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Will Geert Wilders Show His Film on the Koran?
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 29 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Comments (181)
Excerpt: By my count, there have been six major episodes in modern times in which Muslims rioted and killed in protest to some Western-based person making comments about Islam: 1989 – Salman Rushdie publishes his novel, The Satanic Verses. 1997 – The U.S. ...
Did Divine Intervention Fell Ariel Sharon?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 27 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Comments (31)
Excerpt: In January 2006, when Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon had a stroke, permanently incapacitating him, the American evangelical leader Pat Robertson attributed Sharon's medical condition to divine intervention resulting from Sharon's withdrawal from ...
Israeli Leftists Plead for U.S. Pressure on Their Government
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 26 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Comments (25)
Excerpt: David Landau, editor of Ha'aretz newspaper, said something to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that is raising eyebrows. After a dinner at the American ambassador's residence on Sep. 10, but only reported today, Landau offered his thoughts on the ...
Mike Huckabee's Unique Foreign Policy
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 24 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Comments (22)
Excerpt: Mike Huckabee's article in Foreign Affairs has come in for much deserved ridicule, for such statements as these two: "Much like a top high school student, if [the United States] is modest about its abilities and achievements, if it is generous in ...
U.S.-Israel Tensions, Post-Annapolis
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 23 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Before the Annapolis meeting took place in late November, I warned of the danger that a joint U.S.-Palestinian position might emerge that the Israelis would resist, thereby leading to "a possible crisis in U.S.-Israel relations of unprecedented ...
The Latest about Mosul Dam
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 17 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: A truck bomb has blown up about 1 kilometer away from the Mosul Dam, killing one policeman, injuring a second, and damaging a section of the main access bridge connecting the dam's two shores, announced Brigadier-General Abdul-Kareem al-Jubouri, the ...
Assessing the American-Led Effort in Iraq
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 16 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: The surge is working, which is great news. But is that reason to conclude that the whole American-led effort in Iraq is working? I think not. The reduction in fatalities of both Iraqis and multi-national force members is important but hardly the only ...
Guilty Pleas By Would-Be Los Angeles Terrorists
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 14 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: After the arrest of terrorist suspects, the case often goes silent for so long that one forgets about them. I published a column on "L.A.'s Thwarted Terror Spree" over two years ago. Now, suddenly, Levar Haley Washington, 28, and Kevin James, 31, have ...
NIE News: Nearly 2/3s of Americans Say It Leaves Them Less Safe
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 13 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: My column this week, "That NIE Makes War against Iran More Likely" seems to reflect how a very sizeable majority of Americans feel, according to a brand-new poll by the Israel Project. Here is its eighth question, asked of 800 likely voters during the ...
Israeli Breakthrough at the United Nations!
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 9 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: After nearly sixty years of membership at the United Nations, the Israeli government passed its first-ever resolution at the General Assembly's Second Committee, which deals with development issues, on a topic unconnected to the Arab-Israeli conflict or ...
Turkey as Rival
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 6 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: I argue today with the consensus view in Washington that things are going wonderfully in Ankara in "Turkey, Still a Western Ally?" Here are just a few of the articles out concurrent with mine that argue partially or entirely the opposite: The American ...
Riyadh Reorients to Moscow
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 5 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: The Saudi government has just made a major military move away from the United States and toward Russia, reports Geostrategy-Direct, a private intelligence service offered by the somewhat clandestine East West Services, Inc. In a report titled "Fears of U ...
Recidivist Palestinian Terrorists
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 4 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: News yesterday about the Israeli authorities releasing 429 Palestinian prisoners in a "confidence-building measure" for Mahmoud Abbas (leaving, by the way, 8,800 Palestinian security prisoners in Israel's jails) brings a report on Palestinian recidivism ...
Not Child's Play: The Teddy-Bear Intifada
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 3 Dec 2007 | Permalink | Comments (50)
Excerpt: National Review Online asked a group of experts: "There is rioting in Sudanese streets calling for the death of a woman over a teddy bear named Mohammed. What can we in the West possibly do with this — nationally, individually? How do we help? What must ...
