
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death for the murders he committed when he and his brother blew up the 2013 Boston Marathon. Judging by the case that the government presented against Tsarnaev and its visible effect on the jury, his odds of escaping the needle seemed early on to be less than even. But did the attorneys defending Tsarnaev make a major mistake that cost him his life by failing to tell the jury the entire story of how he decided to do what he did?
by Ilya Feoktistov20 May 2015, 11:58 AM PST0

Ankara (AFP) – Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu on Wednesday accused the government of delivering arms to Islamist rebels in Syria, pledging to seal the border to such traffic if he came to power. Turkey has been under fire for
by Breitbart News20 May 2015, 7:08 AM PST0

Rev. Bruno Ateba, bishop of the Diocese of Maroua-Mokolo in Cameroon, complained in a letter this week that the world pays very little attention to the sufferings of Africans in comparison with treatment accorded to victims in the First World.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.28 Apr 2015, 9:41 AM PST0

After swearing allegiance to ISIS in March, the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram has now gone a step further, adopting the new name of the “Islamic State’s West Africa Province,” or ISWAP. The title change is more than semantic, and galvanizes the radical Islamist forces in Africa and the Middle East.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.27 Apr 2015, 10:12 AM PST0

A Pakistani branch of the Taliban has claimed responsibility for bombings outside two churches in Lahore Sunday morning. According to local media, the blasts killed 14 people and wounded more than 70.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.15 Mar 2015, 6:35 AM PST0

The one big takeaway from Obama’s speech on the Muslim world’s “legitimate” grievances with the West is simply this. He is on their side. Obama has made us weak, vulnerable and ripe for attack. The next two years will be
by Pamela Geller20 Feb 2015, 4:10 PM PST0

Confirmation hearings in progress for crucial cabinet posts such as Defense Secretary and Attorney General miss an important reality in the Obama administration–the official chain of command apparently operates, when it does operate, only for show.
by Charles Ortel5 Feb 2015, 7:11 AM PST0

A Saudi Imam has followed the footsteps of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and delivered an extensive sermon proclaiming that Muslims had initially discovered America, and that Christopher Columbus’ voyage there was a plot to kill pre-Columbian Muslims.
by John Hayward30 Jan 2015, 10:43 AM PST0

Al Jazeera’s New York and Washington, D.C. journalists have reportedly received strict orders from Qatari management: please don’t use the words “terrorist,” “militant,” “Islamist,” “jihad” and “extremist” in your reporting.
by Jordan Schachtel29 Jan 2015, 12:03 PM PST0

In his contribution to the famous 1949 collection of essays by ex-Communists titled The God That Failed, Arthur Koestler carefully illustrates how set language binds thought to ideology at the expense of evidence. Koestler, author of the unparalleled novel of Stalin’s show trials, Darkness at Noon, describes a conversation he had early in his Communist career with “Edgar,” his Party contact, in which they discuss the front page of a Communist newspaper.
by Diana West29 Jan 2015, 7:53 AM PST0

A panel discussion Thursday hosted by the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) promised to plumb the “the root causes of radicalization” in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks at Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher market.
by The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)23 Jan 2015, 9:50 PM PST0

Clint Eastwood’s masterpiece, American Sniper, has shattered box office records and touched a chord in movie audiences across the country. The film has also unleashed an unbecoming waft of snarkiness from a pair of Hollywood insiders— Seth Rogan and Michael
by Chuck Pfarrer21 Jan 2015, 1:33 PM PST0

During a segment on a CNN special report that aired Monday night discussing Islamist extremism, one guest suggested that the White House’s refusal to use “Islamic” or “Islamist” as adjectives for terrorist groups like the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and others,
by Frances Martel20 Jan 2015, 6:48 AM PST0

In an appearance with MSNBC on Monday, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper insisted that the use of the word “Islamist” to describe radical Muslim terrorists is offensive to Muslims.
by Jordan Schachtel19 Jan 2015, 9:18 PM PST0

Following the cancelation of a march that was increasingly a regular weekly occurrence in Dresden, Germany’s anti-Islamist PEGIDA movement are calling for supporters in that city to line their windows with candles and flags, as well as organizing marches in other cities.
by Frances Martel19 Jan 2015, 9:17 AM PST0