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Stupid Terrorists by Daniel Pipes, 10/4/2005
One would think Mahmoud Maawad would lay low and stay out of trouble. But no, he defiantly did just the opposite. He used a...
Syria after Lebanon: Hooked on Lebanon by Gary C. Gambill, 10/3/2005
Although Syrian troops have withdrawn from Lebanon, their departure is little more than a symbolic acknowledgment of Lebanese...
The Future of Iraq: Democracy, Civil War, or Chaos? by Michael Rubin, 10/1/2005
Pessimism regarding the future of Iraq is unwarranted. Iraq faces many challenges, but success is still within reach. After...
Anti-Israeli, Useful Idiot Gets Eloquent Comeupance by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/30/2005
Of course the kid did not travel to Syria, Iran, North Korea, China (PRC), etc., etc., to see the realities of true abuses...
Tamil Tigers banned from EU, courted in Canada by CCD, 9/29/2005
Paul Martin has attended LTTE fundraising events, lending credibility to those responsible for suffering in Sri Lanka...
Got Moxie? Tony Blair Does by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/28/2005
If the UK population was anti-war, would Blair have been reelected? The Labour Party now holds 356 seats in parliament...
Enforce Islamic Law in Canada? by Daniel Pipes, 9/27/2005
In October 2003, an organization called the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice proposed the creation of Muslim Arbitration...
Blame Israel: What you sow, so shall you reap by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/27/2005
When the truck explodes, killing 15 children, women, and men, what does Hamas do? Does it take responsibility for its macabre...
Hamas Gets a Case of Diarrhea by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/26/2005
This is Hamas having a bad case of fear-inspired dysentery. The terrorist group is petrified of Israeli military might...
EU Caves to Iranian Nuke Threats by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/23/2005
With a president like Mahmood Ahmadinejad, could there be any doubt as to whether Iran has nuclear weapons ambitions?...
Giving the Devil His Due: Jihad Zakat by Patrick D. OBrien, 9/23/2005
In 1991, UC Santa Barbara anthropology professor Donald Brown published his Human Universals, which proved to be a sound...
Syria after Lebanon: The Growing Syrian Missile Threat by Lee Kass, 9/22/2005
First, the Syrian regime has continued its attempts to acquire sophisticated surface-to-surface missiles. Second, U.S....
Gore Vidal: Lunacy Can Wither Him by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/21/2005
Oh, yes, the Guardian calls Vidal an aristocrat in the same article that describes his radicalism. Is Vidal redistributing...
Musharraf: Historic Speech by Daniel Pipes, 9/20/2005
Musharraf reaching out to Jews is part of a much broader project of developing what he calls Enlightened Moderation...
Iran Threatens With Nukes by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/20/2005
It is surprising that the EU has joined the US in calling for referral to the Security Council. Europe had been pursuing a...
Canada must stop funding Palestinian terrorism by CCD, 9/19/2005
On September 15, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced from New York that Canada will give another $24.5 million to the...
Tyco Crooks Sentenced by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/19/2005
But remember, Bush is not doing anything about corporate crime… except cleaning up the crimes committed under Clinton...
Hear But Not Understand, Look But Never See by Patrick D. OBrien, 9/16/2005
Four years ago, the words Islam and jihad made a spectacular entrance into the American lexicon of public...
Thousands protest Ahmadinejad presence at UN by SMCCDI, 9/16/2005
Thousands of Iranians and Iranian-Americans gathered, yesterday, in order to protest against the Islamic republic regime...
Japan: Victory for Koizumi and the World Economy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/15/2005
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won a landslide election victory earlier this week. His win is certainly a mandate...
Lost in Translation by MEQ, 9/14/2005
We also found that system limitations contributed to the FBI backlog of unreviewed material. The FBI digital collection...
Iran U.N. Protest 2005 to Call on World Leaders for Iran Freedom by SMCCDI, 9/14/2005
Ahamdinejad was also part of the Islamic commando group which stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and took 52 American diplomats...
Iran U.N. Protest 2005 to rally in New York on Wednesday by SMCCDI, 9/13/2005
Iranian secularist opposition groups are gathering, in New York, to protest against the presence of the Islamic regime...
Christianity Dying in Its Birthplace by Daniel Pipes, 9/13/2005
What some observers are calling a pogrom took place near Ramallah, West Bank, on the night of September 3-4....
Chaos in Gaza, Abbas Echoes Hitler by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/13/2005
Mahmoud Abbas fanned the flames of anti-Jewish sentiments. Abbas today echoed Hitler: Today Germany, Tomorrow the World...
Remembering 9/11: Islamists are Our Enemy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/11/2005
The obsessive hatred of Bush is a pathological avoidance mechanism. Since the opposition to the war is terrified of terrorism...
What If the United States Had Not Invaded Iraq by Daniel Pipes, 9/11/2005
Unpopularity and acrimony are a price worth paying so that the Iraqi government no longer endangers Iraqis or the rest of the...
Dissident Watch: Ayman Nour by Suzanne Gershowitz, 9/10/2005
The Egyptian government moved to shut down its own fledgling opposition, arresting 40-year-old Ayman Nour...
Why We Cannot Change Islam by Patrick D. OBrien, 9/9/2005
Reform-minded Muslims desperately need our support and brotherhood, and in this day and age when freedom and rights are...
The Great Oil Shortage? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/9/2005
But running around screaming, pointing fingers, and distorting the facts is just throwing gasoline on the fire, if you will...
Brown Axed While Berger Gets a Slap on the Wrist by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/9/2005
Sandy Berger was sentenced... for illegally removing highly classified documents from the National Archives...
Powell Regrets UN Iraq Presentation by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/9/2005
George Tenet did not sit there for five days with me misleading me. He believed what he was giving to me was accurate...
Another Arafat Bites the Dust by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/7/2005
Some Palestinians had violently protested this blatant nepotism. Well, today, someone succeeded in killing Moussa...
Ode to Gilligan by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/6/2005
A guy who has been accused of causing Hurricane Katrina (because he voted for and still supports Bush) likes left-wing PBS?...
L.A.: Thwarted Terror Spree by Daniel Pipes, 9/6/2005
The Jewish High Holidays this year fall in early October, when a massacre was planned against two Los Angeles synagogues...
Sunni Boy Brings Hope to Iraq by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/5/2005
In another ray of hope from Iraq, a Sunni boy, Othman Abdul Hafez, sacrificed his own life while saving Shiite pilgrims...
Islam: The Tiny Minority by Patrick D. OBrien, 9/4/2005
The true minority in Islam are those who categorically reject intolerance and jihad. Case in point: the Ahmadiyya Muslim...
Iran U.N. Protest 2005 Coalition to Organize 2nd Telethon by SMCCDI, 9/4/2005
Iranian secularists are preparing a kind of welcoming ceremony for appointed President Ahamdi-Nejad on US soil...
More Aftermath by Donnel Jones, 9/3/2005
Right or wrong, fair or unfair, Hurricane Katrina has changed the political landscape....
It is Not Over for the Bush Administration [UPDATED] by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/3/2005
Why was New Orleans – long known as a prime target for destruction by a hurricane – so ill-prepared for… a hurricane?...
Why Corporations Fund Radical Islam by Daniel Pipes, 9/2/2005
How does the Council on American-Islamic Relations (and others in the Islamist victimization industry) fare so well when it...
Follow-up: Good News on Pakistani/Israeli Relations… Sort of… by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/2/2005
The BBC reported today that Islamist reaction in Pakistan to the news was muted: there was a muted response to calls...
It is Over for the Bush Administration by Donnel Jones, 9/2/2005
Bush has handed the Democrats a gift that will keep on giving...
Aftershocks: The Bush Political Credibility Hemorrhage, Part II by Donnel Jones, 9/2/2005
Continued coverage of the melt-down. Who needs terrorists when you have New Orleans?...
Good News on Pakistani/Israeli Relations… Sort of… by Andrew L. Jaffee, 9/1/2005
In a surprise move, Pakistan and Israel have announced that their foreign ministers met today in Istanbul. Pakistani...
The Council on Foreign Relations Does the Middle East by Mandel/Romirowsky, 9/1/2005
But when it comes to the Middle East, the council has increasingly eschewed research and debate and instead picked a line to...
1,378 Words Later – Or, How to Mangle an Interview with the Secretary of State by Daniel Pipes, 9/1/2005
It turns out that this is a massive distortion of her words and meaning. In another instance of the blogosphere catching out...
Gaza: How it All Got Started... by Asaf Romirowsky, 8/31/2005
However, the bigger question is how does disengagement from Gaza affect the US-Israeli alliance? The Jewish settlements in...
REAL Pressure on the Palestinian Authority by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/31/2005
A federal court in the US has frozen all the assets held by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the country. The ruling...
Islamists, Get Out by Daniel Pipes, 8/30/2005
Westerners are speaking out about the problem of radical Islam with new clarity and boldness. The most profound development...
Free Muslims Coalition Condemns Latest Terrorist Attack in Israel by freemuslims.org, 8/30/2005
Nor can the treatment of Palestinians be used to carve out an exception for Palestinian terrorism. Carving out an exception...
Scales Might Be Tipping by Donnel Jones, 8/30/2005
Just a blog entry for a very important development...
A Corrective to the Pipes Worldview by Daniel Pipes, 8/29/2005
The introduction is largely about me: This book is intended to be a corrective to the Pipes worldview. Oh? I offer...
The Arafat Model by Michael Rubin, 8/29/2005
While Clinton fêted the Palestinian leader at the White House, cajoled him with aid, and turned a blind eye toward his...