Recognizing Israel as the Jewish State: Updates
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 29 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Excerpt: As Arab-Israeli diplomacy revives, it becomes increasingly clear that diplomatic relations with Jerusalem is not the same as accepting Zionism, as I note today in a column, "Accept Israel as the Jewish State?" This weblog entry pursues that theme, ...
"Dawah Kit for Mobile Phones"
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 28 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: The e-mailman brought today an ad from "Guided Ways" for a way to spread Islam via a "Dawah Kit with references from the bible" that is now available for Java-enabled phones, Smartphones, Pocket PCs, Blackberry devices and Symbian OS." Here are the ...
What's Wrong With Annapolis
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 27 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (20)
Excerpt: I have written at some length against the "meeting" at Annapolis today, but George W. Bush summed up the problem more succinctly when he read to the gathered worthies from some 40 states this sentence from the Palestinian-Israeli "Joint Understanding": ...
Mr. Palestine?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 26 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (46)
Excerpt: Some thoughts on the eve of the Annapolis meeting: Called the best friend Israel ever had in the White House, George W. Bush is, in my view, worrisomely over-confident. He believes he has discovered the solution to a highly complex and subtle century-old ...
Moshe Ya'alon: "To Be Coddled, Go Left"
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 25 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: The former chief of staff of Israel's defense forces, Moshe Ya'alon, has come out and said explicitly what everyone knows about politicians and what no one normally dares say. As Arutz Sheva sums up his advice in its headline: "To Be Coddled, Go Left." ...
Muslim Populations in European Cities
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 23 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: Which European cities have the highest percentages of Muslim residents. The "Islam in Europe" blog compiled the following statistics, with sources marked by an asterisk and some edits by me. Marseilles - 25 percent (200,000 of 800,000) (*) Malmö - ~25 ...
The Unthinkable Consequences of an Iran-Israel Nuclear Exchange
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 21 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (48)
Excerpt: Anthony Cordesman, a strategist at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, has estimated the consequences if Tehran gets the bomb and a nuclear exchange with Israel ensues. He expects, writes Martin Walker of United Press ...
"We Hope You Will Wear Your Hijab to School"
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 20 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: A hijab-clad student at Seaside High School in Seaside, California, was told by a campus supervisor in June 2007 that she had either to remove the head covering or provide a doctor's note. Angela Chan, a staff attorney for the Asian Law Caucus in San ...
Arab State Envoys Insult PLO Observer at the United Nations
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 18 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Here's an interesting sentence to ponder, from today's Ha'aretz: "The Arab lobby at the United Nations, backed by Russia, foiled a Palestinian Authority initiative to include a condemnation of Hamas' seizure of the Gaza Strip in a UN resolution against ...
More CAIR Dirty Tricks against Me
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 15 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: Judging by its MSM press clippings, one would think the Council on American-Islamic Relations is an innocuous civil-rights group along the lines of the Catholic League or the Anti-Defamation League. To take one example of many, in "Muslim Civil Rights ...
And Now, CAIR Plagiarizing?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 15 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, is by day an associate professor of finance at the University of North Florida, so he's someone who knows the rules of sourcing, referencing, and attribution. But, as reader Ron Polland ...
The Collapse of Palestinianism
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 15 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: Danny Rubinstein of Ha'aretz wrote the best biography of Yasir Arafat and tends to see further than others when it comes to the Palestinians. His article today, "Deserting a sinking ship," is original and important. If a scholar were to write a book on ...
Foiled Terrorist Plots in the United States
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 13 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: James Jay Carafano of the Heritage Foundation has rounded up some instances of U.S. terrorist conspiracies thwarted since 9/11, either by law enforcement or alert individuals. I have edited the list a bit for clarity and consistency: Richard Reid, ...
The American University in Cairo v. Israel
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 11 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: The American University in Cairo, founded in 1919, has gone through its share of vicissitudes as an American institution in Egypt. Based throughout its existence in a cramped campus in the heart of modern Cairo, at Tahrir Square, the university is ...
