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European Delight at the Capture of Saddam?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 31 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: John O'Sullivan offers a witty and incisive take in the National Review's Dec. 31 issue (not online but available here) on the European reaction to Saddam Hussein falling into U.S. hands: Listening to European politicians as they followed up their praise ...
Justifying Rape through Cultural Relativity
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 30 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: The sordid story of "Yusuf Ali Bey Sr." finally hit the big-time media today, with a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times. Most of the news about the former Yusuf Ali Bey Sr. is old hat – the "Your Black Muslim Bakery" and other businesses, the ...
The California Congress of Republicans & Its Strange Friends
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 29 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Yes, believe it or not, if local chapters are seeking speakers on "Middle Eastern Affairs and understanding Islam," the CCR, which presents itself as "a grass-roots political organization, founded in 1989 and permanently chartered by the California ...
CAIR Active in Schools
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 29 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Excerpt: In July 2003, I rued the fact that, despite the Council on American-Islamic Relations' ugly record, the U.S. government widely accepts CAIR as representing Islam. The White House invites it to functions, the State Department links to its Web page and ...
Islamist Plans for the West
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 25 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Since 1984, the courthouse of the County of Santa Rosa, in Florida's panhandle, has had on one side of the building a Nativity scene. This year it is joined on the courthouse's other side by an "all-inclusive" Christmas display sponsored by the local ...
The Impact on Sunni Iraqis of Saddam Hussein's Capture
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 24 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In a long talk with Nizar Hamdoon in May 2003, Saddam's long-time ambassador to the United States and the United Nations, I reported on his telling me that Saddam Hussein's remaining on the loose meant that "he was both fearful and still burdened with a ...
Ahmad Yusuf and "The Future of Islam in America"
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 19 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: The subtitle of an article published today by Ahmed Yousef, (aka Ahmad Yusuf and Ahmad Youssef) former director of the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR) points to an interesting shift in outlook. Yousef and I go back a ways. In 1998 I ...
Michael Jackson and Blacks in Stress Who Convert to Islam
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 18 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (308)
Excerpt: The New York Post reports today that "Michael Jackson last night became a member of the Nation of Islam." Of course, this development takes place in the aftermath of Jackson's being arrested on Nov. 20 in connection with child-molestation charges and now ...
Belgium, Its Palestinian Murderer, and Schadenfreude
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 18 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Khalil al-Nawara, 25, first came to public attention for his role in attacks on and the murder of Israelis. An Israel Defense Forces website lists him as an operative of the Tanzim military wing and an aide to the Tanzim head in Bethlehem, then notes he ...
Saddam in La-La Land
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 17 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: "At the end of the year 2000, a publishing sensation left Baghdad abuzz with rumor." Thus begins an article in the Middle East Quarterly by Ofra Bengio, "Saddam Husayn's Novel of Fear," in which she recounts the bizarre circumstances of Saddam Hussein ...
Muslim Soldiers in the West, Criticized by their Communities
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 17 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (80)
Excerpt: A feel-good piece appearing today in the Detroit Free Press inadvertently gives insight into some troubling Muslim-American attitudes toward the United States. The story, one in a series the newspaper is running on "Portraits of War," tells the story of ...
Saddam Feasts on Canned Ham
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 16 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I admit to a slightly pornographic fascination with the details of Saddam Hussein's life on the lam; the contrast between his splendiferous palaces and his bum-like recent existence has a morality-tale quality to it that I cannot get enough of. And so, ...
The Saudi Connection: How billions in oil money spawned a global terror network
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 15 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A US News and World Report cover story culminating a five-month investigation into Saudi financing touches on two topics dear to my heart. (1) David E. Kaplan and his colleagues report that "Over the past 25 years, the desert kingdom has been the single ...
After Saddam Hussein's Capture, Thoughts on Osama bin Laden
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 14 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: There are good reasons why bin Laden has already lasted three times longer on the lam than did Saddam. Bin Laden forwards an ideology larger than himself, militant Islam. Saddam forwarded only Saddamism, a cult of personality. This means that whereas ...
"CAIR Welcomes Capture of Saddam Hussein"
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 14 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: So reads a press release put out by the most powerful militant Islamic organization in North American, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, now boasting "25 regional offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada." But what's interesting about this ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Comments on Saddam Hussein's Capture
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 14 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Written in 1817 about two ancient statues in Egypt, this immortal poem seems particularly apt today, on hearing the news of the tyrant's seizure: I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . ...
Khaled Abou El Fadl's Disastrous Interview
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 13 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The title of a Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) study dated November 26, 2003 was "President Bush's Appointee to Commission on International Religious Freedom, Prof. Khaled Medhat Abou Al-Fadl, Warns Against Reelecting Bush." MEMRI had ...
Keeping Muslim Girls under Wraps in France
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 11 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (23)
Excerpt: 3-year-old girl wears a veil: Nicolas Sarkozy, the French interior minister, announced yesterday the closure on Dec. 2 of an Islamic day care center and a kindergarten in two southern Paris suburbs that were of "Salafist inspiration" (Salafist is the ...
Courts: Okay to Proselytize for Islam in California Schools
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 11 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (13)
Excerpt: I reported in July 2002 on a court case concerning the use in the Byron, California school district of a three-week curriculum unit called Islam: A Simulation of Islamic History and Culture, 610-1100. Among other things, these materials instruct students ...
