OVERWHELMING & MOUNTING EVIDENCE THAT EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IS JUST ANOTHER HOSTILE ISLAMIST ORGANIZATION OF DANGEROUS FANATICS BENT ON ACHIEVING WORLD DOMINATION BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE:  A GROUP THAT IS COMMITTED TO EMPOWERING & SPREADING SHARIA LAW -- A BODY OF LAW THAT PREACHES HATE FOR NON-MUSLIM "INFIDELS," ESPECIALLY ISLAM'S HISTORIC NEMESIS, CHRISTIANITY, & ALLOWS ANYTHING, FROM SEDITION & MASS MURDER TO LYING, CHEATING & STEALING, TO MAKE ISLAM SUPREME IN THE WORLD

THE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS:  ISLAMIST ATTACKS ON COPTIC CHRISTIANS -- FOR THE MOST PART, A REFLECTION OF THE USUAL ANIMOSITY THAT ADHERENTS & PRACTITIONERS OF MILITANT ISLAM HOLD FOR CHRISTIANS -- THE EXPECTED CONSEQUENCE OF THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT FALLING UNDER THE CONTROL OF ISLAMISTS? SUBJECTION OF EGYPT'S COPTS TO GENOCIDE

WHAT THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES NEED TO DO, AS REGARDS EGYPT & IRAN:  DIRECT MILITARY ACTION AGAINST THE ISLAMISTS IN EGYPT & IRAN -- IN EGYPT:  SWIFT & EFFECTIVE U.S. MILITARY ACTION TO RESCUE AMERICAN HOSTAGES BEING HELD, AS WELL AS TERMINATION OF THE BILLION PLUS U.S. AID PROGRAM TO EGYPT -- IN IRAN:  DIRECT ALLIED MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES, ITS MISSILE OPERATIONS, & THE BARRACKS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS

THE CURRENT MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN EGYPT:  EVIDENCE THAT THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY RAN ARMORED VEHICLES OVER EGYPTIAN CIVILIANS -- THE U.S.A. AS THE LATEST VICTIM TO BE SCAPEGOATED FOR THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY'S CRIMES AGAINST ITS OWN CITIZENRY

THE NEW POLITICAL REGIME IN EGYPT & HOW IT WAS CREATED:  EGYPT'S MILITARY RULERS RESORT TO ELECTION FRAUD IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT THE ISLAMISTS HOLD A MAJORITY OF THE SEATS IN EGYPT'S LEGISLATIVE LOWER CHAMBER, THE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY. THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY LEADERSHIP TACTICALLY EMPOWERS ISLAMISTS AS A FOIL TO GAIN WESTERN SUPPORT, ARMS, & MONEY. MEMBERSHIP IN THE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY REFLECTS LESS THE COUNTRY'S PUBLIC OPINION THAN IT DOES A PLOY BY THE RULING MILITARY LEADERSHIP TO REMAIN IN POWER.

WILL THE RECENT ELECTIONS IN EGYPT LEAD TO THE ESTABLISHMENT & OPERATION OF A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY IN THE COUNTRY, OR WILL THE OUTCOME BE A TYRANNICAL ISLAMIST THEOCRATIC DICTATORSHIP?  ALTERNATIVELY, WILL EGYPT CONTINUE TO BE GOVERNED IN THE TRADITIONAL MANNER, BY AN AUTOCRACY BACKED BY & REPRESENTING THE INTERESTS OF THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY? WHAT ABOUT CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS? WILL THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT BE REQUIRED TO ABIDE BY THE CONSTITUTION, OBSERVE THE LIMITATIONS IMPOSED ON ITS POWER, & ALLOW SECULAR MUSLIMS, CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATS & CHRISTIAN COPTS, AMONG OTHERS, FREELY TO EXPRESS & ORGANIZE THEMSELVES & ENGAGE IN PEACEFUL POLITICAL ACTIVITIES? AS REGARDS EGYPT & ITS GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM, WHAT SHOULD BE THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN STATES?

