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The Rochester Institute of Technology and My Unwillingness to Be "Balanced" at Campus Talks
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 31 Dec 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Although still over three months off, my talk on April 14, 2005 in the "Globalization, Human Rights, and Citizenship" series at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, is already generating more heat than light. In particular, I ...
"A Room Full of American Muslim Citizens"
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 30 Dec 2004 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: Kudos to the American border agency, now known as U.S. Customs and Border Protection, for the courage to stop returning participants from a three-day Islamist conference in Toronto. That event, titled "Reviving the Islamic Spirit," had a rogues' list of ...
CAIR Named as a Defendant in 9/11 Terror Lawsuit
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 30 Dec 2004 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: A class action lawsuit in the name of John P. O'Neill, Sr., stemming from the 9/11 atrocity, has named the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a defendant. (For those confused about the multiple 9/11 court cases, there is help on the way at http ...
The Middle East Explodes with Obesity
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 29 Dec 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Specialists on the Middle East have their own brand of gossip, and one staple of the genre is how Arab men appreciate rotund women, a fact pregnant with implications for Arab-Western social relations. Now, various organizations have issued facts and ...
The Japanese Internment, CAIR, and Me
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 28 Dec 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: My column today, "Why the Japanese Internment Still Matters," reports on Michelle Malkin's book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror (Regnery) and its challenge to the revisionist view of the ...
Bibliography – My Writings on Moderate Muslims
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 27 Dec 2004 | Permalink | Comments (15)
Excerpt: For those who insist that there is no distinction between Islam and radical Islam, here is a (constantly updated) bibliography of my articles justifying the difference: "The Evil Isn't Islam." New York Post, 30 July 2002. My basic argument that the ...
Coming to Terms: Militant Islam or Radical Islam?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 26 Dec 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: My title here plays off of Martin Kramer's spring 2003 article in the Middle East Quarterly, "Coming to Terms: Fundamentalists or Islamists?" In it, he reviews the "heated debate" of the past two decades on how to label in English the phenomenon ...
Harems Accepted in the West
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 24 Dec 2004 | Permalink | Comments (21)
Excerpt: As the definition of marriage loosens from its once-strict notion of a man and a woman, all sorts of novel arrangements are turning up – notably homosexual "marriages" and polygamy. This development has come at just the right moment for the growing, ...
Allah in Church of England Cathedrals?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 23 Dec 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: The BBC carries a story today about a group of Muslims in Swansea, Wales, who plan to move from their current facilities to a derelict church. What is striking are the pictures of the two buildings. Here is the storefront presently in use: And here is ...
Tariq Ramadan Gives Up – Then Tries Again
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 14 Dec 2004 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Excerpt: (This entry picks up where "Tariq Ramadan, the Chicago Tribune, and Me" leaves off.) I was surprised to learn today that Tariq Ramadan has abandoned his attempt to teach at the University of Notre Dame. Given that the State Department was openly rooting ...
Shari‘a Puzzles
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 5 Dec 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: How does a Muslim keep the Ramadan fast on the solstice at the North Pole? What happens if a person dies and leaves sixteen heirs, all of them his great-great-grandparents? These are the sort of challenges that the Islamic jurisprudents (fuqaha') enjoy ...
Unexpected Syrian Connections to the Bush Administration
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 4 Dec 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: First comes the news that Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner and now the president's nominee for secretary of homeland security, is married to a Syrian woman named Hala. Raymond Stock, the writer and translator from Arabic, ...
Omid Safi's Closed Classroom
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 3 Dec 2004 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: One of the founders of the Progressive Muslim Union (an organization whose fake-moderation I recently exposed) is an academic named Omid Safi. He makes a great noise about being "progressive" and has even written a book titled Progressive Muslims: On ...
Were Investors in "Bridges TV" Misled?
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 26 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: The Buffalo News carries a puff-piece today on the Nov. 30 opening of "Bridges TV," a new cable channel aimed at American Muslim viewers. Its founder and chief executive officer, Muzzammil S. Hassan, 40, says he chose the name because its purpose is "to ...
Does Learning Arabic Prevent Moral Decay?
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 26 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: So claims Akhtar H. Emon, president of an outfit called the Arabic Language Institute Foundation (or ALIF, which is the name of the first letter of the Arabic alphabet), based in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. His interesting argument can be found on a ...
Catholic Cardinal Praises the Reformation and French Revolution!
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 26 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In what may be an historic first, Belgium's Cardinal Godfried Danneels, said to be one of a small group of papabile, on Nov. 24 argued that: Muslims should engage in a more flexible interpretation of their scriptures, even if this prompts changes akin ...
Censor Anti-Islamic Books?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 22 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: On April 25, 2004, FaithWorks publishers issued a 992-page book by Craig Winn, Prophet of Doom: Islam's Terrorist Dogma, In Muhammad's Own Words. So eager are they to get Winn's thoughts out that the book is both available in hardback and downloadable ...
State Acknowledges Its Terror Untruths
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 21 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: " In "State (Dept.) of Confusion [when It Comes to Palestinian Terror against Israel]," I documented the deeply deficient 199-page Department of State Patterns of Global Terrorism for 2003, released on April 29, 2004, then the revisions to it, released ...
The MSM ("Mainstream Media") on the Cause of Arafat's Death
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: One has to grudgingly tip the hat to what is now despairingly called the mainstream media, or MSM, and how it can cause unwelcome news simply to disappear. Case in point: John Ward Anderson has a piece titled "Conspiracy Theories Persist on Arafat's ...
