Sugar-coating harsh realities and pretending that unpleasant facts don’t exist opens doors and gets you accolades – but is it worth it at the price of the truth? According to an article about a speech he gave last week in Toronto, scholar Daniel Pipes “suggested it is Islamism, a political ideology, that inspires hatred
Would al-Qaeda have stopped after 9/11 if in response America had given them a portion of California to create their own state? Countries all over the world have taken hold of the idea of ‘appeasement’ from the 1930’s and made it their policy regarding radical Islam. Western nations are the anthill and Islam the
The year 1920 has an evil name in Arab annals: it is referred to as the Year of the Catastrophe (cĀm al-Nakba). Read the surprising, little-known reason below. Nakba and Nationalism On Wednesday 15th of May there were ceremonies and parades throughout the world to mark the 65th anniversary of the “Nakba” –
They are in Syria, Iraq, Pakistan etc. What will be their next step? Up to 100 Dutch Muslims are currently fighting in Syria. The Netherlands is the biggest supplier of European jihadist fighters, and most of them are members of pro al Qaeda Al Nusra movement which wants to create an Islamic state in Syria.
A terrorist can sport an NBA Jersey and Nike Sneakers – but they won't make him a professional basketball player. Similarly, a terrorist can get in a car marked “TV” and print a press card – and that doesn’t make him a journalist. The Newseum Journalists Memorial this week is honoring the 84 journalists
Memo to Erdogan: NATO was meant as an anti-Soviet alliance, not an anti-Iranian alliance. On May 5, 2013, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday reacted angrily to the pro-Assad militia’s massacre of at least 62 Sunni civilians and as many as 200 in the Syrian coastal towns of Banias and Baida. (May they
Professor George Jochnowitz, a gentleman and a scholar, (he is a linguist), has just republished his review of my 2003 bookThe New Anti-Semitism. The Coming Crisis and What We Must Do About It. I wrote this book in 2001-2002, and published it almost immediately thereafter. I am now sobered by my own prescience, by
Get to know Azerbaijan, because it sees its future with the western pluralistic societies which value freedom and democracy. In what Muslim country did the chief of police of the capital city tell the Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Director of the Conference of Presidents of major Jewish organizations (“Conf. of Pres.”) that it’s “totally okay
Egypt's Black Bloc grew out of their struggle for liberation from an authoritarian system, only after non-violent civil efforts had failed. Ironically, the U.S. Black Bloc and Egypt's Black Bloc are on opposite sides of the political struggle – one, in the U.S., a friend to the Muslim Brotherhood and doubtless trying to gain prestige
Either Netanyahu really believes the "Two-State Solution", or he is just pretending he does because it looks and feels good. In 280-279 BCE, Greek King Pyrrhus' army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans at Heraclea and at Asculum. King Pyrrhus soon lost the war against the Romans. The term "Pyrrhic Victory" describes situations
