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The Middle East and Islam Dominate U.S. Public Life
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 31 Dec 2006 | Permalink | Comments (20)
Excerpt: It's about as official as can be: in the words of an Associated Press end-of-year story, "Events in the Mideast shaped much of how we [Americans] viewed 2006." As voted by AP members, only one of the top 10 news stories of 2006 (#5, Congressional ...
Islamists in the Hospital Ward
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 29 Dec 2006 | Permalink | Comments (92)
Excerpt: A number of incidents are showing the incompatibility of radical Islam with modern medicine. Here are a trio to get this blog going, with more examples to be listed, in reverse chronological order, as they occur: _________ British female Muslim doctors ...
Mosque in Cordoba, Church in Damascus
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 26 Dec 2006 | Permalink | Comments (50)
Excerpt: Spain's Islamic Board wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI to be allowed to pray in Cordoba Cathedral, on the grounds that the building was originally a mosque before being transformed into a church in the thirteenth century. "What we wanted was not to ...
Bibliography – My Writings on Iraq Policy
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 12 Dec 2006 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: With some consistency, I have been arguing since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein that coalition forces should have limited strategic purposes, leaving Iraq in the hands of Iraqis. In addition to an automated listing by category, here is a listing of my ...
El Al, "Goy" Airline?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 11 Dec 2006 | Permalink | Comments (28)
Excerpt: Given the many restrictions on observant Jews during the sabbath, they have need of someone not Jewish to undertake necessary tasks to keep households and the society going. The idea behind the "Shabbos goy" (as he is known in Yiddish) is that activities ...
What Went Wrong with James A. Baker, III?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 5 Dec 2006 | Permalink | Comments (65)
Excerpt: Back in his glory days as secretary of state, James A. Baker, III, was widely seen as hostile to Israel, a charge I defended him from, once in the Washington Post ("This Administration is Good for Israel") and once in Commentary magazine ("Bush, Clinton, ...
Does Rumsfeld Favor Getting U.S. Troops out of Iraqi Inhabited Areas?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 3 Dec 2006 | Permalink | Comments (13)
Excerpt: In a November 6, 2006, memo by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, "Iraq — Illustrative New Courses of Action," he provides a range of options that could contribute to a "major readjustment" in United States policy. Two of his "above the line" ...
Muslims "Lagging Behind"
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 29 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (41)
Excerpt: The book that most shaped my understanding of modern Muslim life was Wilfred Cantwell Smith's Islam in Modern History (Princeton, 1957). To reduce Smith's nuanced thesis to a few sentences, he argues that Muslim military, economic, and cultural success ...
Gaza cease-fire
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 28 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (31)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "While many argue that the cease-fire in Gaza has no chance of holding, some believe it can, arguing that it is in the best interests of all sides involved (Israel, Abbas, Hamas) to reach a more comprehensive ...
Alwaleed Bin Talal Denies the First French Intifada
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 24 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: On Dec. 12, 2005, the Guardian reported what the investor Alwaleed Bin Talal claimed he had done about altering the Fox News coverage of the just-passed French riots. he had telephoned Mr Murdoch after seeing a strapline on the news channel describing ...
Iraq and Kuwait Have a Recognized Border
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 23 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: There's so much going on in Iraq, it's easy to miss a momentous development that just took place: the Iraqi and Kuwaiti governments have just signed a border agreement. Why momentous? Because it was the lack of a mutual-agreed-upon border in 1990 that ...
CAIR's Los Angeles Fundraiser
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 23 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: On November 18, 2006, the Council on American-Islamic Relations held its annual southern California banquet at the Anaheim Hilton in Anaheim with the theme "American Muslims: Connecting and Sharing." One of the nearly 2,000 guests sent me a report on the ...
The Future of Kadima
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 21 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "Exactly one year ago former prime minister Ariel Sharon announced that he was quitting the Likud and forming a new political party - Kadima (forward in Hebrew). Despite Sharon's stroke, Ehud Olmert still led ...
Paul Goodman, MP, Analyses Radical Islam
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (40)
Excerpt: Paul Goodman, the Conservative member of the British parliament from Wycombe, gave what is perhaps the strongest-ever speech by a politician concerning Islamism. His stem-winder is worth quoting at length. In the debate surrounding the Queen's Speech, he ...
American Muslims – Perpetual Swing Voters?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 14 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: "Democrats' wins hinged on Muslims" reads the headline of an article by Eric Pfeiffer in the Washington Times, and one wonders how anyone could write such a title with a straight face. In 2000, year of the Palm Beach hanging chads, it was Muslims who ...
The 751 No-Go Zones of France
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 14 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (108)
Excerpt: They go by the euphemistic term Zones Urbaines Sensibles, or Sensitive Urban Zones, with the even more antiseptic acronym ZUS, and there are 751 of them as of last count. They are convienently listed on one long webpage, complete with street demarcations ...
Iraq: "Could a New Strongman Help?"
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 12 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (17)
Excerpt: That's the title of an article by John F. Burns in the New York Times today, reporting from Baghdad, and it recapitulates themes I have been arguing for since April 2003 – that Iraq needs stability before it can make moves to build democracy. Burns ...
Hizbullah Rearms in South Lebanon
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 12 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Excerpt: As Israel's war versus Hizbullah wound down last summer, the idea of an international force in Lebanon won near-universal approval, including even from the Olmert government, which announced its agreement "to consider stationing a battle-tested force ...
