Thanks to the Obama administration’s uninformed and flimsy foreign policy decisions, the year 2013 has distinctively been a blessing for the independent Islamist parties and fundamentalist Islamic governments throughout the Middle East and the world. Although it is somewhat difficult to predict what will happen in 2014 regarding the Islamists movements and prominent challenges within […]
by Daniel Pipes December 19, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner In April 2013, I published an article with the slightly inaccurate title, “Support Assad.” Better would have been “Support Whichever Side Is Losing in the Syrian Civil War.” Back then, it seemed that the regime of Bashar al-Assad was doomed; but already […]
“Blowing oneself up for the sake of Allah is acceptable,” according to a radical Muslim cleric who recently spoke to a Lebanese television network. The comments by Syrian-born Islamist cleric Omar Bakri were made in an interview which aired on the Lebanese Al-Jadid/New TV on November 26. They were translated by the Middle East Media […]
In his new book, Private Anti-Piracy Navies, award-winning author John-Clark Levin explains how private security companies are combating and preventing piracy and maritime terrorism by protecting merchant ships with armed escort vessels. In 2008, Somalia saw a steep increase in piracy when merchant ships were hijacked and prisoners taken ransom along the coast of Somalia […]
A massacre in the town of Adra, 20 kilometers north of Damascus. Survivors say Obama supported jihadist Islamic rebel groups executed dozens of civilians, including children, beheading them or burning them alive. While the Syrian army continues its broad push to get the insurgents out of Adra, there are eyewitness accounts of what happened in […]
The horrific day and the reality of Islam in the United States, what would have Obama done in response? Blamed a youtube video, perhaps nothing like in the Benghazi attacks. Would it have it even been blamed on Islamic terrorism, or been considered workplace violence? What should we expect in the future considering a certain […]
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) has reportedly set up a new alliance of Syrian rebel brigades, hoping to revive its waning influence as Islamist factions gain momentum at its expense. The Syrian Rebel Front (SRF) is being touted as a more “moderate” alternative to the Syrian Islamic Front (SIF), which was formed last month, uniting the […]
Over 80 civilians in a town northwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus have been executed by Islamist rebels, sources within the Syrian military told RT. Many others were kidnapped to be used as human shields. Government forces are continuing a large-scale operation against Jabhat al-Nusra and Liwa Al-Islam fighters, who captured the town earlier […]
A US investigative journalist has charged President Barack Obama with knowing that a Syrian terrorist rebel group had the capability to produce chemical weapons – but ignoring it and placing blame on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime instead, according to the Business Standard. Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh published a scathing article in the London Review of […]
Syrian cities under terrorist rebel control are being ruled by a strict interpretation of Islamic, or Sharia, law – as a video surfaced this week showing a man being served with lashes demonstrates. Sharia courts are run by groups associated with Al Qaeda, including the Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The Authority […]
