Islamist Future Looms in the Mideast

By Robert Maginnis

The Mideast presents a chaotic quagmire of unforgiving choices for Obama.  The turmoil in Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, and Tunisia is piled atop wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the civil war with Islamists in Pakistan.  Add to these woes the concerns over Islamist Iran’s emerging atomic threat, the re-emergent neo-Ottoman Turkey, the mischievous Syria, the ever-present Israeli-Palestinian standoff, and the global Islamic terror campaign. 

Muslim Pedophile Gangs Stalk British Girls

Britain’s culture of political correctness has shut the mouths of police and government institutions to an ugly social trend. 

Attacks on Christians Show an Islamic Future for Egypt

A radical Egypt would change the world.

Egypt: Deadly Riots Erupt Over Rigged Election

  The Muslim Brotherhood has been driven from parliament, but unrest indicates a nation thirsty for change. 

Riots erupted throughout Egypt this week, resulting in at least eight deaths and scores of injuries, over speculation that the country’s government rigged the November 28 election to drive out lawmakers from its only real rival, the Islamic fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) party. The unrest indicates that a shift is underway in Egypt’s political alignment.

Although the MB is officially banned in Egypt, its candidates run as independents, and it is the largest political opposition to President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling National Democratic Party (ndp).

Christians Leave the Middle East

« A cross is decorated with lights as Orthodox Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil commemorate the Elevation of the Holy Cross on September 13.
(SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)

Christianity is on the retreat across the Middle East, according to a recent report in Britain’s Independent. And it is not just war-torn Iraq that they are leaving—the numbers of Christians throughout the region are rapidly decreasing. 

“Across the Middle East, it is the same story of despairing—sometimes frightened—Christian minorities, and of an exodus that reaches almost biblical proportions,” writes the Independent’s Robert Fisk. “Almost half of Iraq’s Christians have fled their country since the first Gulf War in 1991, most of them after the 2004 invasion … and stand now at 550,000, scarcely 3 percent of the population. More than half of Lebanon’s Christians now live outside their country. Once a majority, the nation’s 1.5 million Christians, most of them Maronite Catholics, comprise perhaps 35 percent of the Lebanese. Egypt’s Coptic Christians—there are at most around 8 million—now represent less than 10 percent of the population.”