EGYPT'S MILITARY PRE-EMPTING THE EGYPTIAN CONSTITUTION:  HOW THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE EGYPTIAN ARMED FORCES INTENDS TO HOLD ON TO ITS ABSOLUTE POWER IN EGYPT -- DECLARATION OF BASIC PRINCIPLES TO GOVERN THE DRAFTING OF A CONSTITUTION -- THE ARMED FORCES' ROLE IN THE CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT TO BE SPELLED OUT, POTENTIALLY SHIELDING THE DEFENSE BUDGET FROM PUBLIC OR PARLIAMENTARY SCRUTINY & PROTECTING THE MILITARY'S VAST ECONOMIC INTERESTS -- THE MILITARY TO BE GRANTED BROAD AUTHORITY TO INTERVENE IN EGYPTIAN POLITICS TO PROTECT NATIONAL UNITY OR THE SECULAR CHARACTER OF THE STATE -- AUTHORITARIAN DICTATORSHIP TO WIN OUT OVER CONSTITUTIONALISM, CIVIL LIBERTIES, & REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY -- GOOD NEWS FOR THOSE WORRIED ABOUT EMERGENCE OF AN ISLAMIST-DOMINATED GOVERNMENT -- BAD NEWS FOR THOSE SEEKING ESTABLISHMENT OF AN EFFECTIVELY FUNCTIONING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY AS THE GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM OF EGYPT

THE "ARAB SPRING" UPRISINGS:  THEIR ADVERSE IMPACT ON U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- OBAMA'S UNDERMINING & DESERTION OF EGYPT'S MUBARAK, DESTROYING A U.S. ALLY & CONDEMNING THE ISRAELI-ARAB PEACE PROCESS TO FAILURE -- OBAMA'S JUNE 4, 2009, CAIRO SPEECH AS OBAMA'S STRATEGIC BLUNDER & THE DEFINING MOMENT IN THE GRADUAL EROSION OF THE U.S. POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

PSYCHOLOGICAL PROJECTION EMPLOYED AS A TACTIC IN THE POLITICAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR MUSLIMS ARE WAGING AGAINST THE CHRISTIAN MINORITY IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  ISLAMISTS PROJECTING THE WORST TRAITS OF MUSLIMS ONTO THE BELEAGUERED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES LIVING AMONG THE OVERWHELMING MUSLIM MAJORITY -- EGYPTIAN COPTS ACCUSED BY ISLAMISTS OF DOING TO MUSLIMS EXACTLY THE SAME THINGS ISLAMISTS DO TO COPTS -- ABDUCTIONS, TORTURE, FORCED CONVERSIONS, FORCED MARRIAGES, & EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN IN FORCED DOMESTIC SERVITUDE, AS WELL AS THEIR SUBJECTION TO COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION

THE TRUE, ILLUMINATING, & SORDID STORY BEHIND THE RECENT ISLAMIST ATTACKS ON EGYPT'S COPTS, WHEREIN OVER A DOZEN CHRISTIANS WERE KILLED, HUNDREDS WOUNDED, & THEIR CHURCHES TORCHED:  THE RELEVANCE OF RELIGIOUS CONVERSION TO THIS STORY -- ISLAM'S VIEWS ON RELIGIOUS CONVERSION -- CONVERSION FROM CHRISTIANITY TO ISLAM VERSUS CONVERSION FROM ISLAM TO CHRISTIANITY -- THE IMPORTANCE OF GAINING CONVERTS TO ISLAM VERSUS THE IMPORTANCE OF ACTUALLY UPHOLDING ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES -- CONVERSIONS AS AN EXCUSE TO ATTACK CHRISTIANS & DESTROY THEIR CHURCHES -- THE CONTINUITY OF ISLAM'S LONG HISTORY OF AGGRESSION, CONQUEST, & SUPREMACISM -- WHY MOST OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES CONQUERED BY ISLAMIC ARMIES OVER THE CENTURIES CONVERTED TO ISLAM

HOW WELL DID MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROFESSORS AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES EXPLAIN & INTERPRET THE EGYPTIAN UPRISING, PARTICULARLY THE RISK OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD GAINING POLITICAL POWER? WOULD HOSNI MUBARAK'S OUSTER LEAD TO GENUINE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN EGYPT? WOULD THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PLAY A CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE IN EGYPT'S NEW DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT? MOST PROFESSORS THOUGHT SO, & DISCOUNTED THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S ISLAMIST AGENDA. WHAT IS LONG OVERDUE IN THE U.S.A.:  A REVOLUTION AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES, IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE ENTRENCHED APOLOGISTS FOR RADICAL ISLAM.

