Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
You read that right. Kerry Picket of The Washington Times notes an alarming radio interview with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. In it, Pelosi calls for an investigation–presumably, by Congress–of the massive grassroots opposition to the Ground Zero Mosque.
Never forget this defining moment in the Obama presidency: But let me be clear: as a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes
CBS is reporting some strange noises coming out of New York tonight. Seems that Governor David Paterson is still thinking about a “compromise” that would allow the people behind the Ground Zero Mosque– and its Shariah Index Project— to relocate
When he was on the campaign trail, then-Senator Obama promised his administration would be the most transparent in history. From health care to environmental regulations, President Obama has repeatedly failed to live up to that promise. Now, his administration is
That then is our dilemma. Though we rhetorically see Iran as a state sponsor of terror, and even officially say so in our annual State Department reports on the same subject, our actions to date, and from every administration since
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, author Mark Helprin discusses his latest piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “Hollow Talk in the South China Sea: If present military trends continue, the correlation of forces will shift much more
From the indispensable MEMRI blog: In an August 16, 2010 column in the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, ‘Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, Al-Arabiya TV director-general and the paper’s former editor, criticized President Obama for supporting the construction of the Cordoba House mosque
President Barack Obama would have us believe that his endorsement of the plan to build a mosque at Ground Zero is a testament to his firm belief in civil rights. In one of the White House’s attempts to temper the
Politico’s Maggie Haberman reports on the continuing political fallout from the campaign to erect a mosque near Ground Zero: After almost total silence from New York elected officials over the weekend after President Obama’s mosque speech (in which some members
Do the math. The 15 floors planned for the Ground Zero Mosque just don’t add up. What’s the goal? Maybe the Imam’s goal is not simply to force a provocative “insensitivity” about 9-11 on the American public, with the help
A promo for tonight’s Bill O’Reilly Show mentioned there would be an “Is It Legal?” discussion of the Taliban’s recent stoning of adulterers, specifically, “Plus, Afghan couple stoned to death by Taliban over alleged affair. Is It Legal? explains Sharia
The video below was smuggled out of North Korea and eventually obtained by a Japanese TV outfit. Many thanks to Anonymous Aussie for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling: [youtube kmmhZW7Uycg nolink] Note: 1,000 Korean won is
Feisal Abdul Rauf–the now infamous “moderate” imam doggedly pursuing a triumphal mosque near Ground Zero–has yet another opportunity to confirm his putative “ecumenism.” The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA) has issued a series of traditional Islamic legal rulings,
Just when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Team Obama’s other boosters for the New START Treaty thought the time ripe to press the U.S. Senate to consent to the ratification of that accord, legislators were given two powerful new
While Mayor Bloomberg and so many others in this great land believe that establishing a mosque two hundred yards from Ground Zero is the most compassionate thing Americans can do at this time, we direct your attention to this stunning
The Left in the mainstream media are desperately attempting to characterize conservative views of the Cordoba Initiative mosque as question of religious freedom. Yet, no apologist for the mosque, thus far, from the White House, to the Mayor’s office, to
Today Obama administration mouthpiece Mark Halperin is imploring the GOP to hold its fire on Democrats and, specifically, the president for weighing in on the side of the Ground Zero Mosque, Shariah and the disingenuous imam behind it. In his
A blogger at the popular progressive blog Daily Kos has attempted to smear many Americans with a very wide brush of anti-Islamic bigotry, while at the same time espousing a decidedly bizarre progressive view of the worst terror attack in
UPDATE: A New York Daily News correspondent reports the Hareetz story is untrue: UPDATE from our Sam Goldsmith, who’s been following this issue and just got off the phone with Sharif El-Gamal, the developer of the project: “That’s complete misinformation.
One obvious question for those who support the Ground Zero mosque has been, “Do you think the terrorists support it?” In other words, will the radical Muslim terrorists consider it a victory if they see a Mosque established a 4-iron
Alternative history is a popular genre in American fiction and film. What if Lee had won at Gettysburg? What if Hitler got the Bomb before we did? What if the American Revolution had failed? These kinds of speculative, leading questions
Former head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat was caught on more than one occasion speaking peacefully in English while preaching hate in Arabic. As a former member of the PLO, Walid Shoebat insists that such tactics are
The organization behind the proposed Cordoba Initiative — more commonly known as the Ground Zero mosque — is the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA). As reported previously, the government of the Netherlands has been implicated in the funding of
Britain’s largest and longest-running terrorist investigation ended last month with the conviction of three British Muslims. Their 2006 plot involved blowing up trans-Atlantic airliners with the hope of killing up to 10,000 people. That near-disaster offers a pungent reminder of
The Iranian Mullahs want to talk. So does the United States. Tehran wants to negotiate because the economic sanctions are hurting. The US wants to negotiate because it wants to be sure Iran is not building nuclear weapons. But can
