Reflections on Iran’s Islamic Republic

by Daniel Pipes February 11, 2010 As protesters prepare to gather and the regime flexes its muscle, where does Iran stand? The regime, its grip there, its place in the world? The democracy advocates’? National Review Online asked our experts to assess the situation in Iran and how the international community should react. (For replies […]

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Arab Students Heckle Oren at Speech

Arab students interrupted a lecture by Israel’s U.S. ambassador at a university that has been at the center of campus wars over Israel. The hecklers interrupted Michael Oren more than 10 times Monday night during his speech at the University of California, Irvine, shouting “Israel is a murderer” and “how many Palestinians did you kill?” […]

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IDF Kills Global Jihad Terrorist

A Global Jihad terrorist is dead and another was wounded in an air strike on a squad of terror operatives who were preparing to carry out a terror attack near the Karni humanitarian aid crossing in northern Gaza Thursday morning, according to IDF sources. The Karni crossing houses the terminal through which a giant conveyor […]

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Italy follows France with a bid to ban the burqa

Burqas will be banned in Italy under laws proposed by the government last month. Legislation to stop Muslim women wearing the hood and other full-face veils such as the niqab will be introduced, equal opportunities minister Mara Carfagna said. France is already considering outlawing burqas and Miss Carfagna believes other European countries will follow suit. […]

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Blinded by Hate

For anyone wishing to understand the lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process,” as well as the persistence of extremist and anti-Semitic views in that part of the world, the latest Pew Research Center report on attitudes in the Arab and Muslim world makes for must-reading. (A summary of the report can be found […]

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World’s tallest tower closed a month after opening

By ADAM SCHRECK, AP Business Writer DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The world’s tallest skyscraper has unexpectedly closed to the public a month after its lavish opening, disappointing tourists headed for the observation deck and casting doubt over plans to welcome its first permanent occupants in the coming weeks. Electrical problems are at least partly […]

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Bosom bombers: Women have explosive breast implants

Authorities alarmed by possibility of surgically placed explosives LONDON – Agents for Britain’s MI5 intelligence service have discovered that Muslim doctors trained at some of Britain’s leading teaching hospitals have returned to their own countries to fit surgical implants filled with explosives, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Women suicide bombers recruited […]

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US May Be Ramping Up For Showdown With Iran

From VirtualJerusalem.com: The Obama administration took the unusual step Saturday night, Jan. 30, of leaking word to major US media that the United States, Saudi Arabia and Gulf allies – the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain – have accelerated the deployment of new defenses against possible Iranian missile attacks. They are preparing for Iran, […]

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