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 […]
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. – A billboard showing President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up. The sign, completed Friday by artist David Lee, shows a grinning, cartoonish Obama and bears the words “PRESIDENT or JIHAD?” Underneath the president’s image is […]
By Christopher Neefus and Karen Schuberg Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks about health care reform at Chinese Hospital in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009. (AP Photo/Dino Vournas) (CNSNews.com) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) declined to say Thursday whether Osama bin Laden, when captured by the United States, should be told […]
by Daniel Pipes The title page of Nidal Hasan’s PowerPoint demonstration for a medical lecture in June 2007, indicates how little interest he took in medicine and how much in the perceived contradiction between being a Muslim and an American soldier. As the Pentagon and Senate launch what one analyst dubs “dueling Fort Hood […]
by Cinnamon Stillwell In the wake of the horrific attack at the Fort Hood military base in Texas earlier this month, and the mounting evidence that the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was motivated by Islamist beliefs, the media has turned to Middle East studies “experts” for enlightenment. Instead, what the media, and, by extension, […]
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted the Obama administration on Friday for its decision to try five Sept. 11 suspects in New York, saying that such a trial would only encourage terrorists to target the city once again. Earlier Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and […]
Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court against […]
by Daniel Pipes Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Ft. Hood jihadi, in a picture from 2000. When a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks non-Muslims, a predictable argument ensues about motives. The establishment – law enforcement, politicians, the media, and the academy – stands on one side of this debate, insisting […]
By: Tawfik Hamid An army psychiatrist’s alleged slaughter of 13 people and wounding of another 30 at Fort Hood, Texas, raise critical issues related to radical Islam. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an American Muslim who had counseled troops, allegedly made the comment “Allah Akbar — Arabic for “God is great!” — before he killed his […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the terrorist weapon shipment captured in an IDF raid this week constituted a war crime, and criticized the United Nations for its failure to respond to the incident. He noted the timing of the weapons shipment, which took place as the UN prepared to debate a report condemning […]
