The Iranian Ahmadinejad regime repeated announced goal is the destruction of the State of Israel. The goal of the State of Israel is survival. Israel feels it has the absolute right to defend itself against a potential nuclear attack. Iran
So I guess their radicals, beat our radicals. Think about it… President Obama starts pleading with that nutty Florida minister to knock off his idiotic plan to burn Korans. Obama said the act would incite terrorists “to blow themselves up.”
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, AEI Scholar Michael Rubin joins Frank for a geo-political tour of the Middle East. There is a continuity of ideas in Totalitarian Islamism that play out in the form of political forces as
The oldest gay-rights organization in Latin America is taking Fidel Castro to the International Court of justice in The Hague for “crimes against humanity.” “What?!” snort the “enlightened.” You rubes got the news exactly bass-ackwards! In fact, last week Fidel
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom. It was the age of foolishness. (Actually in this case, it was mostly foolishness.) For two years now, the Toronto International Film
Last week a national treasure was condemned and, in the name of political correctness, modified beyond cultural recognition. I am, of course, referring to the USA Basketball Team Dancers. Dancers wear black leggings, white T-shirts to respect cultural sensitivities during
Maajid Nawaz’s oped in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal attempts to draw a distinction between Islam and Islamism. While there may indeed be such an argument if “Islam” means any given Muslim’s personal, subjective approach to the divine and “Islamism” means
Within twenty-four hours of the Lebanese attack on a team of Israeli Army tree trimmers, Congressman Peter Roskam (R-Ill) issued the following statement in support of Israel’s actions during the incident: Lebanon’s unprovoked attack on Israeli Defense Forces earlier this
President Obama announced Monday that American troops in Iraq will be reduced from 144,000 to 50,000 by the end of this month and that a complete withdrawal will occur by the end of 2011. It still is not clear how
The dictator who came the closest in history to igniting a nuclear war made several public appearances recently to predict imminent nuclear war. The cataclysm he craved in Oct. 1962 will erupt, he warned on Cuban TV, when the Israelis
The annals of English history shall record you in one light or the other. You have snatched back a rudderless country out of the hands of directionless leftists – and for this, we across the Atlantic are thankful. But don’t
Those closely involved with operations in Afghanistan have known since 2008 that there was a better than average chance that our very good allies, the Dutch, were going home in 2010. It was also known that the Canadians were looking
When it comes to security threats to western civilization in general and the United States in particular, Israel, along with nations that make up the European Union are the canaries in the coal mine. When they are under threat, so
Things are moving faster than it first appeared, the rails greased by an unctuous British PM Cameron. Indeed, Turkish PM Erdogan is already declaring a “golden age” of Turkey-UK relations. You’ve heard of the Full Monty? Behold the Full Dhimmi.
As reported last week, Geert Wilders has announced the formation of the International Freedom Alliance, which will be launched in several countries during the next few months. One of the stops on his itinerary will be in Berlin on October
Editor’s note: We are asking a group of leading thinkers, “What does the current strategic balance look like?” Here is a response from Dr. Herb London, President of the Hudson Institute , a world-renown think tank. As I see it,
Vandalism, larceny, rape, and low-level violence are routine in the “culturally enriched” suburbs of major European cities. Most of these crimes gain little attention the news media, if they are covered at all. The conditions have simply become normal: Muslim
The dictator who came the closest in history to igniting a nuclear war made several public appearances this week to predict imminent nuclear war. The cataclysm he craved in Oct. 1962 will erupt, he warned on Cuban TV this week,
A couple of weeks ago, a Facebook group called “Against Jennifer Lopez Performing in Occupied Cyprus” came to my attention. Being a Greek-American and half Cypriot, I immediately investigated and found out that Ms. Lopez was scheduled to perform in
Recently, American Enterprise Institute scholar Michael Rubin addressed a luncheon on Capitol Hill and gave a master class on the devolution of the once-secular state of Turkey into the swamp of Islamism with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his
Turkey is a member of NATO and has long been held out as an example of democracy and secular society in the Middle East. That has been changing since Prime Minister Erdogan came to power in 2003. He and his
How low has dipped the inspiring rhetoric of the party of John Kennedy in terms of lofty goals and ideals? Kennedy said in his speech to a Joint Session of Congress in May 1961: “First, I believe that this nation
As noted previously, Robert Spencer is visiting Sweden. Yesterday he was invited by Sverigedemokraterna (the Sweden Democrats) to speak at an event in Almedalen. The Swedish media coverage, as expected, was absurdly biased. Many thanks to Reinhard of FOMI for
Despite the initiative being spearheaded by France to create a “Mediterranean Union” composed of the EU and the Muslim countries of North Africa and the Middle East, tensions between Europe and the Islamic states bordering the Mediterranean have been growing
From the 1972 film: Adams, Jefferson and Franklin wait while the Congress reads the Declaration of Independence for the first time. What will our national bird be, a dove, a turkey or an eagle?
