The dramatic shift Washington's vis-à-vis the city triggered demonstrations in Palestinian territories, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco and other Muslim countries.. ..…

I guess this means Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt etc. where 80% of all Muslims live are not actually true Muslim countries, since they were left off from the list of places with active terrorist cells compiled by the previous government… . . . . . michael . ..…

Political Islam is not only reactionary on certain questions (notably concerning the status of women) and perhaps even responsible for fanatic excesses directed against non-Muslim citizens (such as the Copts in Egypt)—it is fundamentally reactionary and therefore obviously cannot..…

In one of the incidents, a mob attacked a Muslim man for speaking with his female Hindu coworker, according to the U.S. ... Egypt had the highest level of religious restrictions imposed by the government. ..…

Egypt is in turmoil after the Obama administration backed its Muslim Brotherhood-controlled government, whose leader and elected president, Mohamed Morsi, has been ousted by the military. . ..…

Indeed, where Christians live alongside large Muslim populations, they often have lower fertility than Muslims, such as in Egypt (1.9 TFR for Christians compared with 2.7 for Muslims) and in India (2.3 vs. 3.2). ..…

Christians and Jews also faced harassment in roughly two-thirds of countries .In Tunisia, for instance, Salafists continued to attack religious sites, including Russian Orthodox Church, Jewish synagogues and dozens of Sufi Muslim shrines. And Egypt, Al-Azhar, Egypt's leading..…

Its charismatic founder, Shaikh Ahmad Yassin (who would eventually be assassinated by Israel in 2004), was a disciple of Sayyid Qutub, the main founding figure of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (he was hanged there in 1966). ..…

(For more details on Muslim-Christian tensions, see Views of Muslim-Christian Hostilities in Chapter 6: Interfaith Relations.) . ... Egypt is the only country in which more than one-tenth (12%) of the total Muslim population says it is a good thing that non-Muslims are not free to..…

In your Introduction to Human Rights Watch's World Report 2012, Time to Abandon the Autocrats and Embrace Rights, you urge support for the newly elected governments that have brought Muslim Brotherhood to Tunisia and Egypt. In UK, unfettered by persecution, the exigencies of government, or..…

But support for women working outside the home is considerably smaller in many other Muslim nations. For example, in Egypt, only about six-in-ten say they either completely agree (23%) or mostly agree (39%) that women should be allowed to work outside the home. ..…

In the Palestinian territories, 68% of Muslims say suicide bombing and other forms of violence are at least sometimes justified, as do 35% of Muslims in Lebanon and 28% of those in Egypt. . In the other Muslim publics surveyed, the median percentage saying that suicide bombing and other..…

Of course, it is possible that Christians in Egypt have been undercounted in censuses and demographic surveys. ... One reason is that Christian fertility has been lower than Muslim fertility — that is, Christians have been having fewer babies per woman than Muslims in Egypt. ..…

Egypt, Algeria and Morocco currently have the largest Muslim populations in the Middle East-North Africa. By 2030, however, Iraq is expected to have the second-largest Muslim population in the region – exceeded only by Egypt – largely because Iraq has a higher fertility..…

Hamas's ideological and affinity with Muslim Brotherhood turned from asset into burden, with the downfall of Brotherhood Egypt and the rise of its fierce opponent, General Abdel Fatah el-Sisi. ..…

'The only houses of worship that can ever be built in this village are Muslim places of worship for Allah.' — Watan International, Egypt. . . ..…