Today Beersheba, Tomorrow Mayberry by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/28/2005
Watch out, Opie, Sheriff Andy just might not be able to protect you from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Why, you may ask...
Complimentary Terror State by Patrick D. OBrien, 8/26/2005
So, once again, an immigrant Arab/Muslim people, in a nonexistent state, with an invented refugee status (complete with their...
Canada should join coalition to build democracy in Iraq by CCD, 8/26/2005
CCD urges the Canadian government to do our part by living up to our own International Policy Statement and joining the...
Revisiting the Armenian Genocide by Guenter Lewy, 8/25/2005
For genocide scholars, the claims of the Armenians have become incontrovertible historical fact. But many historians...
Mr. Livingstone, I Presume by Donnel Jones, 8/24/2005
Britain gets serious about deporting hate-mongering Muslim clerics...
Gender apartheid policy strengthens in Iran by SMCCDI, 8/23/2005
The Islamic republic regime is to apply more discriminatory measures against Iranian women in days ahead. Based on...
Bush Flinched at Fallujah by Donnel Jones, 8/23/2005
Bush has an uphill battle if we are to get the war against Islamism back on track...
How Terrorism Obstructs Radical Islam by Daniel Pipes, 8/23/2005
Do terrorist atrocities in the West help radical Islam achieve its goal of gaining power? No, they are counterproductive...
Concession Blues by Donnel Jones, 8/22/2005
Was the withdrawal from Gaza a critical mistake, good faith effort, or realpolitik?...
Pope on terror: A spade is a spade, except when used to stab Israelis by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/20/2005
It is significant for the pontiff to confront Muslims on terrorism, especially as Western leaders have continued to use...
Iranian secularist forces are preparing welcoming for Ahmadi-Nejad to US by SMCCDI, 8/21/2005
Groups are preparing to stage a peaceful protest rally, at the UN, on the days of September 14th and 15th. They intend to...
The Ability to Face Danger & Angry War Moms by Patrick D. OBrien, 8/19/2005
The special military intelligence unit code named Able Danger is big news lately, and rightly so. It is a tragic, textbook...
The End of Treason by Daniel Pipes, 8/18/2005
News reports from Britain indicate that three Islamist leaders in that country could face treason charges. The first two of...
How Chechnya Became a Breeding Ground for Terror by Lorenzo Vidino, 8/18/2005
On September 1, 2004, a group of Chechen terrorists took hostage and two days later murdered at least 335 schoolchildren and...
Waiting for Another Hiroshima by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/18/2005
Those with relativistic morals will lead us to see the use of nuclear weapons again – this time to end the evil of Islamism...
[The Gaza Withdrawal:] A Democracy Killing Itself by Daniel Pipes, 8/16/2005
To Palestinian rejectionists, an Israeli retreat under fire sends an unambiguous signal: Terrorism works. Just as the Israeli...
Europe: Problem with Ariel Sharon by Suzanne Gershowitz, 8/15/2005
This antagonism has many causes—anti-Americanism, media antipathy toward the Jewish state, a perception that Israel is an...
How many more deaths before Tamil terrorists outlawed in Canada? by CCD, 8/13/2005
The Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka was today assassinated in Colombo. He was a member of the minority Tamil community and a...
Islamosupremacy: Past Is Its Present by Patrick D. OBrien, 8/13/2005
Invigorated by their triumph over the Quraysh, the Muslims went on to besiege the Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe, who were rumored...
Brazilians Got What They Deserved? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/12/2005
Brazilians enthusiastically elected Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in 2002, in the hopes he would clean up endemic corruption...
Choose Your Heritage: The 5 Nations or Islamism by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/11/2005
The 5 Nations (Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca) ended centuries of warfare by creating a democratic...
Less Is More in Iraq by Michael Rubin, 8/10/2005
While Washington sees the constitutional milestone as an opportunity to withdraw some forces, policymakers should not limit...
Gimme Shelter from the Hypocrite Rolling Stones by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/10/2005
The Stones are not redistributing their wealth. They routinely rip fans off for $300 just for the privilege of hearing their...
Leaving Gaza: Is the Withdrawal good for Israel? by Meyrav Wurmser, 8/9/2005
Instead of waving the Israeli flag on Independence Day in May 2005, Israelis against the withdrawal waved orange flags...
Today Gaza, Tomorrow Jerusalem by Daniel Pipes, 8/9/2005
The retreat will inspire not comity but a new rejectionist exhilaration, a greater frenzy of anti-Zionist anger, and a surge...
Belafonte Racial Slurs Continue by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/9/2005
Harry Belafonte continues to spew racist madness – against his own people and now, Jews. On Saturday, according to Cybercast...
Washington and Cairo - Near the Breaking Point? by Samuel J. Spector, 8/8/2005
As U.S. foreign policy has grown more reliant on Jordan, the new Iraqi government, and the Persian Gulf emirates, the Egypt-...
The Price of Compromise by Michael Rubin, 8/8/2005
The insurgency has gained momentum as a result of failed U.S. policy and well-meaning but wrong-headed assumptions....
Google Plans to Give News Agency Status to the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/7/2005
It is not responsible for a major American media giant like Google to legitimize groups like the ISM and PSM – and to provide...
The Difference by Patrick D. OBrien, 8/6/2005
Terrorism is not in the character of the Jewish state. The democratic tenets of justice, righteousness, and the rule of law,...
So now Hillel is upset with the PSM – and wants money, too! by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/5/2005
Fine. Get out your checkbooks. Feel good about your tax deductions. But what about some direct action? This is one Jew who...
Italy Takes Out the Trash by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/4/2005
Italy is clamping down on terrorism. Besides toughening its anti-terror laws, the country has started expelling Islamists...
Free Muslims to Address U.S. Government Officials About Future of Middle East by freemuslims.org, 8/4/2005
Following the attacks, many experts in Europe and the Middle East blamed the attacks on American and British foreign policies...
Fried in Turkey: Is democracy on the outs? by Michael Rubin, 8/2/2005
While many AKP members are Islamist, most Turks are not. As in any country, citizens of Turkey range from secular to trad-...
Television in Time of War by Daniel Pipes, 8/2/2005
Appearing with Islamist motormouths and leftist attack-dogs is unpleasant. It often means refuting ad hominem calumnies and...
Symposium: The Showdown [with Iran] by Jamie Glazov, 8/1/2005
The rise to power of Islamic hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran has spelled precarious danger for the West. An Islamic...
Economy: Bush Proves Democratic Naysayers Wrong by Andrew L. Jaffee, 8/1/2005
The U.S. created 2.2 million jobs in 2004. This year, approximately 1 million new jobs have been added to the workforce. And...
Deconstructing a Fatwa, Part I by Patrick D. OBrien, 7/31/2005
With great media fanfare, a group of Islamic damage control experts placated what can sometimes be a worried American public...
Distinguishing between Muslim Friend and Islamist Foe by CCD, 7/29/2005
The Prime Minister, opposition politicians and the media must have the tools required to distinguish between Muslim friend...
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia: On Whose Side? by Daniel Pipes, 7/29/2005
Islamists have insulted me many times on television but never before has an anchor stood up on my behalf and prevented a...
CAIR Founded by Islamic Terrorists? by D. Pipes/S. Chadha, 7/28/2005
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Inc., filed a defamation lawsuit against Andrew Whitehead, of Anti-CAIR (or ACAIR)...
Reconstructing Iraq: Bringing the Economy Back Online by Gal Luft, 7/28/2005
The Iraqi leadership should learn to manage its vast oil resource in a productive way, ensuring it becomes an engine of...
Martin dithers on protecting Canadians from terrorist threat by CCD, 7/27/2005
The government of Canada, and Prime Minister Paul Martin in particular, have been largely silent on the murderous ideology...
OF THE LIST OF 2647 ISLAMIC ATTACKS IN THE LAST 4 YEARS, 7 WERE ACKNOWLEDGED BY CAIR by Janet Lehr, 7/27/2005
Although CAIR is having difficulty shaking the accusations that it is a supporter of Islamic terror (not helped by their...
Free Muslims Meet Congressman Tancredo About Bombing Mecca Comment by freemuslims.org, 7/26/2005
FMC is not interested in joining the chorus of Muslim organizations who attacked Congressman Tancredo. Instead, we intend...
Snooze Button by Patrick D. OBrien, 7/26/2005
The mujahideen were unfazed by the disingenuous pronouncements of silver-tongued sheikhs and imams here in the dar al-Harb...
What Do the Terrorists Want? by Daniel Pipes, 7/26/2005
But the reasons for the violence go unexplained. Analysts, including myself, are left speculating about motives. These can...
Amnesty Condemns Iraqi Terrorists – With Footnotes by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/25/2005
Amnesty has grudgingly deemed to notice the slaughter of civilians by terrorist filth in Iraq, but two years too late...
British Opinion Surveys from an Islamist Hell by Daniel Pipes, 7/25/2005
The survey found that 1 percent of them, or about 16,000 individuals, declare themselves willing, possibly even eager...
Rashid Khalidi: Plagiarism and Poor Scholarship by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/22/2005
I had an email exchange with a colleague who found what she believed to be evidence of plagiarism by Rashid Khalidi...
Free Muslims on Nomination of John Roberts to Supreme Court by freemuslims.org, 7/21/2005
We urge all American Muslims and Arabs to support the nomination of Judge John Roberts to the Supreme Court. We hope that...
Charles The Hammer by Donnel Jones, 7/21/2005
Charles Krauthammer has just declared exactly what the Bush Doctrine is supposed to achieve. Only now, with some history...
Beam Him Up, Lord by Donnel Jones, 7/20/2005
James Doohan, who played Scotty on the original series of Star Trek, died at the age of 85. What I found much more...