Further Developments Concerning Theo van Gogh and Holland's "Education by Murder"
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 16 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: In the pre-Internet days, I would write a newspaper op-ed and then wait for days or weeks for reactions, which barely ever came. Now, as my webmaster sends out over twenty thousand copies of each column, response comes in fast and furious, often ...
"Before Arafat, there was no Palestine"
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 16 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: That's the opinion not of a die-hard Zionist disputing the existence of a "Palestine" before the 1960s, but of a Palestinian nationalist quoted by her admiring son, one Ahmed Moor, in the context of mourning Arafat and celebrating his achievements. ...
Acknowledging the Issue is Israel's Existence
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 15 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Voices of authority – governments, the media, academics, religious figures – nearly all concur that the Palestinians back in September 1993 accepted the existence of Israel as a Jewish state, that that is now a done deal. I disagree, as I have written ...
Palestinian Anarchy, Post-Arafat
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 14 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: Since chaos in the Palestinian Authority areas became acute in February 2004, I have been following it in a weblog entry titled "The Growing Palestinian Anarchy." But the out-of-control funeral for Yasir Arafat on Nov. 12 and then today the shooting up ...
"I Need Your Assistance; Suha Arafat"
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 13 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: Like everyone on the Internet, I have received my share of Internet scam letters, the so-called Nigerian 419s. "Please excuse my intrusion into your private life as I write you this letter in good faith and to the glory of almighty God …" is a typical ...
Scenes from Three Funerals: Arafat, Khomeini, Nasser
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 12 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: The burying of Yasir Arafat today in Ramallah was a sight to behold. Here is an early description from the Associated Press: Police fired wildly into the air to keep back the surging crowd at the West Bank compound known as the Muqata, where Arafat ...
U.S. Pressure for a Palestinian State
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 12 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I wrote an article earlier this week reminding readers that George W. Bush has ideas about a Palestinian state that could – assuming the Palestinians have a post-Arafat leadership quickly enough – lead to "the most severe crisis ever in U.S.-Israel ...
Muslim Uprisings in Europe?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 11 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: There have been larger Islamist attacks in the West – such as the two assaults on New York's World Trade Center and the Madrid train station bombings – but nothing has resembled the civil-war quality of the 15-hour standoff in The Hague, Holland, ...
An Imam on the Cathedral Staff
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 11 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Next Sunday, Nov. 14, the imam of the Islamic Center of Ahl Al-Beit, Ibrahim Kazerooni, will be installed on the staff of Denver's historic St. John's Episcopal Cathedral. Eric Gorski writes in today's Denver Post that "a new chapter in interfaith ...
In Lieu of an Obituary for Yasir Arafat
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 10 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: (1) President Bush made an appropriately reserved statement on the Palestinian's passing this evening: The death of Yasser Arafat is a significant moment in Palestinian history. We express our condolences to the Palestinian people. For the Palestinian ...
U.S. Islamist Groups Gain from the War on Terror
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 6 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Domestic American Islamist organizations have seen a surge in funding as a ironic result of the shutting-down of Islamist "charities" which send money to the global jihad, notes Teresa Watanabe of the Los Angeles Times. Since 9/11, Washington has ...
Yasir Arafat Shuffles Off His Mortal Coil
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 4 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I have frequently written over the decades about Yasir Arafat and the Palestinians; now, at the moment of his demise, I offer a few titles that might prove useful should anyone want to assess his career. I have reviewed several biographies about him. See ...
My Moments on Al-Jazeera
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 2 Nov 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I have been appearing a few times a year on Al-Jazeera since about 1997 but perhaps the high point took place today, U.S. presidential election day, when I appeared as one of two panelists on Al-Ittijah al-Mu‘akis ("Opposite Viewpoint," ...
Anti-Islamists Petition the United Nations
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 30 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: On Oct. 24, 2004 a petition was posted at both METransparent.com and Elaph.com titled "From Liberal Arabs to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and the chairman and members of the Security Council." Written primarily by three individuals (Jawad ...
Turkey's Malleability
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 24 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Atatürk instituted a series of reforms between 1923 (when he made Ankara the capital) and 1935 (when he made Sunday the weekly day of rest) that touched nearly all aspects of life and stand unique in history; their only rival were the quite different ...
Trendy European Leftists Call for Assassinating George W. Bush
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 23 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: For a decade the Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby has written a startling year-end column about "hate speech of the Left," in which he collects some of the most vile and virulent statements from supposed humanitarians. (To see these, go to the most recent ...
Making Sure the Palestinians Remain Refugees
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 21 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Since 1949, the Arab regimes have consistently resisted the settlement and assimilation of Palestinians, wanting instead to maintain them as a dagger aimed at Israel. Today sees a stunning new confirmation of this ugly pattern, this time from Saudi ...
Failing to Find Moderate Muslims at the "Progressive Muslim Union"
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 20 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: The good news is that my formulation that "militant Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution" is finding wider and wider acceptance. The bad news is the massive confusion over who is a moderate. Illustrative of this problem are gullible ...
Dissing the Debate over Sami Al-Arian
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 19 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: My column today, "Coddling a Terrorist Costs Votes," considers the astonishing centrality of Sami Al-Arian, an indicted ringleader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in the Florida race for U.S. Senate between Republican Mel Martinez and Democrat Betty Castor ...
The BBC Announces: There Is No Terrorist Threat
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 15 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: In the precincts of the loony left, it seems, the terrorist threat is an imaginary canard. Michael Moore made this point a year ago, speaking on NBC's Today show (Oct. 7, 2003, not on the Internet ): "there is no terrorist threat. Somebody needs to just ...
Nezar Hindawi Remains in Jail
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 13 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Nezar Hindawi "El Al bomber too dangerous to release, court rules," reads the routine-sounding Times (London) headline. I believe I wrote the fullest account of this particular incident in "Terrorism: The Syrian Connection." If I don't say ...
