The Islamic Republic of Iran seized two U.S. Navy vessels while they were navigating the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, detaining the ships and ten American sailors near Iran’s Farsi Island, the Pentagon said.
Growing violence against gays in the Netherlands prompted gay rights organizations to mount a demonstration in Amsterdam yesterday. It is a well-known fact — although not always a publicly-acknowledged one — that most of the anti-gay violence comes from Muslim
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Andy McCarthy of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies lays out the historical pattern of Imam Rauf’s carefully crafted public image in contrast to his actual beliefs and goals. We’ve had more of
There is nothing “nuanced” about Imam Feisal Rauf’s belief in the primacy of Sharia (Islamic Law) in society–any society. Rauf, in his 2004 “What’s Right With Islam“–released in Malaysia as, “A Call to Prayer from the World Trade Center Rubble:
Last week a national treasure was condemned and, in the name of political correctness, modified beyond cultural recognition. I am, of course, referring to the USA Basketball Team Dancers. Dancers wear black leggings, white T-shirts to respect cultural sensitivities during
Time Magazine has moved fully in the ‘anti-Zionist’ pro Caliphate camp with its latest cover, set to hit the newsstands during Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The story itself is an obscenity written by one Karl Vick, whose basic
News reports indicating that the Chinese are heavily involving themselves in the business of India and Pakistan have become overwhelming during this administration. Obama’s commitment to India is clearly weaker than his predecessor’s, who in his White House was known
We generally don’t do book reviews at Big Peace. But every once in a while a book comes along that threatens to reset the foreign policy debate and demands coverage. The just released The Arab Lobby fits those specifications because
Currently (see here, reviewed 9/2/10 at The National Review Online), the Mutazilites, typified by the Abbasid Muslim rulers al-Mamun (r. 813-833) and al-Mutasim (r. 833-842) are being lionized as avatars of the kind of “rationalist freethinking” which might have spared
Obama administration officials are calling for an escalation of U.S. military operations in Yemen, the home of Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). There are no plans to scale back operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Washington Post reported two
