By JNi.Media
"A terrible poison is spreading," the French PM cautions. "Slowly, insidiously, against the background of influences from abroad ... developed against a model of society which contradicts the Republic and its values."
By JNi.Media
Accusing other Muslims of being takfiris is a sectarian slur, used heavily since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011.
The Left refuses to admit we have a problem with radical Islam.
"We are seeing a combination of the Internet and Islamic extremists, and the incitement on social media is fueling murder."
Suheil Laher, former Muslim chaplain at MIT, raised money and recruited for Jihad and still influences Muslims at the university.
The Afghanistan intelligence agency said rape cases are not unusual in the ranks of the Taliban.
By J. E. Dyer
An Israeli strike could theoretically damage Iran’s nuclear program; only US can terminate program
By J. E. Dyer
Obama's Syrian policy failures created the current situation in the Golan Heights.
By Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes's websites cannot be accessed through the British Library's system. Why? Intolerance.
By JTA
‘What’s good for the Jews is good for the Muslims,” says a French Islamic website citing the closure of a city street for Jews through the High Holidays. It demands the same for Muslim street prayers.
By J. E. Dyer
The Muslim Brotherhood is willing to keep chaos and misery going for as long as necessary to topple the military’s interim government.
By Daniel Pipes
Far from presenting "new and diverse perspectives," this $1 million project offers the usual academic obfuscation mixed with Islamist triumphalism.
Islam expert Andrew Bostom charges that Daniel Pipes' claims about the differences between Islam and Islamism contradict Pipes' past writings on the political nature of Islam.
A Muslim cleric in moderate Tunisia called for her stoning death.
By Daniel Pipes
Islamism represents the transformation of Islamic faith into a political ideology.
Anyone anyone who talks negatively about Islam is accused of bigotry and hatred on the level of the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazi party.
By Barry Rubin
Whatever happens, there will be a Muslim Brotherhood regime in Syria and Obama will support it.
Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney blamed the 'old policies' for the grant of a pardon and permanent residency to the accused terrorist.
By Daniel Pipes
Unfortunately, we who live in democracies learn best about Islamism when blood flows in the streets.
When it comes to immigration policy, ignoring Islam’s part in this because of a misguided form of political correctness is why things like the Boston bombings happen.
Killed Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen Muslim, has been identified by the FBI as a “strong believer” in Islam, and an adept of jihadism. Tamerlan was unabashed in his Muslim piety and avowal of jihad—the latter bringing him to the attention of both Russian intelligence and the FBI. Indeed, Tamerlan Tsarnaev […]
Martyrdom-minded religious fanatics have a bad reputation in this part of the world, so this "folksy" sermon is less than good news.
It is Islamism that is the enemy and not al Qaeda. Al Qaida is but one tool of many dedicated to the cause.
By Barry Rubin
The works and the moderate individuals exist but they are not given support, even in Western countries, nor do they have the resources to wage the battle.
Prof. Judea Pearl said at Israel’s Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers in Jerusalem Sunday night that the terrorists’’ brutal execution of his son Daniel “caused a revolution in our society’s struggle against barbarism.” He added, “The notion of absolute good and bad was almost erased, but was reborn with the murder of Daniel in Pakistan.” […]
Radical Islamist ideology must be analyzed and challenged or the fight against terrorism wil have no end.
Criticizing terror as a means while approving of its ends leads to absurdity.
A Muslim women's group has emerged to protest a western women's group which is protesting oppression of women in Islamic countries.
A fatwa allows the jihadis to have sexual intercourse with women who fall captive during war.
Democracy does not have to allow jihad to be waged against it, even if this jihad uses means that appear to be legal.
The fatwa purportedly allows the jihadis, who abandoned their wives to fight against Assad's regime, to marry girls for a few hours to satisfy their sexual needs.
By Barry Rubin
Ignoring Abdullah's warnings, it seems the Obama administration has backed an Islamist candidate to lead the Syrian opposition.
Mariam wanted her sons to die a glorious Jihad death, taking as many innocent lives as possible with him. If there was one thing Mariam was not, it was a mother.
The argument that democracy had made the Muslim world dysfunctional was always chancy.
Social thinking is not concerned with solving problems by tackling them, but by transforming society so that the problems no longer exist.
By Barry Rubin
We are going to be told often in the next two months that things are going to get better in Egypt. It's likely that they are going to get worse.
In the Middle East and North Africa, at least among large swaths of enthusiastic Islamists, true redemption still requires Muslims to present tangible proof of 'membership.'
