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An Overview of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Stance on U.S. and Jihad; Translation of Its Draft Political Platform This report presents an overview of the positions of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, as expressed by its general guide, Muhammad Badi', since his nomination in January 2010, and as set out in its proposed political platform, which was drafted in the era of Badi's predecessor, Muhammad Mahdi 'Akef, and was leaked to the media in August 2007. The translations are taken from reports published by MEMRI over recent years.[1] Badi': The U.S. Is on the Verge of Collapse In a Friday sermon...

With fears that Islamist extremists might come to power in Egypt, there are dire warnings coming out of Moscow. Yulia Latynina, a talk show host and columnist warns in The Moscow Times that a “New Iron Curtain” is descending on the globe. “We are standing at the threshold of a new world. If the fundamentalists get their way, secular authoritarian Middle East regimes will be replaced by Islamist extremist, totalitarian ones. As a result, oil tanker ships will have to sail around Cape Horn, the West will have to urgently search for alternatives to oil as an energy source, Russia...

(Title was truncated) Middle East Crisis Part IX – Social Network Users Call for Days of Rage in Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Algeria Introduction As part of widespread calls on Facebook for opposition activity against the Arab leaders, numerous Facebook groups and accounts were created calling for popular intifada throughout the Arab world, including Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, and Algeria. The pages called for non-violent and apolitical demonstrations, with some of them providing precise instructions regarding how to behave during the demonstratraions. Following are examples of some of the pages that appeared on the social network: Hat tips to 'Y' at...

TEHRAN: Iran on Sunday praised Egypt's "revolution of the noble" and slammed Western governments' "backward" reaction to the uprising in the Arab nation, state media reported. "The voice of the brave people of Egypt is the voice of revolution. The start of this revolution has astonished the despotic regimes of the region," parliament speaker Ali Larijani was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency. "The parliament supports the uprising of the Tunisian and Egyptian people," Larijani said, describing the protests as "the revolution of the noble."

TEHRAN, Jan. 28 (MNA) -- Tehran Friday Prayer Leader has said that the United States’ dream of creating a new Middle East under its domination did not come true and a new Middle East, based on Islamic principles, is taking shape. The remarks by Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami were made in reference to the unrest which has gripped certain Arab countries including Tunisia and Egypt. Tunisian President Zine El Abidine’s government fell on January 14 after weeks of bloody protests over unemployment and high food prices. The spirit of Tunisia also engulfed Egypt, one of the United States’ closest Middles East...

On a Myspace page in Loughner's name, he said goodbye to friends just hours before the shooting and said, "Please don't be mad at me... I cannot rest."

So Sorry but have to say Zot me. Before you zot this account I would like to leave our email. cglangley@gmail.com I love so many here but the "cliques" and unfamily curse wordes;power trips; mentally unbalanced posters who feel they run the forums are just creepy. I Love so many for their years of advocating even those I huge lee disagree with. Salvation;Quix;tubebender;anamerican mom;bd476 are just a few that I felt family with since 1998. Good Luck Jim Robinson. May God Bless you into and beyond 2011 Bye.

People like to talk about the bubble that President Barack Obama lives in, pointing out that he surrounded by more than the usual number of sycophants in this White House. "You have Valerie [Jarrett] berating just about anyone who she even perceives has said something negative about the President," says one White House media aide. "She's constantly on her cell phone taking down some CEO or Senator or Congressional chief of staff for some slight, whether it actually was or not." Then there are the manipulative advisers who create media events like the one at Arlington, Virginia's Long Branch Elementary...

Caroline Glick joins us and takes up arms against our internal enemies -- Western allies (elites, apologists, propagandists and anti-semites) cowed and subjugated by Islamic supremacism (a term coined by Robert Spencer, along with Islamorealism). Our World: The Age of Dissimulation Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post Years from now, when historians seek an overarching concept to define our times, they could do worse than refer to it as the Age of Dissimulation. Today our leading minds devote their energies and cognitive powers to figuring out new ways to hide reality from themselves and the general public. Take US President Barack Obama’s...

The basic facts of what happened outside Rory Holland's house in Biddeford around 1 a.m. on June 30, 2009, are not in dispute. click image to enlarge Two brothers, 21-year-old Derek Greene and 19-year-old Gage Greene, were walking past Holland's house on South Street when the younger brother exchanged words with him. Witnesses say the confrontation turned physical as Gage Greene shoved Holland. Holland pulled a handgun from his waistband and shot Gage Greene in the chest. Then Holland shot Derek Greene twice, in the chest and the abdomen, as he ran toward the spot where his younger brother had...

