by David J. Rusin • Dec 23, 2011 at 11:52 am The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reserves some of its harshest words for Muslims who contribute to combating radicalism and terror. This was true a decade ago, when CAIR’s rhetoric endangered reform-minded Muslim Khalid Durán, and it is just as true today. Dawud Walid, […]
Several Lebanese financial institutions with alleged ties to the Hizbullah terror organization were part of a massive scheme that funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in criminal proceeds through the United States, prosecutors charged on Thursday. AFP reported that a criminal complaint in a New York federal court targeted the Lebanese Canadian Bank and two […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online September 13, 2011 U.S. law enforcement agencies have generally responded to 9/11 with a pretend counterterrorism policy. They still insist that naming the enemy as Islamism causes terrorism, that Islamist violence poses no more threat than that of neo-Nazis, racial supremacists, et al., and that counterterrorism primarily involves feel-good […]
The Occupy Wall Street Movement was the first to set up a tent city in the heart of New York’s financial district encouraging copycat occupations in other American and foreign cities. The authorities originally tolerated the phenomenon but neighbors’ complaints, sanitary hazards as well as a sense that the movement was running out of steam […]
Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh resigned Wednesday as president after almost 10 months of protests calling for him to quit, AFP reported. Saleh has ruled the fractious desert country for three decades. He was badly wounded by a bombing at a mosque in the presidential palace in June, but returned home after three months of treatment […]
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday that an Al-Qaeda sympathizer who plotted to bomb police and post offices in New York City has been arrested. The Associated Press reported that 27-year-old Jose Pimentel of Manhattan, a U.S. citizen originally from the Dominican Republic, was arrested on Saturday. In a special news conference […]
Details the shady history of the shady Islamic supremacist behind the Ground Zero mosque: “This lowlife has defaulted on two bank loans, hasn’t paid his back taxes, was busted for prostitution. Gamal not only beats people up and threatens Muslims who speak out against the mosque, but he is also a tax cheat, owing a […]
(NY Post) A low-performing Manhattan high school that was granted up to $6 million in extra funds to undergo a “transformation” has found the secret formula for success: Dumb down the requirements for students to pass. At Washington Irving HS, near Union Square, administrators have approved new grading policies that give failing kids credits toward […]
Hugo Chavez hates Wall Street, ground zero for “savage capitalism.” Daily he dreams of bear markets bringing the U.S. economy crashing down. He certainly likes the Occupy Wall Street movement. It is tailor-made for advancing Chavez-style “participatory democracy.” Little wonder he has dispatched his star propagandist to New York. Eva Golinger, described as “a Venezuelan-American […]
In New York the, ‘Occupy Wall street’ protest group took to the streets again for the second time in twenty four hours. One section of the demonstration attempted to cross the traffic lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge prompting the police to move in. More than 700 were arrested as they brought traffic to a standstill […]
