As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomes Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu to Washington this week, it is critical that Americans pay attention to what these two leaders intend to do. From 12 to
Asra Q. Nomani in The Daily Beast: As an American Muslim consumer, I can say that I’ll likely buy the lumber for my son’s treehouse at Lowe’s, and I’ll switch from Expedia to Kayak. I like the company’s common sense.
As most are aware, one of the largest US retailers, Lowe’s Home Improvement, decided to pull its advertising from a reality TV show about Muslim Americans. TLC’s All-American Muslim takes a look at life in the heavily Muslim city of
If I were a psychiatrist, I could find the perfect label for the depths of denial or heights of delusion that manifest themselves in Frederick and Kimberly Kagan’s latest declarations on Iraq published in the Washington Post as “opinion.” “Fantasy”
It’s been mentioned here before that foreign policy has largely taken a back seat during the GOP debates. To a certain degree, it is understandable. Our nation is currently facing dire domestic problems from the economy, unemployment, political paralysis, and
This week, Egyptian political activist Cynthia Farahat testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the House of Representatives. Reps. Frank Wolf and James McDermott presented Under Threat: The Worsening Plight of Egypt’s Coptic Christians. Ms. Farahat spoke about
A drone on a CIA mission crashed landed in Iran a few days ago. Not just any drone, but one described as jet-powered and bat-winged (no joke!), full of super secret stealth technology. Yup, the RQ-170, one of our military’s
Is it really important for our next President to be against Iran developing nuclear weapons? Or is the scientific development of other countries none of our business ? Author Joel C. Rosenberg’s latest series, which began with “The Twelfth Imam”
Not since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War has the Middle East experienced such radical change. Dictators have fallen in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen; Syria is suffering civil war; and rebellion is cooking in
It might have been just some local government scandal: A shuttered public school sold in a no-bid contract to a private buyer after officials told other interested buyers the building was not up for sale; residents up in arms and
Terrorism: is it about religion or is it really about something else? We have all heard the quote, “My enemy is your enemy, and therefore you are my friend.” While this quote makes sense and may hold some credibility, it
Tis the season for buying books for your loved ones and as always the The New York Times Sunday Book Review is here to help. And as always the Sunday Book Review is there to help us understand that anything
Much of the bias of the mainstream media is not demonstrated by what they say but by what they omit. During the past four years there have plenty of examples of such media silence. Remember: the media ignored candidate Obama’s
It has taken two years and two months for an investigation to determine that the dereliction of duty on the part of at least one Officer led to the deaths of four Service members at Ganjgal. For those not familiar
Early and volatile, the Republican Presidential nomination race–at least for now–appears to be settling into a contest between consistent front runner Mitt Romney and the latest surging “non-Romney alternative,” former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich. Unfortunately, the CNN/Heritage Foundation/American Enterprise televised
In case you thought the Black Panther voter intimidation case, Fast and Furious, cracking down on Gibson Guitars, and attempting to give Kaleid Sheikh Mohammed a civilian trial weren’t enough, get ready to add another entry to Attorney General Eric
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) appeared on WOR’s John Gambling Show and said we should expect more “lone wolf” style terror attacks from individuals connected to or inspired by radical Islam.
Editor’s not: read Part 1 of Mr. Guandolo’s article here. The Dissenters In September 2010, a group of prominent leaders from the Intelligence and Law Enforcement community (Team B II) stepped out by producing a report entitled, “Shariah: The Threat
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * Saif al-Islam Gaddafi captured in Libya * Massive violence in Egypt may be a turning point * Stuxnet virus suspected in last week’s explosions in Iran * Remote cyber attack destroys pump in
How the U.S. National Security Apparatus is Imposing the Islamic Law of Slander on American Citizens and Aiding & Abetting the Enemy U.S. War fighting doctrine requires we analyze an enemy beginning with (1) who the enemy says he is,
The Face of Islamic Women’s Rights in Post-Mubarak, Arab Spring “Liberated” Egypt My colleague Al-Mutarjim has translated comments made this week to the London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat (via the Gazan publication Donia al-Watan) by a female candidate for the Egyptian Parliament,
Is the international community facing a suppression of the freedom of religion and speech in the face of Sharia law? If so, will the world be dominated by theology rather than democratic principles? Director of the Center for Religious Freedom
You will recall that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department filed a lawsuit in support of a Muslim public school teacher, Sefoorah Khan. After just 9 months’ employment in a Chicago area school, Ms. Khan chose to take a
The folks at TLC weren’t looking for the usual reality show fireworks when they commissioned “All-American Muslim.” A genre that too often feeds on divisiveness takes a gentler approach on the new show, debuting at 10 p.m. EST tonight (Nov.
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets110911.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by David P. Goldman to discuss demographic changes in the Muslim world, their impact on policies, and
