Copyright 2009 DanielPipes.org Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:09:49 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Daniel Pipes :: Writings http://www.danielpipes.org MeqMef@aol.com (DanielPipes.org) webmaster@danielpipes.org en-us http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/06/cair-distributes-100000-korans-overtly-proselytizes Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST The Hamas-founded Council on American-Islamic Relations has long pretended to be a civil rights organization, comparing itself at times to the NAACP, but a close look at its record reveals the real CAIR agenda to be – in common with all Islamists – http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/06/conspiracy-theories-in-irans-unrest Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST "Iran is the world's most conspiracy-minded country" I declared in my book, The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy. An entire chapter of that study focused on the Islamic revolution of 1978-79, documenting how "Regardless of political http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/06/ahmadinejad-threatens-obama Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST Nearly lost in the exchange of invective between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Barack Obama is the former warning to put the latter on trial. Thomas Erdbrink and William Branigin offer details at "Iran's President Rebukes Obama; Candidates Reject Election http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/06/the-national-jewish-democratic-council-and-me Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST Back in February 2008, in the thick of the U.S. presidential primaries, Ira N. Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, the Democratic party's Jewish outreach organization, castigated me in the Philadelphia Jewish Voice as a http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/06/washington-to-tehran-you-cant-come-to-my-birthday-party Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST Iranians bravely take the streets by the hundreds of thousands, confronting the police, the Pasdaran, and the basiji thugs of the Islamic republic – and what, other than words, does the Obama administration actually do to respond to these momentous http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/06/bibliography-my-writings-on-the-mujahedeen-e-khalq Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST Like many other Middle East analysts, I for many years kept my distance from the Mujahedeen-e Khalq, an Iranian opposition group. But I changed my mind in 1993, on receipt of Islamic Fundamentalism: The New Global Threat (Washington, D.C.: Seven Locks http://www.danielpipes.org/6422/american-boldness-in-iran Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:00:00 EST In a striking coincidence, two very different expressions of Iranian dissent took place exactly simultaneously on two continents on Saturday, June 20. Between them, the Islamic Republic of Iran faces an unprecedented challenge. One protest took place on http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/06/ahmadinejad-or-mousavi Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST A throwaway line of mine at the Heritage Foundation on June 3 has turned into a minor internet sensation. Here it is, as presented by the left-wing journalist who broke the story: "I'm sometimes asked who I would vote for if I were enfranchised in this http://www.danielpipes.org/6406/middle-eastern-cold-war Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:00:00 EST A cold war is "the key to understanding the Middle East in the 21st century." So argue Yigal Carmon and three of his colleagues at the Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) in a recent study, "An Escalating Regional Cold War." They have http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/06/assessing-binyamin-netanyahus-speech-at-bar-ilan-university Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST In a major speech today at the Begin-Sadat Center of Bar-Ilan University, Binyamin Netanyahu laid out his vision to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. In brief, it's a fine speech, making many needed points, but it fails on the critical point of http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/06/assessing-the-iranian-election Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST Better put, the Iranian "selection," as the exercise yesterday appears to have been window dressing for Supreme Leader Ali Khamene'i, the real power in Iran, to re-appoint Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president. According to the authorities, Ahmadinejad http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/06/rooting-for-ahmadinejad Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST The heart and the head sometimes go in different directions, and they do for me today as Iranians go to the polls to vote in their country's semi-legitimate presidential elections.Many problems afflict those elections – including restrictions on who may http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/06/fulsome-us-government-praise-for-unrwa Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST According to WAFA, the PLO news agency, not only did the U.S. taxpayer today contribute $55.3 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, bringing the total 2009 U.S. contribution to UNRWA to $154.5 http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/06/islam-in-obamas-cairo-speech Thu, 4 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST Barack Obama took the official U.S. discussion of Islam to new heights by traveling to Cairo today and delivering a highly publicized speech to the Muslim world, formally titled "Remarks by the President on a New Beginning." Noteworthy elements in it http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/06/assessing-obamas-cairo-speech Thu, 4 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST Barack Obama's mention of "seven million American Muslims" in the course of his rambling and complex six-thousand-word address to the Muslim world from Cairo symbolizes the whole message. Study after study has found that demographic figure about three