Luxor protests against Morsi's new governor for the city - former Islamist terror leader Adel el-Khayat - Alastair Beach (The Independent/Honest Reporting)
The new governor of Luxor appointed by the president is a member of Al-Gamaa al-Islamiya. That’s the Islamic terror group responsible for the Luxor massacre. The 1997 attack killed 58 foreign tourists, and four Egyptians inside the Temple of Hatshepsut as well as the local tourism industry. Al-Gamaa al-Islamiya also tried to assassinate Hosni Mubarak and was implicated in the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
EU audit finds €1bn aid had little effect on Egypt - Joshua Chaffin (Financial Times) It also warned that Brussels was unable to track about 60 per cent of the aid money after it was transferred to Egyptian government coffers, raising concerns about widespread fraud and mismanagement.
Report: Egypt's Sinai on High Alert (Ma'an News-PA) Egypt has declared a state of alert in Sinai after extremist Islamist fighters set up a military base in the peninsula, Egyptian security officials said Monday. Militants from Egypt, the Palestinian territories, and Mali affiliated to Jihadist groups and al-Qaeda have deployed heavily in bunkers in a desert area in central Sinai, Egyptian security officials said. Some of the militants entered Sinai through tunnels from Gaza, the officials said. The militants have large amounts of ammunition and weapons, suggesting they plan to join demonstrations against the Muslim Brotherhood planned for June 30.
Indonesia
Extremism Overpowering Indonesia - Mohshin Habib (Gatestone Institute)
Palestinians - Hamas, Palestinian Authority, etc.
PA TV: Two terrorist murderers brought "honor" and "pride" to "all humanity" - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW) The PA TV host of the program dedicated to prisoners Link in a Chain stated that both murderers had brought "honor" and "pride" "to all humanity." A terrorist who beat an 84 year-old to death with a hoe was lauded as "Our hero still writing the finest epics of endurance, heroism and self-sacrifice. "
United States
Wiesenthal Center Blasts Alice Walker’s ‘Hysterical’ Revisionism (Simon Wiesenthal Center) The Simon Wiesenthal Center today criticized Alice Walker’s new book, The Cushion in the Road for both its ‘hysterical’ and historical revisionism.