The Essential Canada-United States Difference
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 12 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In an article today, "Hating America's Success," I call the United States a "boisterous experiment that makes ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' its official goal." A Canadian reader responds by pointing out that the Canadian Constitution, in ...
American vs. European Muslims
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 12 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I noted in November 2000 that, in socioeconomic terms, Muslims can find little fault with America. They boast among the highest rates of education of any group in the country—a whopping 52 percent appear to hold graduate degrees—and this translates into ...
When the University Sponsors an Antisemite
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 12 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: One of the premises of Campus Watch, the project to improve Middle East studies that I started in September 2002, is, as Jonathan Schanzer and I wrote a few months earlier, that "The radical notions espoused in the classrooms and in campus demonstrations ...
Enforcing the Ramadan Fast
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 11 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In an Islamist age, there are bound to be some piquant and cruel stories about governments and self-appointed enforcers of morality insisting that the Ramadan fast be followed, no matter what. I will keep an eye on some of the more interesting episodes ...
Islamist Paintball, Anyone?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 10 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (15)
Excerpt: When Muhammed Aatique pleaded guilty on Sep. 23, 2003 to being part of northern Virginia jihad network, he acknowledged that the paintball games played by him and his fellow jihadists were "conducted as sort of a military training." Another member of the ...
Europeans Fleeing Eurabia
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 10 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (95)
Excerpt: The Miami Herald has an important article today, "French Jews Escape to United States," by Elinor J. Brecher, giving example after example of French Jews who gave up on the Hexagon and moved to southern Florida because of their fears of the growingly ...
Making It Easier to Deport the Pro-Terrorists
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 8 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The U.S. House today passed H.R. 10, the "9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act," to take steps to make sure that there is no repetition of 9/11. One of the amendments to this act is #25, proposed by Mark Green (Republican of Wisconsin) and John ...
Going to Israel? Go to Jail
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 6 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Salahuddin Shoaib Choudhury Mithal al-Alusi On November 29, 2003, the Bangladeshi journalist Salahuddin Shoaib Choudhury was arrested as he was about to board a flight to fly to Israel to attend a writers' symposium, where he ...
Marwan Kreidie: More Obstruction of Counterterrorism, More Rewards
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 6 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: I documented in July 2004, at "The FBI Loses Its Way," the scandal of the FBI's Philadelphia office honoring Marwan Kreidie, a Philadelphia activist, with its "Community Leadership Award" for his allegedly being "very helpful to the FBI office … in ...
Hizb ut-Tahrir's "Trimmed Beards and Western Clothes"
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 3 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: In a fine article, Amir Zia writes today for Reuters about an organization named Hizb ut-Tahrir and its ability to inspire young men to leave their birthplaces in the United States and Great Britain and return to their ancestral homeland of Pakistan. Two ...
Taxpayer-Sponsored Anti-Americanism in Geneva
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 1 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Alain Jean-Mairet, the translator of my columns into French, writes from Switzerland: Visitors to the Théâtre de Carouge in Geneva between Sept. 28 and Oct. 10 can see Opération Métastases by Dominique Ziegler, a play full of information on America's ...
Arab Delight on 9/11
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 1 Oct 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Sadik J. Al-Azm, emeritus professor of modern European philosophy at the University of Damascus and a patrician, is one of the most interesting of Arab thinkers. In an article in the Boston Review, "Time Out of Joint: Western dominance, Islamist terror, ...
Gitmo Recidivists
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 30 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: There's been a hue and cry about the United States authorities having to release the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, so this is now taking place. But two recent developments concerning former inmates should prompt the U.S. government to rethink this ...
The Islamist Gloom
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 30 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: This entry offers an occasional series of vignettes of the misery of the Islamist order, in reverse chronological order. Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka Bangladesh: Students complained that a physics professor, Obaidur Rahman, insisted that women in ...
The Copts Find Their Voice
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 30 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Through the centuries, the Copts (Christians of Egypt) have been among the more meek of dhimmis, rarely raising their voices in protest against their restricted lives, and this has been especially the case through the difficult twentieth century. But ...
My Talk at Duke University
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 29 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Something called the "National Student Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement" has become an annual fixture at one or other American campus the past three years, provoking much debate about free speech and the propriety of universities promoting ...
Not Calling Islamism the Enemy
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 29 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (28)
Excerpt: My weblog entry, "Calling Islamism the Enemy," documents the increasing readiness of Westerners to call the enemy by its name, but a contrary current, that of disassociating Islam from the problem, or pooh-poohing radical Islam as a threat, should not be ...
Rogue Israelis, Rogue Arabs in New Zealand
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 29 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Israelis are no angels but the extent of their mischief on the world scene is pretty small beer; in contrast, Arabs are at the heart of the public debate around the globe. One consequence is that Israelis who break the law get much more attention than ...
Troubling Muslim-American Attitudes toward the United States
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 29 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Robert S. Mueller, III, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the leading law enforcement official in the United States, stated back on Feb. 17, 2004 that "99.9 percent of Muslim-Americans, Arab Americans, Sikh-Americans are every bit as ...
Lorraine Ali, the Worst Political Reporter in America?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 29 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (11)
Excerpt: Newsweek writer Lorraine Ali defamed me in the "Periscope" section of its Sep. 27, 2004 issue, prompting a reader to point out a 2003 interview she gave at a website called redragmag.com ("rock entertainment in DM"). Asked there, "What's your favorite ...