Gordon Kromberg and "The Attempted Islamization of the American Justice System"
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 10 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: No U.S. prosecutor has a more valiant and courageous record of opposing radical Islam than Gordon Kromberg, assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. I have mentioned him in a couple of weblog entries for his work in putting away ...
Impact of US elections in Mideast
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 9 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "What impact, if any, will the results of the US midterm elections have on US policy towards Israel and the Middle East?" For all replies, see "Burning Issues #11: Impact of US elections in Mideast" In every ...
Saddam on death row
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 5 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (14)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "Your thoughts on this historic day in which former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging." For all replies, see "Burning Issues #10: Saddam on death row" What to do with captured ...
Niqabs and Burqas as Security Threats
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 4 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (45)
Excerpt: I wrote a week ago, in a blog for National Review Online, that the niqab and burqa should both be banned on security grounds, "as one cannot have faceless persons walking the streets, driving cars, or otherwise entering public spaces." Although a problem ...
"Six Arab States Join Rush To Go Nuclear"
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 4 Nov 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Those six states are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. In all six cases, they are talking only of developing civilian nuclear energy programs, as ...
The Lieberman factor
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 31 Oct 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "What effect, if any, will the entry of Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party into the government have on the peace process and the prospects of renewing negotiations with the Palestinians?" For all ...
NATO and Israel – New Friends
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 26 Oct 2006 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: In his call to adapt the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to the problem of radical Islam, former Spanish prime minister José María Aznar deems bringing Israel into the alliance "an extremely important step." To some, it might also seem an extremely ...
President Bush Replies to My Iraq Critique
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 25 Oct 2006 | Permalink | Comments (23)
Excerpt: Well, not exactly, but at a news conference today, George W. Bush in effect answered the argument I presented yesterday at "In Iraq, Stay the Course - but Change It," that coalition forces should be redeployed to the uninhabited regions of Iraq. He ...
Should Israel invade Gaza?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 25 Oct 2006 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "In light of the rampant weapons smuggling between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the one hand but also the delicate situation involving kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, who is held in Gaza, should Israel ...
An Unveiling: Separate, but Acceptable?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 25 Oct 2006 | Permalink | Comments (39)
Excerpt: National Review Online asked a group of commentators — including Bill Bennett, Mona Charen, Phyllis Chesler, Andrew McCarthy, Emanuele Ottolenghi, and Daniel Pipes, to weigh in on the nikab: "Muslim women veiling has become the subject of intense ...
Palestinians Leaving the West Bank and Gaza
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 24 Oct 2006 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: "What the Israelis were unable to do – try to push the Palestinian out of the country – the internal strife is achieving," observes Birzeit University pollster Nader Said, who has monitored emigration attitudes among Palestinians for 12 years. Without ...
"Cairo and the Age of the Hedonists"
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 12 Oct 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: Cairo has a reputation these days for fundamentalism, anger, hatred, and the like, symbolically summarized by the 1994 stabbing in the neck of a Nobel-prize winning novelist for political reasons. So it was with mild shock that I took in the title of a ...
More on Those Alcohol-shy Minnesota Taxi Drivers
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 10 Oct 2006 | Permalink | Comments (184)
Excerpt: In an article today, "Don't Bring That Booze into My Taxi," I take up the issue of hacks at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) and their unwillingness to transport passengers who visibly carry alcohol. Here are some additional points of ...
Should Israel change its system of gov't?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 9 Oct 2006 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "In a meeting held Friday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman agreed to push for electoral change in the winter Knesset session as well as the creation of a ...
The United States Government, Still the Patron of Islam
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 6 Oct 2006 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: In early 2002, I revealed (with co-author Mimi Stillman) the surprising history of U.S. government statements favorable to Islam in "The United States Government: Patron of Islam?" I noted there that this approach has "four main elements, each of which ...
Should Israel support Abbas against Hamas?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 4 Oct 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "As Fatah-Hamas tensions reach a boiling point, should Israel be supporting Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah in its conflict with Hamas? If so, in what way?" For all replies, see "Burning Issues #4: Should Israel ...
The Pentagon Looks at the Koran
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 27 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (107)
Excerpt: A recent Pentagon briefing paper titled, "Motivations of Muslim Suicide Bombers," points to the Koran as the source of the motivation of Islamist bombers, according to an article today in WorldNetDaily.com. This runs quite contrary to the usual U.S. ...
American Students Get Dumber at College
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 26 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: Recent decades have witnessed no end of surveys indicating the appalling ignorance of high school or college students. But a study just released by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, "‘The Coming Crisis in Citizenship' Survey Results," breaks new ...
Should Israel initiate talks with Syria?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 26 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "Syrian President Bashar Assad told Der Spiegel that he was interested in peace and had no desire to wipe Israel off the map. Do you agree with Israeli officials who dismissed the peace overture as 'double ...
It Takes a Ph.D. in Political Science …
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 25 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (17)
Excerpt: John J. DiIulio Jr., then a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University, wrote an article in 1995, "Tougher Law Enforcement Is Driving Down Urban Crime," that explained the drastic decline of serious crime in many big American cities ...
Some News Items from Londonistan
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 24 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (61)
Excerpt: This quiet Sunday turned up two news items in the British press that caught my eye: "Police to brief Muslims before terror raids": "Police have agreed to consult a panel of Muslim leaders before mounting counter-terrorist raids or arrests. Members of the ...
