Claiming Jerusalem is in the Koran

by Daniel Pipes February 29, 2012 Apologies for only learning of Jerusalem in the Qur’an by Imran N. Hosein, 2d ed. abridged (Long Island, New York: Masjid Dar-Al-Qur’an, 2003) nearly ...

Syria: Arguing for U.S. Inaction

by Daniel Pipes February 25, 2012 updated Feb 26, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Some thoughts on U.S. policy toward Syria on the occasion of the just-ended ...

Reflections a Year after Hosni Mubarak’s Resignation

by Daniel Pipes February 11, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner 1.      Dewy-eyed predictions of democracy within the year proved to be as sillyas they appeared to be ...

Embassy Baghdad in Decline

by Daniel Pipes February 7, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Ever since the U.S. government announced in March 2004 plans to build “the largest embassy ever run ...

Kastelorizo – Mediterranean Flashpoint?

by Daniel Pipes National Review Online February 7, 2012 Remember the name Kastelorizo; you heard it here first. It is the far-flung, easternmost island of Greece, 80 miles from Rhodes, ...

Blame the UN’s Power on George H.W. Bush

by Daniel Pipes February 7, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner If Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor were the naïfs who foisted the United Nations on ...

Don’t Ignore Electoral Fraud in Egypt

by Daniel Pipes and Cynthia Farahat National Review Online January 24, 2012 When Egypt’s Lower House convened on Jan. 23, Islamists held 360 out of its 498 seats, or 72 ...

Will No-Interest Banking Undo Turkey’s Economy?

by Daniel Pipes January 10, 2012 updated Jan 21, 2012 That’s the thesis implicit to David Goldman’s analysis at “Recall notice for the Turkish model.” After dubbing the Turkish economy ...

Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant Ransacked

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 ...

Ending the Palestinian “Right of Return”

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 ...