Newsweek's "Periscope" Gets It Wrong
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 27 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: One Lorraine Ali wrote a puff-piece on the notorious Hussein Ibish in the "Periscope" section of Newsweek's issue dated today. One sentence there mentions me. Here is my response to Newsweek: Dear Editor: "He Can't Pay for a Cab" by Lorraine Ali [Sept. ...
The British Response to a Hostage-Taking
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 27 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I noted recently in "[Nepal and France:] Two Opposite Responses to Terrorism" the supine reaction of the French government when two of its citizens were abducted in Iraq, specifically the fact that for a while during this episode, "Islamic organizations ...
Neturei Karta, Paid Agent of Israel's Enemies
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 25 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: A stunning set of documents about the financial links between Yasir Arafat and Rabbi Moshe Hirsch have been posted by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (an Israeli organization). Hirsch is the buffoonish ...
Tariq Ramadan Exposed
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 23 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: I wrote recently about Tariq Ramadan's "usual excuses for the pattern of extremism that follows him like a cloud" – and here is a most interesting example of this, made available to me and translated from Italian by Lorenzo Vidino of the Investigative ...
Is the Blind Sheikh Trying to Die?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 23 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Since Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind sheikh (or blind sheik) of New York, was arrested on terrorism-related charges in 1995, his Islamist friends have been threatening that if anything befalls him, they will avenge him. Perhaps he is trying to provoke them ...
"Last Week I Saw Clinton"
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 21 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: That's Sami Al-Arian speaking, boasting to his fellow-Islamist, Fawaz Damra back in 2000 or 2001, reports WEWS Channel 5 in Cleveland. (Al-Arian is the former University of South Florida computer specialist now in a U.S. jail for raising money for and ...
UNRWA Obeys the Law!
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 20 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Of the many wretched international organizations that afflict the world, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency is surely the worst – inculcating habits of dependence, fostering grievances, and sympathizing with terrorism. So, it comes as a surprise ...
More Reasons for Brandon Mayfield's Incarceration
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 20 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: Brandon Mayfield is the Portland, Oregon lawyer and Muslim convert who spent two weeks in jail, May 6-20, as a result of a mis-identified fingerprint seeming to link him to the Madrid bombings on March 11, 2004. I attempted to show in "If You Are Muslim, ...
Canada's Immigration Chaos, Mahmoud Mohammad, and Me
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 13 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: Today's article by Stewart Bell in the National Post, "Terrorist says health will suffer if deported," brings back a host of bad memories. The terrorist is question is Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad, 61. He joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of ...
CAIR's Growing Litigiousness
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 13 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Starting about a year ago, CAIR has been turning to courts in the United States and Canada to silence its critics. Here are cases I know of: Hussam Ayloush vs. Shawn Steel and National Review. The article at issue made a mistake about Ayloush, which the ...
Reuel Gerecht: Militant Islam is the Answer?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 12 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: I have admired the writings of Reuel Gerecht since he first surfaced as the pseudonymous Edward Shirley, praising his 1997 book, Know Thine Enemy, as a "quite brilliant spy's report." But even there I disagreed with his policy conclusions and I do again ...
"Muslims Only!" at Adventure Parks
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 10 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (56)
Excerpt: The New Jersey branch of the Islamic Circle of North America ("The organization of Islamic Workers!") announces that Sept. 17 will be "The Great Muslim Adventure Day" at the local Six Flags Great Adventure Park. Not only is "This event is designed to ...
Critiquing Islamist Organizations outside the United States
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 7 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: So far, the detailed and sustained critique of Islamist organizations has been a purely American affair. I remember when, about 1995 when Steven Emerson first mentioned the problems of "CAIR" to me – I thought he was talking about CARE, the relief ...
More on "They're Terrorists – Not Activists"
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 7 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I published an article by the above title today, criticizing major media outlets for their avoiding the term terrorist in favor of some twenty synonyms. The article has prompted new information from readers. A CNN viewer notes a marked spike in use of ...
Hamza Yusuf Fails My "Test"
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 6 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (22)
Excerpt: I have offered a number of questions to ask of Muslims to determine whether they are radical or moderate. Hamza Yusuf Hanson, called by the Guardian "arguably the west's most influential Islamic scholar," announced at the just-ended convention of the ...
Finally, Cries from the Moderate Muslim Heart
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 5 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Where are Muslim cries of despair at what is being done in the name of their religion? This has been the great void of recent years, and what has led some non-Muslims to the wrong conclusion that all Muslims are culpable. Yesterday's Asharq al-Awsat ...
Whither Christian Zionism?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 1 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I published an article in July 2003, "[Christian Zionism:] Israel's Best Weapon?" in which I argued that "other than the Israel Defense Forces, America's Christian Zionists may be the Jewish state's ultimate strategic asset." But there is another view, ...
An Islamist Endorsement of Bernard Lewis
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 1 Sep 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The debate has become far more vicious since September 11, 2001, and one sign of that has been that the eminent scholar Bernard Lewis – someone who has savored Islamic culture and professionally studied it for some seventy years – has been called such ...
Tariq Ramadan, the "Chicago Tribune," and Me
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 31 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: My initial impression of the Swiss scholar, Tariq Ramadan, was a good one, as indicated by a positive review in the Middle East Quarterly of To Be a European Muslim: A Study of Islamic Sources in the European Context. But I watched with dismay as the ...
Canada's Pro-Israel Muslims
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 30 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: I am often asked questions along the lines of "Where are the moderate Muslims that you assure us do exist?" and I dutifully provide lists of names and organizations, then confess that they are largely fractured, isolated, intimidated, and ineffectual. ...
Permit Muslim-only Enclaves?