Is Allah God? - Continued
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 21 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (708)
Excerpt: Is "Allah" the same deity as "God"? I broached this topic in June 2005 in "Is Allah God?" (answering the question in the affirmative). The topic has taken on new urgency with the uproar over Pope Benedict XVI's comments about Islam, prompting the pope to ...
Who is ahead, Bush or Ahmadinejad?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 21 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "After Bush and Ahmadinejad faced off at a distance at the UN General Assembly in New York, presenting their case to the world, can a winner be declared midway through this nuclear row?" For all replies, see ...
More Messianism from Ahmadinejad
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 20 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (14)
Excerpt: At his United Nations General Assembly debut in September 2005, the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, concluded his speech on a weird note, with a prayer for the appearance of the Shiite messiah, the mahdi: "O mighty Lord, I pray to you to hasten ...
Voice of America – CAIR's Shill
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 18 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: The Voice of America is a news service of the U.S. government, paid for out of taxpayer's funds. Which makes it all the more reprehensible that it is shilling for radical Islam's leading American group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Here is ...
Should the Pope have apologized?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 18 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "Should the Pope have apologized for his comments quoting a Byzantine emperor who equated Islam and violence?" For all replies, see "Burning Issues #1: Should the Pope have apologized?" The pope should not ...
Moshe Sharon Explains Middle Eastern Realities
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 15 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (26)
Excerpt: Moshe Sharon, professor of early Islamic history at Hebrew University, presented an analysis of some key Middle East issues to the annual conference at the Counter-Terrorism Institute in Herzliya yesterday. According to news reports, he focused on three ...
Egypt's Democratic Movement vs. Israel
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 14 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: I endorse democratization as a goal of U.S. policy in the Middle East, but urge that it be done modestly, slowly, and cautiously. This approach sets me apart from many of my political friends and allies, who are nearly all enthusiastic about "democracy ...
"We Free Them or They Destroy Us"
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 13 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: Bernard Lewis spoke those memorable words to sum up the necessary goal of U.S. policy at a Hudson Institute conference two days ago. More fully, to quote a New York Sun news report, he said "the only real solution to defeating radical Islam is to bring ...
Can a Free People Vote in a Shar‘i Order?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 13 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: In prior decades, academics and politicians debated whether an electorate might legitimately vote in a fascist or communist order, thereby dooming the democratic order. Updated, the same debate now concerns Islamism, and Piet Hein Donner, the Christian ...
Accept Shari‘a in the West?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 13 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: Will Muslim populations in the West succeed in ending the tradition of one law for all, replacing it with the concept of "legal pluralism"? Here and there, official and unofficially, Islamic law, the Shari‘a, is making advances. In Italy, for example, ...
A Clash of Civilizations on Europe's Mean Streets
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 11 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Christopher Dickey writes in Newsweek International about the "increasingly internecine brand of ethnic warfare" taking place at the bottom of Europe's social order. I excerpt the sections particularly pertinent to Muslims. The battle pits group against ...
Islamists Threaten Civil War in Great Britain – A Smart Idea?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 11 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (15)
Excerpt: I noted the jujitsu-like ability of British Muslim leaders to turn the threat of terrorism to their advantage in "Piggybacking on Terror in Britain." But the specifics documented there pale in comparison to the aggressive comments just made by Muhammad ...
Pro-bin Laden Arabs
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 11 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: In a completely un-scientific but nonetheless interesting poll, 41,260 viewers of Al-Jazeera replied to five questions on-line between September 7 and 10. The second of them asks "Do you support Osama bin Laden" and the answer is as close to a ...
Did It Change Us? 9/11, five years later
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 11 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: National Review Online asked a group of commentators: "In the wake of September 11, it was often said that the attacks collectively changed us. Did it? Five years later, are we changed and how? Or, how should we have and didn't?" For all replies, see ...
Polling American Islamists
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 9 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: An organization called "Muslims For A Safe America" conducted a unscientific but nonetheless interesting opinion survey at its booth in the Islamic Society of North America's convention in early September. In all, 307 American citizens attending this ...
Niqab Hospital Gowns
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 5 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (15)
Excerpt: Where, you might wonder, have the world's first burqa hospital gowns been introduced? Saudi Arabia? No. Afghanistan? Nor Yemen nor Iran nor the United Arab Emirates. Guess again. The United Kingdom is where, and specifically at the Royal Preston Hospital ...
Behead Islamists?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 4 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: Three British far-rightists have adopted jihadi tactics and posted videos of men wearing terrorist-style black masks on YouTube where they threaten to behead British Muslims. Daniel Foggo of The Sunday Times (London) provides details on the three videos ...
Al-Qaeda Invites Me to Join Its Ranks
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 2 Sep 2006 | Permalink | Comments (75)
Excerpt: In a statement today, Al-Qaeda's American rep, Adam Gadahn (né Adam Pearlman, whom the FBI seeks "in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States"), has this to say: If the Zionist crusader missionaries of hate and counter-Islam ...
Omran Salman v. CAIR and MPAC
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 31 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (15)
Excerpt: Omran Salman, a Bahraini journalist and editor in chief of the liberal and pro-American website in Arabic, www.aafaq.org, has an important article in today's Philadelphia Inquirer, in which he points out the failings of the Council on American-Islamic ...
Lawful Islamism on the Ascent in Majority-Muslim Countries
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 28 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: I argue that "terrorism does radical Islam more harm than good" in the West, and that working within the system will prove more useful to Islamists than illegal and violent means; "without education by murder, the lawful Islamist movement would make ...
