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A Consulate in Jerusalem
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 29 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (11)
Excerpt: Illustration from JW McGarvey, "Lands of the Bible" (1881). The American consulate is on the left side. The U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem has a storied history, going back to 1844, when it was established to function as a sort of "tourist ...
Dhimmitude in Practice
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 29 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (32)
Excerpt: Wherever Muslims form a plurality of the population, the life of non-Muslims tends to be grim. In some part, this results from the laws of Islam, which disdain and purposefully oppress the non-believer. In reverse chronological order, this entry provides ...
How Many "Hate Preachers" Expelled?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 29 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: London's Sun newspaper counted which European governments have forcibly expelled Islamist imams. George Pascoe-Watson found that Germany topped the list, having thrown out at least twenty of them. Spain, Italy and France each deported four. Holland three ...
Will Palestinian Prosperity End the Arab-Israeli Conflict?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 28 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (21)
Excerpt: There's a persistent Western hope that if only Palestinians possessed nice apartments and late-model cars, they would accept the status quo and call off their war against Israel. It's a projection of Western priorities (economics trumps politics) that ...
Is Islam the Problem? Is It the Solution?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 27 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (27)
Excerpt: Since about June 2002, I have offered an aphorism to sum up the war on terror: "Radical Islam is the problem; moderate Islam is the solution" (or, in earlier iterations, "Militant Islam is the problem …). Until now, no one has particularly taken issue ...
Additional Thoughts on "Winning the Propaganda War"
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 27 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: Space did not permit me to make several points in today's article, "Winning the Propaganda War," so I offer them here: Muslims preferring news from their coreligionists fits a larger pattern of distancing from non-Muslims that reverts to the Koran ...
Is There a Secret Arab-Israeli Trade?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 26 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: That's the title of a 1998 Middle East Quarterly article by Ephraim Kleiman, Don Patinkin Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his answer is resoundingly negative: "Trade data fails to support the existence of a substantial ...
A Pakistani Pater Familias
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 25 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (18)
Excerpt: Combining fragmentary news reports, here is what I can piece together of an appalling story coming out Pakistan concerning Nazeer Ahmed (also spelled Nazir Ahmad), a 40-year-old laborer in a village called Gago Mandi, near Burewala in the east of the ...
Israeli Taxpayers Fund Gaza Razing
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 22 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: The Sharon government has several times encouraged terrorism in ways that seem to me unworthy of an ally (such as releasing 429 terrorists in exchange for 1 hostage and 3 corpses; or rewarding violence with an unprecedented act of self-ethnic cleansing ...
The Harassing of Noam Chomsky
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 22 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (12)
Excerpt: In an interview in the fall 2005 issue of Thought & Action, the National Education Association's journal, Noam Chomsky discusses the post-9/11 intellectual climate in the United States. He argues that political harassment on the nation's campuses "is ...
Pretending Not to Profile Muslims
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 22 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Excerpt: Again and again, counterterrorist authorities focus at Muslims but insist they are not doing so. Muslims decry this hypocrisy and so do I. It's best to be honest and open about necessary preventative actions, however distasteful they may be. This entry ...
Are the Palestinians the World's Most Radicalized Population?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 22 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (12)
Excerpt: I believe they are. This weblog entry provides occasioinal insights on the topic. _________ Endorsing Al-Qaeda terrorism: The Norwegian organization Fafo found, in a face-to face survey with 1849 respondents aged 18 years and above in the West Bank and ...
Ahmadinejad Bans Western Music in Iran
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 19 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (13)
Excerpt: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seemingly addicted to making inflammatory statements, today announced the banning of Western music from Iran's radio and television stations. "Blocking indecent and Western music from the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting is ...
Is Omar Alghabra of Canada's Liberal Party an Islamist?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 19 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (56)
Excerpt: Western governments generally display little anxiety about Islamists in power (e.g., Turkey) and are happy to help enfranchise their deadliest enemies (e.g., in Egypt). And now the message comes from Canada that they even accept Islamists being elected ...
Two Palestines?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 18 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: As Yasir Arafat lay dying, I predicted the dissolution of the Palestinian Authority into two parts, the West Bank and Gaza. I did so in part based on the growing anarchy of the territories (which has since only grown worse after his death) and in part ...
Harvard Debates Islam
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 17 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (15)
Excerpt: Jennifer King posted an analysis in July 2005, "Know Islam," in which she argued that "Islam is in fact the real inspiration of the terrorist regime that threatens the world today." I don't agree with this point of view but do believe that in time of war ...
More Slave-Holding Muslim Immigrants in the West
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 16 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: My article "Saudis Import Slaves to America" lists instances of Saudi immigrants to the United States accused or convicted of holding slaves - Homaidan Ali Al-Turki and Sarah Khonaizan, Turki Bin Abdul Aziz, Abdulrahman S. Al-Banyan, Saad Bin Abdul-Aziz ...
A French Consulate in Mecca
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: Four French ministries have joined forces to issue a two-page document, Pèlerinage à la Mecque, décembre 2005 à janvier 2006: Conseils pratiques ("Pilgrimage to Mecca, December 2005-January 2006: Practical Advice") that offers advice for pilgrims on how ...
State Department: Whole of Middle East and North Africa Dangerous to Americans
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: In a public announcement today, State declares: Credible information has indicated terrorist groups seek to continue attacks against U.S. interests in the Middle East and North Africa. Terrorist actions may include bombings, hijackings, hostage taking, ...
The Gods and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 13 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (18)
Excerpt: Irving Kristol memorably observed, "Whom the gods would destroy, they first tempt to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict." I quoted Kristol in March 1991, dismayed by George H.W. Bush's hubristic statement that "the time has come to put an end to ...
