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Leftists just Refuse to Learn: Founder of Group that helped overthrow Mubarak face to face with reality

Ahmed Maher is an Egyptian who co-founded the April 6th Movement, a leftist group formed circa 2008 to fight for social justice and other left-wing causes in Egypt and elsewhere. Ultimately, Maher’s movement was instrumental in the overthrow of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak in early 2011. Now, two years later, an Irish news source is reporting […]

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Why is the Southern Poverty Law Center aligning with Muslim Public Affairs Council?

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has positioned itself as being anti-Nazi (a term it likes to equate with right-wing extremism, despite the fact that ‘Nazi’ translates to ‘National Socialist’ – a leftwing ideology). Yet, curiously, SPLC has chosen to align itself with the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). A founder of MPAC, Salam Al-Marayati, […]

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