CAIR Instructs Its Minions: "Call C-SPAN on Thursday … and Ask the President of USIP Questions about Pipes"
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 9 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: That's the summary of an e-mail message sent out today by Arsalan T. Iftikhar, director of legal affairs at the Council on American-Islamic Relations headquarters in Washington to the private "CAIRaction" group at Yahoo!. Here is the full body of that ...
"Iraqi Symphony Performs for Bush"
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 9 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: So reads an Associated Press headline and, I have to say, it leaves me queasy. The Iraqi National Symphony – as woebegone an institution as its name suggests – was flown over to Washington, sponsored by the Department of State, and given an all-star ...
Let the Profiling Begin
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 5 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Associated Press reports today about the seizure in Gloucester, England, of "a pair of stretched-out socks with traces of explosives in them." Found among the possessions of arrested terrorist suspect Sajid Badat last month, this discovery has ...
The American Taxpayer Donates $840,000 to Lyndon LaRouche
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 1 Dec 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Lost in the day's news is this eye-opener: the presidential public financing system, that brain-child of 1970s reformers, today handed over a cool $840,000 to Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., earned by his showing in a previous run for president. For those ...
U.S. Judge: "You are an Insult to the Muslim Faith"
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 25 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: "Ramzi Yusuf, you are not fit to uphold Islam. Your God is death. Your God is not Allah. ... What you do you do not do for Allah; you do it only to satisfy your own twisted sense of ego." Mimi Stillman and I quoted this statement by Judge Kevin Duffy ...
South African Muslims Scoff at US Dinner
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 24 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: So runs the headline in today's Pretoria News, reporting on the failure of one of the second annual "Iftaar Dinners" held at U.S. diplomatic missions worldwide this year, part of an initiative to convince Muslims that the United States is its friend. ...
Let's Import Middle Eastern Ideas of "Free Speech" to the Campus
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 22 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Canada's invaluable National Post reports today that the anti-Israel group Al-Awda is disallowed from holding a conference at the University of Toronto because it requires members to accept statements like "We support the right of the Palestinian people ...
In Lieu of that Shelved European Union Report on Anti-Semitism
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 21 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Financial Times reported the sensational news today that "the European Union's racism watchdog has shelved a report on anti-semitism because the study concluded Muslims and pro-Palestinian groups were behind many of the incidents it examined. … The ...
San Francisco Protestors: U.S. Government = Nazi Regime
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The San Francisco Chronicle reports today on a demonstration of about fifty "activists and civil rights advocates" outside a federal building in San Francisco to protest the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) that requires ...
Douglas Feith on "War on Terror"
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 13 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I argued repeatedly before 9/11 that in fighting militant Islam, the United States was battling not just crime but a military enemy; and that the military and intelligence forces should be brought to join law enforcement in defeating it. For example, I ...
The Washington Post Whitewashes Muzaffar Iqbal
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 11 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: In an article provocatively titled "A Scholar Confronts ‘Ugly Face of America'," the Washington Post reports today on a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origins, Muzaffar Iqbal, who was taken aside in the Toronto airport in December 2002 and asked some ...
Secretary Powell Going Soft on Hamas?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 10 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Associated Press today quotes the president of Sudan, Omar el-Bashir, saying that when Secretary of State Colin L. Powell visited him in late October, Powell did not ask him to close down the offices of Hamas: "we did not get a request to close their ...
Islam Driving the Social and Legal Agenda in the West
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 10 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (14)
Excerpt: "We never experienced this with Judaism … or Christianity." So spoke Robert Paladino, superintendent of schools in Cliffside Park, N.J., reports the Bergen Record. He was responding to a rquest by a seventh-grade girl named Yasmeen Elsamra, 12, for "a ...
Is Prince Charles a Convert to Islam?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 9 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (98)
Excerpt: In a 1997 Middle East Quarterly article titled "Prince Charles of Arabia," Ronni L. Gordon and David M. Stillman looked at evidence that Britain's Prince Charles might be a secret convert to Islam. They shifted through his public statements (defending ...
Arafat's Billions
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 9 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: About once a decade, Yasir Arafat's loot is counted. I myself made a preliminary totting up of the PLO's assets in 1983 in "How Important is the PLO?" where I quoted Time magazine to the effect that the PLO is "probably the richest, best-financed ...
Is There an Arab-American Race?
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 8 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: The "Alliance for Justice," a leftist organization known for its consistent opposition to Republican judicial nominees, compiles statstics, including those bearing on race, about federal judges. Here are the "races," that appear in a list on the Alliance ...
Saudi Religious Leader Calls for Slavery's Legalization
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 7 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (19)
Excerpt: I wrote about slavery in discussing the future of Islam in July 2002, commenting that things can get better for Islam but this "requires that Muslims tackle the huge challenge of adapting their faith to the realities of modern life." By way of examples, ...
Christian Minority vs. Muslim Minority
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 7 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Melbourne's Age newspaper today quotes Patrick Sookhdeo of the Barnabas Fund, an aid group for persecuted Christian minorities, estimating that 40 million Christians live under Muslim majorities. This number ranges from 15 million in Indonesia, 9 million ...
The American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee Reveals Its True Colors
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 6 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: On Oct. 31, Imad Hamad, Michigan regional director of the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (and the near-recipient of an FBI award), wrote a letter to the president of the Crestwood Board of Education in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, urging him ...
Islamic Anti-Semitism like That of Nazis, Says Cardinal
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 6 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I have been saying for some time (for example, here and here) that "In its attitudes toward Jews, the Muslim world today resembles Germany of the 1930s." Agreement in this view has just been expressed by no less a personage than Roberto Tucci, a retired ...