The Caliphate
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 12 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (45)
Excerpt: In July 2005, I wrote an article titled "What Do the Terrorists Want? [A Caliphate]," pointing out how discussion of the goal of our Islamist enemy is almost non-existent. Today, Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times points out in "21st-Century ...
Transforming the West into an Islamic Society
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 12 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: There is no rest for Islamists who dream of turning the West into an extension of Dar al-Islam, as so much work must be done. I shall occasionally note their ideas for the transformation of culture and society. __________ Foreign language study: In ...
Further Converts to Terrorism
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 7 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (11)
Excerpt: In two articles, "Converts to Terrorism" and "More Converts to Terrorism" I listed new Muslims connected to terrorist operations, but of course my list was incomplete. Here are additional cases, either as they come to my attention or as they occur. ...
Away with Crucifixes, Crosses, and Christmas
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 6 Dec 2005 | Permalink | Comments (102)
Excerpt: As the Muslim presence in the West grows, so do the calls to do away with long-standing insignia that retain their Christian origins. This weblog entry keeps tab on some of the more colorful demands. __________ St. Edward's Crown ...
"Working Undercover as Christian Peace Activists"?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 30 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (14)
Excerpt: In a tragic irony, four of what are known as "peace activists," were kidnapped from their car in western Baghdad on Nov. 26 by a group calling itself the Swords of Righteousness Brigade. Al-Jazeera broadcast a videotape on Nov. 29, showing the abductees ...
Assessing Kadima
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 28 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: Israel has a history of spewing up parties, I noted today in "Ariel Sharon, Escapist," whose common elements include "a powerful urge to cut through the maze of difficulties [surrounding Israel] with gratifyingly sharp and decisive answers" and that ...
The London Markaz
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 27 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (92)
Excerpt: The Sunday Times (London) has an article today with an update on plans by Tablighi Jamaat to build a gigantic mosque complex, called the London Markaz, on a 10-acre site in Newham, a mere 500 yards from the site of the 2012 Olympic games. The Markaz' ...
Fortress Europe
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 27 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: As Europe comes increasingly under siege by asylum-seekers, refugees, economic migrants, jihadists, and others, it inevitably will put up walls, create military forces, and in other ways hunker down. One key development in this process is being revealed ...
Suspicious Neighbors Prevent Terrorism
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 24 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Robed men with long beards and women in burqas have often prompted thoughts of Islamist terrorism, leading to the police being alerted and the suspects turn out to be perfectly clean. Indeed, just such a recent case took place at a New York Giants ...
Prosecuting Racism in Great Britain
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 22 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: My column today, "Anti-Muslim Racism?" discusses how the word racism is now applied, especially in Great Britain, to a variety of political disputes unrelated to race. Space constraints prevented me from taking up a related problem: that racism seems to ...
Working out the Counterterrorist Kinks
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 22 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: In considering U.S. policy toward terrorists, I argue that the authorities face a whole new set of issues for which, however slowly and clumsily, they are developing a coherent set of regulations and guidelines. Just how slow and clumsy that process ...
Is the Bush Administration Reconsidering Its Rush to Democratization?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 22 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: I have been arguing for some time – most notably in "A Neo-Conservative's Caution," that "a too-quick removal of tyranny unleashes Islamist ideologues and opens their way to power"; this has also been the subject of my ongoing blog, article, and ...
MESA Looks in the Mirror
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 21 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: For the most part, Middle East studies and Islamic specialists in the United States are boisterous about the bounty of students, opportunities, and money they have come into due to the prominence of their region in the American debate. (For one example, ...
Kurt Vonnegut Lauds Suicide Bombers
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 19 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: If was bad enough when novelist and "peace activist" Kurt Vonnegut, 83, asserted in 2002 that there was too much talk about the 9/11 attacks and not enough about "the crooks on Wall Street and in big corporations." It was worse in 2003 when he wrote that ...
Israel's Democracy Deficit
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 15 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Israel has enough critics without me beating up on it. But I make an exception here to note how an already imperfect democracy is going further in the wrong direction, noting two instances, one from politics and one from journalism. In both, Israel ...
More Palestinian Reactions to the Amman Bombing
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 15 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I noted in my column today, "Palestinians Taste a Dose of Their Own Medicine," that being on the receiving end of Islamist suicide bombings has prompted small signs of a shift in views, "at least momentarily in Jordan." I could only cite one piece of ...
Muslim Taxi Drivers vs. Seeing-Eye Dogs
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 14 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (64)
Excerpt: Muslim lore has it that dogs are impure, so pious Muslims often try to avoid the animals. In most circumstances, this does not present a problem in the West, but it can when seeing-eye dogs are involved, for they have legal rights of entry. ...
Further Thoughts on the First French Intifada
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 8 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I published a column on this topic today, "Reflections on the Revolution in France." Here are facts and thoughts that could not fit there or came later. That title alludes to Edmund Burke's classic 1790 book by the same name. I don't quite think there ...
Explaining the French Intifada
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 8 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (13)
Excerpt: How are the French accounting for the riots across their country? They basically have two choices, blaming the French state and society for its maltreatment of the rioters or blaming the rioters for their unwillingness to fit into France. Early returns ...
More Reasons for Alarm at Ahmadinejad's Threats
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 1 Nov 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: In my column today, "Iran's Final Solution Plan," I suggest four reasons why the same old Iranian threat to obliterate Israel, enunciated by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Oct. 26, suddenly prompted an international uproar (Ahmadinejad's personality, ...
Burqas and Niqabs in the Classroom?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 24 Oct 2005 | Permalink | Comments (12)
Excerpt: After the hijab (which is allowed just about everywhere but France and Turkey) and the jilbab (permitted in Great Britain) gain access to the public school classroom, the next frontier is the niqab, a loose-fitting garment Muslim women wear that covers ...