WHY ISLAMISTS IN EGYPT ARE ATTACKING & DESTROYING COPTIC CHRISTIANS & THEIR CHURCHES, HOMES, & BUSINESSES:  HOW ISLAMISTS USE THE RELIGIOUS CONVERSION ISSUE TO MAKE THE LIVES OF COPTS IN EGYPT A LIVING HELL -- THE MUSLIM GROUP INFERIORITY COMPLEX, ISLAMIST PERCEPTIONS OF THE CONVERSION OF CHRISTIANS TO ISLAM, & HOW THIS LEADS TO ISLAMIST MASSACRES OF CHRISTIANS

AS EGYPT LURCHES INTO A NEW ERA, WHAT IS THE COUNTRY'S PROBABLE POLITICAL COURSE?  WILL THE SPIRIT OF TAHIR SQUARE HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT?  WILL THE POLITICAL SYSTEM BE A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, AN ISLAMIST THEOCRATIC REGIME, OR A CONTINUATION OF AUTHORITARIAN RULE BY THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY?

THE PURPOSE & GOALS OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN ISLAMIC NORTH AFRICA:  OBAMA EXPLAINING HIS ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY TOWARD LIBYA VIA SENTIMENTAL & IDEALISTIC PLATITUDES, RATHER THAN ON THE BASIS OF REALITY, THE LONG VIEW, OR JUST PLAIN COMMON SENSE -- INVOKING MORALIZING INTONATIONS, INSTEAD OF SPECIFYING CONCRETE U.S. NATIONAL INTERESTS AS JUSTIFICATION FOR OUR MILITARY INTERVENTION INTO THE NORTH AFRICAN CRISES -- OBAMA'S BLIND SPOTS & FAULTY LOGIC, AS REGARDS THE POSSIBILITY OF THE ISLAMISTS RISING TO POWER IN NORTH AFRICA -- THE RECENT U.S. MILITARY & POLITICAL HISTORY LESSONS THAT OBAMA HAS FAILED TO GRASP & PROFIT FROM

"DEMOCRACY" DOES NOT NECESSARILY INCLUDE THE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM OR CIVIL LIBERTIES GUARANTEES ASSOCIATED WITH WESTERN-STYLE CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY.  "DEMOCRACY" CAN & OFTEN DOES MEAN UNLIMITED RULE BY THE MAJORITY, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO PROTECTION OF MINORITY RIGHTS.   "DEMOCRACY" CAN MEAN "MAJORITARIAN DICTATORSHIP," OR "TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY," RATHER THAN A FREE, PLURALISTIC, & SECULAR SOCIETY

EGYPT & THE QUESTION OF ITS NATIONAL CULTURE:  ARE THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE PRIMARILY EGYPTIAN, ARAB, OR ISLAMIC?  EGYPTIAN NATIONALISM VERSUS PAN-ARAB NATIONALISM, OR PAN-ARABISM -- EGYPTIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY OR A COMMON ISLAMIST IDENTITY?  REVIVAL OF THE PHARAONIST MOVEMENT -- CAN PHARAONISM DEFEAT BOTH PAN-ARABISM & MILITANT ISLAM?

THE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT IN EGYPT & THE COUNTRY'S POLITICAL FUTURE:  THE MILITARY LEADERSHIP'S WEIGHTY RESPONSIBILITY OF SHEPHERDING THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION TOWARD FRUITION OF THE POPULAR DEMANDS FOR POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY, THE RULE OF LAW, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, & ECONOMIC PROSPERITY -- CAN THE ISLAMISTS BE PREVENTED FROM SEIZING CONTROL OF EGYPT?  HAS EGYPT'S MILITARY LEADERSHIP LEARNED & MATURED ENOUGH TO GOVERN THE COUNTRY EFFECTIVELY & HONESTLY?  DOES IT REALIZE THAT CONTINUING TO PURSUE ITS SELFISH INTERESTS WILL LEAD TO FURTHER DECAY & CORRUPTION?