Some Perspective on Iraqi Civilian Deaths by Donnel Jones, 7/20/2005
25,000 Iraqi civilians dead does not mean America killed them. Unfortunately, the media, right and left, assumes as much....
Support Up for Israel, Down for Bin Laden by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/19/2005
A set of recently released opinions polls shows a possible seismic shift in world opinion vis-à-vis Israel and al-Qaeda...
An Islamist Apology by Daniel Pipes, 7/19/2005
A leading Islamist organization has retracted its slurs against me and issued a public apology. This offers a small but...
Learning from the 7/7 London Bombings, Jihad, CAIR,... by Daniel Pipes, 7/18/2005
Could it be that the four bombs on July 7 jarred the British from their Londonistan reverie? Though a believer in what I call...
He Was Such a Nice Holy Warrior by Patrick D. OBrien, 7/18/2005
Their families and friends could not see it coming. They were so loving, they had so much to live for. They were so normal....
Free Muslim on Aljazeerah to Discuss Inadequacy of Muslim Response to Terrorism by freemuslims.org, 7/15/2005
The Muslim leadership has not done their fair share in fighting extremism and support for terrorism. We recognize that every...
Reconstructing Iraq: Winning the Propaganda War in Iraq by Ron Schleifer, 7/13/2005
Psychological warfare applies a series of messages and actions to persuade an audience to adopt particular policies. Not only...
Weak Brits, Tough French by Daniel Pipes, 7/12/2005
France is the most stalwart nation in the West, even more so than America, while Britain is the most hapless...
God: License for Degeneracy by Patrick D. OBrien, 7/12/2005
According to the shariah, any Muslim who conspires or works with the enemies of Islam has committed irtitad (apostasy) and...
The Next London Bombing by Daniel Pipes, 7/11/2005
In general, the authors of Young Muslims and Extremism are too politically worried to understand the phenomenon they are...
Message In the Bombs by Patrick D. OBrien, 7/10/2005
We will additionally hear from Islamic apologists and multicultists about how we need to distinguish the terrorists from the...
London Terrorism: British Covenant of Security with Islamists Ends by Daniel Pipes, 7/9/2005
Covenant of security? What is that? In an August 2004 story in the New Statesman, Why terrorists love Britain...
Muslims, Democracy, and the American Experience by Salim Mansur, 7/8/2005
The reform of Muslims, as was that of Christians, is neither an event nor an instant in time but a process deeply frustrating...
Washington Must Plan Today For Democratic Iran of Tomorrow by Michael Rubin, 7/8/2005
A nuclear Islamic Republic would undermine any prospect for Iranian reform, Middle East peace or a cessation of the regime...
Ultimate Test of British Resolve by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/7/2005
Will the savage attack by al-Qaeda on the London subway cause Brits to strengthen or weaken their will in fighting terror?...
Free Muslims Coalition Condemns London Terror Attacks by freemuslims.org, 7/7/2005
The war against Muslim terrorists is an ideological battle that cannot be won without the help of Muslims themselves...
Palestinians Who Cling to Israel by Daniel Pipes, 7/6/2005
Why would Palestinians engaged in destroying the state of Israel feel punished by losing the right to live in Israel? One...
The 8 Ball Behind Live 8 by Donnel Jones, 7/6/2005
Rock music is about rebellion and if Africa is being overlooked by the post-industrial world then that should be set straight...
Neila Charchour Hachicha: Tunisian Election Was Undemocratic at All Levels. by MEQ Interview, 7/2/2005
Ben Ali may hold legitimacy because he is party leader, but this is different from democratic legitimacy derived from all...
Repression increases with approach of anniversary of student uprising by SMCCDI, 7/2/2005
Repressive measures are increasing in Iran with the approach of the anniversary of the student uprising on July 9th...
President Fox: Blacks are sambos and good for the dirty jobs by Andrew L. Jaffee, 7/1/2005
Truck-loads of Mexican soldiers started pouring into town. The troops were non-Mayan of course, but many were from other...
Public letter to the attention of the G-8 Summit in Scotland [Iran] by SMCCDI, 6/30/2005
The effect of Regime policy (gender Apartheid) has been devastating. Not only are the women isolated from the rest of...
Let Them Burn the Flag by Patrick D. OBrien, 6/30/2005
When Islamosupremacists or their vacuous leftist cheerleaders burn our flag, sure, I get angry. It mostly just makes me sad...
Is Allah God? by Daniel Pipes, 6/28/2005
Asked if Muslims worship the same Almighty as Jews and Christians, President Bush replied some months ago...
Free Muslims Meet with USAID about Development Projects in Middle East by freemuslims.org, 6/27/2005
The Free Muslims Coalition (FMC) met with the State Department office of Public Diplomacy for Middle Eastern and MEPI...
Bashar al-Assad: His Lebanon Gamble by William Harris, 6/27/2005
International pressure for Syrian withdrawal resulted from a cascading series of Syrian miscalculations. Syrian president...
You Are Free Now by Patrick D. OBrien, 6/24/2005
What happened on 9/11 is the inevitable result of a backward, violent, and supremacist politicoreligious culture...
BBC on Iranian Elections: I Want to Believe by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/24/2005
Two distinctly different future visions of what? Dictatorship or dictatorship? The only choice is the Guardian Council or...
Watch Group Sounds Alarm on Regime Propaganda in US [Iran] by SMCCDI, 6/23/2005
The pro-Rafsanjani forces are organizing in the United States, attempting to sway public opinion and the media into...
Radical Islam as Its Own Antidote by Daniel Pipes, 6/23/2005
But Gerecht has lately become the most prominent voice of the responsible right to advocate welcoming radical Islam coming...
A Democratic Hamas? by Asaf Romirowsky, 6/22/2005
Is this distinction enough to convince us that Hamas only makes wine and honey and provides social welfare? And does the...
Krauthammer/Steyn/Sharansky Versus Senator Durbin on Gitmo and Gulags by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/21/2005
The Gitmo inmates are treated far better than prisoners in say, China, Iran, Russia, or Saudi Arabia –- each one gets a Koran...
A Madrassah in Bridgeview, Illinois by Daniel Pipes, 6/21/2005
Unfortunately, Michaels proved clueless about the real nature of the Universal School. She portrays it as a moderate instit-...
Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! Help Chinese Dictators Censor the Web by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/20/2005
Apparently, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!, all American tech giants, will do anything for money, including helping China...
SMCCDI Coordinator and several activists wounded by Islamists on U.S. soil by SMCCDI, 6/19/2005
Aryo B. Pirouznia, the SMCCDI Coordinator, and several other Iranian political activists were wounded by Islamists and...
Sir Ibrahim Hooper? US spying on Israel, Lodi California by Daniel Pipes, 6/19/2005
Sir Ibrahim Hooper and Lord Salam Al-Marayati? Well, they live in the wrong country to receive such accolades, and much they...
Clashes rock several areas of Iranian capital by SMCCDI, 6/17/2005
Violent clashes rocked, yesterday evening, several areas of the Iranian Capital as demonstrators were attacked by Islamic...
Saudis Import Slaves to America by Daniel Pipes, 6/16/2005
The two Saudis face charges of forced labor, aggravated sexual abuse, document servitude, and harboring an alien. If found...
Defeat of Terror, Not Roadmap Diplomacy, Will Bring Peace by Newt Gingrich, 6/16/2005
Many observers hold that the death of former Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and the subsequent election of Mahmoud Abbas to...
We will reveal the election show of the regime to obtain freedom! by SMCCDI, 6/15/2005
One more time, the ridiculous and useless show, named the presidential election of the Islamic republic is on the way...
Fighting intolerance against Jews, Christians and Muslims by Kamal Nawash, 6/14/2005
The 9-11 attacks and the subsequent war on terror did not end the use of terror and mass murder in the name of Islam...
Abbas lied to Martin. Does he still get our money? by CCD, 6/13/2005
Earlier today, Hamas, one of the many terrorist organisation operating freely in the Middle East, celebrated Palestinian...
How the Lebanese Won Their Freedom Back by Walid Phares, 6/13/2005
Prior to 9/11, the Wahhabi/Islamist/Arabist lobbies led by the Saudis in Washington were able to vouch for Syrian hegemony in...
Jihad On Main Street, U.S.A. by Patrick D. OBrien, 6/10/2005
There is no room in Islamic ideology for the plurality and tolerance of classical American liberalism (not the new kind,...
Intervene and Protest Against IR Regime Illegal Ballot Boxes On US Soil by SMCCDI, 6/10/2005
The Islamic Republic (IR) regime has scheduled tens of illegal ballot boxes on the US soil. Such policy is nothing else than...
Dozens injured or arrested in Iran-Bahrain soccer riots by SMCCDI, 6/9/2005
Dozens have been injured or arrested following the riots which rocked main Iranian cities, yesterday night, at the issue of...
Our Ally Down Under: The strongest Anglosphere link by Michael Rubin, 6/8/2005
But when Australians visit Foggy Bottom and the Pentagon, staffers let down their guard. The ease of interaction between...
Is Lebanon Hopelessly Divided? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/8/2005
In many of the anti-Syrian demonstrations held in Beirut, Christians and Muslims stood shoulder-to-shoulder. Maybe the...
Dissident Watch: Aktham Naisse by Suzanne Gershowitz, 6/7/2005
In 1989, Aktham Naisse, a 38-year-old Syrian human rights activist, founded the Committee for the Defense of Democratic...
Is Turkey Going Islamist? by Daniel Pipes, 6/7/2005
Is Turkey going Islamist? Is it on the road to implementing Islamic law, known as the Sharia? I replied in the affirmative...