"Who Wants Khaled Abou el Fadl Dead?"
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 27 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: Thus begins an article by Teresa Watanabe in the Los Angeles Times, "UCLA Islamic Law Professor Fears Unseen Enemy." Khaled Abou el Fadl, 42, a professor of Islamic law at the University of California at Los Angeles, claims that in April 2006, in ...
Palestinian Anarchy Continues under Hamas
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 24 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (18)
Excerpt: This weblog entry succeeds two others. The first one, "The Growing Palestinian Anarchy," started in February 2004 and caught a trend most analysts missed. The second one, "Palestinian Anarchy, Post-Arafat," begun in November 2004, focused on an aspect of ...
The Bible's Role in American Support for Israel
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 24 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (65)
Excerpt: It's intuitive that Bible-believers stand with Israel more than others, but until now that's been (so far as I know) an anecdotal impression. Thanks to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, we now have some poll statistics. The survey (of a ...
CAIR and the Council on Foreign Relations Endorse Mearsheimer/Walt
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 18 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (12)
Excerpt: In an odd confluence, the mail brought two related items today. One was an announcement from the Council on American-Islamic Relations that it will host a panel on August 28 on "The Israel Lobby and the U.S. Response to the War in Lebanon" at the ...
No One Said Security Comes Cheap
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 18 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: The thwarted London plot has prompted discussion of importing El Al's security methods to the West, writes Peter Robison for Bloomberg in "Israeli-Style Air Security, Costly and Intrusive, May Head West." That word "costly" in the title is not an ...
Bibliography – My Writings on the Changing Face of Warfare
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 15 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Excerpt: Warfare in recent decades has turned historic assumptions upside down. Countries used to be the enemy; now regimes are the enemy, while their subject peoples are our friend. Battlefield superiority used to be the goal, now it is assumed before a shot is ...
Passing as Shi‘i in Iraq
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 15 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (13)
Excerpt: Two years ago, when Islamist death squads searched out non-Muslim victims, it was sufficient to fake being a Muslim, as I pointed out in "[Khobar Rampage:] ‘Don't Be Afraid, We Won't Kill Muslims'," where I even provided the two texts that need to be ...
The Islamist Rapist, the Prostitutes, and the Policewomen
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 14 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: Dahir Ibrahim, 21, an asylum-seeker in the UK from Somalia, has for four years been waging a one-man campaign of raping prostitutes. Enith Walker, his first victim, told the Birmingham police in March 2003 how he held a knife to her throat and then raped ...
More on the Term "Islamic Fascists"
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 14 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (30)
Excerpt: George W. Bush had used "Islamic fascists" and "Islamofascists" often before but, for reasons that elude me, his statement on Aug. 10 turned this wording into a major issue, with dozens of articles, pro and con, debating the term. I myself weighed in ...
Palestinians in the Shadow of Israel's War with Hizbullah
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 10 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: Some interesting and contradictory developments have taken place as Hizbullah dispatches about 150 missiles a day at northern Israel, where much of Israel's Arab population lives. Attitudes toward Israel: Near East Consulting of Ramallah publishes a ...
What Security Measures vis-à-vis Western Muslims?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 10 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (41)
Excerpt: I have repeatedly argued that, however distasteful, there must be special scrutiny of Muslims in the West for security purposes. Here's how I put it two days ago: "Because the identity of the next homicidal jihadi cannot be anticipated, Muslims generally ...
Seattle Responds to Its Jihadi, Naveed Haq
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 9 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (22)
Excerpt: (This entry follows on two others: "[Naveed Haq and] ‘Sudden Jihad Syndrome' in Seattle" and "More on Naveed Haq, Seattle's Sudden Jihadi," and should be read in sequence after them.) Dayna Klein, hero of the assault on the Jewish Federation of Greater ...
More on Naveed Haq, Seattle's Sudden Jihadi
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 8 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (23)
Excerpt: I could not squeeze every fact and idea into my article today on Naveed Haq, "'Sudden Jihad Syndrome' in Seattle," so here are some additions, which will be added to as the case proceeds through the court system. First, observations concerning Sudden ...
Europe's Muslim Population in Demographic Free-fall?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 7 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: No, that's not a headline you expected to read, but it is suggested by a report from Denmark's Dream Institute indicating that Danish immigrant women in 1980 had on average 4 children but now have only 2.4 children. The study offers such reasons as the ...
Marx and Moussaoui at the British Library
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 6 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: Karl Marx famously did much of his research in the 1850s into socialism – work that would culminate in the creation of the Soviet Union, Communist China, and other political monstrosities challenging the United Kingdom to its core – in the reading room ...
Cutting-Edge Measures to Cope with Immigration
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 3 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: What is the Western world doing about the unending immigration, illegal and legal, into its territories? This weblog entry provides an occasional look at cutting-edge measures to cope with the problem. __________ "Illegals to be held on prison hulk": The ...
Does Daniel Pipes Represent the U.S. Government?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 2 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: The Arabic-language magazine Al-Watan Al-Arabi, in its issue dated today carries a long interview with Alberto Fernandez, director of the office of Press and Public Diplomacy, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the Department of State. In a discussion ...
How Consequential Are 9/11 Conspiracy Theories?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 2 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: The Scripps Howard Research Center at Ohio University released an unsettling poll today. Here is the question it asked of about one thousand Americans: There are also accusations being made following the 9/11 terrorist attack. One of these is: People in ...