Mustafa Abu-Sway, Islamist
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 3 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In "Fulbright's Terrorist Tie," Asaf Romirowsky and I recently broke the news that Mustafa Abu-Sway, a professor teaching at Florida Atlantic University courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer, also happens to be "known as an activist" in Hamas, a group on the U.S ...
"Palestinians Seek Apology for Balfour Declaration"
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 3 Nov 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: So reads a headline in today's Jerusalem Post, neatly summarizing a point I (among others) have been trying to make for years now (for example in the Los Angeles Times): the Palestinian problem with Israel is not over the size of the state, nor where its ...
The Islamic Society of Boston & the Politicians' Red Faces
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 29 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (38)
Excerpt: At the groundbreaking in November 2002, local politicians hailed the planned construction of an Islamic Center by the Islamic Society of Boston as a bridge between Islam and Boston's other religions, the Boston Herald recounted yesterday in the first of ...
Boca Raton's "Incredible Shrinking Masjid"
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 26 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: The Islamic Center of Boca Raton has ambitious plans for a 3.3-acre Islamic Center complex, replete with a minaret, two domes, a 9,000-square-foot mosque, a 6,000-square-foot multipurpose hall, and a structure vaguely reminiscent of the Prophet's Mosque ...
Iranian Nuclear Attack against Israel?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 26 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: I omitted to mention at "Deadly Denial [of Muslim Anti-Semitism]" that the psychological preparation for using nuclear weapons against Israel has already begun. In December 2001, as reported in Iran's English, Farsi and Arabic newspapers (and paraphrased ...
Non-Muslims Who Fast During Ramadan
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 25 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (11)
Excerpt: So, what are coalition forces planning to do for their first Ramadan in Iraq, which begins Monday, Oct. 27, 2003? The Associated Press reports today that they will be very respectful: No eating, drinking or smoking in public: That word is going out to ...
The Education of Jeannie Baumann
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 24 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Jeannie Baumann, a reporter for the northern Virginia-based Herndon Observer, wrote a story in June 2001 that pooh-poohed Steven Emerson's and my mention of a terrorism link to Herndon; the Council on American-Islamic Relations then plastered her seeming ...
Islam and Wealth
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 23 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: "Today Muslims are relatively poor, whether the comparison is done to the worldwide mean at either the individual or national level, and there is a long line of scholarship that ascribes this state of affairs to Islam itself. (Of course there is also a ...
Islamists Boycott the White House
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 23 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A little-known organization, the Los Angeles-based "Project Islamic H.O.P.E.," grandly announced on Oct. 21 (along with several other equally obscure groups: the Muslim Electorate's Council of America; The ILM Foundation; Masjid Ibaadillah) that it is ...
CAIR's "Library Project" and Veracity
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 20 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In its "American Muslim News Briefs," the Council on American-Islamic Relations almost every day trumpets via e-mail the success of its "Library Project" – an effort "to send accurate and objective information about Islam to America's 16,000 public ...
Immigration's Grisly Edge in Ceuta and Melilla
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 19 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Ceuta and Melilla, two Spanish outposts on the Moroccan mainland, have been under Spanish control since the very end of the Crusading period. For many years, they appeared to be curiosities, vestiges of a previous age, places of no particular ...
Arabs and Jews Sorting Themselves out Politically in the West?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 19 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: "I've had 30-year Republicans tell me they are re-registering as independents," noted John Khamis of San Jose, Calif., a Republican activist present at the "national leadership conference" of the Arab American Institute in Dearborn, Michigan on Oct. 18. ...
Don't Rely on the Media: Palestinian Authority violence against Americans
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 18 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Is there any subject that the mainstream media treats worse than the Palestinian Authority (PA)? Case in point: placing the Oct. 15 murder of three American security personnel in Gaza. Here is USA Today's comment, representative of media assessments of ...
Back in the News: The Treaty of Hudaybiya
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 16 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Yasir Arafat somewhat cryptically mentioned the Treaty of Hudaybiya in a 1994 speech in South Africa while discussing his views of the Oslo Accord ("I see this agreement as being no more than the agreement signed between our Prophet Muhammad and the ...
An Israel Problem at the U.S. Government?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: (1) The U.S. Department of State has a web page for each country with which it has diplomatic relations, complete with a map. Oddly, the map on the Saudi Arabian page names every country in its neighborhood, even tiny Bahrain, but lacks the name "Israel ...
Archbishop of Canterbury: Al-Qaeda Moral, Bush Immoral
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 15 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In a remarkable statement, the leader of the Church of England, Rowan Williams, explained yesterday in a lecture to the Royal Institute for International Affairs (as reported by London's Daily Telegraph) that America must recognize how terrorists can ...
Hollywood Avoids the War on Terror
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 10 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Jonathan V. Last notes in today's Weekly Standard that the war on terror is not the subject of a single U.S. feature film already produced or in the works. When asked why should be, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, Jack Valenti, replies ...
"The Majesty That He Was": Columbia Colleagues Remember Edward Said
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 2 Oct 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: It was to be expected that Edward Said would receive outlandish encomia upon his death on Sept. 25, 2003. But the professor of literature must be spinning in his grave at the purple prose inflicted on him today by one grieving acolyte, a colleague with a ...
Dark Days for North American Islamist Organizations?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 30 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Islamist establishment in the United States and Canada must be wishing that September 2003 never happened. Evan McCormick shows in "A Bad Day for CAIR" how on a single day, Sept. 10, the Council on American-Islamic Relations took three blows: "It ran ...
