Tag: State Department

Two weeks ago, a Palestinian from Bethlehem was arrested by the US-financed and trained Palestinian Authority security forces. He was charged with “carrying out commercial transactions with residents of a hostile state.” No, he was not buying uranium from Iran.

Should we adopt a terrorist and pray for them? That’s the idea behind a Christian ministry called (not surprisingly) Adopt-a-Terrorist for Prayer. An excerpt from their website: “Where is the Christian response to terrorism? If the struggle against violence done

Part 16 of a serialization of Shariah – The Threat to America, the report of Team B II of the Center for Security Policy. In this section, we use the Muslim Brotherhood’s own internal documents to map out the organization’s

Excellent catch by Barry Rubin who has just uncovered the latest example of the Obama administration’s seriously misguided “outreach” to Muslims! As Rubin notes, the U.S. Consulate-General in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia played host to Trita Parsi, founder and President of

In a speech to members of her Christian Democratic Union party in Potsdam on October 16, German Chancellor Angela Merkel drove a stake through the heart of European Utopian fantasies. Referring to the influx of foreign workers to Germany since

In the summer of 2000, analysts and pollsters believed the Palestinian people were ready for peace. Yet Yasser Arafat walked away from the negotiating table at Camp David and two months later the bloodshed of the Second Intifada began. Jonathan

How should American voters concerned with Israel’s welfare and security vote in the U.S. Congressional elections on Nov. 2? This much is clear after almost two years of Democratic control over the executive and legislative branches of government: Democrats consistently

Israel’s opposition leaders spent the past week trying to prove their relevance. On Tuesday, both former prime minister Ehud Olmert and Kadima leader Tzipi Livni accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of wrecking Israel’s relations with the US. Both Livni and

Last Friday FBI agents raided the homes of far left activists in Chicago and Minneapolis who are linked to the FARC and Islamic radicals as part of a terrorism investigation. The home of radical Hatem Abudayyeh in Chicago was raided

When my colleagues and I rolled out the Team B II report last week, “Shariah: The Threat to America,” in attendance at the Capitol Hill press conference was ThinkProgress.org blogger and Center for American Progress national security researcher Matt Duss,

[Editor’s Note: The author of this post has requested anonymity.] Read part I here. Understanding that General Petraeus is himself the object of an intense sustained information campaign and realizing that, as a matter of fact, every Coalition partner he

[Editor’s Note: The author of this post has requested anonymity.] Since 2005, every Muslim country, to include all of our Coalition partners, signed off on a 10 Year Program to make slander, as defined in Islamic law, a serious punishable

I have to admit, I have a certain admiration for the Ground Zero mosque Imam, Feisal Rauf. Whether he’s telling the government that his wife’s apartment is a mosque that seats 500 in order to get religious tax exemptions or

Obama State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley said on Tuesday that the planned protest by an obscure Florida Christian church in which Korans will be burned is “un-American” and the protesters are “consistent with” those al Qaeda terrorists who murdered

In a speech given at the National Endowment for Democracy, on October 6, 2005 President Bush said: “Many Muslim scholars have already publicly condemned terrorism, often citing Chapter 5, Verse 32 of the Koran, which states that killing an innocent

As reported by the New York Post’s Tom Topoussis on June 19, 2010, Imam Feisal Rauf repeatedly declined to acknowledge, unequivocally, that Hamas is a terrorist organization, despite its formal designation as such by the US State Department, in these

The inimitable Claudia Rosett, one of her generation’s most accomplished and tenacious investigative journalists (she exposed, for example, the “Oil for Food” scandal), is hot on a new scent: It was she who first revealed that the imam behind the

Medea Benjamin “call(s) for help” before she is arrested for trespassing at the McLean, Va., home of Erik Prince, August 20, 2010. Photo by Code Pink. Terrorist supporter and Code Pink co-founder Susan “Medea” Benjamin was arrested Friday evening at

Writing in the Weekly Standard blog, Bill Kristol unearths some truly revealing statements by Ground Zero Mosque imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on the Islamic theocracy of Iran (which, of course, has been in a state of war with the United