Islamists are intrinsically anti-democratic by Michael Rubin, 6/6/2005
Bush can claim success: 2005 is the year of the election. Iraqis defied predictions to cast their ballots. Palestinians also...
What Cost Piece? by Patrick D. OBrien, 6/3/2005
Peace means more than donning your worn Che Guevara t-shirt to go join the angry rabble disrupting traffic in a chaotic...
State Dept. Names Free Muslim to Represent U.S. in Europe by freemuslims.org, 6/3/2005
Kamal Nawash, President of FMC was named by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as part of a U.S. delegation to a conference...
Jews: Demons with big noses, black coats and hats, or skull caps by Andrew L. Jaffee, 6/2/2005
Thanks to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), we know how little Arab/Muslim attitudes have changed towards the Jewish people...
Jihad through History by Daniel Pipes, 6/1/2005
Throughout history and at present, Mr. Cook definitively establishes, the term Jihad primarily means warfare with spiritual...
We Cannot Thank You Enough by Patrick D. OBrien, 5/31/2005
My father was a Marine, and it was such an important and dear thing to him. All his life, the fact that he had served in the...
Kanan Makiya: All Levels of the Iraqi Government Were Complicit. by MEQ/Kanan Makiya, 5/31/2005
Baathism is one of the many streams of Arab nationalist ideology and practice. It is undoubtedly the most virulent strain....
On Handling the Koran by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/30/2005
There is no mention of a requirement that writers assume that Islam was inspired by the divine. The AP and Chicago stylebooks...
ADL: British Association of University Teachers Rescinds Israel Boycott! by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/26/2005
Some good news for Israel: The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today reported that the British Association of University...
Déjà Vu: Iranian Democracy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/26/2005
As long as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Council of Guardians have veto power over the presidency and...
Assessing English Translations of the Quran by Khaleel Mohammed, 5/25/2005
No serious researcher denies that Muhammad came to a milieu that was highly influenced by Judeo-Christian ideas. Indeed, the...
A Conspiracy Theory Spreads Polio by Daniel Pipes, 5/24/2005
A conspiracy theory took hold of the Muslim population in northern Nigeria. That conspiracy theory has single-handedly...
Racism Honored in Baldwin Park, CA by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/23/2005
Anti-European-American, racist comments have been enshrined in a monument erected with taxpayer money in Baldwin Park, CA...
Particularism Before Universalism by Ted Belman, 5/23/2005
The Jewish Right chooses a Jewish Israel even if it offends the western notion of democracy. On the other hand the Jewish...
Amazon.com: Koran Desecration Problem by Daniel Pipes, 5/20/2005
Is it pure coincidence that this Koran episode is so perfectly timed to follow the Newsweek and Guantánamo controversy?...
The Real Tiny Minority In Islam by Patrick D. OBrien, 5/20/2005
Muslims have long evaded defining exactly what terrorism is, or have denied that holy war against the kuffar is terrorism....
GOP: Fraud And Intimidation in Washington State Gov. Election by Michael DuHaime, 5/19/2005
More and more reports are emerging of the extent to which Democrats were willing to go to try to influence the 2004 election...
Newsweek Apologizes, but Islamists Should Apologize, Too by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/19/2005
This logic assumes that Muslims should naturally react with violence, as if they are somehow a lower form of human life...
CAIR: Hate Crimes Nonsense by D. Pipes/S. Chadha, 5/18/2005
But CAIR is part of the Wahhabi Lobby, so (unlike the mainstream media reporters) we thought it a good idea to take a closer...
Business as Usual in the Palestinian Authority by Daniel Pipes, 5/17/2005
Those of us who saw the problem as larger than Arafat – as resulting, rather, from the deep radicalization of the Palestinian...
The Jewish Canary by Asaf Romirowsky, 5/15/2005
But unlike the United States, the legitimacy of the Jewish State is still questioned on a daily basis. September 11th has...
It Pays to be Jewish by Ted Belman, 5/14/2005
Israel has moved away from the primacy of Jewish law to embrace the law as it exists in the western democracies...
Perpetual Jahiliyyah by Patrick D. OBrien, 5/14/2005
There is no lack of ingenuity, intelligence, and acumen among Arab/Muslim peoples (Islam is essentially an Arab religion,...
Much Ado About Nothing (RE: Islamist Insecurity) by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/13/2005
The crazies are willing to riot and die because someone flushed a book down the toilet? If these people were confident...
Let Iraq handle Sunnis by Michael Rubin, 5/13/2005
Ethnicity and sectarianism are factors in Iraq, but eight decades of common experience has also shaped a distinct Iraqi...
This Saturday--March Against Terror by freemuslims.org, 5/12/2005
The war on terror is an ideological battle and no one is better suited to fight this battle than moderate Muslims. Will you...
Might the Saudis Blow Up Their Oil Infrastructure? by Daniel Pipes, 5/12/2005
The Saudi government may have rigged its oil and gas infrastructure with a self-destruct system that would keep it out of...
Speech by Homa Ehsan in Washington D.C. [Iran] by FREE IRAN Project, 5/11/2005
The great grandchildren of Cyrus the great whose voice from the dawn of knowledge and wisdom has echoed in the passage of...
Pro-Israel Palestinians by Daniel Pipes, 5/10/2005
Palestinian Arabs sometimes let down their guard and acknowledge how they prefer Israel to the Palestinian Authority. Here...
Beheading in the Name of Islam by Timothy Furnish, 5/9/2005
Images of masked terrorists standing behind Western hostages in Iraq and Saudi Arabia have become all too common on Arabic...
Putin Delusional About Eastern Europe by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/8/2005
Bush brought the suffering of these three Eastern European nations under Soviet/Russian domination to the attention of the...
Why we are Marching Against Terror by freemuslims.org, 5/7/2005
The bad news is that, of the leading Muslim organizations, four have refused to participate or endorse the rally. The absence...
Soothing rhetoric - scary reality by Michael Rubin, 5/7/2005
Many remain curiously blind to terrorist groups claiming a new commitment to the political process. On April 13, 2005, for...
Zacarias Moussaoui Asked, Can an Airplane Pilot Shut off Oxygen to Passengers? by Daniel Pipes, 5/5/2005
Zacarias Moussaoui, 36, a French national of Algerian origins, pleaded guilty on April 22, 2005, to six counts of conspiracy...
Iran: top judge attacks police OR more reform BS? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 5/5/2005
Is this good news? Or is this the mullacracy performing public relations, hoping to sway the ever-gullible legions of the...
Lessons from the Counter-terrorism War by Boaz Ganor, 5/4/2005
Liberal democratic states confront threats from international terrorism that are unlike anything seen previously. The threat...
The Benny Morris Reign of Error, Revisited: The Post-Zionist Critique by Efraim Karsh, 5/4/2005
The collapse and dispersion of Palestinian Arab society during the 1948 war is one of the most charged issues in the...
Retreat from Gaza by Daniel Mandel, 5/3/2005
Ariel Sharon has astonished friend and foe alike, embracing the very idea he opposed in the elections that confirmed him in...
Hamas vs. America by Daniel Pipes, 5/3/2005
Before this whitewashing of Hamas proceeds, it bears noting that the organization has not just murdered over 400 Israelis...
What binds Ankara and Jerusalem by Cagaptay/Romirowsky, 5/2/2005
At first glance, Turkey and Israel could not be more different. Israel is small, predominantly Jewish and post-industrial...
Enlightened & Useless by Patrick D. OBrien, 5/2/2005
As the colossal pile of debris which was once World Trade Center Towers 1 and 2 was still smoking in Manhattan, the anti-war...
Post-Zionism and the Sephardi Question by Meyrav Wurmser, 4/28/2005
A growing group of Jewish Israeli professors is challenging the legitimacy of Israel from within. Many are Mizrahim...
Free Muslims Applaud Conviction of Extremist Muslim Leader by freemuslims.org, 4/28/2005
An extremist Muslim leader from Northern Virginia was convicted of inciting followers to train overseas to commit violence...
The U.N. at 60 - What a disappointment! by Daniel Mandel, 4/27/2005
The General Assembly is not a democratic body. The Security Council is beholden to the veto power of five very different...
American Border Secrets by Daniel Pipes, 4/27/2005
What steps should Western border agencies take to defend their homelands from harm by Islamists?...
Restless in Gaza by Asaf Romirowsky, 4/26/2005
We are entering the 100-day period before the disengagement from Gaza begins. The odds are we will see pictures similar to...
50 GROUPS ENDORSE MARCH AGAINST TERROR-UPDATE by freemuslims.org, 4/26/2005
Christians and Jews must join their fellow Muslims at the rally. The terrorists and extremists justify their evil by falsely...
You Can Thank Us Later by Patrick D. OBrien, 4/25/2005
Western civilization, as embodied in liberal democracy, has accomplished the near-impossible feat of successfully providing...
Washington Finally Gets It on Radical Islam by Daniel Pipes, 4/25/2005
Does the Bush administration really believe, as its leadership has kept repeating since right after 9/11, that Islam is a...
Was Canadian foreign policy influenced by Saddam-Martin financial connection? by CCD, 4/22/2005
When Canadians see an alleged link between Prime Minister Paul Martin, Saddam Hussein and Tongsun Park, we need to know if...
Sharing Jokes with Hamas by Daniel Pipes, 4/20/2005
They followed her, shot her dead as she sat in her car, dragged her corpse out and mutilated it savagely with clubs and iron...
New Aesma Daeva by Patrick D. OBrien, 4/20/2005
For some time now, the free world has passively watched on as a ferocious and dark force has been gathering in old Persia...
