Tag: Muslim Brotherhood
Gulf states concerned over possible Biden overtures to Iran, Muslim Brotherhood
While President-elect Joe Biden has yet to fill out key cabinet and foreign-policy positions for his next administration, top U.S. allies in the Arab Gulf are voicing concerns over a return to a more...
The world must wake up to the megalomaniac in Ankara
Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Muslim Brotherhood is the enemy of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, Cyprus, Greece, the E.U., the Kurds (who comprise a third of the country’s...
Turkey’s bid to return to Ottoman-era glory endangers Israel and the region
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has high ambitions. He wants to take his country back to what he perceives as the glory days of the Ottoman Empire, but the leader, who has been described...
Jordan’s top court dissolves the country’s Muslim Brotherhood branch
Jordan’s top court dissolved the country’s branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, a Jordanian official said on Thursday.
“The Court of Cassation yesterday issued a final verdict ruling that the Muslim Brotherhood group is...
What is Israel’s next move as Turks and Saudis duel over Jerusalem?
Tensions have run increasingly high between the Jordanians and Saudis on one side, and the Turks and Qataris on the other over control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
“Turkey’s neo-Ottominism in its foreign policy...
Should an Islamist on Facebook’s new oversight board scare users?
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks he’s found a way to avoid further skewering at the hands of those looking for a whipping boy for the failings of the Internet. Actor Sacha Baron...
Facebook names ex-member of Muslim Brotherhood-linked party to new board
Among the first 20 members Facebook announced last week to its new and independent oversight board is Peace Prize Nobel laureate Tawakkol Karman, a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Al Islah Party in Yemen.
Nicknamed by...
Muslim Brotherhood founder was a Jew, says retired Egyptian general
Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna was secretly a Jew, retired Egyptian General Fouad Fayoud said last month on Egyptian television.
Speaking on Egypt’s Channel 1 on Oct. 27, Fayoud said al-Banna had lived in a...
Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi dead at 67
Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi died on Monday at the age of 67 after passing out during a court session.
The Muslim Brotherhood member led Egypt from 2012, following the ouster of longtime head Hosni...
The Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamophobia trap
As far as administration critics are concerned, U.S. President Donald Trump is about to do it again.
His plans to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group has the foreign-policy establishment wringing their hands...