The day after Annapolis
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 7 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "Which scenarios do you think would unfold in the event that the Annapolis parley fails?" For all replies, see "Burning Issues #43: The day after Annapolis" The consequences of Annapolis failing depend on ...
Is Kenny Gamble Building a Muslim-only Enclave in Philadelphia?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 1 Nov 2007 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: An article in Philadelphia magazine, "King Kenny," looks at music producer efforts by Kenny Gamble, via a corporation called Universal Companies, to revitalize his community in South Philadelphia and mentions that "some people fear Gamble wants to build ...
Parodying Khalil Gibran
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 29 Oct 2007 | Permalink | Comments (18)
Excerpt: In the seriousness of battling pan-Arabism and Islamism at New York's Khalil Gibran International Academy, I never took up the subject of Khalil Gibran (also spelled "Kahlil Gibran") himself, other than to note that the "Friends of Gibran Council" ...
Rice Pudding
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 26 Oct 2007 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Here's an unintentionally hilarious Reuters news report datelined Washington, D.C.: Anxious not to repeat mistakes of past Middle East peace-making, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has turned to former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter for ...
Bibliography – My Writings on Islamic and Arabic Schools in the West
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 23 Oct 2007 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: As the controversy over the Khalil Gibran International Academy, a New York City public school, continues too simmer, it may be useful to bring together my writings on Islamic and Arabic pre-collegiate educational institutions in the West. "What Are ...
The Most Amazing Book Editing Error?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 22 Oct 2007 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: I seem to be making a speciality of catching editors' mistakes these days. A week ago, I ridiculed a weekly's ability to get five out of six captions wrong at "Newsweek's Jaw-Dropping Erratum." Today, the subject is book editors, specifically those at ...
Bibliography – My Writings on George W. Bush and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 17 Oct 2007 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: Today's column, "Giuliani's Fresh Start," notes that "My writings and spoken statements over the past seven years have criticized the [Bush administration's] handling of Iraq, the war on terror, democratization, and (especially) the Arab-Israeli conflict ...
Islamic Law in the United States?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 17 Oct 2007 | Permalink | Comments (34)
Excerpt: Senator Sam Brownback had an interesting exchange with Michael Mukasey in the course of the latter's committee hearings to become attorney general. BROWNBACK: I want to take you to the trial of—the blind sheik trial of 1993, the World Trade Center ...
My Disrupted Talk at Wayne State University
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 17 Oct 2007 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Jonathan Schwartz of Anti-Racist Blog has provided full documentation of the incitement, disruption, and lack of administration response at Wayne State University. The blog includes flyers, still pictures, audio, and video. · "Breaking News: Daniel ...
Newsweek's Jaw-Dropping Erratum
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 15 Oct 2007 | Permalink | Comments (24)
Excerpt: The editor of Newsweek has added a remarkable erratum to the sidebar to a nasty article by Michael Hirsh about the Giuliani campaign, "Would You Buy a Used Hawk From This Man?" First, here is the sidebar: The subsequent correction warrants a place in ...
Knights Templar Trial Records Made Public – After Seven Centuries
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 12 Oct 2007 | Permalink | Comments (16)
Excerpt: In a sensational bit of sleuthing, Barbara Frale, a medievalist at the Vatican's Secret Archives, stumbled in 2001 on Processus Contra Templarios, a compilation of original documents dating from 1307-12 on the French trial of the Knights Templar and the ...
Dreaming of Al-Andalus
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 11 Oct 2007 | Permalink | Comments (12)
Excerpt: The Islamic religion contains within it a deep assumption that a land conquered and settled by Muslim becomes part of an inalienable Islamic patrimony, a waqf; should it then fall under non-Muslim rule, that is an unnatural and intolerable circumstance ...
Will Annapolis Renew the "Peace Process"?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 10 Oct 2007 | Permalink | Comments (14)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "Do you believe that a significant renewed peace process has begun? Who do you think will make a significant concession at Annapolis: Israel, the Palestinians, both or neither?" For all replies, see "Burning ...
