As Syria creeps into total anarchy, rebels also insist that Israel will remain an enemy after the anticipated fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad. President Barack Obama told the G-8 Summit Saturday that Assad must leave. Regardless of whether he continues in power or is replaced, Israel is destined to remain an enemy state.
Rushdie is perhaps the most celebrated person with an Islamic bounty on his head. He has been for decades. The man was condemned to death by Ayatollah Khomeini, without the least due process, for supposedly insulting Islam's sanctities in his book The Satanic Verses. Rushdie has been living a dreadful life for decades, mostly in
The year 1880 saw the publication of a book that ranks as the single most important study of Islam ever. Written in German by a young Jewish Hungarian scholar, Ignaz Goldziher, and bearing the nondescript title Muslim Studies (Muhammedanische Studien), it argued that the hadith, the vast body of sayings and actions attributed to the
Human Rights Watch accused Egypt's military on Saturday of beating and torturing protesters arrested at a demonstration near the Defense Ministry on May 4, 2012. Following interviews with victims and lawyers, the rights group announced that the military also failed to protect the protesters from attacks by armed groups in the demonstration that started
Damascus has sent a letter to the United Nations accusing some Lebanese areas of helping al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood to take root along the Syrian border, adding to its criticism of Turkey and Libya for allegedly providing arms to Syrian rebels. “Some Lebanese areas next to the Syrian border are incubating terrorist elements
Hamas’ Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, criticized on Friday the U.S. decision to provide Israel with aid to purchase additional Iron Dome batteries. According to a report on Kol Yisrael radio, Haniyeh made the comments to pro-Palestinian Authority activists from several Arab and Muslim countries. Haniyeh claimed that providing aid to Israel will
On Saturday night and Sunday Israelis will celebrate Jerusalem Day, which marks the reunification of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War after 19 years of Jordanian occupation of the eastern part of the city. The outnumbered Jewish defenders of the Old City and its Jewish residents, who had lived there continuously for hundreds
The Republican-led House of Representatives voted on Friday to authorize $642.5 billion in defense spending next year, defying a White House veto threat by adding several billion dollars to President Barack Obama’s Pentagon budget request. The House approved the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which added nearly $4 billion to the president’s spending plan,
The Iraqi government has decided to allow civilians the right to own guns and rifles, sparking uproar in the country, with some people saying that the decision will unleash more violence, while others welcome it. On May 6, the Iraqi government’s spokesman Ali Al-Dabagh announced in a statement that the government has decided “to
I had the great honor and pleasure of interviewing Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders yesterday. Wilders is in the United States to mark the long-awaited publication of his book, Marked for Death: Islam's War on the West and Me, with a packed round of radio, TV and print interviews. So far, these include