Homaidan Ali Al-Turki, Colorado Slave-holder
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 22 Oct 2005 | Permalink | Comments (28)
Excerpt: I wrote about Homaidan Ali Al-Turki, 37, a Saudi graduate student at the University of Colorado, in June 2005, at "Saudis Import Slaves to America," telling how he (and his wife) was arrested on state and federal charges of forced labor, aggravated ...
American Hate Crimes against Jews and Muslims
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 17 Oct 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: The Federal Bureau of Investigation today issued statistics for Crime in the United States 2004. One section deals with hate crimes concerning religion and the breakdown looks like this: Bias motivation Incidents Offenses Victims Known offenders ...
Palestinian Difficulties Recruiting Suicide Bombers?
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 14 Oct 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The days when Palestinian terrorist groups had more suicide volunteers than they could handle seem to be over. That, anyway, is the implication of a report about the coercion by the Palestinian Authority of a 14-year-old boy. Wanted Tanzim terrorist ...
Bush and Israel – Stormy Weather Ahead?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 12 Oct 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Unlike some of my colleagues, who see George W. Bush as Israel's "best friend ever" in the White House, I have for four years mistrusted the president's understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict. I fretted over his radicalism and inconsistency, flayed ...
If the President Gives a Speech but the Media Does Not Report It …
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 12 Oct 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: If a tree falls in the forest but no one hears it, does it make a noise? This famous dilemma, ascribed to the philosopher George Berkeley (1685-1753) – though never in this form written by him – has a contemporary counterpart: What happens if the ...
Hinrichs Case: Law Enforcement Asks the Wrong Question
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 12 Oct 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Eleven days after Joel H. Hinrichs III, an engineering student at the University of Oklahoma, blew himself up outside a football stadium, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reports it has not found any connection between him and terrorist organizations. ...
Tortured?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 11 Oct 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: Islamists have a habit of telling horrible stories of having been tortured that do not pan out on closer inspection. This entry keeps occasional track of such cases. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali: In "[The Abu Ali Case and] Balancing Liberties, Security," I noted ...
How Long Until the Arab-Israeli Conflict Ends?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 10 Oct 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: It's my belief that, had the Oslo diplomacy not taken place, the Arab-Israeli conflict would have ended about 2010. Due to that "peace process," however, the likely date for a resolution has receded a generation, to about 2035. This is hardly an ...
"Islam" Does Not Mean "Peace"
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 9 Oct 2005 | Permalink | Comments (177)
Excerpt: One would think by now that the "Islam = peace" nonsense would not need correcting, but I keep encountering it – just yesterday asserted by a hostile questioner at a talk I gave at Ashland University, today in an oped. So, for the record: Most Arabic ...
Am I Helping the Terrorist Enemy?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 6 Oct 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: That's the gravamen of several letter writers and comment authors (see here) about my column this week, "Stupid Terrorists": that I am helping terrorists by pointing out their mistakes. I worried about this possibility, both before writing this analysis ...
Finding Moderate Muslims - More Questions
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 5 Oct 2005 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: At "[Finding Moderate Muslims:] Do You Believe in Modernity?" I formulated questions to ask of Muslims to discern whether they are moderates or not. The United America Committee has now issued a useful list of complementary danger signs to discern signs ...
More Stupid Terrorists
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 4 Oct 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: I provided a listing today of nine stupid terrorists, suspected terrorists, and would-be terrorists who made dumb mistakes; it is, of course, not complete, so I will note other instances as they come to my attention (but not including routine traffic ...
Islam Dispatches Santa, the Bible, and Winnie the Pooh
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 3 Oct 2005 | Permalink | Comments (23)
Excerpt: I noted in my column this week, "Enforce Islamic Law in Canada?" that "efforts to integrate Muslims into the West [often] upset a benign status quo" and gave as one example the banning of Santas, Nativity plays, Christmas carols, and Bibles so as not to ...
Fourteen Terrorist Attacks a Day against Israel
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 29 Sep 2005 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: The Israeli Prime Minister's Office has released the following statement: Today (Thursday), 29.9.05, will mark five years since the start of the current round of Palestinian violence, during which 26,159 terrorist attacks were perpetrated against ...
Learning Hebrew in Unlikely Places
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 29 Sep 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: Young French diplomats are flocking to learn the Hebrew language, Yedi‘ot Aharonot reports, and for two main reasons: Tel Aviv is a great city in which to serve and, having served there, one's chances to be posted in Kabul or Baghdad are minimized. As ...
The U.S. Government Defines Jihad
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 22 Sep 2005 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: It's a much debated word – as I have discussed here, here, and here – but probably everyone can agree that the Department of Justice did not get it quite right in an indictment of Hamid Hayat today. It reads: As used in this First Superceding ...
Ice Cream Fortunes
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I puzzled at "Lodi, California Mysteries" over the large amounts of money available to Umer Hayat, an ice cream truck vendor in Lodi, California connected to terrorism – his carrying $28,093 in cash through an airport and owning a two-house compound ...
Finding Allah in Unlikely Places
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 16 Sep 2005 | Permalink | Comments (202)
Excerpt: It is bad enough when Islamists insist that Islam win privileges that no other religion enjoys; worse is when they assert Islamic rights on the basis of imaginative insults. The offending Nike shoe logo, where "Air" supposedly looks like "Allah" ...
Does Fixing Potholes Tame Terrorists?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 5 Sep 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: In early 2005, President Bush and Secretary of State Rice both espoused what some call the "pothole theory of democracy," the idea that having to govern would absorb the energies of Hamas and thereby defang it. I documented their predictions and ...
Western Governments Define the Moderate Muslim
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 3 Sep 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Watching several Western governments mince their way through the maze of radical Islam and moderate Islam leads me to this conclusion: For Western officialdom, a moderate is defined as a Muslim who does not publicly advocate terrorism against the West ...