Bush Returns to the "Religion of Peace" Formulation
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 4 Oct 2007 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Excerpt: "I believe that Islam is a great religion that preaches peace," George W. Bush told an Arabic-language television station today, recalling the "religion of peace" phrasing he used in the aftermath of 9/11. Comment: (1) This statement comes as a keen ...
Group Think in the Academy
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 20 Sep 2007 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: In an article published today, "Five Years of Campus Watch," I refer to the fact that professors often enjoy the unusual privilege of going through their careers without facing criticism. "Students must suppress their views to protect their careers; ...
Has Israeli Deterrence Been Restored?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 20 Sep 2007 | Permalink | Comments (18)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "Do you think comments made earlier this week by OC Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin by which Israel's deterrence had been restored were premature?" For all replies, see "Burning Issues #40: Israeli ...
John Esposito and Me
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 10 Sep 2007 | Permalink | Comments (13)
Excerpt: On August 18, Georgetown University professor John Esposito spoke in Dallas for a Council on American-Islamic Relations fundraiser intending, as he put it, "to show solidarity not only with the Holy Land Fund [sic, Holy Land Foundation], but also with ...
Learning from the Mearsheimer-Walt Fiasco
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 9 Sep 2007 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: Several publications have invited me to respond to The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, but I have desisted (other than to correct the record about myself), for three minor reasons and one major one. The ...
Cut Gaza's power?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 6 Sep 2007 | Permalink | Comments (42)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "As Kassam rockets continue to pound Sderot, Minister Haim Ramon has suggested responding to the salvos by cutting off vital infrastructure such as water, electricity and gasoline to Gaza for a specific time ...
Foxbats Did Fly over Dimona
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 24 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Comments (17)
Excerpt: In their sensational historical detective work, Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War (Yale University Press, 2007), Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez have challenge the widely-accepted idea that the Six Day War happened ...
Might Europe's Muslims Hide Their Identity?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 21 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Future relations between peoples of Christian and Muslim origins in Europe is one of the great questions of our age; I have speculated (in "Europe's Stark Options") that the continent can look forward to just three possible scenarios – Eurabia, rejection ...
Surfboards to Reduce Arab-Israeli Tensions?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 21 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Excerpt: There's something about the Arab war on Israel that inspires cockamamie "peace" ideas. It seems like anyone with an expertise or avocation thinks that his special interest might help reduce Arab-Israeli tensions. Architects, physicians, musicians – they ...
The Worst Book of 2007?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Comments (16)
Excerpt: Gene W. Heck has an impressive biography, being "a senior business development economist operating in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Mideast. Prior to joining the private sector, he was a member of the United States Diplomatic Corps, with postings to ...
Will the Nation of Islam Disappear?
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 10 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: The historic role of the Nation of Islam was to introduce African-Americans to Islam; that role accomplished, I already predicted in 2000, in "How Elijah Muhammad Won," that it will go out of business before long in favor of normative Islam (the sort ...
Bibliography – My Writings on Burqas, Niqabs, Jilbabs, Chadors, Hijabs, and other Islamic Coverings
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 1 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: How to respond to Muslim women who cover their head and face? I take up this spiraling topic in the West from time to time – including an article today, calling for the banning of certain extreme headgear. Here's a bibliography, to be updated as needed. ...
Papal Aide Warns against Islamization
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 27 Jul 2007 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: It's the sort of statement that must be routine behind closed doors in the Church but rarely gets articulated in public, and when it does, it deserves attention: Pope Benedict XVI's private secretary, Msgr. Georg Gänswein, said in an interview with ...
Suicide Reversal? Polling the Muslim world
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 26 Jul 2007 | Permalink | Comments (20)
Excerpt: National Review Online asked a group of experts: "On Tuesday, Pew released a poll indicating that support for suicide bombings is on the decline in the Muslim world, among other things. How encouraging is this poll? What can we do — as a government, as ...
More on the "Nile-to-Euphrates" Calumny
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 12 Jun 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Arab enemies of Israel have been repeating for decades that Zionists wish to conquer the central Middle East, more specifically from the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates River in Iraq. I reviewed this subject in depth in 1994 in "Imperial Israel: ...