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (11)
Excerpt: The Islamic Center for Human Excellence, a branch of the Nation of Islam based in Little Rock, Arkansas, has received permission from a local planning commission, report KLRT-TV and the Arkansas Times, to build an Islamic community to include a mosque, a ...
More Muslim "Hate Crime" Myths
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 25 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: I published an article today, "'Islamophobic Prejudice' and CAIR," that documents how one Mirza Akram of Everett, Washington, plastered vile anti-Arab graffiti on the store he was managing and planning to buy before allegedly setting fire to it. Well, ...
Who Set Fire to Al-Aqsa Mosque in 1969?
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 21 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: When, 35 years ago to this day, Michael Dennis Rohan set fire to the Aqsa mosque, the Muslim response was vicious. Here is my account of the incident from The Hidden Hand: Allegations that the Zionists planned to do away with the Mosque of Al-Aqsa, the ...
"Is Bush an Israeli shill? Or a Saudi one?"
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 20 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: That's the title of a clever and insightful column by Bret Stephens, the Jerusalem Post's editor, in which he skewers the "Anyone But Bush" crowd for contradicting itself. Sometimes it blames the Israelis for undue influence over the U.S. president and ...
Syria's Continued Domination of Lebanon
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 17 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Beirut's English newspaper, the Daily Star, contains this charmingly frank text in a boring-sounding article titled, "Sharaa hold [sic] talks with Lahoud on regional issues." Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq Sharaa held talks with President Emile Lahoud ...
Foreigners Monitor U.S. Elections
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 16 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In an article today, "The Next Assault on American Sovereignty," I argued that permitting the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to monitor the forthcoming U.S. elections amounts to "significant step toward the erosion of American ...
The Maldives and the Professor
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 15 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: When I wrote an article a few weeks ago, "U Penn Prof for Shari'a," criticizing Paul H. Robinson for working with the Maldive government to implement a Shar‘i criminal code, I focused on the Islamic law dimension, not the problematic political situation ...
Does the Saudi Government Subsidize Speakers on American Campuses?
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 13 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I documented in my article three days ago, "The Saudis' Covert P.R. Campaign," that "A range of public figures—former ambassadors, university professors, think tank experts – routinely opine in America about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia while quietly ...
Neve Shalom's Little Secret
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 13 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: I have always had my doubts about Neve Shalom/Wahat as-Salam, the voluntary Jewish/Arab village half way between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and especially about its School for Peace. I ran a favorable article by Joseph ("track-two diplomacy") Montville in ...
Words Not to be Uttered about Islam
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 11 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The American branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has deemed the word Islamist unacceptable ("Constant use of ‘Islamist' overlooks real threats" is the title of an article responding to the 9/11 Commission report by a CAIR staffer, Arsalan ...
Salman Rushdie, Man of the Left
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 10 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: It seemed, in the aftermath of his being targeted by Ayatollah Khomeini and the Islamists in 1989, that Salman Rushdie had learned a thing or two politically about the world. Here is a description on his vapid leftism, pre-edict, extracted from my 1990 ...
Harvard Celebrates Middle East Studies
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 9 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In the years after World War II, Americans came to realize that the Cold War demanded expertise on the world's regions; Harvard University responded to this need in 1954 by establishing the Center for Middle East Studies and hiring H.A.R. Gibb ...
"Mr. Pipes Comes to America"
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 9 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: As the author of a book titled Militant Islam Reaches America (W.W. Norton, 2002), I am amused to learn that the Christian writer Douglas Bond published a 194-page book titled Mr. Pipes Comes to America (Christian Liberty Press, 2001) a year earlier. ...
Does a "Covenant of Security" Protect the United Kingdom?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 9 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Like many others, I have repeatedly bemoaned and ridiculed British weakness vis-à-vis Islamism (for example, here, here, here and here). But what if there's a method behind the British madness? That's the thesis of Jamie Campbell's cover story in the New ...
A Status Report on CAIR
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 3 Aug 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: How fares CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, North America's toughest and strongest Islamist group? I discern two contrary trends. On the positive side, the organization is doing gangbusters, hosting large fundraising events, expanding ...
Boilerplate for Denouncing Terrorism
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 30 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I recently wrote an analysis exposing "CAIR's Phony Petition" in which I concluded that its Not-in-the-Name-of-Islam effort "seeks to clean up Islam's image without doing anything of substance." Well, it gets even worse. Sound Vision, a project of the ...
The Difference between CAIR and MPAC
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 21 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I am sometimes asked to characterize the difference between the two leading American Islamist organizations, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Public Affairs Council. While they agree on many issues – impeding counterterrorism ...
Israel's All-Woman Air Force Combat Squadron
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 20 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: For over a century, the status of women has been one of the most enduring and pointed differences between the Zionists and their neighbors. Whether it was the sight of women working in the agricultural fields in shorts, striding the beaches of Tel Aviv ...
Madison, Wisconsin: Sister City to Rafah, Gaza?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 19 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: On the agenda for the Madison Common Council tomorrow evening, squeezed between regulations for juvenile curfews and a resolution to authorize water utility general managers to hire a consultant to prepare wellhead protection plans, one finds this ...
Saudis Sponsor a National Gallery of Art Exhibit
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 18 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Starting today and running through Feb. 6, 2005, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. is showcasing an impressive collection of Islamic art from London's Victoria & Albert Museum from. The exhibit is noteworthy both for its artistic merit, ...
American Islamist Organizations Vanish
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 17 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Islamist groups proliferate but they also close down. This entry follows the latter developments. _________ The first American Islamist organization of any significance to disappear was probably the Quranic Literacy Institute, battered by accusations of ...