Wave of violence spreads to other Khoozetan cities [Iran] by SMCCDI, 4/20/2005
Violent clashes continued, yesterday and this evening, in several southern Iranian cities, such as, Ahwaz, Khoramshahr,...
ADL on the New Papa (Pope Benedict XVI) by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/19/2005
The ADL addressed revelations that Benedict was a member of the Hitler Youth strongly. Here is the ADL...
Foreign policy statement vague; judge Liberals by their actions by CCD, 4/19/2005
The foreign policy of this government has consistently abandoned our natural democratic allies in Taiwan, Lebanon, Israel,...
Violent clashes rock Oil rich Khoozestan province [Iran] by SMCCDI, 4/18/2005
Hundreds of residents clashed with Islamic regime forces who used rubber bullets, tear gas and clubs in order to avoid the...
The Hell of Israel Is Better than the Paradise of Arafat by Daniel Pipes, 4/18/2005
In the Palestinian Authority (PA) elections that took place in January 2005, a significant percentage of Arab Jerusalemites...
A comedy of errors: American-Turkish Diplomacy and the Iraq War by Michael Rubin, 4/15/2005
Turkish troops fought alongside Americans in the Korean War. As one of only two North Atlantic Treaty Organization members to...
More public executions scheduled in Iran by SMCCDI, 4/15/2005
A father and his son are scheduled to be executed in the rebellious city of Esfahan. These two executions are scheduled for...
Bojnoord residents say farwell to reforms [Iran] by SMCCDI, 4/13/2005
Slogans reminded Khatami of his shameful presidency and the popular exasperation of the Islamic republic regime...
Arab Liberals: Prosecute Clerics Who Promote Murder by MEQ, 4/13/2005
We, the signatories of this letter, a group of Arab and Muslim liberals, would like to draw your attention to an extremely...
Iranian nuclear ambitions & U.S. options by Michael Eisenstadt, 4/12/2005
How long it will take Iran to become a nuclear power will depend on the route it takes in its development program. There are...
Conservative Professors, an Endangered Species by Daniel Pipes, 4/12/2005
The Columbia administration preferred to deal with bad classroom habits rather than on the deeper question of faculty bias...
Is the Forcible Removal of Israelis from Gaza Unprecedented? by Daniel Pipes, 4/11/2005
What the Israeli authorities are about to do to their citizens in Gaza has no historical precedent....
Disengagement: A Tale of Two Israels? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 4/11/2005
Just looking at opinion polls of Israelis, one can see that there is momentum for the disengagement plan. The Tel Aviv Univ-...
Nemazee Vs. SMCCDI/Pirouznia trial opens on April 12th by SMCCDI, 4/8/2005
The trial follows a long legal procedure raised over the influence exerted by some Islamic regime apologists on the US elect-...
Violent clashes rock western Iran cities by SMCCDI, 4/7/2005
Violent clashes rocked, yesterday, several western Iranian cities, such as, Mahabad, Baneh, Saghez, Marivan, Sanandaj and...
Rally for Elimination of Terror and for Freedom & Democracy by freemuslims.org, 4/7/2005
We want to send a message to the extremists and terrorists that American Muslims, Christians, Jews and people of all faiths...
Dissident Watch: Ahmad Batebi by Suzanne Gershowitz, 4/6/2005
On July 7, 1999, the Iranian government banned the popular reformist daily Salam. The next evening, students at Tehran U...
The Folly of Ariel Sharon by Daniel Pipes, 4/6/2005
With the passage last week of a budget bill in Israel, the government of Ariel Sharon appears to be ready to remove more than...
Eurabia - The Future for Europe? by Bat Ye-or, 4/5/2005
Europe is undergoing two profound changes. The first is the weakening of Christianity. The second is demographic decline...
The California Suicide Bomber by Daniel Pipes, 4/5/2005
al-Banna, who carried off the worst atrocity in Iraq since the collapse of the Saddam regime, once lived in California...
Iranians break Islamist taboos in massive outdoor event by SMCCDI, 4/3/2005
Freedom fighters used the occasion of these gatherings, just as they have done in recent years, in order to shout slogans...
Whose Democracy? by Patrick D. OBrien, 4/2/2005
Whenever democracy comes to town it usually means trouble. Self-serving, rapacious men who have made a living holding down...
Energy First: China and the Middle East by Jin Liangxiang, 4/2/2005
The recent growth in Chinese oil imports from Saudi Arabia has less to do with politics than with technicalities. Saudi oil...
Providing Arms: China and the Middle East by Dan Blumenthal, 4/1/2005
Chinese policy in the Middle East has grown more active over the past decade. With its overriding goal of securing oil and...
A Prof [Hamid Dabashi] Tangles the Truth by Daniel Pipes, 4/1/2005
Those of us who watch Middle East studies at Columbia University differ as to which professor is the most egregious...
Sporadic clashes follow a more limited celebration in Iran by SMCCDI, 3/30/2005
Sporadic clashes took place, this evening, in several Iranian cities, such as, Greater Tehran, Ahwaz, Mashad, Rasht and...
Allah Will Not Change the Condition of a People by Salim Mansur, 3/30/2005
In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, historian Bernard Lewis crystallized the key question about Muslims by...
March Against Terror and for Freedom and Democracy by freemuslims.org, 3/29/2005
Join us in sending a message to the extremists and supporters of terrorism that we reject them and that we will do all we can...
What Are Islamic Schools Teaching? by Daniel Pipes, 3/29/2005
A recent study found a parallel problem of venomous anti-Jewish and anti-Christian materials in U.S. mosques...
Regime leadership gathers on soccer riots [Iran] by SMCCDI, 3/28/2005
Generals Tala-i and Ghalibaf were the subject of sharp criticism for not having been able to control the situation at Azadi...
Israel: Zero-Sum Game by Patrick D. OBrien, 3/27/2005
These arrogant and hateful people who revel in violence are to be accorded diplomatic cache and respect by Israel because the...
Several killed and hundreds injured or arrested in Iranian soccer riots by SMCCDI, 3/26/2005
Several demonstrators have been killed and hundreds have been injured or arrested in most Iranian cities, especially in the...
Conservatives and Liberals must focus on real threats to Middle East peace by CCD, 3/26/2005
The Conservative Party of Canada criticized the decision by the Israeli government to build housing units in the West Bank...
The Wrong Side of History in Lebanon by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/26/2005
They are clever enough to remember what Gandhi achieved in India, what Martin Luther King, Jr. achieved in the U.S., and what...
Chad and Israel to Establish Relations by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/25/2005
Saying that Chad is a Muslim country is stretching the truth. The population is 50% Muslim, 25% Christian, and 25% indigenous...
Huge security measures due to Iran-Japan Soccer game by SMCCDI, 3/25/2005
Huge security measures have been planned by the Islamic regime to contain popular riots at the upcoming Iran-Japan soccer...
Resolution of Condemnation by Muslims Against Al Qaeda, ALL Suicide Bombers and Other Terrorists by freemuslims.org, 3/23/2005
In redefining Bin Laden, all terrorists, including ALL suicide bombers as criminals we offer the following Resolution of...
Can Hezbollah and Hamas Be Democratic? by Daniel Pipes, 3/22/2005
If Al-Qaeda renounced terrorism, would the U.S. government welcome its running candidates in American elections?...
Symbolic partial strike in Iranian petroleum industry by SMCCDI, 3/20/2005
Oil workers stopped the oil flow and its processing for several minutes despite the heavy increased security measures and...
Putin: His Pro-Israel Policy by Mark N. Katz, 3/20/2005
Mostly unnoticed by foreign policy pundits and Middle East watchers, Russian policy to Israel has undergone a steady shift...
A Milestone for American Islam? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/19/2005
Was the service held in a mosque? No, local mosques refused to allow a woman to lead prayers. It was held in an Anglican...
Bernie Ebbers: Kingpin of White-Collar Crime by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/18/2005
One of the reasons it has taken awhile for justice to catch up with these crooks is the slick and complicated nature of the...
Whose interests are served by the Paul Martin China policy? by CCD, 3/16/2005
Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre Pettigrew today released a statement on the new Anti-Secession Law passed by China...
Traditional Pagan Celebration Turns Into Street Fights Against Regime Forces (Iran) by SMCCDI, 3/15/2005
Violent clashes rocked, this evening, main Iranian cities as brutal militiamen attacked Iranians who transformed the already...
Which Privileges for Islam? by Daniel Pipes, 3/15/2005
Muslims are making new and assertive demands, and in some cases challenging the very premises of European and North American...
Who Dey!? Biggest Pro-Democracy Protest in Lebanese History by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/14/2005
Today, one million Lebanese swamped Beirut to show their support for a country free of Syrian and Hezbollah terrorist control...
How to Beat the Global Islamist Insurgency by Dale C. Eikmeier, 3/14/2005
Academics can obfuscate arguments and hide behind a facade of political correctness, but military and strategic planners have...
King Abdullah II: Iraq is the Battleground - the West against Iran. by MEQ Interview, 3/11/2005
One of our top priorities for addressing the hearts and minds question is to tackle the issue of extremist clergy and how...
Clashes and Protest in Oshnovieh and in Tehran by SMCCDI, 3/10/2005
Violent clashes rocked, today, the City of Oshnovieh, Iran as brutal militiamen attacked the youth who were showing joy due...
Canada must withdraw its support of One China policy if China passes Anti-Secession Law by CCD, 3/10/2005
The joint agreement between China and Canada signed by Paul Martin on his recent trip is now being used by Beijing to legal-...
Fascists Rally in Beirut and Damascus by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/9/2005
Hundreds of thousands of pro-Syrian demonstrators (Hezbollah terrorists) assembled in Beirut yesterday. Today, tens of...