United States of America vs. Abdurahman Muhammad Alamoudi
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 29 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A U.S. district court made public today the "affidavit in support of criminal complaint" concerning Abdurahman Alamoudi, the Islamist political leader most closely associated with the American Muslim Council. The nearly eight-thousand word document ...
Director Mueller and Mr. Alamoudi
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 29 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I criticized FBI Director Robert Mueller back in June 2002 when he attended a meeting of the American Muslim Council, the organization founded and directed (sometimes from behind the scenes) by Abdurahman Alamoudi. I ended my article "[The AMC:] ...
UNRWA's Financial Travails
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 26 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Count me as distinctly unenthusiastic about the perpetual funding of the so-called Palestinian refugees. As I wrote in "The Refugee Curse," It's high time to help these generations of non-refugees escape the refugee status so they can become citizens, ...
CAIR and the Islamic Association for Palestine
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 26 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: For anyone who doubts the tight connection between the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Association for Palestine, go to http://iap.org and note what turns up: a blank page with the title "CAIR List Server." But go there quickly, as ...
Collapse of a Wall at the Temple Mount, Jerusalem
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 24 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: I wrote a year ago in "Nightmare on Temple Mount" about the likelihood of a Temple Mount wall collapsing due to a combination of rogue activities by the Palestinian Authority on this holiest of sites and a baffling insouciance on the part of the Israeli ...
The "Islamic Society of North America" Baffles Washington
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 23 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Two news items concerning the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) point to the deep inconsistency of the U.S. government vis-à-vis militant Islamic groups. The mere presence of an ISNA business card in the possession of a visiting imam from Canada, ...
Should the U.S. Military Profile for Militant Islam?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 21 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Perhaps the most difficult passage for me to write, and one of those that has caused the sharpest reaction, was this, back in January 2003 and repeated two months later: There is no escaping the unfortunate fact that Muslim government employees in law ...
The FBI's Blindness to Radical Islam
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 18 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: I criticized Robert Mueller in June 2002 for meeting with the American Muslim Council and having his spokesman announce that the FBI regards the AMC as "the most mainstream Muslim group in the United States." I worried a year later, when I read about ...
Another American Muslim Council Link to Terrorism
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 15 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The once-significant but now declining American Muslim Council appears to have a link to terrorism in the person of Soliman Biheiri. A detailed article in The Wall Street Journal today reports that Biheiri – whom the U.S. prosecutor on his case calls ...
"Kingdom's Trade With US Has Surged Since Sept. 11"
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 11 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: So reads a surprising headline in today's Saudi newspaper Arab News. The article goes on to explain that U.S. government figures show a 61 percent surge in bilateral trade with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Commenting on these figures, the U.S. ambassador ...
Kamal Nawash
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 10 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: Kamal Nawash, an immigration lawyer and legal director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) since 1997, has thrown his hat in the ring as a Republican candidate for state senator in the 31st district of Virginia. His campaign website ...
CAIR's Unscientific Polling
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 10 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Council on American-Islamic Relations has a tradition of conducting straw polls (questions "were faxed and e-mailed to Muslim individuals and organizations nationwide" it helpfully informs) and then pawning these off as scientific surveys, which then ...
Not Pushing a Failing Roadmap Even Harder
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 10 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Although I was no fan of the "Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" when it was unveiled nearly a year ago, and always expected it not to work, I modified my opposition after a trip to Washington ...
"If It's an Arab or Muslim, They Come in a Heartbeat"
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 9 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Philadelphia Inquirer today quotes police Chief Raymond Fluck of Green Lane, Pennsylvania saying this of federal law enforcement officers: "Before 9/11, if you had a person who was illegal, it was hard to get them picked up. Now, if it's an Arab or ...
The Prophet's Night Journey to Jerusalem
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 3 Sep 2003 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: In "The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem," I argued that over the course of fourteen centuries, Muslim interest in Jerusalem has tended to be more political than religious in nature. One of my points concerned the complicated sleight-of-hand carried off by the ...
SoundVision.com Visitors Applaud Jerusalem Suicide Bombing
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 20 Aug 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The murder of 18 bus-riding Israelis by a militant Islamic terrorist on August 19 met with the expected joy in the Palestinian and Lebanese street ("Several hundred young men poured into the streets of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon on Tuesday and ...
Christopher Hitchens Rants Again
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: On August 1, Christopher Hitchens devoted his column to insult the just-deceased Bob Hope ("a fool, and nearly a clown, but … never even remotely a comedian"). Hitchens is the poseur and eccentric who earlier attacked Mother Theresa (book title: The ...
The Beltway Snipers' Motives
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: When the Washington-area snipers were caught in October 2002, I criticized the media in "The Snipers: Crazy or Jihadis?" for tip-toeing around the possible Islamist motives of the two suspected perps, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo, and instead ...
The Left ♥ CAIR, MPAC, et al.
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: I wrote an article in March 2003 titled "Why the Left ♥ Osama [and Saddam]" that noted "an indifference in the precincts of the far Left to the fatalities of 9/11 and the horrors of Saddam Hussein," then tried to explain this phenomenon, drawing on ...
Washington Puzzles over the Mujahedeen-e Khalq
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 17 Aug 2003 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: It finally happened. The Treasury Department on August 15 (1) listed the National Council of Resistance in Iran as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist and (2) "clarified" that the National Council of Resistance and People's Mujahedin of Iran are ...
Back-to-School Special
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 7 Aug 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Martin Kramer had the ingenious idea in "Waiter! There's a Kramer in my syllabus!" to offer up some of his web-based writings to university instructors in need of materials for courses. In the same spirit, I suggest some of my articles suitable for the ...
