…seems to be going the way of most glorious revolutions—not well (although I suppose it depends who’s doing the judging). It’s fifty-fifty between the Muslim Brotherhood and a Mubarak surrogate in the first round of voting: In what many described … Continue reading →
Intrepid Middle East traveler and reporter extraordinaire Michael Totten has a new post up about radical Islamists in Tunisia.
Continue reading →…Syria is in an uproar. Sound familiar? As with similar situations before, the rebels can easily be overpowered by the government, if their numbers don’t reach a critical mass, and if the army and police stay loyal to ruler Assad. … Continue reading →
John Hinderaker has an update. Hinderaker writes that the story of the post-revolution mistreatment of Christians in Egypt has been “mysteriously underreported.” I’m not sure what’s so mysterious about it: most of the MSM has a very short attention span, … Continue reading →
Early election results indicate the Muslim Brotherhood is doing well in Egypt: The party formed by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s mainstream Islamist group, appeared to have taken about 40 percent of the vote, as expected. But a big surprise was … Continue reading →
…on the Christians of Egypt. Remember them?
Continue reading →Here’s an excellent article by Andrew McCarthy that skewers Obama and the left (with a small dig at RINO Lindsay Graham along the way) for their hypocrisy in dealing with Libya and Gaddafi vs. Iraq and Bush. I will quote … Continue reading →
The headline reads “interim [Libyan] ruler unveils more radical than expected plans for Islamic law.” There’s that word again: expected. But those who thought they knew what to expect in Libya were either arrogant or daft, or both. And one … Continue reading →
It’s hard to escape the grisly death photos and videos of Gaddafi. A flamboyant figure who was photographed often during his long and very public life, his well-earned enemies have made sure that his death has been especially well-documented, too. … Continue reading →
We’re getting conflicting reports, but something seems to be going on in Libya with Gaddafi. He appears to have been either captured or killed: National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters earlier that Gaddafi was captured and wounded … Continue reading →
This should come as absolutely no surprise. And yet it seems to have done so, for a bunch of nameless “U.S. officials”: U.S. officials had once thought there was little chance that terrorists could get their hands on many of … Continue reading →
Caroline Glick assesses the situation in Egypt in light of the recent mob attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo. The crowd was prevented from killing six Israeli security officers only because the military leaders of Egypt, who had been … Continue reading →