Swedish Follies
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 1 Sep 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: I have been tracking "Londonistan Follies" for over two years and perhaps the time's come to give the topic a rest. I have made my point and, with the transit system bombings on July 7, Britain's problems have become only too known. Perhaps it's time to ...
The London Bomber's Suicide Video
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 1 Sep 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Al-Jazeera today played a video of Mohammad Sidique Khan, leader of the July 7 London suicide bombers, in which he explained his reasons for planning to kill his fellow-citizens. Speaking with the distinctive Yorkshire accent of his native Leeds, the ...
1,378 Words Later – Or, How to Mangle an Interview with the Secretary of State
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 30 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I was one of the many readers who jumped (in my case, at "Will the Gaza Precedent Haunt Israel?") on seeing this passage recently in the New York Times: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday [Aug. 17] offered sympathy for the Israeli settlers ...
Europe's Burqa Wars
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 25 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (19)
Excerpt: Nothing symbolizes the rift between radical Islam and the West so non-violently but pungently as the burqa, a full body-covering that covers even the eyes, which Westerners find especially offensive when located on their own streets. I will follow these ...
Dallas Jews, Secrecy, and Security
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 23 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A resident of Dallas, Texas recently sent me a report about the North American regional JCC Maccabi games, hosted on July 31-August 5, 2005 by the Dallas Jewish Community Center: Held at the Resistol Arena in the suburb of Mesquite, the competition ...
Mainstream Reporter Coaches Sami Al-Arian
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 23 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The wiretaps on Sami Al-Arian's telephones in Tampa picked up not just his terrorist chatter but everyone he spoke with, including reporters. For years, the local press divided on him, with the Tampa Tribune critical of him and the St. Petersburg Times ...
A Hot Summer in Scotland
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 22 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Scotsman newspaper runs parallel quotes in one article that define the current outer limits of British debate. Yaqub Zaki, born in Greenock, Scotland as James Dickie, now deputy leader of the self-styled Muslim Parliament of Great Britain, and author ...
Talking Freely about the Enemy
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 22 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: Two recent developments prompt some reflections: The State Department took the unusual step of condemning the views of a member of the U.S. House of Representatives as "insulting and offensive"; and A subsidiary of the Disney Corporation fired a ...
Idiots' File
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 22 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: Just as there are especially insightful statements (a few of them collected by me at "Caught My Eye – Noteworthy Quotes"), so there are assertions that dazzle with their stupidity. Here is a sampling, in reverse chronological order: _________ Richard ...
Basheer M. Nafi, Co-Editor and Accused Terrorist
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 19 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Convicted criminals and even convicted terrorists do significant intellectual work (think of Antonio Negri, co-author of the acclaimed Empire). Still, it took me aback, as the Sami Al-Arian trial is underway, to receive a serious volume of essays, ...
350 Bombs in an Hour – A Vision of the Terrible Future?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 18 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Admittedly, the bombs were small affairs and Bangladesh is a country few outside its region pay much attention to. But still – as reported by Shafiq Alam and Helen Rowe in the Australian – the bombing campaign on August 17 was extraordinary and ...
Will the Gaza Precedent Haunt Israel?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 18 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: "Everyone empathizes with what the Israelis are facing, [But] it cannot be Gaza only." So spoke Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, presumably articulating Bush administration policy. She does not, in this interview with the New York Times, further ...
Sneaking Irrelevant Anti-Israel Materials into the Classroom
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 17 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. offers a course on Real Estate for prospective real estate agents. Lesson three deals with "Land Ownership and the Law of Tort" and concerns such matters as "negligence ...
Do Canadian Islamists Approve Profiling or Not?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 17 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Two parallel but opposite press releases just emerged from the Islamist swamps of Ontario. In the first, the Council on American-Islamic Relations reacted to the suggestion of a (black) Toronto city councilor, Michael Thompson, that the police should as ...
Bibliography – My Writings on the Gaza Withdrawal
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 15 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: As the sad and perhaps lethal day of Israel's withdrawal from Gaza arrives, I offer a chronological overview of my writings on this mistaken policy. "Reading Sharon's Mind." New York Sun, December 23, 2003. Expects that Sharon is more crafty than ...
An Islamic School for Lodi, California?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 11 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Lodi, an agricultural town of 65,000 in northern California, found itself in the spotlight in early June 2005 due to the arrest of four Muslims, plus accusations that they were connected to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, and many unanswered questions. Then, ...
Hizbullah Teaches Terrorism to the Palestinians
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 7 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: It's long been known that Hizbullah's expulsion of Israeli forces from Lebanon in May 2000 had a major impact on the Palestinians. Here is how I summarized the matter a year later: That impact is partly practical, with Hizbullah providing instruction ...
Can Infidels be Innocents?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 7 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: Three so-called fatwas (even a novice in Islam knows they do not fulfill the definition of a fatwa, which has to be written by a Islamic jurisprudent in response to a specific query) came out in July condemning the 7/7 attacks in London. British Muslim ...
More Praise for "Terrorist Profs": Mohamed Yousry
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 7 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: In February 2003, three current or former instructors in Middle East studies at the University of South Florida in Tampa were charged with racketeering and conspiracy to murder. In response, I wrote an article, "Terrorist Profs" reviewing the standing of ...
Predicting a Majority-Muslim Russia
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 6 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (24)
Excerpt: "Russia's Turning Muslim, Says Mufti" is the startling headline in the Times of London today. Ravil Gaynutdin, head of the Council of Muftis of Russia, announced that Russia's population of 144 million contains 23 million ethnic Muslims – and not, as the ...