The Catholic Church Demands Reciprocity from Muslims
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 9 Jun 2007 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Already in late 2003, the Vatican equivalent of foreign minister, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, demanded reciprocity: "Just as Muslims can build their houses of prayer anywhere in the world, the faithful of other religions should be able to do so as well." ...
Israel and Syria going to war?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 7 Jun 2007 | Permalink | Comments (31)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "Both Jerusalem and Damascus say they want to prevent war, and yet are preparing for an attack by the other side and escalating their rhetoric. What are the chances that a war nobody claims to want would ...
New Frontiers in Counterterrorism Incompetence
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 31 May 2007 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Excerpt: Some examples, in reverse chronological order, of spectacular incidents of bungling. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Terrorists Claim to Seize CIA Files": In its takeover of Gaza, Hamas have seized ...
A Christian Caught in Mecca; What Fate Awaits Him?
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 21 May 2007 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: Nirosh Kamanda, a Christian from Sri Lanka, had a visa to work as a truck driver in Dammam, a town on the Persian Gulf. But after a short time, he illegally left his job and even more illegally entered Mecca – strictly forbidden to non-Muslims – where he ...
Jewish and Arab Demographics in Jerusalem
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 9 May 2007 | Permalink | Comments (33)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "The capital's Arab population has increased at more than twice the rate of its Jewish inhabitants over the last decade, a recent survey has found. Another study predicts that if Jerusalem's borders remain ...
Jihad in Jersey
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 9 May 2007 | Permalink | Comments (103)
Excerpt: National Review Online asked a group of experts: "What's the most important lesson we should take from the averted terrorist attack on Fort Dix?" For all replies, see "Symposium: Jihad in Jersey" I draw two lessons. First, that immigrants seeking ...
What will the future political landscape look like in Israel in the aftermath of the Winograd report?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 2 May 2007 | Permalink | Comments (10)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "What will the future political landscape look like in Israel in the aftermath of the Winograd report?" For all replies, see "Burning Issues #31: Winograd fallout" One week after Kadima came into existence ...
Lodi's Pakistani Community
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 27 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Comments (5)
Excerpt: Since the first news came from Lodi, California, of the Hayat terrorism case, I have been fascinated by the town's Pakistani community, which resembles those of the British Midlands than the United States: isolation from the rest of the population, ...
My Disrupted Talk at UCLA
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 13 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Comments (47)
Excerpt: Along with Yaron Brook (head of the Ayn Rand Institute) and Wafa Sultan (of Al-Jazeera fame), I participated yesterday evening in a panel on "Totalitarian Islam's Threat to the West" at the University of California at Los Angeles. The hall was filled ...
One-Quarter of Israeli Arabs Deny the Holocaust
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 18 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Comments (20)
Excerpt: A poll by Sami Smoocha, sociologist at the University of Haifa, finds that 28 percent of Israel's Arab citizens believe the Holocaust never happened. Among high school and college graduates the figure is 33 percent. (With 721 Arabs interviewed, the ...
Raleb Majadele - Israel's First Muslim Arab Minister of State
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 17 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Comments (21)
Excerpt: It took 59 years, but Israel has a Muslim Arab minister in its government, its first. That would be Raleb Majadele, 53, a member of the Labor party and since January 28, 2007, a minister without portfolio. But he said in an interview that he refuses to ...
Islamist Advice to Jews
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 14 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Comments (15)
Excerpt: The title raises one's curiosity – "Islamic leader urges Jews be wary of fundamentalists" but it is the quotes in the Boston Globe story that takes one's breath away. Ingrid Mattson, apologist for Wahhabism and president of the Islamic Society of North ...
Israeli Arabs: An Existential Danger to Israel
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 13 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: I see three complementary efforts to eliminate Israel. The states, from Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran, using either conventional armies or weapons of mass destruction. The external Palestinians, from Yasir Arafat to Hamas, ...
Majority-Muslim Governments Press for Islamic Law in the West
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 8 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: When the French government in 2004 banned the hijab from classrooms, a slew of Muslim-majority governments made it their business to argue against this step, including those of Egypt, Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, plus Al-Qaeda, the Islamic Army ...
