by Daniel Pipes February 4, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online Terrified of the secular/modern/liberal demonstrators who made their presence known in Tahrir Square, as well as of the soccer hooligans, Mohamed Tantawi and Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces have forged a mutually beneficial relationship with the country’s Islamists, thereby blocking their joint […]
by Daniel Pipes February 29, 2012 Apologies for only learning of Jerusalem in the Qur’an by Imran N. Hosein, 2d ed. abridged (Long Island, New York: Masjid Dar-Al-Qur’an, 2003) nearly a decade after its publication, but it nonetheless bears notice, for two main reasons. First, how amusing is it to find a 142-page book on […]
by Daniel Pipes February 25, 2012 updated Feb 26, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Some thoughts on U.S. policy toward Syria on the occasion of the just-ended “Friends of Syria” meeting in Tunisia: Since the end of the cold war, many Americans have a sense of being so strong, they don’t need […]
by Daniel Pipes February 11, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner 1. Dewy-eyed predictions of democracy within the year proved to be as sillyas they appeared to be back then. Instead, a power-hungry military leadership shows it will do whatever necessary to remain in the saddle. 2. The real action has yet to […]
by Daniel Pipes February 7, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Ever since the U.S. government announced in March 2004 plans to build “the largest embassy ever run by any country,” I have been on the case, poking fun at its over-wrought size (21 acres), excessive expense (US$750 million), and gargantuan personnel (16,000) […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online February 7, 2012 Remember the name Kastelorizo; you heard it here first. It is the far-flung, easternmost island of Greece, 80 miles from Rhodes, 170 miles west of Cyprus, but just 1 mile off the coast of Turkey. Kastelorizo is tiny, comprising just 5 square miles, plus some yet […]
by Daniel Pipes February 7, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner If Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor were the naïfs who foisted the United Nations on the world, George H. W. Bush was responsible for its revival as a political force. From about 1950 to 1990, the United Nations Security Council […]
by Daniel Pipes Jan 28, 2012 updated Nov 28, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online The scourge of the twentieth century was overly-powerful governments; could the looming problem of this century be too-weak governments? The political scientist R. J. Rummel estimated, in his evocatively titled study, Death by Government (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1994), that […]
by Daniel Pipes and Cynthia Farahat National Review Online January 24, 2012 When Egypt’s Lower House convened on Jan. 23, Islamists held 360 out of its 498 seats, or 72 percent. This astounding figure, however, reflects less the country’s public opinion than it does a ploy by the ruling military leadership to remain in power. […]
by Daniel Pipes January 10, 2012 updated Jan 21, 2012 That’s the thesis implicit to David Goldman’s analysis at “Recall notice for the Turkish model.” After dubbing the Turkish economy a bubble that “is bursting, starting with the stock market and national currency,” he makes this observation about the prime minister: Erdogan has the weirdest […]