When American Politicians Adopt a Harder Line than Israel's
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 2 Aug 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: "Some Congressional Leaders Worry Gaza Pullout Amounts to Appeasement": That's the eye-catching title of an article by Geostrategy-Direct. The text is no less interesting: : Nobody in the Republican-controlled Congress wants to be seen as opposing the ...
Jordan to the West Bank, Egypt to Gaza
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 27 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In retrospect, it was but for an extended blink of the eye that Jordanian and Egyptian forces ruled, respectively, the West Bank and Gaza in from 1948-49 until their expulsion by Israeli forces in 1967. Amman annexed the West Bank in 1950 but finally in ...
More Survey Research from a British Islamist Hell
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 26 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (13)
Excerpt: I summarized two surveys of British Muslim attitudes yesterday at "British Opinion Surveys from an Islamist Hell." Wouldn't you know it, but a third one came out today, commissioned by the Guardian newspaper and carried out by ICM. Its results basically ...
Learning from the 7/7 London Bombings
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 16 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Could it be that the four bombs on July 7 jarred the British from their Londonistan reverie? Though a believer in what I call "education by murder," I doubt that 54 deaths of anonymous users of public transportation can profoundly impact so tired, ...
"Jihad" on Trial
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 15 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: What the Arabic word jihad means is crucial to the war on radical Islam. If it means (as one professor of Islamic studies puts it) "resisting apartheid or working for women's rights," we can all go back to sleep. But if it points to something more ...
How Islamist Killers Dissemble
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 14 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: In "But he was good to his mother: Murdering for militant Islam," I reviewed the common pattern whereby family and friends of those accused of Islamist murder invariably respond with astonishment and praise the accused. I looked in some detail at Sajid ...
How a Young British Muslim Was Tempted into Jihad
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 14 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: In a striking confession in London's Mirror by a young British Muslim about attempts to recruit him for jihad at a troubled moment in his life, he explains how his would-be recruiters made precisely this point to him: They asked me if I'd ever ...
British Culture – Worth Saving?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 14 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: In a cutting-edge editorial (or, as the British say, leader), the Daily Telegraph defines in "The fundamentals of law in this country..." the stakes in the war with radical Islam. The editorial defines five "values which are immanent in our culture, and ...
Cut the Apologetics, a Muslima Advises CAIR
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 14 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: Radical Islamic organizations divide into two broad types: those wanting to work within the system and those in full rage against it. The two share little; but while the political ones try to ignore the marginal ones, the favor is not returned, with the ...
Does Terrorism Help the Islamist Cause?
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 8 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: It's hard to say whether violence by those acting on behalf of radical Islam is achieving their specific goals, when the perpetrators issue no pronouncements and make no demands. (In contrast, in the old days of airplane hijackings, imperatives were ...
Islam vs. Radical Islam in the U.S. Courtroom
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 8 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Should a defendant's or a juror's religious views be part of a court proceeding? Are Islamist views religious? Vanessa Blum of Legal Times takes up this sticky issue in "Putting Islam on the Stand." I summarized the trial she discusses back on April 26, ...
Is the Iraqi Government an American Puppet?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 7 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: As early as April 2004, I argued in "The Bush Administration, Member of OPEC" that "Washington has been so hands-off of Iraqi oil, so willing to let Iraqis run this critical aspect of their country's national life, that it permits them to act exactly ...
Downing Street's Favorite – The Muslim Council of Britain
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 7 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: "I welcome the statement put out by the Muslim Council." Not only did the Queen of England recently knight Iqbal Sacranie of the Muslim Council of Britain, but Prime Minister Tony Blair today, in his first major speech following the four explosions in ...
Has Islam Been Hijacked?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 6 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Yes, according to many analysts, both Muslim and non-Muslim, the religion has been hijacked by Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, and more broadly by violent Islamists: Hamza Yusuf, an American Muslim leader: "Islam has been hijacked by a discourse of anger and ...
More Tales of Koran Desecration
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 5 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In the United States, as I related at "Amazon.com's Koran Desecration Problem," being accused of desecrating the Koran can lose you book sales. But the same accusation has much more dire consequences in Pakistan, as Yousaf Masih, an illiterate Christian ...
The Left vs. the Islamists
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 5 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: As is well known by now, the Left and the Islamists have formed a working alliance. David Horowitz looked into this at length in his book Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left and I have devoted a number of articles and weblog entries to ...
The West Stands Up for Its Customs
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 1 Jul 2005 | Permalink | Comments (21)
Excerpt: Is Europe finished? Some major authors, such as Bat Ye'or, Oriana Fallaci, and Jean Raspail, say "yes." But I think not; there is still fight left in the old continent, as the 2004 French ban on hijabs in public schools signaled. And although I usually ...
Mohammad Radwan Obeid, Jehovah's Witness?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 29 Jun 2005 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: Mohammad Radwan Obeid, 33, was in bed with his fiancée, Misty Iddings, 30, at 8:37 a.m. on March 28, 2005, at their residence in Piqua, Ohio, when about 10 FBI agents pounded on the door, entered the house, questioned Obeid, and arrested him. They also ...
"A Lot of It Is in the Nose"
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 26 Jun 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: That's a quote from John Beam, a former head of security for TWA, which I quoted in a January 2002 column, "[Not Profiling:] A Deadly Error," referring to the skills that U.S. airline personnel are not allowed to draw on. It seemed hopeless back then to ...
Sir Ibrahim Hooper and Lord Salam Al-Marayati?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 12 Jun 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Well, they live in the wrong country to receive such accolades, and much they must rue it, for their British counterpart, Iqbal Sacranie, was knighted today, in the Queen's Birthday Honours. As secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain (on ...
Lodi, California Mysteries
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 11 Jun 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: The arrest this week of five men of Pakistani origins in Lodi, California, on what are likely to be terrorism-related charges (terrorism was initially a formal part of the picture but was then retracted) has prompted extensive media coverage. The ...
