The Causes of Terrorism: It's Not about Money
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 24 Jun 2002 | Permalink | Comments (7) Excerpt: In a 1995 op-ed, "It's Not the Economy, Stupid," that I expanded in early 2002 as "God and Mammon: Does Poverty Cause Militant Islam?" I took issue with the widespread assumption that socio-economic distress drives Muslims to militant Islam, finding that ...
Constructing a Counterfeit History of Jerusalem
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 15 May 2002 | Permalink | Comments (8) Excerpt: In "The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem," I focused on the intermittent and mostly instrumental Muslim interest in Jerusalem ("Politics, not religious sensibility, has fueled the Muslim attachment to Jerusalem for nearly fourteen centuries") and at the end of ...
Jamil Al-Amin Goes to Jail
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 9 Mar 2002 | Permalink | Comments (2) Excerpt: My two accounts about Jamil Al-Amin ("The Curious Case of Jamil al-Amin" and "[Jamil Al-Amin:] A Muslim O.J.") were both written before the man better known as H. Rap Brown went on trial. He has now been tried; a jury found Al-Amin guilty of all 13 ...