Is Palestinian Terrorism against Israel "Civilized"?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 1 Aug 2006 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: A 217 year-old-law, the Alien Tort Statute, permits foreign citizens to bring lawsuits in U.S. federal courts stemming from human rights violations that occurred anywhere in the world. Last year, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling suggests that the law permits ...
Toronto: When an Islamist Informs on Islamist Terrorists
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 31 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: When not doing their best to impede law enforcement's ability to stop terrorism carried out in the name of radical Islam (for examples, see here and here), Islamist organizations declare that they are of course ready to do everything within their powers ...
Tracking Jamaat ul-Fuqra
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 29 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Jamaat ul-Fuqra (also known as AlFuqra) is arguably the longest-lived and most-often violent Islamist group operating in the United States, yet it has never been the focus of scholarly, journalistic, law enforcement, or political attention. Patrick B. ...
Might the American Jewish Establishment Wake to the Threat of Radical Islam?
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 28 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: Sharona Shapiro, the American Jewish Committee's Michigan director, has written what might be a break-through article "Beware Youthful Dearborn's Angry Intolerance." She worries about the legions of young Islamists in the metro Detroit area. She begins ...
America's Wahhabi Lobby Protects Hizbullah
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: The Associated Press has a story today about a letter sent by 25 American Muslim and Arab groups to the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, urging him to be sensitive in scrutinizing Hizbullah activities in the United States. (Oddly enough, ...
A PLO Leader: Oslo Accords Led to Palestinian Violence
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: The Middle East Media and Research Institute made available today (both as a video clip and a transcript) portions of a television interview excerpt with Ziyad Abu `Ein, a member of the Fatah leadership in which he mused on the benefits for Palestinian ...
The Arab Argument over Hizbullah
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: What to make of Hizbullah and its July 12 attack on Israel? I established today in "Arabs Disavow Hizbullah" that there's an unprecedented criticism by the Arab states of a force engaged in fighting the Jewish state. At the same time, I ...
NBC News, Counterterrorist Agency
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 25 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Adam Ciralsky, Lisa Myers and the NBC News Investigative Unit not only provided an important news story in "Hezbollah banks under attack in Lebanon: Israel seeks to destroy group's financial infrastructure," but they went beyond collecting ...
U.S. Judge Permits Scrutiny of Muslim Convert's Name
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 25 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: An African-American convert to Islam, Samuel J. Lewis, is on trial in Worcester, Massachusetts, charged with 17 counts of making false statements or false records while acquiring weapons in 2002-03. His allegedly false statements included giving a wrong ...
CAIR, Captive of Conspiracism
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 22 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (14)
Excerpt: Conspiracy theories are – as I have argued at length and in detail – a curse. They distort reality, encourage extremism, and lead to destructive results. That said, they can have a silver lining. I have documented, for example, the effects of "Benign ...
Israelis Show How to Do Counterterrorism
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 21 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: Israeli counterterrorism is known to be sans pareil, and the Tel Aviv police today carried out a picture-perfect arrest of three terrorists intending to carry out a suicide bombing. Here is an account of what happened, from Yedi`ot Aharonot: police ...
"Greater Syria" in the News
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 19 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition is the title of a book I published in 1990 that traces the pan-Syrian movement through from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century to the regime of Hafiz al-Asad. But with Asad's demise in 2000, and his ...
Turkey to Invade Northern Iraq?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 18 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (11)
Excerpt: Over a decade ago, in "Hot Spot: Turkey, Iraq, and Mosul," I focused on remarks in May 1995 by then-Turkish president Süleyman Demirel in which he called for a change in Turkey's borders with Iraq at the expense of Iraq. I also provided a sketch of the ...
More Special Privileges for Muslims
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 16 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Excerpt: In a March 2005 article, "Which Privileges for Islam?" I distinguished between legitimate and illegitimate privileges for Muslims, summed up in this phrase: "Offer full rights – but turn down demands for special privileges." This entry documents some of ...
What To Do With Un-Deportable Aliens?
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 14 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (13)
Excerpt: The West faces a growing problem with aliens it does not want but cannot deport. It has two quite different aspects. One concerns illegals who arrive without documentation, so there is no proof which country they come from. Here is a recent report on the ...
The "New York Review of Books" Mangles Campus Watch
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (21)
Excerpt: In an echo of the Mearsheimer-Walt critique of strong U.S. ties with Israel, Michael Massing has a lengthy article in the New York Review of Books, "The Storm over the Israel Lobby." In it, he devotes three paragraphs to the Middle East Forum, Campus ...
Conversions in Israel
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (45)
Excerpt: How many non-Muslims in Israel convert to Islam and how many Muslims convert to Judaism? According to statistics from the Population Administration of the Interior Ministry, and reported on by Nurit Palter in Yedi`ot Aharonot, conversions to Islam, which ...
Saudis Condemn Hamas and Hizbullah
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: In an official Saudi statement that has received all-too little attention, Riyadh has unequivocally and unapologetically condemned Hamas and Hizbullah for their adventurism versus Israel. The remarkable document deserves quoting in full: Jeddah, July ...
Christian Hajjis to Jerusalem
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: An Associated Press report on Christianity in Africa finds widespread affinity for Jews and Israel, as seen by an emphasis on the text of the Old Testament and the giving of Old Testament names to babies. Then this: Visiting Israel is so important to ...
