Hamas Terrorist to Address UN Human Rights Council

Senior Hamas official Ismail al-Ashqar will address the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday, an official statement said. Al-Ashqar arrived in Switzerland on Sunday ahead of the appearance, which ...

Video: Iran Airs Footage of Downed U.S Drone

Iranian state television broadcast images this morning of what they purport to be a downed U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone. The host of the program in the video below stated the ...

Swiss Member of Parliament Has Had Enough of Islamism!

Excellent speech by Swiss member of Parliament Oskar Freysinger said with passion and truth that no politician in Washington is yet ready to speak from the floor of Congress. In ...

Switzerland: Democracy at Its Best

The Direct democracy that prevails in Switzerland differs from the representative democracy of the US or India, where people delegate power to the elected representatives. But the Swiss political system ...

Denmark Deals Another Blow to Borderless Europe

Denmark’s partial reinstatement of border controls on the crossing from Germany and Sweden (by bridge) have probably disturbed the European commission more than the similar restrictions that France imposed on ...

My Optimism About Europe

by Daniel Pipes February 8, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Perhaps alone in the coterie focused on the Islamist threat to Europe, I am cheerful these days. ...

Mavi Marmara Arrives in Turkey; Ankara Holds Out for Apology

Thousands shouted “death to Israel” and greeted the Mavi Marmara flotilla ship Sunday as it docked in Istanbul, a day after Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told journalists that although ...

Iran Signals Continued Nuclear Defiance Before Geneva Talks

Today, representatives of Iran and the P5 + 1 (the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany) convened for talks on Iran’s nuclear program in Geneva. These ...

Here Come the Burqa Bans

by David J. Rusin  •  May 31, 2010 at 10:03 pm Call it the fashion trend of the year. Westerners are sick and tired of burqas and niqabs — the ...

Swiss Minarets and European Islam

by Daniel Pipes Jerusalem Post December 9, 2009 What importance has the recent Swiss referendum to ban the building of minarets (spires next to mosques from which the call to ...