Neo-Conservative Caution by Daniel Pipes, 3/8/2005
Having been trained in Middle Eastern history makes me perhaps more aware of what can go wrong...
The Muslim Brotherhood Conquers Europe by Lorenzo Vidino, 3/7/2005
Their mosques preach hate and warn worshippers about the evils of Western society. They continue to raise money for Hamas...
2,000 Iraqis Say No to Terrorism! by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/6/2005
Shiites, Kurds, Turkoman and even Sunnis will decide to put an end to terrorism sooner rather than later. They will do it...
Prof Paul Charles Merkley on WCC Divestment from Israel by Joseph Norland, 3/5/2005
On the face of it, the WCC pronouncement is behind the curve of recent events. It comes at the very moment when...
BBC: Lebanon finds unity by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/4/2005
It is wonderful to see Muslim, Christian, and Druze Arabs peacefully protesting together against the Syrian occupation...
Islamists v. gays, Saudi diplomats, Le Pen, Bureau of Prisons by Daniel Pipes, 3/4/2005
Discrimination bill snubs gays to save Muslim vote runs the headline in the Sunday Times (London), reminding one...
Tablighi Jamaat: Stealthy Legions of Jihad by Alex Alexiev, 3/3/2005
Despite its size, worldwide presence, and tremendous importance, Tablighi Jamaat remains largely unknown outside the Muslim...
Making a Silk Purse out of a Sow Ear by Ted Belman, 3/2/2005
Nowhere did Res. 242 require that a Palestinian state be created or, if created, that it be viable or contiguous...
Syria to Pull Out of Lebanon? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 3/2/2005
We may be witnessing the birth of the second Arab/Muslim/Christian democracy in the Middle East in as many months...
Anti-Semitism Revisited by Asaf Romirowsky, 3/1/2005
The cycles of hatred towards Jews through Muslim and Christian writings still repeat many old anti-Semitic canards, but...
[The Abu Ali Case and] Balancing Liberties, Security by Daniel Pipes, 3/1/2005
For a free people in the age of terrorism, what is the proper balance between civil liberties and national security?...
Howard Dean Gets Away With Racism by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/28/2005
It seems that Dean believes that Black people are only worthy of cleaning toilets in hotels in which whites stay...
Syria Has Really Bad Diarrhea by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/28/2005
The Lebanese people must be commended for their heroic and peaceful push for democracy, self-determination, security...
SAY WHAT? Re: Bush Middle East Policy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/26/2005
Please do not tell me this had nothing to do with the Middle East Initiative. If you do, you are living in Neverland...
Do You Love Your Freedom? by Patrick D. OBrien, 2/25/2005
So many of our brothers and sisters all over the world—people of every color, creed, and ethnicity—live and die under the...
This is Palestinian Peace? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/25/2005
Four Israeli kids were killed and 30 wounded today by a Palestinian homicide bomber. Their crime? They were waiting in line...
Iraqi Politics Heat Up by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/24/2005
In the final analysis, Iraqi democracy might just lead to Sharia. For those of us who supported the liberation, watching...
Good News from Palestine OR… Fooled Again? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/23/2005
Could the Arafat era really be coming to an end? Or are we being fooled by… SATAN again? The BBC today reported...
Bigoted Prof Churchill Does It Again by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/23/2005
According to his insane logic, a janitor who cleans toilets at a brokerage firm is contributing to mass misery and death...
Lebanon Liberation Approaches by Daniel Pipes, 2/22/2005
The fate of Syria was in good measure determined on January 21, 1994. That is when, driving at a too-high speed to the...
Old Europe Ready to Sell Another Nation Down the River by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/22/2005
Old Europe (France, Germany, Belgium, and friends) is ready to sell another tiny nation, Taiwan, down the river...
Green Money, Islamist Politics in Turkey by Michael Rubin, 2/21/2005
More troubling yet is the pattern of tying Turkish policy to an influx green money from wealthy Islamist businessmen...
Muslims Wake Up - Response to Freedom House Investigation by freemuslims.org, 2/21/2005
Simply put, not only do Muslims need to join the war against extremism and terror, we need to take the lead in this war...
God Save the Shiites by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/19/2005
Hey, everyone! Muslims (Sunni/Wahabi) are killing Muslims (Shiite). Places of worship are being blown to bits...
The Death of a Prime Minister: Everyone Out of Lebanon by freemuslims.org, 2/18/2005
The Lebanese are great people and if they are left alone will do great things. The Free Muslims believe that the following...
Murder of Hariri Backfiring on Syria by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/18/2005
The repercussions from the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri continue to gain momentum. Hariri and 14...
Syrian Reform: What Lies Beneath by Farid N. Ghadry, 2/17/2005
But rather than reintegrate Syria into the international community, Assad has reinforced the Syrian role as a pariah...
Two Rogue States and One Dead Prime Minister by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/16/2005
It was a busy day in Beirut, Damascus, and Tehran today. Some Lebanese buried a former prime minister in Beirut....
Anti-Semitism Evolves by Daniel Pipes, 2/15/2005
Israel faces the most extreme danger, surrounded as it is by enemies who in the past generation have dehumanized Jews in ways...
Internment: A Tool in the War on Terror? by Michelle Malkin, 2/15/2005
We are at war with stateless enemies abroad and Islamist infiltrators at home who will not stop plotting to kill us unless we...
Dissident Watch: Fathi El-Jahmi by MEQ, 2/14/2005
Libya may have abandoned its nuclear weapons program, but has Libyan leader Muammar al-Qadhafi changed? A number of...
Pipes criticises Middle East leaders by Lateline Interview, 2/13/2005
Mahmoud Abbas sees that tactically at this time, violence is counterproductive. They have made mistakes before. The whole...
Will Washington Support Democracy in Iran? by Michael Rubin, 2/12/2005
After a first term marked by schizophrenic Iran policy initiatives, the Bush White House will soon develop a coordinated...
Despite Violence, Hanson Believes in Middle East Democracy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/12/2005
Did any rational person expect the terrorists to roll over in a few days? Not a rational person like Victor Davis Hanson....
Abbas Not Serious About Stopping Terror by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/10/2005
What were the 3,000 Palestinian police doing today when Hamas was attacking Israeli civilians from northern Gaza?...
Saudi Women Must be Allowed to Vote and Run for Office by freemuslims.org, 2/9/2005
On February 10, 2005 Saudi Arabia will hold its first ever municipal elections. The anticipated election is part of a drive...
Denying Terrorism by Daniel Pipes, 2/8/2005
Anyone following the investigation into the mid-January slaughter of the Armanious family knows who the presumptive suspects...
Democracy Versus Tyranny by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/8/2005
Israelis, outnumbered and surrounded as were the ancient Greeks in 480 B.C., have something meaningful to fight for...
The Roadmap is Part of the Big Picture by Ted Belman, 2/7/2005
Democrats demand an exit strategy and argue that any time the US invades a country it should have an exit strategy...
Professor Compared Terrorists to Founding Fathers by Daniel Pipes, 2/6/2005
Alam is a combination of a Marxist and a radical Muslim, someone who sees the Western colonial enterprise as the source of...
Israel is Being Raped by Ted Belman, 2/4/2005
Today, Israel is being told you can have your peace agreement with the Arab world or you can have your land grab but you...
A Fresh Start by Michael Rubin, 2/4/2005
After careful negotiation, more than 200 mostly Shia candidates joined together in the Iraqi National Alliance (al-Ittilaf al...
U of Colorado Prof Calls 9/11 Victims Nazis by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/3/2005
Were the 500 foreign nationals from 91 countries who were incinerated on 9/11/01 little Eichmanns? How about the Dominican...
Incoherent Sunni Hypocrisy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 2/2/2005
Which comes first: the cart or the horse? Iraqi Sunnis cannot seem to decide. Sunni political and/or religious groups urged...
Bush Marches Into a Second Term, His Agenda Set by Mideast Foes by Michael Rubin, 2/2/2005
This president remains firm in his views. When he speaks about freedom, liberty and democracy, he is sincere...
Iraq has voted by Michael Rubin, 2/1/2005
Such questions misunderstand both Iraq and the elections. Yesterday marked a historic transformation in Iraqi society...
Saudi Venom in U.S. Mosques by Daniel Pipes, 2/1/2005
Those of us following the development of Islam in America have for years worried about the unhealthy influence of Saudi money...
Catering to the Sunnis by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/31/2005
If the Oklahoma City bombers refused to participate in a U.S. election, would the final results be considered illegitimate?...
Bush: Iraqi election a resounding success by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/30/2005
Some Iraqis danced in the street after casting their votes. Many stood in long queues waiting to vote. All who voted...
A Reply to Lawrence Auster by Daniel Pipes, 1/28/2005
To which I reply that Islam can be whatever Muslims wish to make of it. I commend to him the study of Muslim history...
Serb War Criminal Surrenders by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/28/2005
Vladimir Lazarevic, a Serbian general who led his troops in the commission of war crimes against Kosovar civilians in 1999...
Remembering the Wannsee Conference and the Liberation of Auschwitz by Joseph Norland, 1/27/2005
The Holocaust, symbolized by Auschwitz, the worst of the death camps, occurred in the wake of consistent, systematic,...
The Churchill Doctrine by Daniel Mandel, 1/27/2005
In the case of militant Islam, it was another long awakening: from the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Teheran in 1979 to the...
Democracy on the Wing by Michael Rubin, 1/26/2005
Most Iraqis are news junkies, rapidly channel-surfing to catch the latest headlines. As I watched television with a Kurdish...
The Future of Judaism by Daniel Pipes, 1/25/2005
It is conceivable that the Orthodox will again constitute the great majority of Jews. Were that to happen, the...
