Russia, China & Israel against Islamism?
by Daniel Pipes July 3, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Two recent developments – Vladimir Putin’s recent trip to the Middle East and the Chinese government’s financing of an Israeli cargo railway – hint at a reshuffling of alliances in the region. The Middle East’s most consequential divide is no longer the […]
Report: Australia Investigated ‘Prisoner X’
Israel’s mysterious Prisoner X, believed to be an Australian citizen named Ben Zygier who allegedly committed suicide in an Israeli prison in 2010, was under investigation by the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), an Australian newspaper revealed on Wednesday. According to the report, ASIO had suspected Zygier of using his Australian passport to spy for […]
Rampaging Islamists
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times September 19, 2012 WT title: “Islamic violence advances Shariah law: Is U.S. ready to accept second-class status?”; includes updates When Muslims take to the streets in nearly 30 countries to engage in various degrees of anti-Western violence, something important is underway. Reflections on what this might mean: The Rushdie […]
Mocking Muhammad Is Not Hate Speech
by Daniel Pipes FoxNews.com September 24, 2012 To stop Islamist violence over perceived insults to Muhammad, I argued in a FoxNews.com article on Friday, editors and producers daily should display cartoons of Muhammad “until the Islamists get used to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.” This appeal prompted a solemn reply from […]
A Muhammad Cartoon a Day
by Daniel Pipes FoxNews.com September 21, 2012 When Salman Rushdie mocked Islamic sanctities in 1989 in his magical realist novel The Satanic Verses, Ayatollah Khomeini did something shockingly original: He pronounced a death edict on Rushdie and all those connected to the production of his book. By doing this, Khomeini sought to impose Islamic mores […]
CAIR Can Expel You “For Any Reason”
by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com October 1, 2012 This past Saturday, folks, was a big day for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Its “Leadership Conference 18th Annual Banquet” at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel in Arlington, Va. lasted from 9 am until past 10 pm. Sadly, I missed the event. Not that I wouldn’t eagerly have […]
Ankara at War
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online October 16, 2012 NRO title: “Erdogan and Assad at War” Why does the Turkish government act so aggressively against the Assad regime of Syria? Perhaps Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes that lobbing artillery shells into Syria will help bring a satellite government to power in Damascus. Maybe he […]
Memo to Congress: Capitulation on Sequestration Cuts Is a Path to Defeat
With current funding for government operations scheduled to run out March 27, the House is beginning work on another Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government through the rest of the fiscal year. As they do this, they must take firm steps toward their commitment to balance the budget in 10 years. That means delivering […]
Police Were Judge, Jury and Trial: Pull a Waco on Dorner
This week was a manhunt never seen before. People are murdered all the time, but murder a police officer and they really come after you. Is it right average citizens do not get the same type of reaction from police when they are harmed? The border was sealed for the first time in decades, every […]
Belgian Nazi Parade Makes Mockery of Holocaust
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has expressed outrage that a group of participants in the UNESCO-affiliated Aalst festival dressed as Nazi SS officers and paraded through the streets of Aalst, Belgium on a rail car reminiscent of those used to deport Jews to concentration camps during the Holocaust. Photos in the Belgian media showed the men […]
Al Jazeera Hires Lobbying Firm to Bolster Image on Capitol Hill
Al Jazeera America has hired a lobbying firm to advocate for the broadcasting company on Capitol Hill, according to reports. The media company Al Jazeera America Holdings, which recently bought Al Gore’s cable news station Current TV, has hired the DLA Piper law firm to conduct “informational communications regarding client’s cable television channel,” Politico reported. […]