No More U.S. Aid to Saudi Arabia?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 15 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Ever since April 1945, when Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated U.S.-Saudi ties in a meeting with King Ibn Saud, the two country's "special relationship" has been the private preserve of presidents, vice presidents, cabinet ministers, ambassadors, flag ...
Those Fourteen Syrians on Northwest Airlines Flight #327
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 13 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: In a story published today and getting lots of attention, Annie Jacobsen describes in Women's Wall Street her June 29 experience on Northwest Airlines flight #327 from Detroit to Los Angeles. To make a long story short, fourteen Syrian "musicians" acted ...
MPAC on Steven Emerson and Me
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 12 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Muslim Public Affairs Council yesterday held a much-hyped meeting (see coverage in the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Pasadena Star News, and the Press-Enterprise) at which Maher Hathout unveiled a "mosque to mosque" campaign to provide Muslims ...
Cynthia McKinney's Arab and Islamist Donors
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 9 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: We all knew that Cynthia McKinney would be drawing on Arab and Muslim supporters in her bid to return to Congress, but a listing of contributors (with information up through June 28) reveals to what an extraordinary extent this is the case, as shown by ...
Iraq's Leader Asserts Strongman Powers
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 8 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Iraq's interim prime minister Iyad Allawi, just ten days after the coalition transferred sovereignty to his government, yesterday announced new emergency powers. The laws permit him to detain those deemed security risks, impose curfews, and order ...
CAIR and the Raided Saudi School in Virginia
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 8 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: On July 1, federal agents from the the FBI, IRS and Homeland Security raided the Institute for Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America, a Saudi-created school in Merrifield, Virginia. The Institute for Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America, a ...
There Is No "Daniel Pipes Plan" for the Israeli Withdrawal from Gaza
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 8 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: I am flattered that Yehu Ben Zohar has taken notice of a 47-word comment of mine and made it the basis of his 782-word essay today, "The Daniel Pipes Plan." I am even more flattered that he espies in those slender words an entire "plan." But I regret to ...
Berlin Recognizes Militant Islam as the Threat
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 8 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In what is surely a first for any Western country, interior ministers from the sixteen German states (länder) have, Reuters reports, agreed to a plan proposed by Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily to establish a central database for Islamist ...
"A Woman's Right To Choose"
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 7 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: This slogan, made famous by pro-abortion activists in the United States, now has a new meaning, as in "Hijab: A Woman's Right To Choose." Poster for the July 12, 2004, event in London That is the slogan for a conference coming up on ...
Timeshare Comes to Mecca
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 5 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: A UAE-based company, Manazel Al Haramain (meaning "residences in Mecca and Medina") had a brainstorm: the most expensive land in the whole world is that adjoining the Grand Mosque in Mecca (costing as much as $93,000 a square meter) and the Prophet's ...
CAIR's Inconsistent Advice on Law Enforcement
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 4 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In March 2003, on the eve of the U.S. war with Iraq, CAIR sent out a "Muslim community safety kit" which included this advice: If you believe you have been the victim of an anti-Muslim hate crime or discrimination, you should: 1. Report the incident to ...
A Surreal U.K. Debate over "Stop and Searches"
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 2 Jul 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In an article titled "Muslims decry rise in police searches," the Guardian reports that British Muslim groups accused the police of harassment after Home Office figures showed a 300% rise [in 2002-03] in the number of Asians subjected to stop and search ...
What Was Binyamin Netanyahu Ready to Concede on the Golan Heights?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 27 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Excerpt: A seemingly forgotten topic – the Lauder-Nader round of negotiations between Israel and Syria in August-September 1998 – has suddenly revived, thanks to Bill Clinton's autobiography, My Life, published June 22. In it, the former president roughly ...
Do I Win a British "Islamophobia Award"?
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 26 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (29)
Excerpt: In addition to terrorism and other forms of violence, the current war also involves a battle of ideas, with Islamist totalitarians on one side and their opponents on the other. To convince the undecided, each side tries to discredit the other. This is a ...
The U.S. Government's Poor Record on Islamists
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 23 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: In my critique of the U.S. Institute of Peace for consorting with Islamists, I pointed out that "Over and over again, branches of the American government have been embarrassed by their blindness to jihadist Islam," then I gave four examples of this ...
MPAC's True Views
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 18 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In a curious e-mail today titled "MPAC Meets with Secretary of State Colin Powell—Here's Why" the Muslim Public Affairs Council justifies its willingness to meet yesterday with America's chief diplomat. One might not think an organization would need to ...
Palestinian Flowers to "Leader Kim Jong Il"
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 18 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: For years, I have a low-key interest in the Palestinian "diplomatic" representation abroad, that ambitious effort to endow first a terrorist group (the PLO) and then a terrorist authority (the PA) with the trappings of a legitimate state. I reported on ...
The Leftist-Islamist Alliance in Pictures
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 17 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (11)
Excerpt: Joelle Aubron Take a look at the picture at left of Joelle Aubron, a French woman just released from prison for health reasons (a brain tumour) after serving seventeen years for her murderous activities in Action Directe, the extremist ...
PBS Wins CAIR's Gratitude
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 16 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Martin Kramer lambasted "Islam: Empire of Faith" and I did a number on "Muhammad: Legacy of Prophet," both shown on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), a partially government-funded network. So, it comes as no great shock to learn that the Council on ...
Insane Asylum: How America Welcomes Terrorists
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 16 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Among Michelle Malkin's many virtues as a columnist is her keeping tabs of patterns that the rest of us might have missed. In today's column she notes a particularly distressing one: immigrants claiming "political asylum" who are later accused or ...
"A Jilbab in the School's Colors"
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 15 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (13)
Excerpt: It's hard to say exactly where the frontlines of militant Islam's non-violent war with the West are most advanced, but here's a nomination for the British town of Luton, Bedfordshire, about 30 miles northwest from downtown London. The town's Denbigh High ...
