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Egypt: Christian Girls Kidnapped and 'Sold'

Two teenage Coptic girls, cousins, were recently kidnapped and then "sold" in Minya, Egypt—the same region where a Coptic church was recently attacked and desecrated. I tried to find this story in English-language media and, as expected, found nothing,...

Al-Qaeda's Zawahiri, Bigger Threat Than Osama?

Now that Ayman Zawahiri has assumed leadership of al-Qaeda, it is important to end the widespread perception that he is a dour intellectual who is disconnected from young, would-be jihadists. The fact is, Zawahiri is a wily, dangerous and imposing leader...

Muslim Brotherhood Leader Caught Lying—While Swearing to God

Sobhi Saleh, a top Muslim Brotherhood leader who was elected by Egypt's Supreme Council to be on the constitution amendment committee, recently gave a speech wherein he insisted that Brotherhood men should only marry Brotherhood women, since they are...

Muslim Woman Seeks to Revive Institution of Sex-Slavery

Last week witnessed popular Muslim preacher Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini boast about how Islam allows Muslims to buy and sell conquered infidel women, so that "When I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick whichever female I desire and buy her." This...

Raped and Ransacked in the Muslim World

Plundering the possessions, lives, and dignity of Christians in the Islamic world: is this a random affair, a product of the West's favorite offenders—poverty, ignorance, grievance—or is it systematic, complete with ideological backing? Consider the...

Islamists Project Islam's Worst Traits onto Christians

In recent weeks, we saw how the Muslim world's obsession with gaining converts evinces, in the words of one Muslim intellectual, an "inferiority complex"—a deadly one at that. As it happens, inferiority complex is not the only psychological ailment...

Conversion, Adultery, and Savagery Strike Egypt

The true story behind the recent Islamist attacks on Egypt's Copts—wherein over a dozen Christians were killed, hundreds wounded, and their churches torched—is as illuminating as it is sordid. To recap, Islamists—or "Salafists," as many in the Egyptian...

Obama's Middle East Speech

One of the problems with Obama's Middle East speech was that parts of it were so deliberately balanced — so meant to appease all sides — that they go nowhere. For example, look at the portions where he discusses democracy in the Middle East versus the...

Raymond Ibrahim 1, CAIR 0 (by KO)

FP: Hello Raymond. Thanks for joining us today. Ibrahim: Hello, Jamie; thanks for having me. FP: A great victory for free speech. Thank you on behalf of us here at Frontpage. Let's start with how all this began and why CAIR targeted you. Ibrahim: Back...

Muslim 'Inferiority Complex' Kills Christians

Days ago in Egypt, throngs of Muslims (henceforth, "Islamists"), estimated at 3,000, fired guns and rifles and hurled Molotov cocktails at Coptic churches, homes, and businesses in the Imbaba region near Cairo: twelve Christians were killed—some shot by...