by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com March 16, 2010 The Council on American-Islamic Relations is up to its usual assault on the discussion of Islam. Its Philadelphia chapter is holding a press conference on March 17 at which it plans “to announce the launch of a nationwide campaign to challenge anti-Islam bias in a series of children’s […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online March 16, 2010 “The stupidest program the U.S. government has ever undertaken” – last year that’s what I called American efforts to improve the Palestinian Authority (PA) military force. Slightly hyperbolic, yes, but the description fits because those efforts enhance the fighting power of enemies of the United States […]
by Sid Shahid American Thinker March 14, 2010 As homegrown terrorism grabbed headlines at the end of 2009, Islamist pressure groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Muslim American Society (MAS), and Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) felt the need to look as if they were responding forcefully. However, all they offered was spin […]
by Daniel Pipes March 10, 2010 Cross-posted from National Review Online Joe Biden’s trip to Israel fits neatly into the context of the Obama administration’s internal struggle over Israel policy. The far left prevailed initially, as evidenced by Hilary Clinton‘s May 2009 declaration that Obama “wants to see a stop to settlements – not some […]
by David J. Rusin • Mar 9, 2010 at 9:38 am Amnesty International famously advocates on behalf of people persecuted just for expressing an opinion. However, last month the group suspended Gita Sahgal, the head of its gender unit, after she expressed an opinion of her own: that by working with Taliban supporter Moazzam Begg, […]
by Daniel Pipes March 9, 2010 Cross-posted from National Review Online “It takes a cynical mind not to share in the achievement of Iraq’s national elections.” So writes the Wall Street Journal editorial board today. I’m no cynic, but my mood about Iraq could variously be described as depressed, despairing, despondent, dejected, pessimistic, melancholic, and […]
by David J. Rusin • Mar 5, 2010 at 10:39 am Even as Shari’a courts sprout up like mushrooms on UK soil, secular ones across Europe increasingly bend to an Islamist worldview. Consider the phenomenon of exempting Muslims from the standard practice of rising before judges. In January, seven radicals on trial for shouting insults […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online March 2, 2010 The arrest and indictment of top military figures in Turkey last week precipitated potentially the most severe crisis since Atatürk founded the republic in 1923. The weeks ahead will probably indicate whether the country continues its slide toward Islamism or reverts to its traditional secularism. The […]
by David J. Rusin • Feb 28, 2010 at 11:04 pm Efforts to suppress politically incorrect speech on campus continue apace, as seen in the hostility directed toward Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the U.S., during a lecture on February 8 at the University of California, Irvine. Based on this and other recent events, one […]
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 […]