MPAC's Excursion into Qur'anic Exegesis
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 5 Aug 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In a rare excursion into Qur'anic exegesis for a political organization, the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council published a response to Newsweek International's July 28, 2003 article, "Challenging the Quran." The Newsweek article reports on ...
Somalis Fear Children Will Falsely Claim Abuse
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 3 Aug 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: The Columbus Dispatch reports on a court case today in Ohio that has larger implications for parent-daughter relations in Muslim families living in the West. The facts of the case are thus: When Mohamed Shide, 38, a Somali immigrant who arrived to the ...
Israeli Arab Demographics and the Law of Unintended Consequences
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 3 Aug 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In "Fertility Transition in the Middle East: The Case of the Israeli-Arabs," Israel Affairs, Autumn/Winter 2003, pp. 39-67, Onn Winckler of Haifa University looks at the Israeli government's pro-natalist policy and its implications. The government ...
A Zionist Conspiracy Theory too Far
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 1 Aug 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I'm not one to be surprised by conspiracy theories, having written two books on the subject - one on the Middle Eastern phenomenon, one on the Western. I even wrote a couple of paragraphs in the former tome on the alleged alliance between Israel and ...
Look Now Who's Profiling - CAIR's Staff Is
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 1 Aug 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Jamal Hasan provides an interesting account of the atmospherics at a certain hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on July 23, 2003 (when my nomination to the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace was taken up). A ...
Secretary Powell Lets His Hair Down
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 1 Aug 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In an interview with Hemi Shalev of Israel's Ma`ariv newspaper on July 30, 2003, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell permitted himself the sort of humor that high officials don't usually allow themselves on the record. A few examples: In the middle of an ...
The Flight of Thomas Nagy
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 31 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: In "Profs Who Hate America," Jonathan Schanzer and I pointed to the topsy-turvy world in which American professors "consider the United States (not Iraq) the problem" and gave six examples of this way of thinking. One of them was a quote from Thomas ...
"Piece of Trash."
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 30 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: That's how Secretary of State Colin Powell called former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, or more fully "a piece of trash waiting to be collected." It may be coincidence, or it may not, that Adam Garfinkle, who just joined the secretary's staff as a ...
The United States at War with Hamas and Hezbollah
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 28 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: Almost without public notice, the two sides have declared war on each other. President George W. Bush stated in June 2003 that "the free world, those who love freedom and peace, must deal harshly with Hamas" and that "Hamas must be dismantled." Deputy ...
The Oslo War
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 27 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Bret Stephens, editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, opened his paper's pages on Sept. 20, 2002 to a discussion of how to name the Palestinian-Israeli war underway since September 2000. His panel offered a host of suggestions: The War for a Palestinian ...
The Saudi Scandal Continues
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 25 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In "The Scandal of U.S.-Saudi Relations," I wrote about a "culture of corruption in the Executive Branch renders it quite incapable of dealing with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the farsighted and disinterested manner that U.S. foreign policy requires." ...
U.S Intelligence Mistakes Pre-9/11
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 24 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Here's my tough assessment of the intelligence failure that appeared on September 12, 2001, "Mistakes Made the Catastrophe Possible": The tactical blame falls on the U.S. government, which has grievously failed in its topmost duty to protect American ...
American Know-Nothing Diplomacy
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 22 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: The Washington Post informs us in an article titled "For Mideast Envoy, Rookie Status May Be an Advantage," that the "lack of experience in the Middle East" of the new U.S. presidential Middle East envoy (or more formally, "Chief, U.S. Coordinating and ...
More U.S. to Israel: Do As We Say ...
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 22 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I noted in "U.S. to Israel: Do As We Say ..." a repeated pattern of the U.S. government permitting to itself exactly what it prohibits to Israel. "As American diplomats chastise Israel for its tactics," I wrote, "U.S. soldiers openly embrace many of ...
The Dangers of Occupying Iraq
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 21 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In early 1991, as a debate was raging about the desirability of a U.S. intervention against the Saddam Hussein regime, I wrote a couple of cautionary articles about the prospect of U.S. forces occupying Iraq, "with Schwartzkopf Pasha ruling from Baghdad ...
Arab/Muslim Lawsuits v. the FBI
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 20 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I wrote in March 2003 ("The FBI Fumbles") about the FBI's handling of Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, a Muslim immigrant from Egypt and special agent who showed a reluctance to go after Islamists but was promoted anyway. Now we learn of troubles with another ...
US: Terrorism Not an Excuse to Crack Down on Islam in Central Asia
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Some Muslims claim that the United States is really waging a war on Islam; it would seem that they are wrong, judging by what the official U.S. delegation told told an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe conference on freedom of religion. ...
Dual Loyalty?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 17 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Two of the most radical voices in Middle East studies, John Esposito and Joel Beinin, have just published articles attacking Martin Kramer and myself. They are noteworthy for their commonalities. John Esposito of Georgetown University tells an ...
Let's Dialogue
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 17 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Akbar S. Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun chair of Islamic studies & a professor of international relations at the American University in Washington, D.C., wrote an article about me earlier this month ("Scholarship about Islam in America") that concludes thus: One ...
CAIR Criticized
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 16 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Council on American-Islamic Relations usually gets a free pass as a "civil rights group," no questions asked, but once in a while someone is awake at the switch and protests its activities, influence, and acceptance. Here, in reverse chronological ...
Pretending There's a Country Called "Palestine"
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 13 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (33)
Excerpt: Various Western institutions list "Palestine" as a country, although there obviously is no such place. I shall note them on an occasional basis in reverse chronological order. __________ Facebook: The website that defines itself as "a social utility that ...
