by Daniel Pipes July 3, 2013 updated Jul 4, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble made a statement not often heard from high-up Europeans concerning Turkey’s bid to join the European Union: “We should not accept Turkey as a full member … Turkey is not part of Europe.” […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online July 5, 2013 Events in Egypt this week prompt many responses. Here are some thirteen (complementing my article suggesting that Morsi was removed from power too soon to discredit Islamism as much as he should have). Was Morsi the democratically elected president of Egypt? Every press account affirms he […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times July 5, 2013 With Syria aflame and Egypt at the precipice, why did Secretary of State John Kerry disproportionately just devote his fifth visit since February to Israeli-Palestinian shuttle diplomacy? In part, because he and other liberals think that the Arab and Iranian (and now Turkish?) war on Israel […]
by Daniel Pipes Commentary July/August 2013 For an Internet add-on, an excerpt about the Medieval Synthesis from my 1983 book, In the Path of God; Islam and Political Power, click here. Islam currently represents a backward, aggressive, and violent force. Must it remain this way, or can it be reformed and become moderate, modern, and […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times June 19, 2013 Rebellion has shaken Turkey since May 31: Is it comparable to the Arab upheavals that overthrew four rulers since 2011, to Iran’s Green Movement of 2009 that led to an apparent reformer being elected president last week, or perhaps to Occupy Wall Street, which had negligible […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times June 5, 2013 N.B.: Washington Times title: “Reasons to smile in Israel” In a typically maladroit statement, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry recently complained that Israelis are too contented to end their conflict with the Palestinians: “People in Israel aren’t waking up every day and wondering if […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online June 5, 2013 In his article “The Muslim Civil War,” Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal disagrees with my argument about Syria. He characterizes the position I hold this way: If al Qaeda fighters want to murder Hezbollah fighters and Hezbollah fighters want to return the favor, who […]
by Daniel Pipes June 1, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The polio disease was on the verge of eradication when Ibrahim Datti Ahmed, president of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria and a physician, suggested at about this time in 2003 that the vaccination program in his country was part of […]
by Daniel Pipes May 27, 2013 updated May 26, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The logo of Hizbullah, the Lebanese terror group, consists of a hand emerging from the Arabic spelling of the group’s name (“Party of God”) clutching an assault rifle, probably an AK-47. But with the battle of Qusayr underway, […]
by Daniel Pipes May 23, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The gruesome murder yesterday of a soldier outside London by a Muslim convert, Michael Adebolajo, brings to mind that throat slitting and beheading are Islamically sanctioned forms of execution. Although these occur particularly often in the course of family-related crimes – think, […]
