Tag: Islam

Historical note to “Afghan imams wage political battle against U.S.,” published 2/17/11 in the Washington Post: The small and brutally oppressed Afghan Jewish community was liquidated by 1950, shortly after the creation of Israel. According to a 1950 report, the

Why CBS kept mum for four days about the brutal sexual assault of network correspondent Lara Logan by a Tahrir Square mob on Feb. 11 we just don’t know. Did Logan, flown out of Cairo by a network-chartered jet to

When a member of Salmaan Taseer’s personal security team pumped twenty-seven bullets into the Punjab Governor as he visited an Islamabad market, people wondered whether the scales had tipped against the voices of tolerance in favor of violent extremism. Thousands

The Obama administration’s handling of Egypt reveals a level of incompetence that renders the U.S.–and the entire world– a more dangerous place. In the early days of the protests in Egypt, the terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood stayed on the sidelines.

Tabari’s Koranic Tafsir (Commentary): Sanctioning a millennium (and ongoing) of Koranic dissimulation On February 14, Sean Hannity asked whether the Koran sanctioned lying/ dissimulation (or “taqiyya”) during a debate between Robert Spencer and Michael Ghouse. Spencer appropriately cited Koran 3:28,

Caroline Glick wrote a column this month to explain what she calls “Israeli indifference to democratic currents in Arab societies” — an apparent paradox, it seems, to American naifs who believe that a functioning ballot box is all a society

It was nearly surreal to be a veteran Ikhwan-watcher yesterday. The Drudge Report ran a headline feature from Der Spiegel on the most influential Sunni cleric in the world today, Yuself al-Qaradawi. The article was picked up on talk radio,

Victim of Egyptian Islam’s Misogyny and Jew-Hatred Last Friday (2/11/11), Lara Logan, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, was beaten and raped in Cairo during a thirty minute assault by a frenzied throng of over 200 Egyptians. According to a

With questions looming about Islamist influence in a transitional Egypt, an organization that calls itself “the leading Islamic Institute in the West” is teaching students to support Sharia law in Egypt and around the world. Teachers at Houston-based Al Maghrib

If developments in Egypt have gone as well as one could hope for, future prospects remain unclear. The exciting part is over, now come the worries. Let’s start with three pieces of good news: Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s strongman who appeared

Muslim spokesmen and Islamic apologists in the West love to trot out the “shared Judeo-Christian-Islamic heritage and values” line, insinuating that Muslims worship the same God as Jews and Christians, and also revere their prophets and scriptures. For example, Dr.

On his radio show today, Sean Hannity hosted Frank Gaffney and David Horowitz as they confronted American Conservative Union board members Suhail Khan and Cleta Mitchell about the growing controversy surrounding Khan’s past radical statements and associations with Muslim Brotherhood

This past weekend at CPAC, David Horowitz associated Suhail Khan, now a “stalwart” of the American Conservative Union, with the broader movement of resurgent Islamic totalitarianism: We are also faced both at home and abroad with an existential enemy in

Pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas Professor Bassam Frangieh, head of Arabic and Middle East Studies at Claremont McKenna College, delivers a twenty-minute rant at the University of Bridgeport in 2007. Frangieh claims, among other things, that Islam is “very democratic” and that Saddam

With Hosni Mubarak stepping down Friday, Egypt’s future remains uncertain. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Armed Forces has taken temporary power with expectations of elections still set for the fall. “Egypt is free!” chanted the hundreds of thousands of people gathered

A Gaza-based radical leader says it is permissible to kill Jewish and Christian civilians while carrying out jihad, according to a document translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Abu Walid Al-Maqdisi, leader of the Jama’at Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad

Egypt has been thrown into completely unknown territory by the decision of Hosni Mubarak to resign as President. Somber Omar Suleiman, vice-president of Egypt, delivering Mubarak’s resignation announcement Vice president Omar Suleiman delivered the following extremely dramatic address, according to

Late Thursday morning, President Obama’s CIA Director, Leon Panetta (a former Congressman and White House Chief of Staff with zero intelligence community experience) testified to the House Intelligence Committee that Egyptian President Mubarak “will step down this evening.” Four hours

Guess who said the following: “The earliest defenders of Islam would defend their more numerous and better-equipped oppressors because the early Muslims loved death — dying for the sake of almighty Allah — more than the oppressors of Muslims loved

In an article published last week, I asserted that the emerging unrest in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East has been fomented by an alliance of radical leftists and the Muslim Brotherhood. I also reiterated my longstanding view that