Muslim Support for Bin Laden
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 11 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: "Every Muslim household not just in this country but around the world condemned the events of 9/11." So spoke Faiz Rehman of the American Muslim Council on Sept. 27, 2002, at the World Media Association Conference in Arlington, Virginia. Rehman and I ...
"Clerics Issue Fatwah on Anyone Proposing Secular Laws"
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 5 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Like any extremist movement, militant Islam contains elements that are going over the edge in a frenzy of delusion and hubris. The Associated Press reports from Sudan about a fatwa (edict) issued by fourteen prominent Islamic scholars and published in ...
CAIR's Saudi Masters
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 5 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A couple of items from the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington concerning its support for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are worth noting and pondering. The first dates from August 15, 1999, and is listed under "IDB Approves New ...
AOL Time Warner Produces Song Endorsing Suicide Terrorism
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 4 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: It hardly comes as a shock to learn that a French rap song, "Jeteur de Pierres" (stone thrower) by a group called Sniper (an excerpt can be listened to here) contains lyrics endorsing suicide bombings against Israel ("Bare hands face an army ready to ...
Saudis Confront Militant Islam
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 2 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In a stunning statement to Saudi Arabia's unelected "parliament," the Shoura Consultative Council, Interior Minister Prince Naif noted: "We have witnessed the criminal acts of some of our youth, who are citizens of this country; they have killed people, ...
Fluoridation
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 1 Jul 2003 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: In my 1997 book, Conspiracy, I devoted an entire chapter to "Right-Wing Nuts, Leftist Sophisticates," the point being that although the Left engages in conspiracism as much as the Right, it does so with more convincing arguments and more sophisticated ...
CAIR's Legal Tribulations
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 27 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: For several years, one of my severest and most persistent critics has been one Randall ("Ismail") Royer, an American convert to Islam. Here's a typical comment of his from his weblog dated Sept. 17, 2002: after calling me a "pop bigot" he comments on my ...
"Well Worth It"
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 27 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In November 1999, two Saudi doctoral students at Arizona State University endured the following experience on an America West flight from Columbus, Ohio, to Phoenix, according to The Baltimore Sun of Nov. 24, 1999: the plane "was evacuated on a runway ...
"Democrats Go off the Cliff"
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 26 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In his usual incisive way, David Brooks ponders the spectacle of Democratic hysteria against George W. Bush - "This republic is at its greatest danger in its history because of this administration," "I think this is the deliberate, intentional ...
Islamic Fighters Swap Guns for Syringes
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 24 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Agence France-Presse reports today from Kashmir that the Islamist separatists there "are swapping their guns for hypodermic syringes so as to pump deadly poison into their victims." It goes on to ascribe this shift n tacts to global outrage following a ...
Are the Mujahedeen-e Khalq Terrorists?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 22 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Mujahedeen-e Khalq (or MEK), an Iranian opposition group, is highly controversial; in May 2003, Patrick Clawson and I argued that it should be taken off the U.S. government's terrorist list. Since then, the French government has raided the group's ...
Misyar – Temporary Marriage in Sunni Islam
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 22 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (15)
Excerpt: The Shi`ite institution of mut`a or sighe (temporary marriage) is quite well known, being the subject of an English language book, Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi'i Iran, but many fewer are aware of its rough equivalent in the Sunni world, ...
A Double Standard for Muslims?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 22 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The release of two innocent Indian Muslims after a long detention in U.S. jails on suspicion of being part of Al-Qaeda prompted me to note that their "tribulation brings to attention the single-most delicate and agonizing issue in prosecuting the War on ...
"Someone Named Daniel Pipes"
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 20 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: In a collection of interviews with Edward Said called Culture and Resistance, he refers to me on p. 177 as "someone named Daniel Pipes, who is basically a second-rate, unemployed scholar." Which rate I am is a matter of opinion, but my being employed or ...
"Slaying Case Stirs Debate in Morocco"
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 18 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A Moroccan man (Abdelhafid Rahmani) and his sometime wife (Souad Bousserhan) moved to the United States in 1995 and, to get immigration papers, each married a U.S. citizen – without bothering to get divorced from each other first. Rahmani, 43, could not ...
Self-Hating Americans
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 18 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In early 2000, I wrote about the pattern of American Muslim converts coming to hate their own country. I noted, for example, that white Islamist converts "typically condemn America for its immorality, consumerism, tolerant social policies, and warm ...
The Iranian President's Power
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 16 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Reports of demonstrations and riots in Tehran tell of the widespread disappoint in President Mohammed Khatami, the man who won 4/5s of the votes in May 1997: those now on the streets once expected him to be their champion but now call for his ...
U.S. Reviewing Air Passenger-Screening Plan
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 15 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: After reading this passage, do you feel safer getting on an airplane? "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has suspended development of an airline passenger-screening program until it can assess any threats to passenger privacy. … Prompted by ...
Wives Tells Court: Islamic Law Made Me a Criminal
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 15 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Muslim wives have concocted an ingenious defense for when they are caught engaging in criminal activity - Islamic law made me do it. Falsify an insurance claim: The lawyer for Fadime Cubuk, 26, admitted she was wrong to falsify an insurance claim after a ...
Muslim Hours at Municpal Swimming Pools in the West
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 15 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (23)
Excerpt: I quote a French publication: "A swimming pool off-limits to men, with an exclusively female staff, and smoked windows. It's not in Saudi Arabia but in France, in the fine town of Lille." More interesting yet, this swimming pool is not a private concern ...