Other Taxpayer-Funded American Madrassas
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 8 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Comments (42)
Excerpt: The Khalil Gibran International Academy is not the only taxpayer-funded Arabic-language school in the United States and not the only such school with Arabist or Islamist proclivities that need to be watched. This weblog entry will explore those other ...
Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy – An Islamist Charter School in Minnesota?
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 8 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Comments (12)
Excerpt: Of the several problematic Arabic-language schools in the United States, the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy stands out as the outstanding example of a taxpayer-funded Islamic school. Not being a traditional public school but a charter school, it has more room ...
On New York's "Khalil Gibran International Academy"
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 7 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Comments (137)
Excerpt: Sarah Garland reports in the New York Sun about Brooklyn's soon-to-be-established Khalil Gibran International Academy: A new public secondary school that is to include Middle Eastern studies in its curriculum will focus on culture, not the region's ...
Dinesh D'Souza Walks on the Dark Side
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 6 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Comments (22)
Excerpt: I have admired the spirited and patriotic writing of Dinesh D'Souza and even blurbed one of this books, What's So Great About America. But, along with many other former admirers of his writing, I have been appalled by the thesis of his new book, The ...
The West's First Niqab-Covered Public Official?
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 23 Feb 2007 | Permalink | Comments (11)
Excerpt: Ouafaa Abrazi, a Muslim woman of Moroccan origins who teaches in the Muslim Yunus Emre primary school in The Hague, is running for public office. Specifically, she is on the Islam Democraten ticket in municipal elections in the Zuid-Holland region. Her ...
My Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 20 Feb 2007 | Permalink | Comments (68)
Excerpt: The Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing on February 14, 2007, titled "Next Steps in Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process." Three witnesses appeared before the subcommittee: Martin Indyk of ...
Explaining the Murder Rampage atop the Empire State Building
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 18 Feb 2007 | Permalink | Comments (11)
Excerpt: As one of the many instances when the authorities refuse to recognize terrorism when it stares them in the face, I briefly recounted in 2002 the Empire State Building murder rampage that had taken place five years earlier: Ali Hasan Abu Kamal, a ...
Brandeis President Jehuda Reinharz and I Exchange Letters
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 17 Feb 2007 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: Two days after my article, "[Brandeis University President Jehuda] Reinharz, Israel and Me," appeared, Dr. Reinharz contacted me. We have agreed to exchange letters. Here is his letter to me: Dear Dr. Pipes, I am pleased we had an opportunity to speak ...
Pope Benedict XVI Changes His Tone
By Daniel Pipes | Fri, 16 Feb 2007 | Permalink | Comments (19)
Excerpt: "Pope Benedict XVI's publicly stated view of Islam has undergone a remarkable transformation in less than five months." That's the conclusion reached by Russell Shaw in "Papal transformation - Benedict uses softer touch to dialogue with Islam" in Our ...
Hilton Hotel's "Pilgrimage to Makkah"
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 15 Feb 2007 | Permalink | Comments (15)
Excerpt: As a silver member of "Hilton HHonors," I receive the odd discount from the hotel chain but today's offer really caught my eye. It was not to swing in Las Vegas or spend April in Paris, but to go on pilgrimage to Mecca. I've posted the webpage here. Some ...
Jehuda Reinharz of Brandeis University Replies to Me
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 14 Feb 2007 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Excerpt: In response to my article yesterday, "[Brandeis University President Jehuda] Reinharz, Israel and Me," President Jehuda Reinharz sent this form letter today to those who wrote him on my behalf: Dear XX: I am writing in response to your email concerning ...
Canadian Islam Is Healthier
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 14 Feb 2007 | Permalink | Comments (13)
Excerpt: American and British Islam are dominated by extremists, but Canadian Islam is "different, in a promising and heartening way." So argues Stephen Schwartz of the Center for Islamic Pluralism in "Canada is Different, Even in Its Muslims." That's because ...
