Not equal to defense function From the word go on Sunday, Nov. 22, Iran’s five-day drill demonstrated that its air force and air defense units were unequal to their mission of keeping the skies over its nuclear sites clear of incoming strike aircraft, DEBKAfile‘s military and Iranian sources report. This was quickly borne in on […]
A nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable, Germany’s new Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on his first official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Guido Westerwelle, of the Free Democratic Party, also urged quick resumption of Middle East peace talks, with a two-state solution as the goal. Meeting Monday in Jerusalem with his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor […]
by Daniel Pipes November 30, 2009 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Zurich’s main train station had many posters in favor of the minaret ban. Credit: Arnd Wiegmann On one level, the vote to ban minarets in Switzerland is a triviality. The constitutional amendment does not ban mosques, it does not pull down the […]
GENEVA – Swiss voters approved a move to ban the construction of minarets in a Sunday vote on a right-wing initiative that labeled the mosque towers as symbols of militant Islam, projections by a widely respected polling institute showed. The projections based on partial returns say Swiss swung from only 37 percent supporting the proposal […]
Frosty Wooldridge– As Islam grows more powerful in Europe; few dare expose its underbelly, its provocative actions, its arcane rituals and its final obsession: submission of all people to Islamic precepts. Why? They could get killed in their own country by core Islamic extremists living in Europe. Peter Wagner wrote, “When talking about “The Religion […]
by Daniel Pipes Jerusalem Post November 25, 2009 [JP title: “Islamism 2.0 – an even greater threat”] To borrow a computer term, if Ayatollah Khomeini, Osama bin Laden, and Nidal Hasan represent Islamism 1.0, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an (the prime minister of Turkey), Tariq Ramadan (a Swiss intellectual), and Keith Ellison (a U.S. congressman) represent Islamism […]
Posted by Erick Erickson It should not be surprising to learn, though it may make your blood pressure go up. The terrorists who orchestrated 9/11 and masterminded the deaths of thousands of Americans will plead not guilty. They will use their case to try American foreign policy. Fox News has the details. Scott Fenstermaker, the […]
by David J. Rusin • Nov 24, 2009 at 7:16 am Islamists would not be Islamists without demanding that Muslims live by separate rules and that the rest of us modify our behavior to suit them. Male-female interactions form a common battleground in this respect, with even neighborly hellos to Muslim women known to stir […]
By Ronald Kessler The Obama administration’s decision to try admitted terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court in New York “dramatically” increases danger to New Yorkers, former FBI official James Kallstrom tells Newsmax. New York already was the No. 1 target for terrorists, says Kallstrom, who was assistant FBI director in New York and became Homeland […]
MOSCOW– A Russian Orthodox priest known for his outspoken criticism of Islam and attempts to convert Muslims to Christianity has been assassinated in his Moscow church. A masked gunman shot Father Daniil Sysoyev in the head and chest after asking for him by name, police said. The choirmaster, Vladimir Strelbinsky, was seriously wounded in the […]
