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Egypt Walks Out of Nuclear Talks in Geneva

Arabs want Israel to give up its unacknowledged arsenal of nuclear weapons.

(GENEVA al Jazeera) - Egypt walked out of global nuclear talks in protest over failure to implement a 1995 resolution for a Middle East as a zone free of nuclear weapons.

Egypt's foreign ministry ended its participation out of frustration that the zone has yet to be created.

EGYPT: Use of Blasphemy-like Charges Must End

Government officials clearly stated their troubling view that there should be consequences, including criminal prosecution, for individuals who insult the religious feelings of others.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today expressed concern about the Egyptian government’s continued application of blasphemy-like charges.

The government has used this charge to stifle dissent and limit the freedoms of religion and expression.

A Sudanese Genocide in Egypt?

“One need only look to Egypt’s immediate neighbor, Sudan, and its bloody history, to know where the former may be headed”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Moderates, secularists, and Christians recently demonstrated in mass at Tahrir Square.

They even besieged the presidential palace—is all too familiar.

Egypt`s New Pharaoh And The Useful Idiots

The Muslim Brotherhood follows patterns similar to all revolutionary parties that replace an ancient régime...

(WASHINGTON DC Sabbah Report) - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 14 years in exile and set out to destroy the secular opposition forces.

These included the Communist Party of Iran, which had been instrumental in bringing down the shah.

USCIRF -- U.S. Government Advisory Body Concerned by Draft Egyptian Constitution

Hasty passage of the draft constitution concluded a contentious process.

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Egyptian Constituent Assembly on November 30 approved a draft constitution that includes problematic provisions limiting freedom of religion or belief for all Egyptians.

“The constitution was drafted without a balanced representation of all the Egyptian constituencies; as a result the religious freedom provisions of the draft constitution are deeply flawed.

CAIR Repudiates Egypt `Blasphemy` Death Sentences

CAIR had previously called on Muslims in the Middle East to ignore the distribution of the "trashy" anti-Islam film...

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations, today repudiated death sentences handed down by an Egyptian court for charges linked to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" that attacked the Prophet Muhammad.

An Egyptian court reportedly found the defendants, most of whom live in the US, guilty of harming national unity...

What`s Missing in Aljazeera`s Documentary

The program highlights all aspects of Nile but focuses on the two main rival countries, Egypt and Ethiopia.

(UGANDA) - A couple of days ago I was able to watch the Aljazeera documentary titled “Struggle over the Nile.”

My first attraction to the documentary stemmed from the fact that I am a denizen of Ethiopia from where flows, according to the documentary itself, 85 percent of the water that sustains the land of the Pharaoh’s.

War in Syria: No Sign of a Revolution Yet

It is quite ironical; but where do all conspiracy theorists go/vanish when we need them most?

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - While the world was not even watching and shortly after the Tunisian uprising ended, swiftly and quite unexpectedly actually, with the ousting of President Zin Elabdine Ben Ali, too many conspiracy theories began to hatch up all over the cyber space claiming that the Tunisian revolution has been choreographed by foreign/western powers and pulled off by secret agencies.

October 1973: the Arab-Israeli War Remembered

“Debunking the Israeli invincibility, under the nose of the Americans, was indeed President Sadat’s idea of how to win the military conflict in October 1973″

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Anwar el-Sadat the former Egyptian president (1970-1981) launched a daring military war against Israel to liberate the occupied land of the Sinai Peninsula in 1973.

His military commanders and valiant soldiers made an astonishing crossing of the Suez Canal and took over the impregnable Bar Lev line...

Anti-Islam film: the Coptic Brotherhood

“I like to call this new generation of Egypt’s Christians ‘the Coptic Brotherhood’ … for they adopt the same policy & tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - There is a worldwide consensus that the now-notorious video clips of the anti-Islam film “innocence of Muslims” are extremely offensive, provocative and clumsily amateurish.

But at the same time there is almost a similar consensus that doesn’t consider the violent and demagogic Muslim reaction any less offensive and provocative.