Ehud Olmert on the Gaza Withdrawal – A Dreamy Return to Oslo
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 9 Jun 2005 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: Israel's Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert revealed important points about Likud's thinking about the Gaza withdrawal in a speech today in New York to the Israel Policy Forum. He calls the withdrawal "a remarkable process … that will have an enormous ...
Next Time Someone Gets Indignant about Israeli Spying on the United States …
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 5 Jun 2005 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: ... refer him to this little item, "American sub spied on Israel," from Aaron Lerner at the Independent Media Review Analysis: Israel Television Channel Two military affairs correspondent Ronnie Daniel revealed this evening that the submarine Israel ...
The Muslim Brotherhood's American Goals
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 25 May 2005 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: I wrote about the Muslim American Society in "The Islamic States of America?" and how it seeks to replace the Constitution with the Koran. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross takes this further today in "MAS's Muslim Brotherhood Problem," where he looks closely at ...
Mark Steyn: How Terrorism Advances the Islamist Cause
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 23 May 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Islamist movement has two wings, one illegal and violent, the other legal and political. I believe the latter enjoys better prospects of success than the former. That's because law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and military forces know how to ...
Islamist Supremacism in Miniature
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 23 May 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A recent development at the University of Michigan's Flint campus summarizes the radical Islamic program in small compass. Shena Abercrombie of the Flint Journal reports how the Muslim Student Association took over a small space called the Meditation ...
MSM Criticizes CAIR, CAIR Brazens It Out
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 23 May 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Just five days ago, Sharon Chadha and I criticized the mainstream media for mindlessly repeating CAIR's bogus statistics (see "CAIR's Hate Crimes Nonsense." Now, to my no little amazement, National Public Radio did a segment (granted, on the "Day to Day" ...
Michael Isikoff, Meet Salman Rushdie
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 20 May 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Though myself critical of the Newsweek reporting about the Koran in the toilet, it is important to keep in perspective who is to blame for the rioting that caused sixteen deaths in Afghanistan and elsewhere. The responsibility lies squarely and uniquely ...
How Many Islamists?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 17 May 2005 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: Germany's interior minister, Otto Schily, spoke today at the release of the 2004 Verfassungsschutzbericht, the annual report by the domestic security agency that surveys Germany's extremist movements, as I have written, in a "frank and constructive way." ...
Don't Underestimate the Saudis
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 11 May 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: It is easy to underestimate the Saudi leadership. It was not that long ago that they were predominantly Bedouin, remote from the modern world. They wear clothing that to a Western eye hardly inspires confidence. Their riches beyond avarice permit a ...
In Praise of Routine Traffic Stops
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 4 May 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Today's news includes this item: Sami Ibrahim Isa Abdel Hadi, 39, was stopped for tailgating on Route 46 in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. When a Bergen County police officer called in Abdel Hadi's North Carolina license plates, he learned that Abdel Hadi ...
After the Internet … Billboards?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 3 May 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Robert Spencer today shows some pictures of a billboard in Los Angeles (at Sunset Blvd. and Fairfax Ave.) that features his website plus the words "Dhimmitude," "Eurabia," and "Bat Ye'or." That reminds me to note here that, as of January 2005, a ...
John Esposito's Very Special Security
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 28 Apr 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: As someone who often meets with protestors when speaking on North American campuses, I read with considerable interest the personal testimony by William J. Bryan, III, about his attendance at a lecture last month. With two tickets and some flyers in ...
The West Accepts Hamas
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 26 Apr 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: As foreign Islamists approach democratic legitimacy, the U.S. government has found them increasingly acceptable (as I documented in "Can Hezbollah and Hamas Be Democratic?" but today the Bush administration put the brakes on this tendency, writes Steven ...
The U.S. Army Really Does Need Help with Arabic
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 17 Apr 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: "Use your Arabic, Build your future" reads the headline of a U.S. Army recruiting advertisement posted at the army website. The copy then goes on to explain the opportunities: "As an Arabic speaker you have the unique opportunity to join the U.S. Army as ...
Hasan Akbar's Chilling Diary Entries
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 14 Apr 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Reports immediately after the fragging incident in March 2003, when American soldier Hasan Akbar killed two of his fellow soldiers, suggested that the sergeant had changed sides, seeing himself as an Iraqi jihadi fighting the Americans. Here is a summary ...
Is Grover Norquist an Islamist?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 14 Apr 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: Paul Sperry, author of the new book, Infiltration, in an interview calls Grover Norquist "an agent of influence for Islamists in Washington." When asked by FrontPageMag.com why a Republican anti-tax lobbyist should so passionately promote Islamist ...
"Hamas is Worse than Israel, Worse than Sharon"
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 13 Apr 2005 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: The speaker of those words is one Ziad Zaranda, the Gazan whose fiancée, Yusra Azzami, 20, was murdered because the couple were seen walking by the sea and Hamas operatives decided this act was so immoral, she deserved to die. The young couple's tale is ...
Sharon's Gaza Withdrawal – Made in Washington?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 11 Apr 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I published an article today titled "The Forcible Removal of Israelis from Gaza," a follow-up to a column last week, "Ariel Sharon's Folly." As today's title implies, it responds to a debate I prompted – whether there has ever been anything quite like ...
"History Alive!," Scottsdale Schools, and a Reader's Comment at www.danielpipes.org
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 6 Apr 2005 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: I received an e-mail from Janie White on February 27, 2005, in which, responding to my article on "Spreading Islam in American Public Schools" she told me about her daughter's experiences in the 7th grade with a textbook from the Teacher's Curriculum ...
