Islamists Play Shell Games with Security

by David J. Rusin  •  Feb 23, 2010 at 9:16 am Despite the countless terror attacks perpetrated by their co-religionists, some Muslims still have the chutzpah to demand that security protocols conform to supposed Islamic sensitivities. But like a typical shell game, every time we think we know which procedures they grudgingly will tolerate, we […]

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The Israeli 30-minute screening

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 […]

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Burqa Wars Erupt on Campus

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 […]

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Women who wear burkas and niqabs on the street in France face fines of $1,115

Women who wear Islamic veils in public in France face a $1,115 fine under strict new laws being proposed. The amount could be doubled for Muslim men who force female members of their family to cover their faces. Jean-Francois Cope, president of Nicolas Sarkozy’s ruling UMP Party, said the legislation was intended to protect the […]

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America’s First Islamic College?

by Stephen Schwartz and Irfan al-Alawi American Thinker December 6, 2009 Who would imagine that a convert to Islam calling himself Hamza Yusuf Hanson, living in the San Francisco Bay Area and in his late ’40s, would be listed as number 38 among the “Top 50 Muslims in the World” by a leading government body […]

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