New Jersey: An Islamic Murder of Coptic Christians? by Robert Spencer, 1/25/2005
Many Copts are regarding the murders as a warning to the Coptic community as a whole, related to the increasing strife...
Iraq Arrests Homicide Bomber Mastermind by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/24/2005
The Iraqi interim government announced it has captured Sami Mohammad Said al-Jaf, charged with masterminding at least 32...
Ending Violence in Iraq Through Elections by Kamal Nawash, 1/24/2005
It is absolutely imperative that the new Iraqi government be representative of all its citizens. In past articles the Free...
Missing the Target on Nonproliferation? by Jerry Sorkin, 1/23/2005
In September 2002, President George W. Bush unveiled a new national security strategy that underscored the dangers posed by...
Requiem for a Decent Chinese Communist by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/22/2005
Not all tigers are incapable of changing their stripes. During his tenure in the communist party, Zhao took steps that truly...
Yesterday was a Good Day for Democracy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/21/2005
These words were spoken by none other than John F. Kennedy on January 20, 1961. Is it somehow different when a...
Iran / Al-Qaeda Link: What the 9-11 Commission Found by MEQ, 1/19/2005
The Bush administration has yet to agree on a national security presidential directive to define U.S. policy towards Iran...
BBC: Rice failed to reach out by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/19/2005
Come on. Only two senators voted against the Rice confirmation, John Kerry and Barbara Boxer. I suppose Kerry has got...
Hypocrisy of Radical Islam[: The Ehrgott & Okashah Cases] by Daniel Pipes, 1/18/2005
Both cases involve the CAIR, a Saudi-funded group whose leadership sometimes announces its goal to Islamize America...
Oh, NOW the Vatican is Upset by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/18/2005
After feeling sorry for the evil dictator Saddam, and opposing the liberation of Iraqis, the Vatican has finally used the...
Sullivan Reminds Us of the Dangers of Torture by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/14/2005
It is a slippery slope. Make an exception for torture because we are in a war on terror, then what is the next exception made...
Russian KGB Loses Again (Abkhazia) by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/13/2005
Voters in Abkhazia, the Black Sea region of northwestern Georgia, elected opposition candidate Sergei Bagapsh as their new...
Prince Harry, The Nazi by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/13/2005
Harry deemed it appropriate to regale his arm with the notorious SS armband featuring none other than the swastika...
Democratic Gas Price Conspiracy Theory Shot to Hell by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/12/2005
Woodward charged that President Bush and the Saudis had a secret deal to keep oil prices low in the run-up to the election...
Which Way Will Abbas Go? by Daniel Pipes, 1/11/2005
By insisting on a right of return, Mr. Abbas signals that he, like Yasser Arafat and most Palestinians, intends to undo the...
Al-Kut, Iraq: After-Battle Report by MEQ, 1/10/2005
The unclassified report, written by a coalition security contractor, highlights dysfunction between regional coalition office...
Palestinians: A Fractious Family by Asaf Romirowsky, 1/9/2005
The animosity between Gazans and West-Bankers has drastically increased since the death of Yasser Arafat...
Listen to the Iraqis by Michael Rubin, 1/8/2005
Half past ten in the morning on Monday, January 3, an Iraqi National Guard unit, escorted by a dozen uniformed U.S. military,...
Hanson Eviscerates Gulf State Tsunami Donations by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/8/2005
The supposedly devout Muslims who rule the Arabian Gulf nations are in fact the top wrung in the Islamic caste system...
Shiites, Sunnis, Democracy, and Hypocrisy by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/7/2005
A top Iraqi Shiite leader today insisted that Sunnis will be included in a national unity government...
Hollywood Discovers Radical Islam by Daniel Pipes, 1/6/2005
The war on terror has not been the subject of a single American feature film nor, so far as I know, is there one in the works...
Yanukovych is Finished by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/6/2005
But his behavior has oligarch – dictator, if you will – written all over it. If he was a true patriot, he would let Ukrainian...
Natan Sharansky: Peace Will Only Come after Freedom and Democracy by Natan Sharansky, 1/5/2005
Washington should replicate the success of its policy toward the Soviet Union. The first nail in the coffin of the Soviet...
Abbas uses unusually inflammatory language by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/4/2005
So Israel is supposed to make peace with Mahmoud Abbas? We saw his darker side today...
Palestinian Word Games by Daniel Pipes, 1/4/2005
Excuse me, but prime minister, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, means the head of the executive branch of...
Sudan: Peace in Our Time? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/3/2005
Sudan has dragged its feet ad nauseum, balking at mainly U.S. demands to stop its campaign of ethnic cleansing. Is this...
WSJ: Romance With Terrorists Ended by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/3/2005
The Wall Street Journal eruditely opines as to why 2004 was the year when the romance with terrorists ended...
Feliz Año Nuevo, Mi Colombia Querida by Andrew L. Jaffee, 1/1/2005
Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) murdered 17 peasants, including 6 women and 4 children, who...
Another Moderate Muslim Group by Daniel Pipes, 12/29/2004
Unfortunately, in its initial form, the AMGPP does not at all appear to be moderate. Rather, it resembles the Progressive...
Why the Japanese Internment Still Matters by Daniel Pipes, 12/28/2004
For years, it has been my position that the threat of radical Islam implies an imperative to focus security measures on...
Yanukovych: The Drunk, Evil Dead by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/28/2004
One would think that after three rounds of elections in two months, and a substantial loss by 7.7% or 2 million votes,...
Yushchenko Leading in Ukraine by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/26/2004
Exit polls show opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko leading the establishment (oligarchy) nominee Prime Minister Viktor...
Arafat: Funding the Terror by Matthew Rees, 12/23/2004
The Arafat legacy is a history of symbolism characterized by constant undermining and undercutting the very people whom he...
Israeli Terror Victims Take Groundbreaking Legal Action Against Arab Bank by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/23/2004
Israeli terror victims are hitting the Arab Bank, PLC where it hurts: in the wallet. On December 21, over 700 Israelis filed...
Salem Chalabi: Judging Saddam by Michael Rubin, 12/22/2004
On May 8, 2004, the Iraqi Governing Council named Salem Chalabi as head of the Iraq Special Tribunal, which is to try former...
Palestinians Do Not Deserve Additional Aid by Daniel Pipes, 12/21/2004
Yasser Arafat died last month. This month, his death is prompting plans for a foreign aid bounty of $500 million to $1...
Slaughter in Mosul by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/21/2004
The Shiites are the majority. The Sunnis will lose in any elections, not just because they are the minority, but because...
Multicultural Censorship in Birmingham, England by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/20/2004
The Birmingham, England Repertory Theatre has cancelled the play Behzti after violent protests by members of the...
Ceausescu Turns in Grave; [Ras]Putin Loses Again by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/17/2004
Despite the fact that most ex-Soviet satellite countries have gravitated towards the West and away from Mother Russia, Putin...
Remembering Hume Horan (1934-2004) by MEQ, 12/15/2004
Many U.S. diplomats say they speak Arabic, but Horan was fluent. He won Iraqi hearts and minds as he switched from any...
Exploiting the Koran to Terrorize by Daniel Pipes, 12/14/2004
Counterterrorism efforts got a major boost last week when an American district court found three Muslim organizations and one...
Egypt and Israel: Business ties can be the ties that bind by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/14/2004
In other words, Egypt needed this deal more than Israel, but that is not really news. Israel is the beachhead of democracy...
Vacancy: The Iraq embassy in Washington is a symptom of many Allawi problems by Michael Rubin, 12/13/2004
The Iraq embassy in Washington is a pretty quiet place these days. It has been more than a year since the Iraqi Governing...
Tapping the Hornet Nest by Michael Rubin, 12/13/2004
With Iran on the verge of developing both nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile capability, Washington policymakers...
Abbas Apologizes for Being Ethnically Cleansed by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/12/2004
Kuwait got invaded, and the people they gave refuge to, the Palestinians, supported the invasion. Kuwait then ethnically...
Back in the USSR... by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/11/2004
Doctors in Vienna today said tests performed on Ukrainian opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko show he was poisoned...
Saudi sex change, Syrians for Bush, and other tidbits by Daniel Pipes, 12/10/2004
What happens when a man inherits from his parents as a son and then becomes a woman? Does he properly inherit the full share...
Bush is doing it by Ted Belman, 12/11/2004
Clinton accomplished nothing. He made things worse with N. Korea and he lobbed a few missiles at Bin Laden. Bush, on the...
Canadian Supreme Court Says it can Legalize Gay Marriage by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/9/2004
My quandary is this: Did people really vote to ban gay marriage, or was it just a symptom of a reaction by Americans to what...
Where Goes the U.S.-Turkish Relationship? by Soner Cagaptay, 12/8/2004
Throughout the 1990s, Turkish foreign policy analysts had an easy job. After all, Turkish foreign policy was predictable...
Rummy Gets an Earful from Troops by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/8/2004
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had to listen to some criticism today from U.S. troops, according to the BBC and...
My Day in Court by Daniel Pipes, 12/7/2004
Threats of legal action on Middle Eastern and Islamic issues are about as common as corrupt practices at the United Nations...
The Sharon Altalena by Asaf Romirowsky, 12/7/2004
The young Jewish state had barely been born yet was already on the brink of collapse on June 22, 1948, when the arms ship...
[Ras]Putin Not Getting His Way… Yet by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/6/2004
Things in the Ukraine are not shaping up the way Russian President Vladimir Putin would like them to be. [Ras]Putin wanted...
Saudi Terrorists Kill Only Saudis by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/6/2004
Once again, the Jihadis have accomplished nothing but the slaughter of their own people. How many 100s or 1000s...