An Israeli military victory?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 15 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In an article titled "The Only Solution is Military," I wrote back in April 2002 that "if Israel is to protect itself, it must achieve a comprehensive military victory over the Palestinians, so that the latter give up their goal of obliterating it. ...
Demographic Facts on American Muslims
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 12 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Guess where the U.S. Department of State finds answers to such questions as "U.S. mosques that feel they strictly follow the Koran and Sunnah" and "American Muslims associated with a mosque"? It gets this from a study co-sponsored by such organizations ...
Scrawled swastika on Israeli flag not harassment: Concordia ruling
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 12 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: On March 12, 2003, a student named Laith Marouf drew swastikas on an Israeli flag at a pro-Israel demonstration at Concordia University campus in Montreal. Marouf, it bears noting, had a history of anti-Israel incitement; he was, for example, one of two ...
Terrorists Savoring the Good Life in the West
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 8 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Rogue states are not the only countries where known terrorists walk the streets freely. This entry will track some of those cases; it complements my entry at "Insane Asylum: How America Welcomes Terrorists," which looks at immigrants claiming "political ...
"More Than 13,000 May Face Deportation"
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 8 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Government officials say that roughly 16 percent of the more than 82,000 male Muslim immigrants older than 16 who registered with the U.S. government earlier this year may face deportation because they have are living in the United States illegally. Jim ...
Walid Shoebat: "Palestinian turns from radical Muslim to true Zionist"
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 5 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (230)
Excerpt: Question: How does a Muslim Palestinian go from being a near-suicide bomber to becoming an outspoken Zionist (and in San Francisco, of all places)? Answer: By converting to Christianity. The Jewish Bulletin of Northern California carries a revealing news ...
prime minister. n.
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 5 Jun 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: prime minister. n. Abbr. PM (1) A chief minister appointed by a ruler. (2) The head of the cabinet and often also the chief executive of a parliamentary democracy. (Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition) Could ...
Does Law Enforcement Profile Muslims?
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 31 May 2003 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: "If he had been Irish and Catholic, with the same set of circumstances, I believe we would have filed the same case and prosecuted it the same way." So spoke Assistant U.S. Attorney Fred Schattman about Fazal Karim, 37, an illegal Pakistani immigrant ...
Islamists Bring "Taleban Rule" to Pakistan
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 28 May 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A number of specialists on Islam (especially Olivier Roy and Gilles Kepel) have been arguing for some time that militant Islam peaked in the 1980s and has been in steady decline. Yes, and 9/11 was but a "provocation" that confirmed its "waning." Evidence ...
Require a Loyalty Oath for Visitors and Immigrants?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 28 May 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: "You're not required to swear a loyalty oath or to write a long dissertation explaining all of the reasons that you love the culture before you're allowed to come here and have the benefits of our system." That's David Z. Nevin, the lawyer for Sami Omar ...
"Lone Wolves" Pose Terror Threat
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 27 May 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Confirming my argument in "Al-Qaeda's Limits", the Christian Science Monitor published a story today that does two things: (1) Looks at the specific case of one Sayed Abdul Malike, an Afghan immigrant who confided to an informant that he wanted to buy ...
British Muslims – A Global Threat
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 22 May 2003 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: In an unposted article today in London's Daily Mail, David Williams reports on a dossier presented on behalf of Home Secretary David Blunkett to a Special Immigration Appeals Commission. The dossier "admits that Britain was a safe haven for supporters of ...
The Arabist Predicament
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 21 May 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Marla Braverman, a reviewer of Martin Kramer's Ivory Towers on Sand, draws some interesting conclusions in Azure about the work Kramer, I, and others are doing: In the last few years … the growing demand for alternative explanations of events in the ...
Spending Years in a Living Grave
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 21 May 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In Never the Last Journey, Felix Zandman describes his experience as a teenager during World War II spending 1 1/2 years under a Polish farmer's bedroom floor in a living grave. No one who reads this account of his hiding from the Nazis can forget it. ...
Restrictions on Palestinians in Lebanon
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 19 May 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: An article in the New York Times tells about the restrictions on the 400,000 stateless Palestinian living in Lebanon: how they are not allowed to attend public school, own property, or even improve their housing stock - regulations applied with the ...
Computer Gamers Join the Jihad
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 18 May 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: I have been arguing for years that the enemy is not just terrorists but the whole movement of militant Islam, including its theoreticians, organizers, preachers, teachers, financiers, and bureaucrats. Now add to that list its computer gamers. According ...
Londonistan Follies
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 16 May 2003 | Permalink | Comments (50)
Excerpt: The British government won itself the reputation for being tough because it joined with the U.S.-led effort in Iraq, quite in contrast to France. But when it comes to domestic counterterrorism, the French are far ahead of the hapless, head-in-the-sand ...
"Muslims outnumber Jews in Canada"
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 14 May 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Just-released Canadian census figures for 2001 show that the Muslim population increased by 129 percent in the prior decade, from 253,000 to 580,000. As the Globe and Mail points out, the country's Jewish population remained basically static, at 330,000; ...
"Iraqis Evict Palestinian Refugees"
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 9 May 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Martin Kramer has ridiculed in "The Expulsion That Never Was," the December 2002 letter, signed by over 1,000 academics, predicting and warning against Israel's possible "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians in the "fog of war." In fact, those academics ...
