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Tunisia
The Muslim Brotherhood ascends
Hurriyet Daily News 4 September 2012
From Tunisia to Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood is emerging as the winner of the Arab Spring. There are differences, of course, between the parties that make up this network 
The Trouble with Tunisian Values
Gatestone Institute 30 August 2012By Daniel Greenfield
Like millions of people around the world, Jamel Gharbi marked the end of summer by taking his family to the beach. Gharbi, a French Socialist regional councilor, had taken his wife and 12 year old
Tunisia: Paris Protests At Tunisian Islamist Attack On French Politician
AllAfrica.com 24 August 2012
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has demanded a meeting with the Tunisian government over a violent attack on a French local politician who represents his own Socialist
French councillor beaten by Tunisian extremists over family's dress
Europe Online Magazine 23 August 2012
Paris - A French councillor of Tunisian origin on Wednesday said he was beaten by religious extremists in Tunisia because his wife and daughter‘s clothing were seen as
Tunisian Salafists shutdown ‘un-Islamic’ events
Daily News Egypt 20 August 2012By Luiz Sanchez
Salafists across Tunisia last week disrupted cultural events they deemed ‘un-Islamic’, increasing fears the country may become more hardline Islamic after the revolution which ousted largely
Salafists block Tunisia comedy show that 'offends Islam'
Radio Netherlands 16 August 2012
Radical Islamists obstructed a stand-up comedy performance by Tunisian actor Lotfi Abdelli, the ministry of culture said on Wednesday, accusing those responsible of attacking freedom of
Tunisian blogger arrested 'for drinking in Ramadan'
FRANCE 24 6 August 2012
Tunisian blogger Sofiane Shurabi, a scathing critic of deposed president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, was arrested on Sunday for drinking alcohol in public during Ramadan with two friends, police
Why Muslims Must Hate Jews
American Thinker 3 August 2012
By Nonie Darwish
Recently, a Pakistani religious leader, Pirzada Muhammad Raza Saqib Mustafai, said: "When the Jews are wiped out ... the sun of peace [will] begin to rise on the entire world."
The same preaching is routinely done not only by clerics, but by politicians -- in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and elsewhere. This is not just Ahmedinijad; it is at the heart of Islamic theology that world peace will be established only when all the Jews are wiped from the earth.
But few people in Western media are alarmed by this kind of rhetoric or care to expose this dreadful dark side of Islam's obsession with Jew-hatred.
The Spring of Islamic Fundamentalism
Gatestone Institute 3 August 2012
By Georgy Gounev
To what extent should an Islamic leader be trusted when he proclaims his intention to act in keeping with all the requirements of a democratic political system and to
The growing voices of extremism and Salafism in Tunisia
The Times of Israel 3 August 2012
By Paul Schemm
Thousands of hardcore Muslims chant against Jews. Youths rampage through cities at night in protest of "blasphemous” art. A sit-in by religious students degenerates into fist
Tunisia's ruling Islamists file blasphemy bill
FRANCE 24 2 August 2012
Tunisia's ruling Islamist party Ennahda on Wednesday filed a bill that would prohibit blasphemy, said Habib Khedher, who heads the committee in charge of drafting the constitution. "Today we went
The pro-Islamist West versus anti-Islamist Russia, China
Jerusalem Post 2 August 2012
By AYMENN JAWAD AL-TAMIMI, JAMES AMIR JAWAD
In the present regional upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa, how could one characterize the responses of Western countries on the one hand, and those of Russia and
The growing voices of extremism and Salafism in Tunisia
The Times of Israel 31 July 2012 By Paul Schemm
Tunic, Tunisia— Thousands of hardcore Muslims chant against Jews. Youths rampage through cities at night in protest of “blasphemous” art. A sit-in by religious students degenerates
Rising Islamism in Africa
National Review Online 26 July 2012
By Clifford D. May
The name Timbuktu has come to evoke the most remote, mysterious, and inaccessible corner of the earth. Five hundred years ago, Timbuktu was a great center of Islamic scholarship and the southern terminus of the principal trans-Saharan route to the western Mediterranean, a cosmopolitan outpost where camel caravans brought buyers and sellers of salt, gold, ivory, and slaves.
Islamists Attack Christians, Iraqi Refugees in Damascus
Assyrian International News Agency 26 July 2012
Damascus -- The Syrian rebels' attack on Damascus has allowed radical Islamist groups to attack Iraqi refugees, Christians allegedly loyal to the Syrian government and other
The Islamist ascendancy
UTSanDiego.com 16 July 2012
By Charles Krauthammer
Post-revolutionary Libya appears to have elected a relatively moderate pro-Western government. Good news, but tentative because Libya is less a country than an oil well with a
Fewer bikinis, more veils on public beaches
ANSAmed 13 July 2012
TUNIS - Fewer women go to the beach wearing bikinis now than during the previous regime, because they are increasingly being harassed by salafists. ''Ben Ali was a
Video: Tunisian Man Beheaded For Converting to Christianity
Christian News 12 July 2012
By Lawrence D. Jones
A graphic video of a Christian man being beheaded by Muslim extremists for converting from Islam to Christianity was recently shown on talk shows in Canada and Egypt. Footage of the incident, which reportedly took place in Tunisia, shows a young man being held down like "an animal" with a knife to his throat.
The Islamist Tsunami and Arab Society
Gatestone Institute 11 July 2012
By Najat Fawzy AlSaied
When the news came that Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) had been declared Egypt's President, the immediate concern was about what kind of society the Muslim
Tunisian Islamist party says religion, politics are one
Radio Netherlands Worldwide 9 July 2012
Tunisia's ultra-conservative Salafist Reform Front, which advocates Islamic law, or sharia, met for the first time on Sunday and urged the authorities to renounce the