THE ISLAMIST THREAT TO AMERICA & THE WEST:  THE SEVERE SHORTAGE OF REALISTIC THINKING & ANALYSIS ON THE PART OF LEFT-OF-THE-CENTER WESTERNERS -- LIBERAL LEFTIST BLINDSPOTS, AS REGARDS ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONS & THEIR CONSEQUENCES -- WHAT HAS EMBOLDENED & ENERGIZED ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY ERA & GIVEN RISE TO THE ISLAMIST GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- DISSOLUTION OF THE FORMER CULTURAL, MORAL, & SPIRITUAL STRENGTH OF THE PEOPLES OF THE WEST -- THE CRUMBLING & IMPLOSION OF WESTERN CULTURE, FOLLOWING ITS ADOPTION OF THE MORAL BANKRUPTCY OF MARX & THE EMPTY PROMISES OF SOCIALISM & LEFTWING STATISM -- WESTERN CULTURE CHARACTERIZED BY MORAL CONFUSION & STEEPED IN SELF-DESTRUCTIVE THINKING PROLIFERATED BY POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFTISTS IN THE SCHOOLS, MEDIA, & POP CULTURE -- WESTERN CULTURE SO SECULARIZED & DEVOID OF GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT THE WEST CANNOT SEE CLEAR TO MAKE A PHILOSOPHICAL STAND AGAINST THE ENCROACHMENT OF ISLAM ON ANY GROUNDS WHATSOEVER

GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES:  CAN A SYSTEM OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY BE MADE TO WORK SUCCESSFULLY IN A MUSLIM-MAJORITY COUNTRY? POSSIBLE, BUT HIGHLY IMPROBABLE -- TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC POLITICAL CULTURE, AS WELL AS ISLAMIST RADICAL IDEOLOGY, NOT CONDUCIVE TO OR SUPPORTIVE OF THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF MODERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, INSTITUTIONS SUCH AS CONSTITUTIONALISM, THE RULE OF LAW, AN INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY APPLYING MODERN CIVIL LAW, MULTIPLE, VIABLE & COMPETITIVE POLITICAL PARTIES, MAJORITY RULE COUPLED WITH PROTECTION OF MINORITY RIGHTS, EFFECTIVE OPERATION OF VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS, RELIGIOUS TOLERATION, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, MOVEMENT & ASSEMBLY, & EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS

PROSPECTS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN EGYPT:  A STABLE, CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IS NOT LIKELY TO BE THE IMMEDIATE OUTCOME OF THE CURRENT UPRISING AGAINST THE MUBARAK REGIME IN EGYPT. SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN HOLDING ELECTIONS & MAJORITY RULE, CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY REQUIRES THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL SOCIETY, MEANING SUCH COMPLEX & COUNTERINTUITIVE INSTITUTIONS AS THE RULE OF LAW, AN INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY, MULTIPLE POLITICAL PARTIES, MINORITY RIGHTS, VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS, & FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, MOVEMENT, & ASSEMBLY. CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IS A LEARNED HABIT THAT REQUIRES DEEP ATTITUTUDINAL CHANGES SUCH AS A CULTURE OF RESTRAINT, A COMMONALITY OF VALUES, A RESPECT FOR DIFFERENCES OF VIEW, THE CONCEPT OF LOYAL OPPOSITION, & A SENSE OF CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY. SUCH A TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIETY TAKES DECADES, IF NOT CENTURIES, TO FULLY IMPLEMENT.

THE OUTCOME OF THE EGYPTIAN UPRISING:  WILL THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION RESULT IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SOME SORT OF PLURALISTIC CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY AS THE GOVERNING SYSTEM OF EGYPT, OR WILL THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TAKE OVER CONTROL OF THE COUNTRY & IMPOSE AN ISLAMIST DICTATORSHIP?  WHAT SHOULD THE U.S.A. DO ABOUT THE SITUATION IN EGYPT?  SHOULD AMERICA GIVE SUPPORT TO THE SECULARISTS & OPPOSE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD?

