Read a Jan. 28, 2011, background article on the Muslim Brotherhood by CNN.com.

A Jan. 29, 2011, post at USA Today‘s “Faith & Reason” blog rounds up articles on the religious import of the Egyptian situation.

Read “What Does Change Mean in Egypt, for Egyptian Christians?” at EthicsDaily.com, a Jan. 31, 2011, column by Ayman Ibrahim, an Egyptian Christian and a doctoral student at Fuller Theological Seminary

“Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood mutes its religious message for protests” is a Jan. 31, 2011, story from Cairo in the Los Angeles Times.

Read a Jan. 31, 2011, analysis, “Unrest in Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood,” by Jonathan Wright, a former Reuters correspondent in the Middle East who currently lives in Cairo.

“Copts say Egypt regime change trumps Islamist fears,” is a Feb. 1, 2011, story from Reuters.

Read a Feb. 2, 2011, op-ed in The New York Times by Scott Atran, author of Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood and the (Un)making of Terrorists. Atran argues that the Muslim Brotherhood is largely ineffectual.

When is it appropriate to use the words “fundamentalist” and “cult?” What are other terms with which I must be careful? By Don Lattin The San Francisco Chronicle* CULT is a word that should be used with care. Some of its dictionary definitions are value neutral, with such meanings as “formal religious veneration,” such as […]

Stuart A. Wright is chair of the sociology department at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He has written numerous books and articles on religion and violence. He is an expert on government raids on small religious groups suspected of being extremists, like the Branch Davidians. He has studied the relationship between governments, law enforcement officials […]