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Egypt in Pictures: Not an Islamist in Sight

By Hussein Rashid

…n and women praying side-by-side, definitely not in any definition of Islamist government. In other words, the people are ahead of the state and the religious opposition. Second, the nominal head of the opposition now is Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the IAEA. When he returned to Egypt to lead the opposition to Mubarak, photos were leaked of his daughter in a swimsuit. The speculation was that the Mubarak regime was trying to drive a wedge bet…

Shari‘ah in Egypt? Intervention in Libya?

By The Editors

…In the audio clip from State of Belief above Haroon Moghul, RD contributor and Executive Director of The Maydan Institute, discusses fears over the use of shari’ah in Egypt (they’ve been using it all along and have remained secular), and how US intervention may be playing in Libya. …

Muslim Brotherhood: Protect Churches; Mufti Exempts Egyptians from Friday Prayer

By H.A. Hellyer

…n. Over the past week, others have mentioned a Qatari conspiracy to defame Egypt, along with foreign elements to destabilise Egypt. Others insisted that all this upheaval was the fault of external actors, not domestic ones—and those who appeared to be domestic were simply stooges of outside forces. No one knows anything anymore. The Friday congregational prayer is one of those canonical observances for all Muslim men resident in a locality. Muslim…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…cultural conservatism in the United States. The foundation of this source code (the motherlode of the code, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most impo…

On Cairo Streets, No Support for Islamist State

By H.A. Hellyer

…he Azhar University and the religious leaders of all in Egypt. But that changed in recent years, and in this protest, the Church came heavily out in favor of Mubarak’s continued rule. In so doing, it made clear that they were in favor of a status quo that the overwhelming majority of Egyptians were seeking to change, including Christian Egyptians. A rather foolish decision: a dignified silence might have been more appropriate. At some point, there…

Confusion Reigns on Cairo Streets

By H.A. Hellyer

…the end of it, Mubarak would retire as the first retired leader of modern Egypt. The rest of the day threw all of that into question. The anti-Mubarak protestors have been set upon, and now, increasingly, there are voices around Egypt making themselves heard against the protestors. I even heard, as I was walking around Cairo’s streets, people essentially blaming the violence in Tahrir on the anti-government protestors themselves—not because they…

Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rk Times’sErnesto Londoño covered the phenomenon. He writes: In some ways, Egypt’s new government has become even more repressive and intolerant than the regime that was overthrown in early 2011. One disturbing example is the incarceration of dozens of gay men, a crackdown that has vilified a community that had hopedthe popular uprising in 2011 would bring minorities greater freedom. Indonesia: Province Passes 100-Lash Law We previously reported t…

New Reports Reveal Global Persecution of Nonbelievers

By Austin Dacey

…” under articles 98, 160, and 161 of the Egyptian Penal Code. According to Egypt News Daily, the prosecution first sought to charge him in connection with disseminating Innocence of Muslims but when this accusation was proven false, they revised their strategy to target the content of Saber’s video blog. Though sentenced to three years and released on bail he was subsequently locked up due to a clerical error before being released on December 17….

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…eformation, cutting edge of the Christian right: Christian nationalism has new momentum — and a new movement that openly longs for “dominion” over secular America, Salon, January 2, 2024 Molly Olmstead, The Radical Evangelicals Who Helped Push Jan. 6 to Wage War on “Demonic Influence”: Mike Johnson has deep ties to groups that encouraged the Capitol raid—out of conviction that they’re in a literal battle between supernatural forces of good and ev…

First They Came for the Brotherhood . . . Egyptian Gov Seeks to Criminalize NGOs

By Austin Dacey

…ime in Egypt is turning its sights on all non-governmental associations. A newly-drafted “Law on Associations” sponsored by the Ministry of Social Solidarity threatens the very existence of civil society in Egypt. In the words of a July 9 statement issued by 29 independent civil society organizations—among them, all of the country’s leading human rights groups—the proposed law “will criminalize the operation of NGOs and subordinate them to the sec…