Erdoğan: "Turkey Is Not a Country Where Moderate Islam Prevails"
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 14 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (26)
Excerpt: The Turkish media (including Zaman and Anadolu Agency) carry accounts of a fascinating exchange yesterday in Chicago, at the Academy of Achievement. The panelists included former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, Bernard Lewis of Princeton University, ...
Granting Legal Immunity to Foreign Contractors in Iraq
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 14 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A Washington Post article today reads: "In an early test of its imminent sovereignty, Iraq's new government has been resisting a U.S. demand that thousands of foreign contractors here be granted immunity from Iraqi law, in the same way as U.S. military ...
Do You Now Feel Safer?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 13 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: United Press International reports today that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will stop all special security checks imposed in November 2002 on adult males entering the United States from the 25 countries considered a special risk for ...
Mecca's Imam Visits Londonistan
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 11 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: The London Muslim Centre The London Muslim Centre in Whitechapel, reports the BBC, has just opened. One of the largest Muslim community centers in Western Europe, the six-storey building can hold 10,000 worshippers and includes a gym, a ...
Saudi "Counterterrorism" Efforts Fail Again
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 9 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Times (London) carries a story today, "Disguised gunmen try to free terror leader," that details how three Islamist terrorists (or in the Times' vernacular, "al-Qaeda militants") staged an audacious attempt yesterday to spring Nimir Bigami, the badly ...
Passing as a Muslim
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 8 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: This morning, I published "[Khobar Rampage:] Don't Be Afraid, We Won't Kill Muslims," an analysis of the recent Islamist rampage in Saudi Arabia, noting how the terrorists inquired into the religion of their potential victims and killed non-Muslims while ...
Public Opinion in the Saudi Civil War
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 8 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: CNN reports today on the just-released results of a very large-scale survey (more than 15,000 interviewees) of Saudi subjects conducted between August and November 2003. The question asked was "What is your opinion of Osama bin Laden's sermons and ...
A University with Police Powers
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 5 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Al-Azhar University has achieved the sort of powers its counterparts around the world can only dream of: it can censor written and electronic materials, then confiscate what it disapproves of. The move was presented as a way of combating fringe Islamist ...
Is Salman Rushdie Now Safe?
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 5 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In "Salman Rushdie's Delusion, and Ours" from 1998, I made several arguments to show that Ayatollah Khomeini's 1989 edict against Salman Rushdie would live on and dismissed the news from Tehran that the threat to the novelist's life had ended. In an ...
Democracy Can't Be Imposed?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 3 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: So yesterday declared Shirin Ebadi, newly famous as the Iranian peace prize Nobel laureate. "Democracy is not a present to offer a nation. Democracy cannot be imposed on people by dropping bombs on them. The only way to go about it is through the United ...
Saudi Embassy: "Wahhabism is a Myth"
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 3 Jun 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A correspondent sent me the colorful letter he addressed to the information office at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Washington and then the equally colorful letter he got back from an unnamed employee there. First the letter from my ...
An Indian from Pakistan, a Pakistani from India
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 31 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: It turns out that the new prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh, was born in 1932 in the town of Gah, now in Pakistan. And the president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, was born in 1943 in New Delhi, the capital of India. According to the Associated ...
U.S. Medicine in the Persian Gulf
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 31 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A noteworthy article by Scott Allen in the Boston Globe today points to a trend: Harvard Medical School is breaking ground today for the Harvard Medical School Dubai Center that will help train medical staff, direct research, and provide quality control ...
Iraqi Christians Emigrate
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 28 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In an analysis of the interim Iraqi constitution passed on March 1, 2004, I wrote a pessimistic analysis, "Islamic Law Rules in Iraq" arguing that "When the interim constitution does take force, militant Islam will have blossomed in Iraq." One sign that ...
Israel Is Winning
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 22 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I have written a series of articles tracing the ineffectiveness of Palestinian terrorism against Israel – the first of them in December 2001, followed by others in February 2002, August 2002, January 2003, and most recently in April 2004. While the ...
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts Promote Radical Islam
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 21 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: I'll wager that Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941), founder of the Scouting movement, never imagined that a Girl Scout troop in the United States would be celebrating little girls donning the headscarf – but that's what happened at a recent event held by ...
Do as We Say, Not as We Do
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 20 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: This entry duplicated another one and has been moved there. Please go to "More U.S. to Israel: Do As We Say ..." to see it. ...
Jordan's King Abdullah II Echoes My Thoughts on Iraq
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 18 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: In an interview yesterday with Alan Cowell of the New York Times, King Abdullah II of Jordan offered his thoughts on the future of Iraq, opining that it should be run by a strongman, possibly one drawn from the ranks of Saddam Hussein's army. I would ...
European Elected Officials: Arabs Should Destroy Israel
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 16 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: As anti-Zionism gains in strength in Europe, calls for the destruction of Israel move from the fringe to elected officials. I will track this theme on an occasional basis, in reverse chronological order. _________ Jacques Myard, a deputy in the French ...
Another Argument for my "Democratically-Minded Iraqi Strongman"
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 16 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Here is another argument for my notion of a "democratically-minded Iraqi strongman," prompted by comments today by Secretary of State Colin Powell on "Meet the Press" SECRETARY POWELL: Of course the Iraqis want the occupation to end. They want the ...
Advice to Non-Muslim Women against Marrying Muslim Men
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 16 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (4699)
Excerpt: The consular bureau at the U.S. Department of State from the mid-1990s until 2000 distributed a document titled "Marriage to Saudis," offering straight-talking advice to American women contemplating tying the knot with Saudi men. As Martin Kramer ...
