COMMENT: It appears that an Islamist coup attempt in Bangladesh has been foiled (at least for the time being).
Note that the Jamaat-e-Islami (a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot) was a major element in the coup attempt. If such an future attempt were to be successful, it would flank India with hostile Muslim nations–a development that would move the [...]
COMMENT: Having gained 45 % of the seats in the new Egyptian parliament, the Muslim Brotherhood has now maneuvered the secretary general of its Freedom and Justice Party into the position of house speaker.
Portrayed as “moderate,” the Brotherhood is, of course, nothing of the sort. Allied with the Axis in World War II, the [...]
COMMENT: The Indian media report that Youssef al-Qaradawi is mediating talks with the Taliban. Closely linked to the Bank al-Taqwa, Qaradawi may well be the most important of the Muslim Brotherhood’s religious theologians.
In part, this development (if true) may well be an outgrowth of the State Department’s alliance with the Brotherhood, delineated in the [...]
COMMENT: The apparent capture and downing by Iran of a U.S. drone aircraft raises a number of interesting questions.
If the account presented in “Debka” can be believed, the possibility of some sort of “inside job” is one to be carefully considered. (“Debka” is an intelligence newsletter specializing in Middle Eastern and Israeli national security [...]
COMMENT: While the eurozone debt crisis propels Europe toward German-dominated fascism, the “Muslim Brotherhood Spring” seems poised to bring war and/or fascism (“corporatism”) to the Middle East.
The Egyptian army and the Muslim Brotherhood have apparently joined forces, amid reports that the Brotherhood continues to agitate for war with Israel.
(The Brotherhood is an Islamic fascist organization, [...]
COMMENT: A fascinating story comes to us from the vigilant “terrafractyl.” The Anonymous hacking milieu has declared war on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. I don’t know how tech-savvy the Ikhwan is, or how vulnerable their 0perations are to the sorts of gambits that can be employed by Anonymous, but this is a remarkable [...]
COMMENT: In the long For The Record series dealing with WikiLeaks and the Piggy-Back Coups in the Middle East, that tortuous journey began with the coup in Tunisia, believed by some observers to have been triggered by the disclosure of State Department cables critical of the Ben Ali regime.
As noted by the vigilant “Terrafractyl”, [...]
COMMENT: In past programs, we’ve asked whether the newly invigorated pan-Turkist movement and Islamism might converge. Just such a development appears to be gaining momentum, with Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu having observed the Muslim holiday of Eid el-Fitr in Bosnia/Herzogovina.
In addition to the fact that this former Yugoslavian province was part of [...]
COMMENT: Well, folks, they’ve done it. The GOP’s Tea Party fascists (with a generous assist from an apparently clueless and definitely gutless Barack Obama) have succeeded in causing S & P to downgrade the U.S.‘s credit rating from AAA–the first time in history that this has been done.
In FTR #412, we outlined the strategy of [...]
COMMENT: Although the Egyptian political scene remains in flux, with the elections being delayed (as requested by many secular interests involved in the overthrow of Mubarak), the Muslim Brotherhood is advancing its corporatist agenda. Recall that the Brotherhood’s economic theoretician–the 14th century thinker Ibn Khaldun–is regarded by the World Bank as the first advocate [...]
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