The Canadian Islamic Congress Discusses the Old Testament
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 7 Jul 2006 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: I have previously documented MPAC's excursus into Qur'anic exegesis and James Zogby's opinions on the Torah. Now, here comes Mohamed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress with a discussion of the Old Testament. If possible, he makes an even greater ...
Thoughts on the Israeli Incursion into Gaza
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 28 Jun 2006 | Permalink | Comments (40)
Excerpt: As the Israeli wall surrounding Gaza proves unable to prevent murders and abductions carried out by Palestinians, and as the Israel Defense Forces enter Gaza in response to these acts as well as rockets landing on Israeli towns, I dug into my archive and ...
Muslim-Controlled Governments Subsidize Conversions of Kafirs
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 28 Jun 2006 | Permalink | Comments (34)
Excerpt: For starters, here's the definition of the term Orang Asli: The Orang Asli are the indigenous minority peoples of Peninsular Malaysia. The name is a Malay term which transliterates as "original peoples" or "first peoples." It is a collective term ...
The University of Chicago vs. Victims of Terror
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 28 Jun 2006 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: In a fascinating and consequential case, a federal judge slapped down the University of Chicago for claiming that the Islamic Republic of Iran could not get a fair hearing in the American court system. Here's some quick background to this unusual ...
Israel Does Not Need Palestinian Recognition?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 15 Jun 2006 | Permalink | Comments (25)
Excerpt: Yehuda Avner, a favorite writer of mine, has an article in Jerusalem Post, "Israel does not need Palestinian recognition," in which he argues that Menachem Begin, were he alive today, "would be saddened, indeed outraged, at Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ...
John Esposito and Karen Armstrong – Banned in Malaysia
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 15 Jun 2006 | Permalink | Comments (14)
Excerpt: Malaysia's Internal Security Ministry has just banned the books by two of the West's leading apologists for radical Islam. The prohibition citation, dated June 8, was just made available to the Bernama news agency. Under the "Printing Presses and ...
Bibliography – My Writings on Profiling to Find Terrorists
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 13 Jun 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: My writings arguing for the profiling as a tool of counterterrorism have clustered around three basic arguments: Profiling can take at least three different forms. Going from least to most effective, these are: looking for suspicious behavior, looking ...
"Muslim Group Targets Jewish Holidays"
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 7 Jun 2006 | Permalink | Comments (17)
Excerpt: In a 1999 article, "American Muslims vs. American Jews," I argued that Jews in the United States need to redirect their worries from Christian antisemites to Muslim ones: The real and present danger is by no means the pro-Israel Christian Coalition but ...
Bibliography – My Writings on Jerusalem
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 6 Jun 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Having published an article today on the new Muslim love of Zion, it seems like a good time to pull together my Jerusalem-related writings, with updates as needed.. "The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem." Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2001. The last of several ...
Malta and Other Outposts under Seige
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 4 Jun 2006 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: I have followed the immigration problems in the Spanish territories of Ceuta, Melilla, and the Canary Islands, all easy of access to Africans; time to catch up now with the situation on comes the islands of Malta, 60 miles south of Sicily and 200 miles ...
FBI Agent in Orange Country Lets Slip the Truth
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 25 May 2006 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: Pat Rose, head of the FBI's Orange County al-Qaida squad spoke on May 24 to about 25 members at the Pacific Club, saying things about her work that are normally left unsaid. Frank Mickadeit reports on the event in the Orange County Register: "There are ...
A Modern-day Mock Devshirme
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 21 May 2006 | Permalink | Comments (14)
Excerpt: In a sensational piece of investigative reporting, Marie Colvin writes today in "Rescued – the Pakistan children seized by Islamist slave traders" about the Pakistani abduction and trade in young boys. She focuses on the fate of a 10-year-old named Akash ...
Expelling Ayaan Hirsi Ali
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 17 May 2006 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: In a discouraging article, "Islamist Threats To Dutch Politician Bring Chill at Home," Andrew Higgins reviews in the Wall Street Journal today how Ayaan Hirsi Ali got evicted from her government-supplied luxury apartment in the Hague. The then-Dutch ...
Humor: Thomas Friedman's Iraq Predictions
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 16 May 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: In a dazzling bit of research, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting has collated no less than fourteen of Thomas L. Friedman's predictions about Iraq – and found that he has been saying for two and a half years that the "decisive" six months are just ahead. ...
An Islamist President for the Comoros Islands?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 16 May 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Without many in the outside world noting it, Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, 48, known as the "ayatollah" won the presidency in the Comoros, an island country off Africa's east coast, with 58 percent of the vote. A Sunni Muslim, the title of ayatollah ...
Law Enforcement Urged to Indulge Muslim Misbehavior
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 15 May 2006 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: When the 20th annual conference of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Women in Law Enforcement met in Rehoboth Beach a couple of weeks ago, some two hundred officers learned about Islam from Sarah Elshazly, a division chief in the New Jersey Attorney ...
British Government Worries about Radical Islamic Teachings at Universities
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 15 May 2006 | Permalink | Comments (14)
Excerpt: In a speech by Bill Rammell, the UK higher education minister, the Blair government showed a willingness to consider the teachings of radical Islam in universities. Here are some excerpts from a bending-over-backwards speech where Rammell calls for more ...