Washington to Rescue Europe's Muslims?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 13 Feb 2007 | Permalink | Comments (11)
Excerpt: Daniel Fried, assistant U.S. secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, has expressed concern about a "nativist surge" in Western Europe and created a senior advisor position to report to him for coordinating efforts to reach out to European ...
May Zulhaidi Omar Convert to Buddhism?
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 6 Feb 2007 | Permalink | Comments (2)
Excerpt: The Islamic prohibition on apostasy – either becoming an atheist or converting to another religion – leads to many painful circumstances. Richard Lloyd Parry of the London Times tells the poignant and strange story now taking place in the town of Batu ...
UK Security Forces Disrupt Terror Plot Every Six Weeks
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 4 Feb 2007 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: The director-general of MI5, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, revealed in November 2006 that My officers and the police are working to contend with some 200 groupings or networks, totalling over 1,600 identified individuals (and there will be many we don't ...
My Disrupted Talk at the University of California-Irvine
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 1 Feb 2007 | Permalink | Comments (85)
Excerpt: My talk last night at the University of California-Irvine, on the topic of "The Threat to Israel's Existence," was disrupted just over 15 minutes into my lecture by what appear to be goons of an Islamist persuasion. Three videos on the internet document ...
Bethlehem Christians Speak Out
By Daniel Pipes | Thu, 25 Jan 2007 | Permalink | Comments (8)
Excerpt: As I noted in "Christianity Dying in Its Birthplace," a campaign of persecution against the Christians of the West Bank and Gaza has succeeded. "Even as the Christian population of Israel grows, that of the Palestinian Authority shrinks precipitously. ...
London's Police: Share Intelligence with Muslim Leaders?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 24 Jan 2007 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: London's Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Sir Ian Blair, announced (at a conference on "Islamophobia," no less) that his force is considering the idea of sharing intelligence and information with Muslims before launching anti-terror operations, ...
My Debate with London Mayor Ken Livingstone
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 22 Jan 2007 | Permalink | Comments (99)
Excerpt: It all began with a faxed letter from Ken Livingstone, mayor of London, arriving out of the blue on April 4, 2006: I will be hosting a conference to discuss the thesis of the "clash of civilizations" first popularized by Professor Samuel Huntington's ...
How the Niqab Will Enter British Schools
By Daniel Pipes | Mon, 22 Jan 2007 | Permalink | Comments (4)
Excerpt: A court has banned details from being published, so Neil Sears's report in London's Daily Mail, "Muslim father gets legal aid to fight school over veil ban," has only the outlines of the case: A Muslim Pakistani father wishes his 12-year-old daughter to ...
Is the road map still relevant?
By Daniel Pipes | Wed, 17 Jan 2007 | Permalink | Comments (22)
Excerpt: Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: "Do you believe the road map is still relevant? Is there a need for a new plan?" For all replies, see "Burning Issues #21 Is the road map still relevant?" The question implies that once upon a time, the ...
"Palestinian Authority Enjoys New Media Center"
By Daniel Pipes | Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: Some news reports are so absurd in themselves, they need barely any comment. Glenn Kessler article today with this title in the Washington Post fits the description. He explains that until recently, whenever Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with ...
Admitting Israel's Unilateral Withdrawals a Mistake
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 9 Jan 2007 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: In an interview with the Chinese news agency Xinhua, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has acknowledged that Israel's unilateral withdrawals from Lebanon and Gaza did not work, and that the summer's violence out of these regions has convinced him not to repeat ...
Canberra Leads the Way, Vetoes Saudi Funds for Mosque
By Daniel Pipes | Tue, 9 Jan 2007 | Permalink | Comments (7)
Excerpt: In a possibly unprecedented move in any Western country, Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer turned down a Saudi request to send funds to help the Islamic Society of South Australia build a new mosque in Park Holme, a southern suburb of ...
The U.S. Department of Defense Woos Muslims
By Daniel Pipes | Sat, 6 Jan 2007 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Excerpt: The Pentagon has taken quite a series of steps to attract Muslims into the services, Richard Whittle documents in "Uncle Sam wants U.S. Muslims to serve." Various military installations, including West Point and the other service academies, have opened ...
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