Shannen Rossmiller, American Hero
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 15 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (15)
Excerpt: A National Guardsman named Spc. Ryan G. Anderson stands accused of trying to aid Al-Qaida; the case looks strong, as the government has a 58-minute videotape of him telling undercover military personnel such things as: "I wish to desert from the U.S. ...
Oh Canada, Beware, Says Khalid Khawaja
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 15 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I am someone who prefers enemies to be straight-talkers. Better a Nikita Khrushchev who states "We will bury you" than a Leonid Brezhnev with his détente. Better a Saddam Hussein who blurts out his unfiltered thoughts and blunders into Kuwait than a ...
Spread Islam or Maintain a High Standard of Living?
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 15 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: As if the steady drumbeat of terrorism in neighboring Saudi Arabia were not enough to make expatriate workers want to leave the Persian Gulf, the UAE Ministry of Education and Youth has promulgated legislation to make to make Arabic compulsory during the ...
Getting Closer to a Showdown in Turkey?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 13 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I wrote an analysis in August 2003 interpreting actions by the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as "throwing down the gauntlet" to the military over the future of the country, whether Islamist or secular. Things have moved slowly ...
Iranian Women and the Right to Equal Inheritance
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 10 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Women winning the inheritance rights as men may not sound like hot news, but it is when that's the decision of the parliament in Tehran. The legislation still has more steps to go – in particular, it must pass muster with the hard-line Guardians' ...
The Bin Ladens and Skyscrapers
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 10 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: What is it about this family and tall buildings? Mamoun Fandy writes today in the Pacific News Service that, despite the permanent blot on their family name, the Bin Laden Construction Group recently won a bid to build the tallest skyscraper in the world ...
"Settle for a Stable Iraq"
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 9 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Washington Post has a long front-page analysis today, "Dissension Grows In Senior Ranks On War Strategy: U.S. May Be Winning Battles in Iraq, Losing the War, Some Officers Say." Its main themes closely parallel the arguments I have been making over ...
CAIR Calls U.S. Government the "New Saddam"
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 8 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Southern California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, shared his insights on current hostilities with several hundred worshippers as he led the jum‘a prayer service in a Mission Viejo mosque ...
The Demise of Militant Islam?
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 1 May 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the Egyptian sociologist who rose to international attention when his government jailed him for nearly three years in 2000-03 due to his critique of the Mubarak regime, has an article, "An Open Door," about the Arabs' forgotten ...
U.S. Pressure on Al-Jazeera
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 29 Apr 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, upset with the coverage of Iraq on Al-Jazeera, an Arabic-language television channel based in Qatar, brought up this subject with Qatar's foreign minister a few days ago, saying "the friendship between our two nations ...
Failed Attempts at Mega-Terrorism
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Mega-terrorism – the hope of killing many thousands in a single blow – is alive and well. Yes, it keeps getting thwarted (see ADL's long list of thwarted attacks in Israel in mid-2002), but the civilized world must be prepared that one day it will ...
Palestinian Terrorism Bests Palestinian Anarchy
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: "One would have to have a heart of stone," Oscar Wilde once declared, "to read the death of Little Nell... without laughing," referring to Charles Dickens' account of an innocent girl's demise in his novel, The Old Curiosity Shop (1841). Wilde's mean ...
Calling a Terrorist a Terrorist
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In a posting earlier today, I felt compelled to add in brackets that when the Press Association uses the term "militant" in reference to Palestinians, it really meant terrorists. This euphemism "militant" is becoming a true obstacle to understanding the ...
Arab Immigrants in Latin American Politics
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: "In the run-up to the 1996 presidential elections, all of the three most likely candidates were of Lebanese extraction: Vice President Alberto Dahik Garzozi; the mayor of the capital city, Jamil Mahuad Witt; and former governor Jaime Nebot Saadi." No, ...
Seeking Asylum from Western Countries
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 26 Apr 2004 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: The headline of the Express on Sunday story on April 18 was "Maddest Asylum Plea Yet" (not online) and the story begins thus: A Muslim cleric who taught sermons of hate to suicide bombers is seeking asylum from ... America. British taxpayers are already ...
Non-Muslim Islamists?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 25 Apr 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In a creative article in today's Los Angeles Times, Brian Michael Jenkins of the RAND Corporation considers Osama bin Laden's latest audiotaped message, in which offered immunity from further terrorist attacks to "our neighbors north of the ...
The Arab Street in Despair
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 22 Apr 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: It all seems quite distant, but there have been times in recent years when there have been expectations the Arab "street" would rise up against its rulers and Americans. During the buildup to the Kuwait war in 1991, for example, expectations of an ...
Defund Title VI?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 21 Apr 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In reviewing the results of a poll at his own website and at www.Campus-Watch.org, one which shows far greater support for defunding of area studies than for any other choice, Martin Kramer argues today that these results point to the fact that "Title VI ...
Inching Towards a Definition of the Enemy
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 21 Apr 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: During the past 2½ years, a Jewish Israeli who happened to be born in Iran, Libya or Syria – and that included such high-profile figures as Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and the singer Rita – faced a considerably lengthened visa process to enter the ...
Caught My Eye - Noteworthy Quotes
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 18 Apr 2004 | Permalink | Comments (18)
Excerpt: An occasional series of noteworthy quotes, started on April 18, 2004 and presented in reverse chronological order. _____________ Stanley Johnson, father of Boris Johnson, the just-elected mayor of London, discussing why his son will succeed at his new ...
Jihad's Total Fatalities since 9/11
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 16 Apr 2004 | Permalink | | 