EGYPT'S MOMENT OF CRISIS & THE PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES:  THE UPRISING IN EGYPT & THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION OF 1979 -- THE IRANIAN ISLAMISTS & THEIR ASPIRATION FOR DOMINANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE MIDDLE EAST & THE REGIONAL COLD WAR -- THE IRANIAN-LED RESISTANCE BLOC VERSUS THE SAUDI-LED STATUS QUO BLOCK -- THE MILITARY FORCES VERSUS THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT -- THE OLD GUARD IN TUNISIA & WHAT IS LIKELY TO BE THE OUTCOME OF THE TURMOIL IN EGYPT -- U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE SITUATION & ROLE OF ISRAEL IN THE REGIONAL CONFLICT

THE CONTEXT OF THE TURMOIL IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  THE CULTURE & HISTORY, PAST & RECENT, OF THE COUNTRIES & PEOPLES COMPRISING THE MIDDLE EAST -- GEOPOLITICAL RELEVANCE OF THE MIDDLE EAST TO AMERICAN & WESTERN INTERESTS -- LOCATION, PEOPLES, & NATURAL RESOURCES -- WESTERN IMPERIALISM -- THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- WORLD WARS I & II -- THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- ARAB NATIONALISM & PAN-ARAB NATIONALISM -- ABSOLUTE MONARCHIES & DICTATORSHIPS -- RISE OF THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT -- JIHADIST ORGANIZATIONS -- RISE OF AN ISLAMIST IRAN SEEKING TO BECOME A NUCLEAR POWER -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF MODERN EGYPT

THE CRISIS IN EGYPT, THE ISLAMISTS, & AMERICAN INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCE FOR THE U.S.A., IF THE UPRISING IN EGYPT IS TAKEN OVER BY THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD & OTHER ISLAMIST GROUPS?  THE GREATEST GEOPOLITICAL CONCERN AT THIS POINT:  THE FATE OF THE SUEZ CANAL -- THE LARGE VOLUME OF CRUDE OIL THAT TRANSITS THE CANAL, COUPLED WITH AMERICA'S HEAVY DEPENDENCE ON MIDDLE EAST OIL -- THE ULTIMATE PROBLEM:  A U.S. PRESIDENT WHO IS INTELLECTUALLY, EMOTIONALLY, PHILOSOPHICALLY, & IN ALL OTHER WAYS, NOT UP TO THE TASK OF DEALING EFFECTIVELY WITH U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONAL SECURITY MATTERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST OR ANYWHERE ELSE

THE ISLAMIC HOLOCAUST AGAINST CHRISTIANS:  A NEW HOLOCAUST ABROAD IN THE WORLD, DIRECTED AT CHRISTIANS, PARTICULARLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST & THROUGHOUT AFRICA, WHEREVER ISLAM IS THE DOMINANT RELIGION -- THE PERSECUTION THAT HAS SPREAD EVERYWHERE BEFORE & SINCE THE RISE OF THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION, SPARKED BY EVENTS IN IRAN IN 1979 -- THE PERSECUTION HISTORICALLY DIRECTED AGAINST JUDAISM NOW COMMONPLACE IN ITS MORE LETHAL MANIFESTATIONS AGAINST CHRISTIANS -- AMERICANS, EUROPEANS, & CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE LOCKED IN A RELIGIOUS WAR WITH ISLAM -- A WAR AGAINST ISLAM BECAUSE ISLAM HAS BEEN AT WAR WITH ALL OTHER FAITHS SINCE ITS INCEPTION -- A WAR THAT CHRISTIANITY MUST ENGAGE -- THE PACIFISM OR SILENCE OF CHURCH LEADERS NO LONGER AN OPTION