Abandoning Iraq to Solve the Arab-Israeli Conflict
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 5 May 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: When I in February 2003 approvingly quoted Secretary of State Powell saying that American success in Iraq "could fundamentally reshape [the Middle East] in a powerful, positive way," I understood the U.S. goal to be bringing democracy to the ...
Thoughts upon the formal release of the "roadmap"
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 1 May 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Here's my basic assessment of Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy, written in 1990: there can be either an Israel or a Palestine, but not both. To think that two states can stably and peacefully coexist in the small territory between the Jordan River and the ...
CAIR and the San Ramon Valley Herald
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 29 Apr 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Just over a year ago, in an article on the Council on American-Islamic Relations, America's leading militant Islamic organization, I broke a story: As reported by the San Ramon Valley Herald, CAIR Chairman Omar M. Ahmad told a crowd of California Muslims ...
American Liberals and Conservatives Debate the Arab-Israeli Conflict
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 27 Apr 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I wrote in 1984: The Middle East stands outside the great debate of American foreign policy since World War II - the disagreement over the danger posed by the U.S.S.R.... Political discussion there is dominated by an entirely different and wholly ...
On Not Blaming Israel
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 26 Apr 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Arab News, a Jeddah-based newspaper, contains a remarkably constructive, self-critical editorial, "It's All Israel's Fault!" that takes on the obsessive anti-Israel nature of the Arabic-language press: For decades it has been difficult to find anything ...
Tariq Aziz and Militant Islam
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 24 Apr 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The reported capture of Tariq Aziz on Apr. 24, one day after the massive Shi`ite celebration at Karbala', brings to mind my interview with Aziz in March 1994 in the Middle East Quarterly, which included this informative reply: MEQ: And what about the ...
"Cops ask: Terrorists or tourists?"
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 23 Apr 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Tamara Audi raises in the Detroit Free Press the extremely difficult issue of appropriate law enforcement responses to suspicious behavior "around tourist attractions and critical infrastructure sites across the nation in an attempt to watch for ...
How Many Muslims in the United States?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 22 Apr 2003 | Permalink | Comments (88)
Excerpt: Islam is widely touted as "the fastest growing religion in the United States," so how does one explain that The World Almanac and Book of Facts has these figures for Muslims in the United States: 1997 edition (p. 644) says 5.1 million 2003 edition (p. ...
Thoughts from 1991: Iraqis Are Partially Culpable for Saddam Hussein
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Both Presidents Bush have a tendency to portray the Iraqi population as purely the victims of Saddam Hussein. I argued in "Why America Can't Save the Kurds." Wall Street Journal, April 11, 1991, that the picture is more complex: Iraqis-including Shi'is ...
My 1991 Advice: Don't Abandon Iraq for the Arab-Israel Conflict
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 20 Apr 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The recommendation I gave to the U.S. government just after the Kuwait war (in "What Kind of Peace?." National Interest, Spring 1991) seems worth reviving at a time of roughly similar circumstance and temptation: Washington must seize its moment of great ...
The Saga of FBI Special Agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 20 Apr 2003 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: I wrote nearly a year ago about FBI Special Agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, documenting how he "could have a key role helping America's premier anti-terrorist force protect the United States from harm. But evidence from high-profile terrorism cases suggests ...
In Place of an Obituary for Michael Kelly
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 4 Apr 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: On hearing today the horrible news of Michael Kelly's death, I pulled up my review of his brilliant book, Martyr's Day: Chronicle of a Small War, published in the Middle East Quarterly, June 1994. Here is an excerpt: Michael Kelly's coverage of the Gulf ...
The Possibility of a Turkish Land-grab in Northern Iraq
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 31 Mar 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: As the Turkish government shows interest in the territory of northern Iraq, it is worth noting that this fits a pattern. Here is a snippet from what I wrote in "Hot Spot: Turkey, Iraq, and Mosul." Middle East Quarterly, September 1995, pp. 65-68: ...
Rogue States Adopting Suicide Bombing
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 31 Mar 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Here is something I wrote in 1986 ("The Scourge of Suicide Terrorism." National Interest, Summer 1986, pp. 95-99) on the subject of states adopting the tactic of suicide bombing; it comes to mind as this tool appears to be picked up by others now. This ...
The U.S. Government Hires "Non-Muslims Only"
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 27 Mar 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: An article in the Hindustan Times, "Only Non-Muslims for Can Apply for US Base Job," makes the startling claim that a classified advertisement placed in the national Indian dailies invites applications from "non-Muslims only" for maintenance jobs at a U ...
How Difficult Would It Be to Defeat Iraqi Forces?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 19 Mar 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Some thoughts from exactly a year before the war began: defeating Iraq should be militarily easy. Kenneth Adelman, a former assistant to Donald Rumsfeld, predicts that a war against Iraqis will be a "cakewalk," and offers four reasons: "1) It was a ...
ChevronTexaco Loses Its Way
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 17 Mar 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Under the headline "19 National Organizations Awarded September 11th Anti-Bias Project Grant," the ChevronTexaco Foundation announced that it has awarded $1.5 million in grants (through the National Conference for Community and Justice) "to assist ...
Middle East Studies in the Courtroom
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 14 Mar 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: The apologetics of the Middle East studies establishment has real-world consequences, one of which is expert testimony in trials. I will note here, from time to time, examples of how Middle East specialists are acquitting themselves. Tamara Sonn, ...
Happy Birthday, Abdullah Plan
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 17 Feb 2003 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Conceived in February 2002 in a nicely-executed coordination with the New York Times, the proposal stimulated great expectations. But here is what I had to say about it: Judging by the massive media coverage, the Arab summit taking place on March 27-28[, ...
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