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Liberty Alliance, a coalition of American groups and leaders, are expressing deep concern about recent reports that British jihadists Imam Anjem Choudary, Abu Izzadeen and Sayful Islam, have announced that they will arrive in Washington next week to lead a

That’s the fascinating question that Tally Helfont of the Foreign Policy Research Institute raises in a fascinating piece. Given that Wikileaks exposed the dirty secrets of leaders across Islamic world right before the place erupted, did those revelations push things

This is a portion Raymond Davis’ interrogation by Pakistani police. He is being held on murder charges in Pakistan for shooting two individuals who he says were trying to rob him. He was carrying a Glock and a telescope when

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a blistering speech in Bushehr, a city in Iran’s southwest that also is the site of nuclear facilities. According to Press TV of Iran today (as translated by MEMRI) the Iranian Prez said that the

Tehran Times reports: Hanin Zoubi , an Arab member of Israel’s parliament (Knesset) has predicted a Palestinian revolution, modeled after the one in Egypt, which terminated three decades of dictatorship. “Israel has been relying on the weakness of the Arab

We’ve reported here before that the Iranian government is taking credit for supporting and inspiring the uprisings taking place in Tunisia and Egypt. Now here’s an interesting development: opposition forces in Iran are planning demonstrations in Tehran to show their

Report: Donald Rumsfeld has revealed that Saddam Hussein took out a $60 million hit on his daughters in revenge for the slaying of his two sons. The ex-U.S. Secretary of Defense said that the former Iraqi dictator offered the bounty

The best analysis I’ve see so far of what the future holds in Egypt comes from Benny Morris at the National Interest. He rightfully points out that Hosni Mubarak is done and in the short-term the political center of gravity

A writer in Israel gets it right. It might be easier for the radicals to take over in Egypt now than it was for Khomeini in Iran back in 1979. Be sure to read the whole thing. “It would be

It probably has something to do with the fact that the Iranian mullahs are willing to be as brutal as necessary to stay in power. Reuters is reporting that a Dutch citizen arrested after the Iranian protests of 2009 has

Sobering words are coming out of the mouths of Israeli security experts who worry that unrest from Egypt to Yemen may bring radicals to power. The Jerusalem Post reports: “While no analysts here predict any immediate ramifications for Israel’s national

Events are moving rather quickly. Police have arrested leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, five former members of parliament, and they’ve disrupted internet service. The latter is because the evidence is pretty strong that Facebook and Twitter have been very powerful

Catherine Ashton of the European Union paid a visit to Iran. Apparently she was too hot to handle for Iranian censors. Here’s a photo of that visit from Reuters: And here’s same scene, with a different neckline, published in the

We reported earlier that Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, had converted to Islam. Now she is touring Muslim countries with a radical group called Viva Palestina demanding that her in-law by tried for the invasion

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) offers a translation of a fascinating and candid piece published in the United Arab Emirates, written by Dr. Ahmad ‘Abd Al-Malik, a columnist for the daily Al-Ittihad. Listen to these strong words: “The

Yesterday Roger Kimball at Pajamas Media had a piece on the controversy surrounding CPAC and the American Conservative Union’s board member Suhail Khan. See a lot more on Khan’s troubling associations here, here and here. An alarming prospect: a widespread

The following is an excerpt from Shariah – The Threat to America, the report of Team B II of the Center for Security Policy. Here, we explore the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), the Muslim Brotherhood front that dominates the

Big Peace contributor Ted Galen Carpenter has an important piece at the National Interest where he assesses Iraq then and now. He argues that however you want to slice it, the war has made us worse off. He makes some

Here’s an interesting story, about the son of Jamaican superstar Bob Marley and his collaboration on a reggae song with…..Hasidic rapper named DeScribe. I’m not a fan of rap or reggae, although the video below is catchy. But I found

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The following was written by “David Meyers” a former intelligence officer. The past month or so has proven to be a difficult one for the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States as it continues to be exposed for what it

This piece on the Arizona shootings and radical Islam caught my eye. The media’s look at the Arizona shootings has been long on linking the shooter to talk radio (non-existent), conservatives (nada), and Sarah Palin (nope). But is the media

A disturbing report in the Asia Times about Afghanistan. It speaks to the severe challenges we face in attempting to reform Afghanistan, an Islamist society. Keep in mind, these are our allies. Caution: Reader discretion is advised. “Social scientists attached

A translation from the website of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Mehr, Iran, January 9, 2011: “In a speech delivered in Tehran to an audience of thousands of visitors from the city of Qom, Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei called upon the

From the UK’s Telegraph: If you want an example of the official “conspiracy of silence” that has allegedly allowed hundreds of vulnerable white girls in some towns to be abused by Asian men, the case of Ajmal Mohammed, a 43-year-old

Germany’s Der Spiegel publishes an interview today with the Egyptian Ambassador to Germany about the massacre of Coptic Christians in his country. Clearly, denial and double-speak are official government policy. Listen to what Ambassador Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy says: SPIEGEL ONLINE:

From the UK’s Independent newspaper comes the following stunning report. Keep in mind, the Independent is a Center-Left newspaper: “The number of Britons choosing to become Muslims has nearly doubled in the past decade, according to one of the most