by Daniel Pipes January 16, 2012 updated Jan 17, 2012 Egypt Independent reports on vandalizing, looting, and fighting at the nuclear power plant being built at El-Dabaa, a town in the desert to the west of Alexandria. The account draws on an unnamed source at the Ministry of Electricity and Energy who accused security authorities […]
To assume that Iran will not close the Strait of Hormuz is to assume that primitive religious fanatics will perform cost-benefit analyses the way they are done at Wharton. They won’t, especially if the oil that is their life’s blood is threatened. If Iran does close the strait, we will fight an air and naval […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online January 17, 2012 Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs (who constitute nearly one-fifth of Israel’s population) and acquiring Israeli citizenship. Then the Oslo Accords offered a little-noted family-reunification provision […]
by Daniel Pipes November 9, 2009 updated Jan 17, 2012 I raised the issue of Turkey’s continued membership in NATO in April 2009 at “Does Turkey Still Belong in NATO?“; here I will collect others who agree that the issue at least needs to be raised. While it’s still too early to write Turkey out […]
Oslo (AP) — Islamic extremism remains Norway’s biggest terror threat, but the danger of lone wolf attacks has also increased in the aftermath of a massacre by a homegrown anti-Muslim extremist, Norwegian security service PST said Tuesday. Agency Chief Janne Kristiansen told local news agency NTB that over the past three to four years there […]
Police in Gaza, ruled by Hamas’ Sunni Muslims, broke the bones of several Shi’ite Muslims last week, a further sign of a break between Iran and Hamas. Iran drastically reduced funding to Hamas this past summer after the Gaza regime did not back Iran’s support for beleaguered Syrian President Bashar Assad, a key ally of […]
Turkish Islamic scholar Adnan Oktar made a scorching response this week to a claim by the top Palestinian Authority religious leader that Muslims are obligated to kill the Jews. Oktar, who hosts a nightly talk show broadcast on the A9TV satellite television channel, raised the issue live on his program January 15 after being approached about […]
The U.S. says Israel’s international Mossad agents posed as CIA operatives to recruit Jundallah members in Pakistan to assassinate key Iranians, according to the Jan 13 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. Jundallah, described by the magazine as a “Pakistani-based Sunni extremist organization,” was in November 2010 designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization, […]
Enraged Iranian officials are vowing retaliation against Israel, the US and the UK over the latest assassination of a nuclear scientist, 32-year-old Mustafa Ahmadi Roshan, in Tehran. A former Iranian ambassador who served in Mexico and Italy recommended that an American being held in Tehran be executed in retaliation for the assassination. “The terrorist attack on […]
Canada has had one of the most liberal immigration policies in the world, welcoming tens of thousands of asylum applicants who claim to be fleeing persecution in their violent homelands, many of those from the Middle East. Canada’s new Conservative government has begun rolling up the welcome mat, stepping up efforts to track down and […]
