by Bruce S. Thornton
Defining Ideas
Just in the last few months, events have hastened to a crisis in Iran’s long confrontation with the West. Continue reading “Iran on the Brink”
Tag: Muslim Brotherhood
Far from the Madding Islamists’ Ignoble Strife
by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch
Review of Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat by Youssef Aboul-Enein (Naval Institute Press, 2010. 288 pp.). Continue reading “Far from the Madding Islamists’ Ignoble Strife”
2012: Crisis and Opportunity Await
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
This year will be a time of crisis and opportunity. The incompetence of President Obama is now manifest to all but his most devoted followers, who remain trapped in their progressive Jonestown, chanting the bankrupt mantra of “hope and change” as they stir the vats of government Kool-Aid. Continue reading “2012: Crisis and Opportunity Await”
Lessons on the Long Road to Hijab
by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch
A caricature, which first appeared on CagleCartoons.com, has been making the rounds on the Arabic blogosphere, and points to how democratic elections are serving to Islamize Egypt: average women enter the ballot box — “overseen” by the Muslim Brotherhood — only to emerge thoroughly veiled, thoroughly Islamized. Continue reading “Lessons on the Long Road to Hijab”
Muslim Persecution of Christians: November, 2011
by Raymond Ibrahim
Hudson New York
The so-called “Arab Spring” continues to transition into a “Christian Winter,” including in those nations undergoing democratic change, such as Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis dominated the elections — unsurprisingly so, considering the Obama administration has actually beentraining Islamists for elections. Continue reading “Muslim Persecution of Christians: November, 2011”
Newt Challenges the Myth of Palestinian Nationalism
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
Newt Gingrich touched off a mini-firestorm when he told a Jewish television channel that the Palestinians are an “invented” people “who are in fact Arabs,” and “who were historically part of the Arab community.” Continue reading “Newt Challenges the Myth of Palestinian Nationalism”
Muslim Brotherhood Confessions: Ex-Member Exposes Subversive Tactics
by Raymond Ibrahim
Hudson New York
The online version of the long-running Arabic journal Ruz al-Yusif carries anexclusive interview with Sheikh Osama al-Qusi entitled, “Former Salafi: Salafis Have Distorted Islam.” Continue reading “Muslim Brotherhood Confessions: Ex-Member Exposes Subversive Tactics”
Panetta’s Failure of Imagination: The Defense Secretary Gives Israel a ‘Turn of the Screw’
by Bruce S. Thronton
FrontPage Magazine
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s “chiding” of Israel, as the Washington Postput it, was a strange performance, so muddled in its ignorance of fact and logic that one wonders if the Secretary was attempting some rhetorical misdirection to lull our enemies into complacency. Continue reading “Panetta’s Failure of Imagination: The Defense Secretary Gives Israel a ‘Turn of the Screw’”
The Arab Winter Approaches
by Bruce S. Thornton
Defining Ideas
The revolutions against Arab autocracies — dubbed the “Arab Spring” — have been greeted in America with bipartisan celebration. Continue reading “The Arab Winter Approaches”
In the Jaws of Sharia: The Liberal and the Temptress
by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers
Editor’s Note: These postings were taken from Jihad Watch and Pajamas Media, internet journals in which the author posts frequently. Ibrahim’s observations below remind us of the depths of Dante’s Inferno where the three-headed devil masticates the worst criminals of Dante’s imagination: Brutus and Cassius are second only to Judas. Among Muslims, second only to Christians are women and secularists.
Muslim Brotherhood: Only “Drunks, Druggies and Adulterers” Reject Sharia
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood just made a few assertions that have ruffled the nation’s secular and Christian populace. Continue reading “In the Jaws of Sharia: The Liberal and the Temptress”