Can the Palestinians Learn from the Movie "Gandhi"?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 6 Apr 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I am usually very skeptical of clever schemes to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict, especially ones promoted by Hollywood stars (think of Jason Alexander and Richard Gere). But I admit to a soft spot for the "Gandhi Project," the brainstorm of actor Ben ...
The Very Worst Article on Islam?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 6 Apr 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Call me unfair for picking on a college journalist, but "Islam: a religion based on peace" by Tony Chiorazzi in the University of Southern California's Daily Trojan today is my candidate for this prize. It has every platitude, inaccuracy, and banality in ...
Free Muslims March against Terror
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 31 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (13)
Excerpt: Did the Council on American-Islamic Relations ever organize a march against terrorism? Never. In fact, as I documented in "Moderate Muslims March in Phoenix," when a march against terrorism took place in Phoenix, Arizona, CAIR stayed away and then ...
Will Mohammed Mansha Walk?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 30 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: "Should law enforcement profile Muslims?" That was my lead question, answered in the affirmative, in "To Profile or Not to Profile?" In that article, I focused on the case of Abdullah al Kidd; elsewhere, in both article and blog, I have devoted ...
Palestinian Predicts: United States to Perish in 2007
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 29 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Who can resist the allure of a specific and spectacular prediction? In 1997, I took delight reviewing Michael Drosnin's inane Bible Code, where he unerringly foretold, for example, that Binyamin Netanyahu would not live out his term as prime minister. ...
Hamas Trains Terrorists in Syria
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 29 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Israeli security forces on March 2, 2005, arrested Osama Mattar, a 20-year-old Palestinian, as he tried to sneak into Gaza. Ravi Nessman of the Associated Press today writes up a jailhouse interview he had with Mattar, in which Mattar told about his ...
Troubles at Islamic Schools in the West
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 29 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: In "What Are Islamic Schools Teaching?" I noted seven Islamic schools in North America, six American and one Canadian, which teach hostility to Jews and Christians or had suspected links to terrorism. This is a recurring pattern, and so important to ...
Bibliography - Accounts of My Disrupted Talks
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 27 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Here are the write-ups of my more "interesting" talks at institutions of higher education, and here it is, updated as needed: Colorado College, September 10, 2002 – My encounter with Hanan Ashrawi. York University, January 28, 2003 – When I was guarded ...
Stephen Schwartz and the Center for Islamic Pluralism
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 25 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: Stephen Schwartz, author of The Two Faces of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism, is as of today also the director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism, a Muslim anti-Islamist organization with which I am connected. (See the announcement ...
Hezbollah and Hamas Surge in Power
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 22 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: Two weeks ago, I wrote about my concerns that the turn to democracy in the Muslim world will bring Islamists to power, thereby extending and legitimating the rule of totalitarian imperialists. Within days, this worry took operational form in two small ...
Bridegrooms Who Marry in Fear
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 21 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: We're all accustomed to the idea of Muslim girls, even those living in the West, being forced into marriage. This is the subject of much discussion, especially in Europe. Perhaps the fullest account of this problem is found in the 2003 study by Hege ...
Are Christians Infidels (Kafirs)?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 21 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: "Islam never refers to Christians as infidels," announced Mohammed Fahmy, professor of industrial technology at the University of Northern Iowa, at the three-day annual Iowa Conference on Islam sponsored in part by Iowa State University's Muslim Student ...
Gibbon, Oxford, and Islam
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 18 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: What would have happened had Muslims won the battle of Poitiers (and it was a very close thing) in France in 733? Probably not much – a bit more plunder for them but no lasting consequences. But Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) saw that battle as a key turning ...
CAIR and "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 17 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: In a statement today, the Council on American-Islamic Relations asserts: In 2002, CAIR called on an Arab-American publication to apologize for publishing excerpts from "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," a 19th century anti-Semitic forgery used to ...
New Zealand – the West's Most Anti-Israeli Government?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 15 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In the race to the bottom, I nominate the government of Prime Minister Helen Clark as the most anti-Israeli in the Western world. Yes, there's plenty of competition (Belgium, Canada, and Greece come to mind) but Clark's peeved response to the passport ...
Americans' Tax Dollars Fund the Wahhabi Lobby (ISNA)
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 15 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: In a startling article today, "Federal Money Goes to Controversial Muslim Group," Sherrie Gossett reveals for Accuracy in Media that the Bush administration has sent $50,000 to the Islamic Society of North America, a leading organization in the Wahhabi ...
Exclude Islamists from the West?
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 11 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Excerpt: That is what Quebec's international relations minister (and former immigration minister), Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, told a conference yesterday, reports Mike de Souza in the Montreal Gazette. Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, Quebec's minister of ...
Ariel Sharon, Far-Leftist
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 11 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Should anyone still have doubts about the political transformation of Ariel Sharon from stalwart of Israel's nationalist Right to paragon of its appeasing Left, Ori Nir dispels them in today's article, "Israel Reaching Out to Dovish Groups In Bid To ...
High Cigarette Taxes – A Terrorist's Delight
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 11 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Talk of unintended consequences; The Argus (of San Francisco) contains a deeply ironic piece today by Steve Geissinger on how do-gooder attempts to improve Americans' health by raising federal taxes on cigarettes ends up sending money to anti-American ...
Is Knowing British Tax Laws Proof against Radical Islam?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 9 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: As I keep saying, it you can't name radical Islam as the enemy, you can't properly fight it. A colorful example comes today from the United Kingdom, where the chillingly named "Home Office Cohesion and Faiths Unit" issued a consultation paper that ...
The Far Right & Jihadis in Alliance
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 9 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Several of us have focused on the opening that the Left has provided to Islamists (for example, David Horowitz' Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left and my "Left ♥ CAIR, MPAC, et al."), but we have nearly ignored the neo-Nazi ...