Bibliography - My Writings on Not Trusting CAIR
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 12 May 2006 | Permalink | Comments (40)
Excerpt: According to a CAIR press release issued today, the office manager for its Arizona chapter, Bushra Khan, was shopping along with two other head-scarved young Muslim women on April 29 at the Desert Ridge Marketplace in Scottsdale when a middle-aged couple ...
Zuhdi Jasser and "Monitoring Islamist Media"
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 11 May 2006 | Permalink | Comments (15)
Excerpt: Zuhdi Jasser of Phoenix announced a new service on April 10, whereby he keeps an eye on two local publications, the Arizona Muslim Voice and the Arab Voice. (The latter is in the Arabic language.) He has since documented articles that equate George W. ...
Israel's President Reflects Candidly on Islam
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 2 May 2006 | Permalink | Comments (23)
Excerpt: At a memorial ceremony for Israel's fallen soldiers at in Jerusalem, Israel's President Moshe Katsav (himself of Iranian origins) spoke to the Muslim religious and political leaders in attendance and asked them: Are you really sanctifying the spilling ...
American Law Enforcement Really Does Profile Muslims – The Siraj Case
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 2 May 2006 | Permalink | Comments (30)
Excerpt: The trial of Shahawar Matin Siraj, a 23-year-old Pakistani immigrant charged with plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station in New York City has inadvertently uncovered how at least some police forces go about pre-empting terrorism – by taking ...
Judges Repair the Mistakes of Juries
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 1 May 2006 | Permalink | Comments (15)
Excerpt: Twice have juries unaccountably acquitted Islamist terrorists, and twice judges have fixed the errors. El Sayyid A. Nosair. The Egyptian immigrant had killed Meir Kahane in November 1990 in plain sight of a room full of people, fled, and shot two ...
More about the Future of Judaism
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 27 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: I used some statements by Orthodox Jewish leaders to speculate in "The Future of Judaism" that Orthodoxy will become dominant again. it is conceivable that the ratio will return to roughly where it was two centuries ago, with the Orthodox again ...
"Pasha Bordello" Accepts Islamist Demands
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 25 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (55)
Excerpt: To welcome World Cup players and fans, the Pascha Bordell (in English, "Pasha Bordello") of Cologne, whose publicity claims its 120 rooms makes it Europe's largest brothel, mounted a 24-meter-high by 8-meter-wide (78 feet by 26 feet) banner on its ...
America's Rude Islamists
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 21 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (44)
Excerpt: Steven Emerson reports on the Islamic Thinkers Society (ITS) rally yesterday at the Israeli consulate in New York, celebrating the bombing in Tel Aviv on April 18, killing nine. The event featured such threatening slogans as: Israeli Zionists What do ...
More Fulbrights for Islamists
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: In "Fulbright's Terrorist Tie," Asaf Romirowsky and I exposed in October 2003 that the J. William Fulbright Board of Foreign Scholarships had invited to the United States a Hamas figure, Mustafa Abu Sway, then arranged a teaching position for and paid ...
Media Admits Censorship due to Islamist Intimidation
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (34)
Excerpt: When asked why they did not publish the Danish cartoons of Muhammad, American media offered many high-minded reasons about mutual respect and the like, all of which begged the question why many of the same editors and producers thought it just fine to ...
Israeli Tactics My Critics Can Support
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: I recently wrote a pair of articles ("Israel Shuns Victory" and "How Israel Can Win") setting out what I think the U.S. government should be urging its Israeli ally to do – i.e., win its war against the Palestinians, causing them to give up on their goal ...
Backhanded Endorsements of Campus Watch
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 18 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (15)
Excerpt: Just yesterday, I published "An Inadvertent Endorsement of Campus Watch," an exposé of Laura Bier, an assistant professor of Middle East studies, and how she pseudonymously bemoans the impact of Campus Watch on her and her colleagues' lives: I think ...
Danish Cartoon Aftershocks
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 15 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (13)
Excerpt: The Danish cartoon saga is not yet finished. Today comes news that the March issue of Studi Cattolici, an Italian magazine close to Opus Dei, published a cartoon showing Muhammad in hell. (The partial version below, without depicting Muhammad, is ...
Do Attacks on Soldiers Constitute Terrorism?
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 15 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: The Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, gave an interview to Nightline broadcast on March 28 (not online) in which she answered questions about the nature of terrorism, starting with the role her parents played in the Irgun and its bombing of the King ...
Bibliography - My Writings on the FBI
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 14 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: What happens when a wonderful and powerful institution is headed by numbskulls? That's been the dilemma of the Federal Bureau of Investigation since Robert S. Mueller III became its director in September 2001. I can't judge his record on other matters, ...
Saudis Impose Their Way on Westerners
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 12 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (17)
Excerpt: More than any other Muslim people or state, the Saudis insist and get their way when it comes to pushing their mores on the West. I documented many cases at "The Scandal of U.S.-Saudi Relations" and another one at "Saudis Import Slaves to America." Here ...
Hamas Speaks with a "Forked Tongue"
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 11 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Count me wrong in one prediction about Hamas. I had figured, given its contempt for Yasir Arafat and his dishonorable ways, that Hamas would honorably stick by its ideology once it reached power, and not follow Arafat down the road of saying different ...
Canada's Muslims Provide "Strategic Advice on Relations with the Muslim World"
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 7 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (16)
Excerpt: Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) has today created a "Muslim Communities Working Group Operational Unit" (FMCG). This is explained in an administrative notice from David Mulroney, assistant deputy minister for ...