THE DIRE SITUATION IN WHICH CHRISTIANS IN EGYPT FIND THEMSELVES:  TODAY, AS EGYPT REVERTS TO ITS MEDIEVAL CHARACTER & ALL BUT SPEARHEADS THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT, THE COPTS FIND THEMSELVES AGAIN IN A PERIOD OF SEVERE PERSECUTION, DISCRIMINATION, HUMILIATION, & OVER ALL SUBJUGATION IN THEIR EGYPTIAN HOMELAND.  THERE APPEARS TO BE NO ONE IN EGYPT WHO IS WILLING TO STOP THE TYRANNY.  EVIDENCE INDICATES THAT THE POLITICAL REGIME OF HOSNI MUBARAK IS INTENTIONALLY INCITING EGYPT'S MUSLIMS AGAINST THE COPTS. THE REGIME IS SACRIFICING THE COPTIC SCAPEGOAT TO APPEASE THE EVER-BURGEONING ISLAMIST MONSTER THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN NURTURING FOR SOME FOUR DECADES.

THE LACK OF HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTIONS IN EGYPT:  ABSENCE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY & FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION -- GOVERNMENT SUPPORT OF & PARTICIPATION IN HARASSMENT, IMPRISONMENT, TORTURE, & EXECUTION OF PERSONS WHO CONVERT FROM ISLAM TO CHRISTIANITY OR WHO FACILITATE THE WAY FOR MUSLIMS TO CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY -- USE BY THE POLICE OF BEATINGS & THREATS IN ORDER TO DISPERSE PUBLIC DEMONSTRATORS PEACEFULLY PROTESTING DEPRIVATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- DENIAL OF MEDICAL TREATMENT TO PERSONS INJURED WHILE PARTICIPATING IN PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS

THE NEW ARAB LIBERALS:  THE ORIGINS, NATURE, & FUTURE OF THE MOVEMENT -- THE ISSUE OF CULTURAL CHANGE & LIBERAL POLITICAL REFORM IN THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST -- HOW ARAB POLITICS & POLITICAL CULTURE PRESENT OBSTACLES TO THE RISE OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE ARAB WORLD -- ISLAMISM & PAN-ARAB NATIONALISM AS OBSTACLES TO DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONALISM, STABLE REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACIES, SECULAR STATES, OPEN SOCIETIES, & LEGAL GUARANTEES OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS & LIBERTIES TO INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS -- WHY CHANGE IN THE COMPOSITION OF ARAB POLITICAL ELITES IS ESSENTIAL -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & PROGRESS TOWARD DEMOCRATIZATION

THE OLD QUANDARY THAT ISRAEL'S WAR AGAINST HAMAS BRINGS UP:  WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE PALESTINIANS?  WHAT DOES NOT & CANNOT WORK -- THE ONLY PRACTICAL APPROACH:  EGYPTIAN RULE IN THE GAZA STRIP & JORDANIAN CONTROL OF THE WEST BANK

SYRIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, & U.S. FOREIGN FOLICY:  OBAMA PLANNING DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT WITH SYRIA, HOPING TO WEAKEN SYRIA'S CONNECTION TO HAMAS & HEZBOLLAH & UNDERMINE THE SYRIAN-IRANIAN RELATIONSHIP -- ARAB HISTORY & POLITICAL CULTURE AS THE PRIMARY PROBLEM WITH PURSUIT OF OBAMA'S POLICY AGENDA IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- WHY ALL THREE RIVALS FOR LEADERSHIP OF THE ARAB WORLD, SYRIA, IRAQ & EGYPT, WILL NEVER COEXIST SIMULTANEOUSLY AS PARTNERS

AN ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-SEMITIC, PRO-ARAB HISTORY PROFESSOR & MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ACADEMIC GLEEFULLY PREDICTS THE IMMINENT DEMISE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS A MAJOR WORLD POWER -- JOEL BEININ SHOWCASES THE FLAWS OF MANY COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROGRAMS IN THE U.S.A.