How Many Arab-Americans?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 9 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: It's bad enough that the Islamist organizations more than double the actual number of Muslims living in the United States (as I showed in a 2001 article, "How Many U.S. Muslims?"). Worse is that the Arab-American organizations are now tripling their ...
Islamists Make Me a Movie Star
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 1 Mar 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I have already noted at "Saddam Hussein Made Me a Movie Star" how the Iraqi dictator had me "starring" in a documentary titled In Shifting Sands: The Truth About UNSCOM and the Disarming of Iraq. Now I have even more exciting news to report. Islamists ...
Deport Saudi Diplomats on Religious Freedom Grounds?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 28 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: With the passage of the "Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004," it is now possible (according to section 5502, on p. 108) to deport "foreign government officials who have committed particularly severe violations of religious freedom." ...
UNRWA's Ghastly Proposal for Extra Funding
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 28 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The outgoing chief of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, Peter Hansen, who ranks among the worst administrators the U.N. has ever known (and that is saying something), today put forward a proposal to provide US$1.1 billion in extra funding for ...
Are the Saudis Diddling the Americans?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 27 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Ahmed Omar Abu Ali case has many intricacies, but what stops me short is reading this sentence by Michael Isikoff in Newsweek: Abu Ali's Virginia-based parents—his father works as a computer analyst for the Saudi Embassy—say their son was tortured ...
Favoring Islamists over Gays and Jews
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 27 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: "Discrimination bill snubs gays to save Muslim vote" runs the headline in the Sunday Times (London), reminding one of Pim Fortuyn's worries and foreshadowing what should be a major divide in British and other Western countries, as homosexuals realize ...
Jean-Marie Le Pen, Again Convicted of Racism
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 24 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Am I the only one to find something anomalous in the fact that the political figure who came in second in the race for the presidency of France in 2002 had a €10,000 fine upheld today by an appeals court for expressing his views on what is his central ...
I Am a "Crusader"?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 24 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: That's what leftoid propagandist Jim Lobe claims in the title of an article, "‘Anti-Islamist' Crusader Plants New Seeds," put out by the Rome-based Inter Press News Agency; yours truly is the crusader in question. This follows on a piece by Lobe, issued ...
How the Mainstream Media Headlines the Abu Ali Indictment
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 23 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Omar Abu Ali, right, speaks about the charges against his son, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 23, as his wife, Faten Abu Ali, looks on. The American government yesterday indicted Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a raging Islamist, with plotting to kill the president ...
Which Middle East Specialists Get Assigned and Read?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 22 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Center for History and New Media (whose slogan is "building a better yesterday … bit by bit") at George Mason University has tweaked google.com so as to produce a fascinating "Syllabus Finder." Put in an author's name and it churns out a listing of ...
If I Had Enough Time … Research Suggestions Given Away
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 22 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Here are some leads I wish there were time for me to work on; as there is not, I offer them for others to take up: Terrorism in blue vs. red states: The United States is split fairly evenly between Democrats and Republicans. Given how much more inclined ...
My Optimism about Ending the Syrian Occupation of Lebanon
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 22 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Syrian occupation of Lebanon began in 1976 and I started writing about it a few years later. Through the long, black years of Syrian hegemony, I have always believed that it would end someday. Here are a few selections (note in particular the ...
Valentine's Day in the Muslim World
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 14 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A year ago, I published "Hating Valentine's Day" and "Valentine's Day in Mecca." Here is an occasional update on Islam and that special day, outside of Saudi Arabia. Bangladesh: Outrage over Valentine's Day led to 12 people injured at Dhaka University. ...
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons Explains Jihad
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 10 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Many branches of government need to understand Islam, but probably none deal with Muslims and their religious practices in so practical and detailed a way as do the wardens of prisons. It is therefore particularly dismaying to see that the highest prison ...
What You Can Do To Help Win the War on Terror
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 9 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (11)
Excerpt: A few weeks after 9/11, then-attorney general John Ashcroft said that "We're counting on each American to help us defend our nation in this war," but neither he nor other ranking officials have clarified what they are hoping citizens will do to forward ...
More Incidents of Denying Islamist Terrorism
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 8 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: I published a column by this title today, documenting thirteen cases of presumptive Islamist terrorism, when the first response of the police, prosecutors, and politicians is to look the other way, insisting that there is no link. But my column lacked ...
Khaled Abou El Fadl Reveals His Islamist Outlook
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 4 Feb 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: I have devoted considerable attention to the deceptions of Khaled Abou El Fadl, professor of Islamic law at the University of California, Los Angeles and famed Muslim "moderate." (My article on him calls him in the title a "stealth Islamist.") Abou el ...
Thoughts on the Forthcoming Iraqi Elections
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 26 Jan 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Iraqi elections are just four days off, so here are some concluding thoughts on this event: I heartily endorse the U.S. government's goal of making Iraq a democracy. But I worry about the timetable to attain it. I expect that the elections to be held ...
Saudi-Supported Mosques and Islamic Research Institutes in the West
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Wondering which American organizations the king of Saudi Arabia favors financially? The answer is not hard to find. Just go to www.kingfahdbinabdulaziz.com and see it all conveniently laid out, in English at that. Here is the page on mosques in the ...
Islamists Penetrate Western Security
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: It was hard for me to write this, but I argued exactly two years ago that "There is no escaping the unfortunate fact that Muslim government employees in law enforcement, the military and the diplomatic corps need to be watched for connections to ...
The Armanious Family Massacre
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: I have held off commenting on the chilling murder of the four Armanious family members on Jan. 11, 2005, in Jersey City, New Jersey, not being sure of its motive. I held off despite the New York Post on Jan. 16 drawing a connection between the massacre ...
Has Grover Norquist Dropped the Islam Portfolio?
By Daniel Pipes | 