Iran: Real Referendum vs. Pseudo-Referendum by Free Iran, 12/4/2004
Several individuals and groups have begun pushing a SHAM REFERENDUM sponsored by the Islamic Republic...
Startling New Details Uncovered on Arafat Death by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/2/2004
Despite their infamy, little information has been publicly available regarding Doug and Dinsdale Piranha -- known commonly...
Barghouti the Spoiler by Andrew L. Jaffee, 12/1/2004
Terrorist Marwan Barghouti was today registered to run for Palestinian Authority (PA) president in the January elections...
Columbia University: The Hysterical Professor by Daniel Pipes, 12/1/2004
Others may have sympathized on learning that Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Middle East studies at Columbia University, felt...
U.S. Needs To Learn Patience [in Iraq] by Daniel Pipes, 11/30/2004
The first priority, before elections, is for Allawi to end the Sunni insurrection in Iraq and control the whole country...
GDP Grows at 3.9% - What was Kerry Saying? (Part Deux) by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/30/2004
What was Kerry saying about U.S. economic performance under Bush? Yes, the election is over, but I cannot resist...
Anniversary of the UN vote on Resolution 181 by IsraPundit, 11/29/2004
Today is the anniversary of the UN vote on resolution 181, which approved the partition of the western part Palestine into...
Ukrainians Handling the Crisis Well by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/29/2004
Despite the mass demonstrations, the talk of civil war, and threats of secession, Ukrainians are handling their election...
Understanding Muqtada al-Sadr by Nimrod Raphaeli, 11/29/2004
Muqtada al-Sadr, a young cleric from a prominent family, almost immediately launched a fierce campaign of resistance, first...
Ukraine: Left is Right, Right is Left, Left is Left, … by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/28/2004
So just how would the left sort out the current Ukrainian election crisis? The pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych...
Nepotism at the UN? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/27/2004
Now we find that the son of the UN Secretary General was involved, and the UN has been covering up details of his involvement...
Theo van Gogh: The Hollywood Reaction [e.g., none] by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/26/2004
Producer Bridget Johnson wrote worthy commentary on the silence from Hollywood on the Theo van Gogh murder...
Israelis are Nazis by George Miller, 11/26/2004
The Palestinian was playing the violin to prove he was who he said he was. He was trying to get through a checkpoint, not to...
The Fallujah Mosque of Peace by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/25/2004
U.S. and Iraqi forces patrolling Fallujah have discovered a weapons cache large enough to supply a nationwide insurgency....
Spreading Islam in American Public Schools by Daniel Pipes, 11/24/2004
Not only do Islamists want to censure the handling of Islamic topics at U.S. universities, but they also wish to do the same...
Russia Still Has [Pipsqueak] Ambitions by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/24/2004
Now Mother Russia has its eyes on the Ukraine. A pro-Russian prime minister has just claimed election victory, but opposition...
Identifying Moderate Muslims by Daniel Pipes, 11/23/2004
There is good news to report: The idea that militant Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution is finding...
News Flash: Iraq is OK by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/22/2004
There have been several recent developments out of Iraq that should give some comfort to those who believe that Arabs and...
Iran Beating the Nuclear Buzzer by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/20/2004
The U.S. should be working closely with and supporting Iranian expatriates. It should also be engaging in covert operations...
The Respectable Tyrant by Asaf Romirowsky, 11/19/2004
Arafat was strongly influenced by Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Islamic mufti of Jerusalem who was tightly aligned with Hitler...
Bush and Rice Listen to Sharansky by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/18/2004
The President and Secretary of State will be listening to new and previously ignored voices – uncompromising voices of...
Ending American Dependence on Middle East Oil by Gal Luft, 11/17/2004
The U.S. must promote scientific and technological advancement by tapping into homegrown fuel sources that can be used for...
UN Oil-for-food Funding of Palestinian Terrorists? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/17/2004
Could some of the $21 billion Saddam stole been used to pay off the families of Palestinian homicide bombers?...
Is the Israeli Security Barrier Unique? by Ben Thein, 11/16/2004
In August 2004, the EU put out tenders for companies to construct a European separation fence to prevent migration into the...
[Theo van Gogh and] Education By Murder in Holland by Daniel Pipes, 11/16/2004
Education by murder describes the slow and painful way people wake up to the problem of radical Islam...
Colin Powell Resigns as Secretary of State by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/15/2004
I never thought his heart was really in the job. He always seemed reticent and uncomfortable...
Dissecting Uri Avnery by Ted Belman, 11/14/2004
For those of us who have followed the career of Uri Avnery, we know him as an extreme leftist, a turncoat if you will...
Holland: Portent of Things to Come? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/13/2004
If the Netherlands is such a modern, liberal democracy, then why are its politicians being silenced by assassination?...
Eulogizing Arafat by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/12/2004
The blogsphere has empowered individuals by allowing them to easily find alternative news and commentary. Perhaps most...
Does Human Rights Law Apply to Terrorists? by Ted Lapkin, 11/11/2004
From Manhattan to Mindanao, Islamist zealots draw no distinction between combatants and non-combatants. Jihadists target...
Arafat And His Dream Are Dead: Israel Lives! by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/11/2004
For the last hundred years, Palestinians have lived in a toilet of poverty, corruption, and terrorism. Where are the schools...
The Arafat Bedroom Farce by Daniel Pipes, 11/10/2004
The mise-en-scène is as preposterous as what came before, only much funnier. First, there is the wife, Suha, a Greek Orthodox...
Bosnian Serb Leaders Finally Apologize for Srebrenica by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/10/2004
Bosnian Serb leaders have finally apologized for the massacre of 7,000 – 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica...
Arafat: His Last Threat to Israel? by Daniel Pipes, 11/9/2004
The doldrums will cease because the Bush administration views Mr. Arafat as the main impediment to achieving its vision...
Bush and (the Big) Business (Agenda?) by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/8/2004
CNN.com has an interesting read on what the Bush election victory means for big business. You decide...
Middle East Quarterly: Book Reviews by MEQ, 11/8/2004
Great book reviews on terrorism, funding of terror, the Shah, employment creation, social protection, etc, in the Middle East...
Is It Different When France Does It? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/6/2004
9 French troops and a U.S. citizen were killed when Ivory Coast fighter planes bombed a rebel position in the north of that...
Giving Terror a Boost by Daniel Mandel, 11/5/2004
Do the media give aid and comfort to terrorists by giving their violence maximum exposure and impact at times while...
Job Growth Explodes: What Was Kerry Saying? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/5/2004
The Department of Labor reported this morning that 337,000 new jobs were created in the U.S. in October...
Draining the Financial Swamps of Terror by Douglas Farah, 11/4/2004
At a time when state control is diminishing or nonexistent across growing swaths of the world, non-state armed groups pose...
A Tale of Two Disasters: When Will They Learn? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/4/2004
Yasser Arafat is dying or maybe even dead already. The Democrats lost -- lost big -- in the presidential and congressional...
Kerry to Concede Election by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/3/2004
Drudge and FOX are reporting that Senator John Kerry will officially concede the presidential election today at 1 PM...
Has America Learned from 9/11? by Daniel Pipes, 11/2/2004
Is President Bush correct in his positive view or Senator Kerry in his negative one?...
Going Third World, à la Française by Elie Kedourie, 11/3/2004
The religion of misfortune found a much devoted votary in Louis Massignon, the influential scholar of Islam who occupied an...
Latest Polls Show Bush Leading by Andrew L. Jaffee, 11/1/2004
A summary of the latest national polls shows President Bush leading John Kerry...
France is Concerned About Arafat by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/31/2004
Again, France has proven itself to be (literally) way out in left field on Arafat, just like it has with the subject of the...
The Kerry al-Qaqaa Ca-ca by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/28/2004
While the Kerry campaign has already released a television ad, they simultaneously have backed off from the same charges...
Arafat: His Swiss Bank Account by Issam Abu Issa, 10/28/2004
Another cancer permeates the Arafat administration; its name is corruption. From firsthand experience, I understand just...
What Will Disengagement Accomplish? by Ted Belman, 10/27/2004
Assuming Sharon is able to transfer the last Israeli from Gaza, what will be the situation the morning after?...
Try, Try, Try Again: Bush Peace Plans by Daniel Mandel, 10/26/2004
Still, U.S. policy has evolved in important ways. The Bush vision, the roadmap, the U.S. support for a Palestinian state,...
Kerry Lies Again by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/26/2004
U.S. forces did largely rely on Afghan forces, but there is no definitive proof that the al Qaeda leader was really there...
9/10 vs. 9/12 on 11/2 by Daniel Pipes, 10/26/2004
The basic difference between Kerry and President Bush is one of character, with the challenger repeatedly changing his mind...
In the Mideast, Bush dared to be different by Daniel Pipes, 10/25/2004
It has not been fully appreciated that, when it comes to the Middle East, Bush has systematically responded to the...
Awe and Loathing by Daniel Mandel, 10/23/2004
Why is America disliked so intensely and widely, with special emphasis in the Middle East? Here is one explanation...
A Frenchman Weaseling on Oil-for-Food by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/22/2004
Frédéric Desagneaux, consul general of France for San Francisco, is not happy with the light being shown on his country...
$500m Heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry Says Mrs. Bush Never Worked by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/21/2004
In her apology, she claims she had forgotten Laura had worked as a teacher and librarian. Yeah, and I forgot to pay my taxes...
Ohio: NAACP Trading Crack for False Voter Registrations? by Andrew L. Jaffee, 10/20/2004
He filed 124 falsified voter registrations in exchange for crack cocaine from a Toledo woman working on behalf of the NAACP...