Egypt’s final round of elections earlier this month confirmed our greatest fear: victory by the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) received 41% of the parliament. Together with other parties, Islamists dominate two-thirds of the new Egyptian legislature, and elected a strong Brotherhood leader Mohamed al-Katatni, as Speaker of the...
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EMET does not, as a matter of policy, support or oppose political candidates or any political party. However, we feel it appropriate to comment substantively on a political figure’s foreign policy positions, especially those jeopardizing the national security of the United States and her allies, including Israel. With Republican Congressman Ron Paul coming in...
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As part of her national tour, on October 5, 2011, author, speaker, human rights activist, and blogger Nonie Darwish spoke at the George Mason University (GMU) Law School concerning human rights in the Muslim world and the problems stemming from the Muslim world’s use of Islamic law, often called “Sharia.”  Ms. Darwish is descended...
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Last Sunday, as Coptic Christians assembled peacefully in Maspero, Egypt to protest the burning of a Coptic church. The army responded by opening fire on protesters and deliberately driving armored vehicles into the crowd. Video (Warning: graphic), shows military vehicles plowing into the crowds, actively attempting to run down protestors at high speeds. According...
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It seems as though it is now understood and was even at the time, that the September 11th attacks marked the true demarcation line between the 20th and 21st centuries. The 20th century, filled though it was with both innovation and horror in equal measure, was nevertheless the “modern” century. And on that September...
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I recently attended a briefing by a former NYPD counterterrorism official on the risk to the United States from so-called “Lone Wolf” terror attacks. Generally speaking a “Lone Wolf” is a terrorist who is not a member of any larger international or domestic terrorist organization, who launches a terrorist attack utilizing only what weapons...
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Roaches scatter when the lights go on. Hollywood movies have taught us that once the hero has shined a light on the doers of evil, bringing troubling matters to light, the cops swoop in, the bad actors are rounded up, the credits roll, and the camera pans up to...
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In the days following the killing of arch-terrorist Osama Bin Laden, a number of things have come sharply into focus. One of them, the duplicity of our supposed ally “Pakistan,” which claims to have been blissfully unaware of Bin Laden’s immense residence and safe house, located smack dab in the middle of Abbottabad, one...
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One of the great mysteries of the federal terrorism Holy Land Foundation Trial, which blew the lid off the Muslim Brotherhood (M.B.) in America, was why, although the government had the evidence, further prosecutions never took place against the long list of co-conspirators . Documents and wire taps had named dozens of Brothers and...
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America is a nation that was born in religious freedom. As a community,  Jews have found safe harbor and  true emancipation on these shores.  When my father came here, fleeing Nazi Germany, he cried when the ship passed the Statue of Liberty. He and his generation profoundly loved what this country stands for. He...
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