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Egypt has signed a 10-year agreement with an Australian firm to help build their first nuclear reactor. What could go wrong? Thursday’s report quotes Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif as saying the 900 million Egyptian pound ($161 million) agreement is a step toward Egypt entering an era of peacefully using ...
MEMRI has translations of Reactions in the Arab World to Obama’s Cairo Speech. Some are pretty reasonable, and others are ... well ...
Barack Obama, Egypt, Diplomacy, Speech, Arab World, Media, MEMRI
Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak are praising Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world: Israel: We hope Obama speech heralds new era in Mideast. The Israeli government praised U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world Thursday, saying it shared his hopes for Middle East peace, but stressed ...
Andrew Malcolm has posted the full text of Barack Obama’s speech this morning: What Barack Hussein Obama told Muslims in Egypt. I was struck by this quote, a straightforward rebuke of the conspiracy theories that are so prevalent in the Arab world (especially in Egypt): The situation in Afghanistan ...
No matter how you look at it, this seems like a stunningly bad idea: ‘Brotherhood’ Invited To Obama Speech By U.S. A sign that the Obama administration is willing to publicly challenge Egypt’s commitment to parliamentary democracy: various Middle Eastern news sources report that the administration insisted that at ...
Barack Obama, Egypt, Diplomacy, Muslim Brotherhood, Militant Islam, Hamas
Egyptian reportedly severs penis for love.
The global jihadist organization calling itself the Muslim Brotherhood is on the ropes in Egypt—and that’s good news, even though Hosni Mubarak is nobody’s idea of a hero. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is on the defensive, its struggles reverberating throughout Islamist movements that the secretive organization has ...
Since Barack Obama has announced that he plans to address the Muslim world from Egypt in early June, perhaps he could raise the subject of television shows like this one, broadcast on Egyptian/Saudi channel Al-Hafez TV on April 27, 2009, featuring a smiling, jovial host indoctrinating Arab children to hate ...
After much consultation and an entire research team’s worth of expertise, Barack Obama has decided to address the Muslim world from Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship: Obama to Address Muslim World From Egypt. Hosni is relieved he won’t have to put up with any more of that annoying “democracy” talk. President ...
A leaked IAEA report says the UN’s toothless nuclear watchdog found traces of weapons-grade uranium in Egypt. UN nuclear inspectors have found traces of weapons-grade uranium in Egypt, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. Dated May 5, the restricted report ...
British MP George Galloway is nothing if not brazen. This may be the stunt that finally lands him in serious hot water, as he personally hands over 100 vehicles and thousands of dollars in cash to Hamas. “We are giving you now 100 vehicles and all of their contents, ...
A humanitarian convoy bound for Gaza, led by malevolent British MP George Galloway, has been attacked in Egypt: George Galloway stoned in Egypt. A humanitarian convoy led by maverick MP George Galloway, carrying medical supplies for Gaza has come under attack in Egypt. The convoy, carrying aid worth £1m, ...
An explosion in a tourist area in Cairo, Egypt, has killed at least one person and injured 12. At least one person has been killed and 12 injured in a bomb explosion in the Egyptian capital Cairo, police say. They say foreigners were among the victims after the blast ...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center suspects someone is lying: Nazi hunters doubt ‘Dr. Death’ truly dead. The Simon Wiesenthal Center said on Thursday it had “serious doubts” about reports that Aribert Heim, dubbed ‘Dr. Death’ for killing concentration camp inmates with lethal injections to the heart, died in Cairo in ...
Egypt, Nazi Germany, War Criminal, Mauthausen, Al-Azhar, Islam
Broadcast on Egypt’s Al-Rahma TV on February 6, 2009, Egyptian cleric Hazem Shuman launches into a deranged rant against Valentine’s Day. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Hazem Shuman: In a few days something very important and dangerous will take place in the world of the youth – perhaps even ...
Hamas “negotiators” attended cease-fire talks in Cairo this week, and somehow, mysteriously, ended up with suitcases full of money that they tried to smuggle into Gaza: Hamas negotiators stopped with suitcases of cash. CAIRO – Hamas negotiators left Egypt without a long-term cease-fire with Israel on Thursday — but ...
He was a pious Muslim convert who went to the Al-Azhar mosque daily, living in Cairo, Egypt, until his death in 1992. And he was also one of the most monstrous Nazi war criminals still at large, who performed medical experiments on imprisoned Jews in the Mauthausen concentration camp: Fate ...
Egypt, Nazi Germany, War Criminal, Mauthausen, Al-Azhar, Islam
For Holocaust Remembrance Day, Egyptian cleric Amin Al-Ansari shows Holocaust footage and proclaims, “This is what we hope will happen but, Allah willing, at the hands of the Muslims.” Warning: this is horrific beyond belief, and includes graphic Holocaust images. [Video] (Hat tip: Killgore.)
Islam, Egypt, Holocaust, Hate Speech, Holocaust Remembrance Day
It’s business as usual for Palestinian smugglers (but with fewer tunnels) now that the IDF has left Gaza: Gaza Strip smuggling tunnels operating despite IDF offensive Smuggling into Gaza from Egypt is underway again, only days after the end of the IDF operation against Hamas. AP Television News footage ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Rockets, Egypt, Tunnels
Some new IAF videos; the first shows attacks on armed Grad rocket launchers in Gaza, and the second shows the destruction of at least 40 smuggling tunnels in the Rafah area on the border with Egypt—with numerous secondary explosions indicating the presence of weapons stockpiles. [Video] [Video]
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Rockets, Egypt, Tunnels, IAF
Egyptian border guards have opened fire on Palestinians who broke through the Egyptian border to escape Israel’s attacks on Gaza. An Egyptian security official said there were at least five breaches along the nine-mile border and hundreds of Palestinian residents were pouring in. At least 300 Egyptian border guards ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Ceasefire, Hudna, Rockets, Egypt
As Israeli forces prepare to enter Gaza on land, and warplanes continue to attack Hamas targets from the air, the Foreign Minister of Egypt is blaming ... Hamas? [Video] (Hat tip: Aaron.)
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Ceasefire, Hudna, Rockets, Egypt
Egyptian cleric Hassan Abu Al-Ashbal has a message for Barack Obama: convert to Islam, or else. We’re eager for death, yadda yadda, you know the drill. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Following are excerpts from an address delivered by Egyptian cleric Hassan Abu Al-Ashbal, which aired on Al-Nas TV ...
Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, Jihad, Militant Islam, Barack Obama
In May of this year, Barack Obama fired Middle East adviser Robert Malley when it was revealed that Malley had been holding secret talks with Hamas. One of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers disclosed yesterday that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian group Hamas – prompting ...
Barack Obama, Israel, Robert Malley, Hamas, Syria, Egypt, lies
The leader of the world’s largest jihadist organization, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, is a happy man today: World leaders’ quotes on Obama election win. MOHAMED MAHDI AKEF, LEADER OF THE EGYPTIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, ONE OF THE LARGEST ISLAMIST GROUPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST “We congratulate (Obama) on the confidence ...
Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, Jihad, Militant Islam, Barack Obama