By Zachary Abuza*

Sunday, 19 November 2006, is the two-month anniversary of the Thai coup. Though the coup was executed for many different reasons, the Thaksin administration’s mishandling of the southern insurgency that had already claimed some 1,700 lives, was a major factor. The insurgency was spiraling out of control and the six bombings over a 30-minute period in Hat Yai, a major commercial center, concerned many that the coup was bleeding north of the three Muslim-majority provinces.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

In 2003, the U.S.-led coalition offered Iraqis a chance for democracy, independence, prosperity, and civilization. What have Iraqis chosen? It seems that murder and a petty lust for internecine violence — Arab/Muslim on Arab/Muslim violence — is what they have chosen:

The Iraqi government estimates that 150,000 Iraqis have been killed since 2003.

This year the death toll has been about 100 people every day, some 3,000 a month.

Is there still any hope left for Iraq? The best advice I’ve heard lately is from Michael Rubin:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Banning burqas and veils? Perhaps the murder of Theo Van Gogh by an Islamist and the breakup of numerous terrorist cells in Holland have pushed the Dutch too far. A “center-right” coalition has been ruling Holland for years and is now expected to win again in scheduled elections — all in one of the world’s great liberal democracies, where you can buy magic mushrooms and visit hash bars legally. From the Beeb:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Many women in the Arab/Muslim world are forced to cover their entire bodies; can’t drive cars; aren’t allowed to vote; and, in Pakistan, are “raped every two hours and gang-raped every eight hours.” On the other hand, Israel is so secure in its sense of human balance that it arms its women — all 18-year old girls and boys serve in the army. The Jewish state had a female prime minister. Indeed, women permeate all strata of Israeli society. So who is really evolved in the Middle East? Miss Israel: you go girl…

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By Michael Rubin*

The democratically elected government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has proved a grave disappointment. Security has worsened since Maliki has been in power. Ignoring the pleas of U.S. officials, he has been unwilling to crack down on the militias and death squads that fuel sectarian violence — and the mass kidnapping from a Ministry of Higher Education building in Baghdad on Tuesday by gunmen in police uniforms shows the consequences.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

While the weak hand in the West keeps wringing its hands over political correctness, the case for ethnic and religious profiling in the War Against Islamo-fascism keeps getting stronger. When a Middle Eastern student at UCLA refused to produce identification, and tried to incite a riot on Wednesday, he got what he deserved, the cold taste of a Taser:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

The Senate yesterday passed legislation by a super majority (85-12), proposed by President Bush, that would allow the sharing of nuclear technologies between the U.S. and India, for civilian uses. While detractors claim this is a setback for the non-proliferation cause, I have long argued that closer ties between the U.S. and India are natural and necessary.

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by R.A. Sprinkle

Fascism quite simply put is a form of collectivism comprised of two principles, one being an authoritarian and the other its mass of subordinates. Together they form one collective body, which, for the common good of itself, determines to either assimilate, subjugate, or destroy all which are deemed foreign.

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By Daniel Pipes*

President George W. Bush refers to the enemy in the war on terror as “Islamic radicalism.” Official U.S. policy sees the country at war with those Muslims who support an extremist, jihadistic, misogynist, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, totalitarian form of Islam.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

A woman is raped every two hours and gang-raped every eight hours in Pakistan…

Rape and adultery in Pakistan are dealt with under the Hudood Ordinance, a controversial set of Islamic laws introduced from 1979 by Gen Zia-ul-Haq.

They include sections prescribing lashing and stoning as punishments for adultery.

- BBC, 11/15/2006

Now isn’t that special? Pakistan has a chance to reform such laws, as today “Pakistan’s national assembly has voted to amend the country’s strict Sharia laws on rape and adultery.” Will President Musharraf and the assembly’s upper house approve the vote? I would certainly think so, as Pervez just recently bombed Islamo-fascists at a madrassa out of existence, but “Religious parties boycotted the vote saying the bill encouraged ‘free sex’.” Here’s more on the Stone Age:

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Are MoveOn’s new legislators loyal to the United States or George Soros’ money?
by Bill Levinson

We have covered exhaustively MoveOn.org’s propagation of racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, and anti-Evangelical hate speech, along with blood libels of the United States itself, on its Action Forum. It now becomes eminently clear that MoveOn.org is “with the terrorists,” as shown by a petition that it circulated back in 2003 along with its connection with terrorist cheerleader Michael Moore.

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By Jeffrey Imm*

The Daily Telegraph reports today that Iran is seeking to wield influence within Al-Qaeda to help name its number three individual in the Al-Qaeda organization. If accurate, the report states that Ahmadinejad is trying to persuade Al-Qaeda to promote a pro-Iranian activist (Saif Al-Adel) to a senior position within its leadership.

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By Daniel Pipes*

Mark Steyn, political columnist and cultural critic, has written a remarkable book, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It (Regnery). He combines several virtues uncommonly found together – humor, accurate reportage, and deep thinking – then applies these to what is arguably the most consequential issue of our time: the Islamist threat to the West.

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by Andrew Whitehead, ACAIR

Rep-Elect Keith Ellison was elected to the House of Representatives from the state of Minnesota. He has the strong backing and financial support of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-DC based Islamic hate group that is dedicated to ending Constitutional rule of law in the United States.

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by Michael Rubin*

On Dec. 20, 1983, Donald Rumsfeld, then Ronald Reagan’s Middle East envoy, met Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. According to declassified documents, the Reagan administration sought to re-establish long-severed relations with Baghdad amid concern about growing Iranian influence. While U.S. intelligence had earlier confirmed Saddam’s use of chemical weapons, Mr. Rumsfeld did not broach the subject. His handshake with Saddam, caught on film by Iraqi television, represented a triumph for diplomatic realism.

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