation: Threatening Peace Prospects.” Two senior expert witnesses from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy testified and expressed optimism that US trained Palestinian Security Forces, affiliated with … Continue reading »
Palestinian Authority Opens Special Housing Project for Terrorist Families
It was generally considered to be a bad thing when Saddam Hussein made special payments to the families of terrorists. But Abbas does it all the time, even paying salaries to Hamas terrorists in prison, using American and European aid. But now the Palestinian Authority is rolling out a special housing project for them. “In … Continue reading »
Islamic Fascism: Qutb and Azzam
By Gary Aminoff Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al-Queda and planner of the 9/11 attack on America, was first politicized not by specific U.S. policies, but by the writings of Sayyid Qutb and the Jihadist lectures of Abdullah Azzam, both of the Muslim Brotherhood. Qutb was the son of a highly-educated Egyptian nationalist. He … Continue reading »
More People Must Care about CAIR
by Adam Turner/It has come to my attention that I may be suffering from “CAIRophobia.” Almost certainly, according to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), I am already afflicted with “Islamophobia,” which they define as “unfounded fear of and hostility towards Islam. Such fear and hostility leads to discriminations against Muslims, exclusion of Muslims from … Continue reading »
Wall Street Journal whitewashes Murfreesboro mosque, Hamas-linked CAIR
In “Tennessee Mosque Plans to Open After Many Hurdles,” by Cameron McWhirter in the Wall Street Journal, August 9, we’re told that the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, just wants to “build bridges” with the non-Muslims there, and that these poor bridge-builders have received bomb threats, and that one lawsuit against the mosque said that … Continue reading »
Hamas-linked CAIR tries to strong-arm Romney
This will be a test for Romney: will he kowtow to the Islamic supremacists and allow them to dictate with whom he can speak and consult? Will they succeed in intimidating him into distancing himself from General Boykin and downplaying the nature and magnitude of the threat of jihad and Islamic supremacism? Or will he … Continue reading »
