by Daniel Pipes The Swiss Islamist Tariq Ramadan was about to take up a position at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in 2004 when the U.S. government prevented him from entering the country on the grounds that he had funded two Hamas-related groups. For five years, his exclusion has been debated and tried. […]
What Israel can teach us about security? Israel is the world’s most threatened country.It has more direct experience with Islamic terrorism than any country. At Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, screening is done in 30 minutes. The key? Look passengers in the eye While North America’s airports groan under the weight of another sea-change […]
An Amman taxi driver was arrested on suspicion of involvement in Thursday’s bombing of an Israeli diplomatic convoy in Jordan, Al-Arabiya reported. No one was injured in the attack, in which two remote-controlled bombs were detonated close to the Allenby Bridge crossing just as a convoy of Israeli diplomats visiting Jordan passed. Four diplomats and […]
by Janet Doerflinger American Thinker January 12, 2010 In his recent book, Islam and Liberal Citizenship: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus, Yale political scientist Andrew F. March argues that fears of an inherent conflict between Western and Islamic political norms are overblown. If true, this would be very good news. Such “overlapping consensus” could […]
An Israeli baby girl was injured when Palestinians threw rocks at the car in which she was riding. The year-old Jewish girl was taken to Hadassah University Medical Center in Ein Kerem on Thursday after the rock crashed through the window of the car as it was driving through the southern Hebron Hills and hit […]
by David J. Rusin • Jan 13, 2010 at 11:14 am To ban or not to ban? That is the question being asked across the West regarding Islamic veils that cover the face. One of the more active fronts of this battle: college and university campuses. Daniel Pipes recently broke the news that a dean […]
Israel will build a fence on its border with Egypt to prevent the infiltration of terrorists and migrant workers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday ordered the construction of a barrier fence along its southern border at a cost of more than $270 million. Thousands of migrants have entered Israel through its Egyptian border in […]
Iran’s foreign ministry is claiming that “Zionists and American agents” planted a bomb that killed an Iranian nuclear scientist. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, a professor at Tehran University, was killed by a bomb Tuesday morning near his home, according to Iranian reports. Tehran is claiming on a government Web site that it was the work of Americans […]
President Obama thought it would be a good idea to try terrorist on American soil with the same rights as American citizens, surprisingly above the rights that American troops have as they go through Military tribunals. Unfortunately for America Obama was dead wrong. Three words.. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Judge tosses out most evidence on terrorist […]
Abdulmutallab Granted Constitutional Rights Legal Expense Expected to Exceed $5 Million Thelastcrusade- Umar Faroul Abdulmutallab is not a legal resident of the United States. He has no legal standing under the U.S. Constitution. He is the son of a billionarire, who served as the Chairman of the First Bank of Nigeria. And yet, the infamous […]
