by Daniel Pipes Jun 28, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner A hundred years ago today, June 28, 1914, was arguably the worst day in human history. Not that anything so awful happened during those 24 hours, but the assassination in Sarajevo of the heir to the Hapsburg throne by a 19-year-old Bosnian […]
by Daniel Pipes Apr 14, 2014 updated Apr 18, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Max Blumenthal, like others on the far-Left, jumped on the July 2011 Norwegian massacre of 77 dead and 319 injured to impugn the counter-jihadi right. His screed, “Anders Behring Breivik, a perfect product of the Axis of Islamophobia” […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online April 8, 2014 Prominent counter-jihadis like Geert Wilders, Michael Savage, and Robert Spencer have the distinction of being banned from entry into the United Kingdom – and, now, Her Majesty’s Government, in its wisdom, has also banned two websites connected to me. It’s not quite the same, admittedly, and […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online April 3, 2014 NRO title: “Christie and Israel” A small but significant event took place on March 29 at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas. Hosted by Sheldon Adelson, the mega-donor to Republican presidential campaigns, the event drew four leading potential candidates for president in 2016, including New […]
by Daniel Pipes Mar 24, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner An Egyptian court in short order sentenced some 529 people to death today for the killing of a single police officer. News like this gives one pause. Very tough treatment of Islamists is needed to repress this totalitarian movement, including rejection of […]
by Daniel Pipes Mar 23, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner I just had the opportunity to spend an afternoon with a Council on Foreign Relations group at the United States Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. Its commander, the famed Admiral William H. McRaven, started the briefing, […]
by Daniel Pipes Feb 22, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The Menendez-Kirk “Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2013” (S. 1881) threatens the Iranian regime with additional sanctions and appears to be the only way to counter the Obama administration’s flaccidity vis-à-vis Tehran. I am skeptical, however, that it can do much […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times February 12, 2014 As U.S. credibility and stature diminish in world affairs, the American president and his secretaries of state and defense engage in eloquent denial. Unfortunately for them, realities trump words, even persuasive ones. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, “where the water-cooler chatter was about America’s […]
by Daniel Pipes Feb 14, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Twenty-five years ago today, Ayatollah Khomeini brought his edict down on Salman Rushdie. Iran’s revolutionary leader objected to the author’s magical-realist novel The Satanic Verses because of its insults to the Muslim prophet Muhammad and responded by calling for the execution of […]
by Daniel Pipes Feb 3, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Some, especially in the mainstream media, pretend that not Jerusalem but Tel Aviv serves as the capital of Israel. (Tel Aviv hosts the Ministry of Defense but not much else of the central government.) The weblog entry documents some of those delusions, […]
