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Western Civilization on Trial: Why We Should Be Watching Geert Wilders
Continue to full text of posting... By Daniel Pipes | February 8, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (11) Wasting U.S. Taxpayer Money in AfghanistanA 2009 critique found that the taxpayer has invested some $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since 2003, or about $9 billion a year. Most or all of it has been or will be wasted. Nonetheless, here we go again, this time in Afghanistan, at least on a small scale. "Marines Invest in Local Afghan Projects" reads the New York Times headline and it provides details of American soldiers making nice, starting with an anecdote from Bograbad, described as an impoverished Afghan village, where American soldiers provided $1,200 for a mosque's new concrete floor and two windows. (Beside the inutility of this gesture, I have severe doubts about its constitutionality, as I elaborate at "The U.S. Government Builds Mosques and Madrassahs.") Continue to full text of posting... By Daniel Pipes | January 30, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (5) Why Did Nidal Hasan Read the Middle East Forum?
Continue to full text of posting... By Daniel Pipes | December 30, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (37) "An Arabist's Guide to Egyptian Colloquial" Now OnlineHere is my "Preface,", dated June 1982, to a brief book I wrote titled An Arabist's Guide to Egyptian Colloquial:
Continue to full text of posting... By Daniel Pipes | December 29, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (12) Janet Napolitano's MentalityUmar Farouk Abdulmutallab smuggled 80 grams of PETN in his underwear on a Northwest flight on Christmas Day from Amsterdam to Detroit and almost killed 288 passengers and crew. How did the geniuses in the Obama administration respond? Janet ("man-caused disasters") Napolitano, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, concluded that the system "worked really very, very smoothly." Continue to full text of posting... By Daniel Pipes | December 28, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (8) Sheikh Obama and His Two Wars
"I am the Commander-in-Chief of a nation in the midst of two wars." And here I thought there were three wars. Obama's two are Iraq and Afghanistan; missing is what George W. Bush termed the "war on terror" and I call the "war on radical Islam." Obama apparently reduces that third one to Al-Qaeda and counts it as just part of the Afghan war. His mistake has real consequences; long after American troops have left Iraq and Afghanistan, Islamists will be attacking and subverting us. If we don't see their efforts as a war, we lose. "Religion is used to justify the murder of innocents by those who have distorted and defiled the great religion of Islam." Here, Obama follows his predecessor in presenting himself as an interpreter of Islam. I ridiculed "Imam Bush" for telling Muslims about true Islam and its distortion, and now I must ridicule "Sheikh Obama" for the same. He's a politician, not a theologian. He's now a Christian, not a Muslim. He should steer completely clear from the topic of who are good or bad Muslims. (December 10, 2009) By Daniel Pipes | December 10, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (60) Islamists in the West and Public TransportationJust as Islamists aspire to transform religious symbols, marriage, schools, medical facilities, and other institutions in the West, so they are gunning for public transportation. I have covered two aspects of the taxi wars – liquor and dogs; this weblog entry notes other interesting developments, in reverse chronological order: ________________________________ A bus on London's route 24. Continue to full text of posting... By Daniel Pipes | December 10, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) Niqabs or Burqas Banned at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Today, the dean of students at MCPHS issued a directive to students that "any head covering that obscures a student's face may not be worn, either on campus or at clinical sites, except when required for medical reasons." (The full memorandum follows below.) Continue to full text of posting... By Daniel Pipes | December 8, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (25) Middle East Studies – A Dangerous Profession
Continue to full text of posting... By Daniel Pipes | December 6, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (14) My Words Mangled by Leftists and Islamists - A BibliographyWhat is it about Leftists and Islamists that they cannot read straight? Is it the influence of post-modernism or plain old shoddy habits? In any case, I – like so many conservatives – find myself consistently having my words or my intent distorted and having to correct the record. I have brought together dozens of such instances at a weblog entry titled "Department of Corrections (of Others' Factual Mistakes about Me)." In addition, I wrote up some of the particularly colorful and demonstrably distorted cases in a listing that will be updated as needed (and needed, sadly, it will be needed): Continue to full text of posting... By Daniel Pipes | November 30, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (15) |
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