Do Exchange Programs Improve Muslim Views of the United States?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 5 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: Coincidentally, on the same day as a State Department official offered bringing European Muslims to the United States as a solution to the problem of their radicalism, MEMRI published the highly radical views of just such a Muslim who spends lots of time ...
Further on Israel's Winning Its War
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 4 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (22)
Excerpt: I have published two consecutive columns on the topic of Israel defeating the Palestinians ("Israel Shuns Victory" and "How Israel Can Win). Here are some additional thoughts that did not fit there: My thinking parallels that of Vladimir Jabotinsky, as ...
Destroy Egypt's Antiquities?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 3 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: When the Islamic Republic of Iran first came to power in 1979, some of its leaders made noises about the need to destroy the pagan structures at Persepolis, with its many idolatrous elements, but saner heads prevailed and the ruins have survived. In ...
John Walker Lindh - The Next Malcolm X?
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 2 Apr 2006 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: According to Shakeel Syed, executive director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, John Walker Lindh, now 25 years old, fits the description. John Walker Lindh Lindh, of course, is the American Talib, "Johnny Walker Green," ...
Blaming Islamic Apostasy Laws on Western Imperialism
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 | Permalink | Comments (14)
Excerpt: The recent case of Abdul Rahman, an Afghan who converted to Christianity and was sentenced to death for doing so, has made Islamists in the West squirm. The Shari‘a is perfectly clear and unanimous about the need to execute Muslims who leave their faith, ...
Republicans and Democrats Look at the Arab-Israeli Conflict
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 27 Mar 2006 | Permalink | Comments (14)
Excerpt: It's hardly news that Republicans view Israel more favorably than do Democrats – I wrote about this pattern in 2000 in "The Friendly Republicans" and have even speculated (in "Arabs and Jews Sorting Themselves Out Politically in the United States?") that ...
West Africa - Europe's New Border
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 19 Mar 2006 | Permalink | Comments (26)
Excerpt: Mauritania, a country in West Africa far from Europe, has become the latest springboard for desperate would-be immigrants to reach Europe. They travel by boat for three days and nights to cover the 500 miles from Mauritania's long coastline to the Canary ...
More on the North Carolina Jihadi, Mohammed Taheri-azar
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 14 Mar 2006 | Permalink | Comments (18)
Excerpt: In "Sudden Jihad Syndrome," I looked at the case of Mohammed Taheri-azar's attempt to kill students at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill by driving a rented Jeep Cherokee into a campus plaza on March 3, drawing conclusions about free-lance ...
Separation of Civilizations?
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 10 Mar 2006 | Permalink | Comments (13)
Excerpt: I recently wrote a column on the separation of civilizations, "How the Cartoon Protests Harm Muslims," and here will follow the extent to which that trend is continuing or not. Mar. 10, 2006 update: The UAE purchase of P&O Ports North America, giving it ...
American Attitudes toward Islam and Muslims – Which Direction?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 9 Mar 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: A Washington Post-ABC News poll on American attitudes towards Islam and Muslims, published today, is garnering much attention because of its negativity, but the numbers differ little from those of almost three years earlier. The current one finds that: ...
Bibliography – My Writings on the Danish Cartoon Controversy
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 2 Feb 2006 | Permalink | Comments (29)
Excerpt: I have written a number of articles and a book that touch on the current flare-up over the Jyllands-Posten publication of cartoons critical of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. I begin with an annotated bibliography of background pieces: "Amazon.com's ...
Bibliography – My Writings on Conspiracy Theories
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 26 Jan 2006 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: With the conspiracist mindset seemingly on the perpetual rise these years, I thought it useful to gather my various writings on this topic in a single place, to be updated as needed. "A Conspiracy Theory Spreads Polio." The New York Sun, May 24, 2005. ...
Thoughts on Hamas' Ascendance
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 | Permalink | Comments (32)
Excerpt: Voting today in the Palestinian Authority pits Fatah against Hamas. This face-off can be read as the corrupt, old-line Palestinian powerbroker versus the disciplined upstart, or as Yasir Arafat's ideologically flexible organization versus Ahmed Yassin's ...
A Key Change to "The Pope and the Koran"
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 21 Jan 2006 | Permalink | Comments (33)
Excerpt: The Rev. Joseph Fessio recounted on a talk-show on January 5 that, in a private seminar, Pope Benedict XVI said that Islam cannot change, a startling piece of information that I wrote up in a column, "The Pope and the Koran." In response, another ...
More on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Mahdaviat
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 14 Jan 2006 at 6:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In follow up to my article four days ago, "The Mystical Menace of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad," here is further news of Ahmadinejad and mahdaviat: Anton La Guardia concludes in a similar article in London's Daily Telegraph, "'Divine mission' driving Iran's new ...
Articulating American Ideals to Muslims
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 | Permalink | Comments (21)
Excerpt: I critiqued the fact-based and often irrelevant nature of U.S. public diplomacy in a recent column, "Winning the Propaganda War." I concluded that, "Rather than try to purvey information to Muslims, State (and its counterparts elsewhere) should instead ...
Offer: $1 million for Finding "Jerusalem" in the Koran
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 4 Jan 2006 | Permalink | Comments (65)
Excerpt: For at least four years, Jamal Badawi, an Egyptian-born Canadian professor of management at St. Mary University in Halifax, Canada, who sidelines as an apologist for radical Islam, has made a standing offer: "a million dollars to anyone who finds the ...
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