Conference of Presidents head Malcolm Hoenlein says many now waking up to Iran’s drive for regional power; tells ‘Post’ fundamental US Mideast policy won’t change following November’s elections. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon last week was a “watershed” that rammed home for many in the Arab world the realization that the Iranian leader does indeed have hegemonic designs in the region, Malcolm Hoenlein told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, said at a briefing with the Post’s editorial staff that Ahmadinejad’s Lebanon visit was a...

Truth is the New Hate Speech MEMRI is the most vital source of news from the Middle East. Hands down. They translate programs, newscasts, etc., coming out of the Muslim world. Unfamiliar with MEMRI? Go here. Shutting down MEMRI is the equivalent of shutting down Edward R. Murrow back in the day. The implications of such action are unquantifiable. They want to eliminate all information that is damaging about Islam. The TRUTH that is. Everybody needs to be silenced and listen to the MSM Dawa and their praise of Islam. (Hat tip Armaros) I will be sending MEMRI a donation...

I am sick and tired of this site being taken over by Catholics ( of which I am one ) stories or proverbs. This is a news site not a religion site. Go do that somewhere else. I am not opposed to your prostilazion(sp), just not here. We lose credibility if any religious group dictates or can be quoted from this site. As a long term member of this site I regret posting this information, but the site has been buried in Catholic stuff recently and it should be shunted to some separate page.

CANAAN -- A homeowner fired a gun into the air and captured one of three people allegedly burglarizing his barn early Wednesday morning, police say. David A. Fortier, 22, of Canaan, and Damien Shane Towers, 19, of Skowhegan, are both charged with burglary and theft. Rachelle R. Clukey, 19, of Cornville, is charged with theft by receiving stolen property. A homeowner on Whitten Road notified the Somerset County Sheriff's Office at 1:38 a.m. that there were people inside a barn next to his residence who were loading items into a white, 1978 Ford truck, according to Lt. Carl Gottardi. While...

TEHRAN — Having successfully suppressed the opposition uprising that followed last summer’s disputed presidential election, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his supporters are now renewing their efforts to marginalize another rival group — Iran’s traditional conservatives. Conservative rivals of Mr. Ahmadinejad are fighting back, publicly accusing him of sidelining clerics and the Parliament, pursuing an “extremist” ideology, and scheming to consolidate control over all branches of Iran’s political system. “Now that they think they have ejected the reformists, maybe they think it is time to remove their principalist opponents,” said Morteza Nabavi, the editor of a mainstream conservative newspaper, in an...

A top Microsoft executive today compared Apple's iPhone 4 to his own company's problem-plagued Vista operating system. "It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their Vista, and I'm okay with that," said Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, in a keynote speech at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), which runs through Thursday in Washington, D.C. The successor to Windows XP, Vista launched in early 2007 and was heavily criticized by users, and in a series of e-mails that became public during a class-action lawsuit, even by the company's own senior executives. The consensus, deserved or not, has become that...

War drums are beating in the Middle East. In a short time, the United States has increased the number of its carrier strike groups opposite Iran to three, and reports are raining down of a tightening ring of American and Israeli concentrations all around the Islamic Republic. On the diplomatic front, the Israelis are unusually concerned about their international image (for example, making concessions in Gaza) while their top officials - including Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself - are shuttling between Jerusalem and Washington. Everybody in the region is restless. Turkey is making spectacular diplomatic...

Terror organization taunts Obama, threatens to "not show restraint." Al-Qaida's US-born spokesman warned President Barack Obama Sunday that the militant group may launch new attacks that would kill more Americans than previous ones. In a taunting, 24 minute message that dwelled on Obama's setbacks, including the loss of Massachusetts Senate seat to the Republicans, Adam Gadahn set out al-Qaida's conditions for peace with the US, including cutting support for Israel and withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.

Obama on Monday told residents in Theodore, Alabama, that “it’s going to take time for things to return to normal.” “This region that’s known a lot of hardship will bounce back just like it’s bounced back before. We’re going to do everything we can, 24/7, to make sure communities get back on their feet. “And in the end, I am confident that we’re going to be able to leave the Gulf Coast in better shape than it was before.”

I do not know what it is about Islam and liberalism that causes both to turn logic and truth on its head, but we have been witnessing it in different ways in recent days. First there was the “humanitarian” flotilla running the Israeli blockade of Gaza and then there was the appalling anti-Semitism of Helen Thomas, formerly of the front row in the White House press room. Suffice it to say that the so-called Palestinians are not living in a state of “occupation.” They have repeatedly been offered a state of their own, but have refused it for some six...