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  DE-EMPHASIZING PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & ONCE AGAIN EMBRACING MIDDLE EASTERN REGIONAL STABILITY AS A U.S. FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITY -- FACING THE DOWNSIDE OF A STRATEGY BASED ON THE IDEA THAT DICTATORS BRING STABILITY TO A REGION -- INSTABILITY AS A LOOMING THREAT IN FOUR WESTERN-ALLIED DICTATORSHIPS THAT MANY AT HIGH LEVELS IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PERCEIVE AS BULWARKS OF STABILITY:  EGYPT, SAUDI ARABIA, TUNISIA, & OMAN

U.S. & WESTERN POLICY TOWARD GAZA, EGYPT, & ISRAEL:  TRANSFERRING GAZA TO EGYPTIAN JURISDICTION & RESPONSIBILITY -- HOW CAN IT BE DONE?

HIGH TIME FOR A MAJOR CHANGE IN THE WEST'S POLICY TOWARD GAZA:  THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN STATES TO DECLARE THE EXPERIMENT IN GAZAN SELF-RULE A FAILURE, WITHDRAW SUPPORT FOR ANY POLITICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE GAZA STRIP & THE PALESTINIAN ARAB WEST BANK, & CONTRIVE THE RETURN OF GAZA TO EGYPT, PRESSURING THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT TO ANNEX, TIGHTLY CONTROL, & TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR GAZA

THE BUSH PRESIDENCY & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIPLOMACY & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- HOW A MAJOR WORLD POWER'S BROKEN PROMISES IMPACT UPON INTERNATIONAL CRISES -- THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF DETERIORATING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & ONCE-STAUNCH ALLIES SUCH AS TURKEY, ISRAEL, TAIWAN, JAPAN, & SOUTH KOREA -- HOW WELL HAS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION LIVED UP TO ITS COMMITMENT TO PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM & STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN ISLAMIC NORTH AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST?

EGYPT:  POLITICAL REGIME & POLITICAL OPPOSITION -- DICTATORSHIP, POLITICAL DISSENT, & GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT -- THE EGYPTIAN POLITICAL REGIME AS ONE OF THE WORST SUPPRESSORS OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ON THE INTERNET -- THE CASE OF ABDUL KARIM NABIL SULAYMAN

MODERN EGYPT:  ITS HISTORY, POLITICS, POLITICAL REGIME, PUBLIC POLICY, & POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- LIBERALISM, NATIONALISM, & ISLAMISM IN EGYPT -- RELATIONS BETWEEN EGYPT & THE U.S.A. -- A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE

THE MIDDLE EAST, MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICAL REGIMES, & UNITED STATES AID TO MIDDLE EASTERN DISSIDENTS:   TO WHAT ENTENT & IN WHAT WAYS SHOULD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGE & SUPPORT POLITICAL DISSIDENTS & PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS IN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES GOVERNED BY OPPRESSIVE, TYRANNICAL REGIMES?   SHOULD PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY UNDER THE RULE OF LAW BE A FOREIGN POLICY GOAL OF THE U.S.A. IN THE MIDDLE EAST?

A HISTORY OF THE THIRD WORLD WAR:  THE COLD WAR & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- THE ROLE OF THE KGB IN THE SOVIET UNION'S ENDEAVOR TO GAIN INFLUENCE IN & CONTROL OF THE MIDDLE EAST & USE IT TO UNDERMINE & CONQUER THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- HOW & WHY THE KGB'S EFFORTS ENDED LARGELY IN FAILURE -- IN WHAT WAY DID THE EFFORTS SUCCEED?

ISLAMISM & AUTHORITARIANISM VERSUS CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  ISLAMIST POLITICS & THE EGYPTIAN DICTATORSHIP OF HOSNI MUBARAK VERSUS AGITATION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL REFORM IN EGYPT -- THE STORY OF EGYPTIAN DISSIDENT AYMAN NOUR

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY & RELATIONS BETWEEN EGYPT & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:   CHANGING REALITIES & THE DECLINING STRATEGIC RELEVANCE OF EGYPT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AS BEING AT THE ROOT OF THE GROWING TENSION BETWEEN EGYPT & THE U.S.A. -- THE CRITICAL QUESTION:  HAVE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO NATION-STATES GROWN TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT THEY OVERRULE THE POSSIBILITY OF A MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL U.S.-EGYPTIAN BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP CONTINUING INTO THE FUTURE?

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