islamism

Soulmates on Iran, Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, Shari’ah, and the rapture.

The support of many Republican presidential candidates demonstrates the success of a cottage industry based on the conspiracy theory that totalitarian Islamic radicals are bent on infiltrating America, displacing the Constitution, and subverting Western-style democracy in the U.S. and around the globe.

They may be “cool” to King hearings, but that hasn’t translated into condemnation of Islamophobia.

During the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei’s Friday Sermon on February 4, 2011, he said, “The events of North Africa have a special meaning for the Iranian nation. This is what has always been known as the occurrence of Islamic awakening as a result of the victory of the Islamic Revolution.”

Lord of the Rings, Gays, and Anderson Cooper. Oh my.

Some read the exemption as a sign of more violence to come.

Imagine a cabinet meeting in which a Brotherhood minister suggests negating the peace treaty and risking $1.3 billion in US aid.

As Islamic political thought evolves, no easy answers to how events in Egypt will unfold.

A correspondent in Cairo finds spirituality thriving, but not dedication to clerics.

Rather than turning to theocracy, Egyptians are building their own structures of civil society.