by Daniel Pipes National Review Online May 5, 2010 When news comes of Muslims engaging in violence, the triad of politicians, law enforcement, and media invariably presumes that the perpetrator suffers from some mental or emotional incapacity. (For a quick listing of examples, see my collection at “Sudden Jihad or ‘Inordinate Stress’ at Ft. Hood?“). […]
Analyst: ‘That is exactly what Iranians are working toward’ There is renewed alarm about the possibility of an EMP attack – electromagnetic pulse – on the United States because of Iran’s work on a multi-stage Space Launch Vehicle, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. And experts forecast if such an attack were […]
Faisal Shahzad , a Pakistan-born muslim and naturalized U.S. citizen from Long Hill Avenue in Shelton, Conn., is accused of driving the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder loaded with a propane-and-gasoline bomb into Times Square on Saturday, May 1. Shahzad was arrested at midnight Monday trying to flee the country on a Dubai-bound flight at JFK Airport, […]
by Efraim Karsh Yale, 336 pp., $32.50 Reviewed by Daniel Pipes National Review May 17, 2010 Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe,” has entered the English language in reference to the Arab–Israeli conflict. As defined by the anti-Israel website The Electronic Intifada, Nakba means “the expulsion and dispossession of hundreds of thousands [of] Palestinians from […]
by Daniel Pipes April 29, 2010 updated May 2, 2010 No contemporary state faces such an array of threats as does Israel – indeed, probably no state in history ever has. Consider their range: Weapons of mass destruction: Iran, Syria Conventional military attack: Egypt Terrorism: Hizbullah, Fath, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad Economic blockade and boycott: […]
by Daniel Pipes April 28, 2010 updated May 2, 2010 U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said yesterday that Hezbollah now has “far more rockets and missiles than most governments in the world”, an apparent reference to Israeli reports that Damascus had supplied it with the latest version of Scud missiles, capable of carrying a […]
by Daniel Pipes May 3, 2010 While the U.S. government has a faith in Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority that borders on the mystical, some of us see them merely as the “good terrorists” (good because willing to talk to Israel) as opposed to the “bad terrorists” of Hamas (bad because unwilling to talk). […]
by Eric Golub FrontPage Magazine April 30, 2010 A conference at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on April 16, 2010, offered “Critical Perspectives on the Criminalization of Islamic Philanthropy in the War on Terror.” Co-sponsored by the UCLA International Institute, the Critical Race Studies Program, and the UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near […]
Saturday we hear of yet another terrorism scare in New York city, this time the very populated tourist area of Time Square. The first things that comes to many of our minds, was this another attempt by Islamic radicals? Is Islam behind this latest bombing attempt? The answer is the investigators have not released any […]
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) tried to wage judicial jihad against a Michigan Circuit Court judge over the “modesty” of a Muslim woman but ended up losing the case and exposing the woman’s immodesty. Not all terrorism is violent. The Islamofacists have found another way to strike terror in our hearts or at least […]
