Author Archives: Andrew Bostom

Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi (C) attends a meeting with Egypt’s Vice President Mahmoud Mekky (4th L) with other politicians and heads of parties at the presidential palace in Cairo December 8, 2012. A new decree was issued to accomplish the … Continue reading →

  Egyptian Liberals (like their Egyptian-American expatriate colleague Mona Eltahawy) championing free speech Vote Compass is an interactive electoral literacy application, originally founded by Clifton van der Linden, at the University of Toronto, and subsequently applied internationally by political scientists, … Continue reading →

The Washington Post has just published (12/7/12) a report highlighting how Egyptian President Morsi has cemented his relationship with Egypt’s US-equipped military—an ominous, if predictable development, given the steady, incremental re-Islamization of all institutions in Egypt, over decades. Noting one … Continue reading →

President Morsi supporters chant pro-Morsi slogans during a rally in the vicinity of Cairo University and Nahdet Misr Square in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo December 1, 2012. Today (Wednesday, 12/5/12), Al-Ahram is reporting that the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) … Continue reading →

People are thirsty for Sharia. We do not support the president for who he is, but rather for the Islamic project he promises. ** Al Ahram, Al Jazeera (via Egypt News), and Reuters are all reporting that Egypt’s Supreme Judiciary … Continue reading →

Al-Ahram headline: Huge pro-Morsi rally challenges opponents to ballot-box test Theodore Roosevelt penned these remarkably prescient words in a 1911 letter to his longtime correspondent and friend, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, reflecting upon Roosevelt’s post-presidency visit to Cairo, Egypt, the … Continue reading →

I have written repeatedly and at length (here, here 1,2,3,  and here) about the visceral, najis (“infidel impurity”)-inspired, intermittently apocalyptic (and certainly at present) Islamic Jew-hatred that has pervaded Iranian Muslim society since the nation became a Shiite theocracy ~ … Continue reading →

On the heels of Egyptian President Morsi’s recent consolidation of power,  polling data from a survey of 1,000 Likely Voters by Rasmussen Reports, conducted November 26-27, 2012, reveal, once again, the American public is appropriately sober about what the much-ballyhooed … Continue reading →

Morsi at the UN: The Islamic sanctities and prophet Mohamed is a red line for all Muslims…We do not accept and we consider an enemy anyone who assaults our prophet through words or deeds On September 23, 2012, Egypt’s Muslim … Continue reading →

When asked directly earlier today (11/26/12) if the White House “condemned” Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi’s seizure of broad executive powers, which included an effective abrogation of the judiciary’s role in constraining the Sharia supremacist “assembly” drafting Egypt’s new constitution, White … Continue reading →