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More than 80 percent of all convictions tied to international terrorist groups and homegrown terrorism since 9/11 involve defendants driven by a radical Islamist agenda, a review of Department of Justice statistics shows. Though Muslims represent about 1 percent of

If you want an illustration of successful multinational counterinsurgency and the potential for civilian life in Afghanistan, just look to Marja, says Rep. Bobby Schilling. “Last year, if you were to go there, what would happen is you would be

So Sunday, a few hundred protesters showed up in Times Square to denounce the upcoming House hearings on Radicalization in the American Muslim community. The crowd, well-organized with professional signs that read ” ‘Today I am a Muslim Too,” targeted

This is not 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down and democracy sprouted in Central Europe. North Africa and the Middle East are facing convulsions and it is more likely that perpetual conflict and civil war will be the future

Pakistan’s only Christian cabinet minister, and a staunch opponent of his nation’s blasphemy laws, was gunned down Wednesday as he went to work in Islamabad. Police reportedly found leaflets from the Pakistan Taliban near the scene of Shahbaz Bhatti’s assassination

Dictators ruled the Arab countries of the Middle East after World War One. These leaders have subjugated their people and made war on Israel and have brutalized each other in tribal and religious conflicts. During the dominance of the British

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi continued his defiant rhetoric on Friday, saying that he would “crush any enemy,” according to Reuters. He spoke to thousands of supporters in Tripoli’s Green Square, and threatened to open his military arsenals and make weapons

I thought I was the only one that noticed this crucial and portentous development in the Middle East: the Egyptian military– the force so many Western observers believed would be the bulwark keeping the Islamist parties at bay– gave a

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

14 Feburary 2011 Salween River: Burma on the left, Thailand on the right. The Salween River forms a border between Thailand and Burma. “Rambo” fictionally crossed this jungle current in the movie Rambo IV. But there is nothing fictional about

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,

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.

The United States and Pakistan are becoming increasingly divided over the fight against the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan. There are strong elements in Pakistani intelligence (ISI) who openly back the Taliban. And there is deep resentment against the United States

President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela’s is sending $1 million a year of his oil revenue to an American organization bent on keeping America’s borders wide open. Casa de Maryland openly helps migrants illegally in the United States. It also receives

I’ve received a number of questions about Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood logo Here’s one that arrived today: “I subscribe to your RSS feed and happen to find your analysis interesting. However, I am curious how you can

It is now becoming apparent that President Obama is heavily involved in regime change in Egypt. Despite earlier claims that the US was neutral, there is growing evidence that Obama has been working since the earliest stages to oust Hosni

As the cliche goes, there are no coincidences in politics. Obama fundraiser group Code Pink just happened to have arrived in Cairo last week for the group’s ninth visit there in two years as part of its campaign to undermine

AP photo: Supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamat-e-Islami chant slogans behind a banner reading, “Hang the American killer of innocents” in Islamabad, Pakistan. — In 2007, Pakistan possessed between 30 to 60 nukes. Now, according to reports, it has doubled

Even though it is President Obama who has ramped up the use of drone attacks to deal with militants in Pakistan, he is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit. A lawyer representing the plaintiffs admits that $500 million

The Washington Post has just reported that Mullah Omar suffered a heart attack on January 7th and was rushed to the hospital by Pakistan’s spy network, the Inter-services Intelligence Agency. And how is it that the ISI was right there

The Washington Post has just reported that Mullah Omar suffered a heart attack on January 7th and was rushed to the hospital by Pakistan’s spy network, the Inter-services Intelligence Agency. And how is it that the ISI was right there

After a Pakistani Governor who opposed strict blasphemy laws was assassinated last week, thousands have rallied in the streets to support the law that he opposed. Popular support for strict Shariah adherence is nothing new in Pakistan according to Diana

American-Muslim groups were swift to issue statements condemning New Year’s Eve bombing attacks at a Nigerian army barracks and at a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt. But those same groups have been silent since Tuesday’s assassination of a moderate Pakistani

Islamist lawyers showered Mumtaz Qadri with roses when he arrived in court on Wednesday to face charges of having assassinated Salman Taseer, the governor of the province of Punjab in Pakistan, according to Dawn (Pakistan). And MEMRI has translated a

Land borders: Afghanistan – 585 miles Armenia – 22 miles Azerbaijan-Nakhchivan exclave – 112 miles Azerbaijan – 270 miles Iraq – 911 miles Pakistan – 568 miles Turkmenistan – 620 miles Turkey – 312 miles 2010 population: 74.5 million Ethnic

Just in time for Christmas, Muslim terrorists deployed a new weapon: the Burqa. But few in the American Make-Believe Media seem impressed. In fact, coverage of the Burqa Bomber by Reuters and CBS News was dwarfed by that of traditional

Yemeni authorities in Sana’a prevented a bomb attack on a car carrying four U.S. Embassy personnel, the U.S. State Department reported Thursday. On Wednesday, police caught a Jordanian citizen as he attempted to plant explosives next to the car, which

Moscow police detained more than 1,000 people in Moscow and other Russian cities, after internet postings threatened new ethnic violence on Wednesday evening. Most of the detainees were ethnic Russian football (soccer) fans, although a few migrants from the Caucasus

A large Asian aid convoy called the Asia to Gaza Solidarity Caravan left India for the Gaza Strip with about 500 activists from 17 Asian countries. While convoy organizers try to position their action as solidarity with the Palestinian people

WikiLeaks is exposing the way our government conducts “business.” It is not a pretty process. Sometimes Uncle Sam limps along like a powerless giant, as when secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton vainly plead with China to stop

India just announced a $9 billion nuclear power deal with France. India’s Nuclear Power Corporation (NPCIL) currently has 17 atomic plants which only produce 3% of India’s power. That will change. AREVA, the French national nuclear power company, just closed

Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) published an op-ed in the Denver Post this week, arguing that the US needs to scale backs its goals dramatically in Afghanistan. Our current mission in Afghanistan goes far beyond accomplishing our national security objectives. We

Newsweek first revealed that the Bush administration used harsh interrogation tactics to obtain intelligence from terrorist masterminds in 2004. American Progressives leapt at the chance to attack the evil, war-mongering, Halliburton-loving, Cheney-controlled Bush. Their pious, humanitarian tinged caterwauling was heard

Marine Corps photo of a weekly souvenir bazaar near Kandahar airfield. — I use quotation marks in the headline because that is how the Taliban are describing the bomber who struck Sunday at a “weekly souvenir bazaar” at the Afghan

Caption from the Lewiston (ME) Sun-Journal: Chelsea McLain, 20, of Ridge Road in Peru, holds the last family photograph of her and husband Buddy McLain and their son Owen. It was taken in June, about five months before Buddy, a

The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) is preaching a global Caliphate and Islamic Shari’a law over America to its members, according to the 2010 ICNA Member’s Hand Book. This is a very different message than the group’s public outreach