The UNRWA cancelled a marathon in Gaza because women would be banned from participating.
The American foreign policy error was to assume that the political grievances of the Arab Street could be appeased with democracy.
Understanding that Iran has interests around the world which go beyond preserving his autocratic regime should be a hard reckoning for Bashar Assad, who has been loyal to the Mullahs and their agenda.
By Daniel Pipes
Assassination sends a specific signal to others not to follow in the victim's footsteps.
By Barry Rubin
What the Obama Administration has done is like trying to reduce crime by turning over the cities to the Mafia and letting it make the laws and also run the police and court systems.
By Barry Rubin
Pretending there’s no elephant in the world doesn’t protect anyone from getting trampled.
By Barry Rubin
This is all a tragedy for the poor victims in the Middle East and a farce for the well-paid, much-honored careerist opportunists and ideologues in the West.
By Daniel Pipes
Both law enforcement, the media and elected officials are reluctant to give out information about the attackers' religion, much less their motives.
In the version of events provided by Argo, it wasn't radical Islamists who stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, but the Iranian people as a whole.
By Barry Rubin
Obama went to sleep and he has yet to wake up. And there's graphic proof for that assertion in the streets of Benghazi today.
By Barry Rubin
If they could have pressed a button and Israel would have disappeared, almost none of them would have hesitated.
Political correctness is what dictates conduct in the highest echelons of leadership in the United States.
By Daniel Pipes
Erdoğan's Turkey is no longer a trustworthy partner for the West but more like a mole in its inner sanctum.
By Barry Rubin
In Tunesia, where non-Islamists are actually the majority, the elimination of Choukri Belaid wasn't just a crime, but a political strategy.
My good colleague Kay is wrong about the early demise of conspiracy theories and blood libels against the Jews.
Dubai Police Chief has recently attempted to discredit the Brotherhood by alleging a nefarious allegiance to Israel and Jews.
The Hamas government in Gaza has been banning Western-style clothing and haircuts, and in some case forcing women to wear Islamic headdress.
It makes a difference that we have people in government who can show why and what happened in Benghazi, in Cairo and across the region.
By Barry Rubin
Once the rebels start consolidating rule, as happened in Egypt, there will be increasing examples radical Islamist control which the West will ignore.
A Response to an Antisemitic Video of Egyptian Cleric Mahmoud Al-Masri.
Let me clarify these misconceptions about Islam so that there is no excuse for warmongers and those who wish to shed oceans of blood.
By Daniel Pipes
Freed of the military's oversight only in mid-2011, Erdoğan could win enough dictatorial power for him (or a successor) to achieve his dream and fully implement the Shari'a.
By Barry Rubin
The idea that Obama is now backing Israel is what American Jewish voters who supported him desperately need to believe.
By Barry Rubin
The democratic opposition—like its counterparts in Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and Iran—has learned that the United States will not help them.
By Barry Rubin
The Obama Administration was using a barely disguised channel to pay for a revolutionary Islamist movement seeking to take over Syria.
The constitution, as important as it may be, is not a cure for the genetic illnesses of the states of the Middle East.
By Barry Rubin
The United States is only at the start of a nasty conflict in Libya which is going to be very anti-American. It is shocking that there is so little recognition of that fact and an apparently sincere belief that all the problems there are due to a You-Tube video. Having a big problem is bad enough; refusing to recognize that one has a bad problem is potentially fatal.
By Barry Rubin
Libya tells the story with a terrible irony but we should understand precisely what is going on and how the situation in Libya differs from that in Egypt. For it is proof of the bankruptcy of Obama policy but perhaps in a different way from what many people think.
By Adam Levick
Randy Scott’s family believed he had died instantly on September 11, 2001. Ten years after the attack, a note thrown out the window of the South Tower shortly after impact was discovered and identified using DNA tests. It was written by Scott minutes before he perished.
There is no doubting the Islamist revolution in Tunisia.
By Barry Rubin
It’s the age of revolutionary Islamism, especially Sunni Islamism. And you better learn to understand what this is all about real fast.
By Barry Rubin
The next era in the Middle East will be dominated by the debate over whether Islamism is the way to go. Islamists will radicalize the regional scene, carry out terrorism at home and abroad, and inflict repression on their own people wherever they get power.
By Barry Rubin
The 'Islam-is-good school' makes the West defenseless to understand and deal with the threat. The 'Islam-is-bad' school discredits serious critiques of Islamism and honest analysis of Islam, thus letting their opponents win the debates and blind the West to the best strategy and potential allies.
