by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
Ten years ago this week, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan, after he had been lured into what he thought was an interview with Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani about the links between al Qaeda and the “shoe bomber” Richard Reid. Continue reading “The Unlearned Lessons of Daniel Pearl’s Murder”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The mystery remaining about the Obama administration’s foreign policy is not whether it has worked, but whether its failures will matter all that much. Continue reading “The Perils of Obama’s Foreign Policy”
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPage Magazine
The New Year’s resolution for “Sunnis for Da’wa [Islamization] and Jihad” — also known as Boko Haram, or “Western education is forbidden” — is to create a Christian-free Nigeria, beginning, naturally, with the north, where Muslims outnumber Christians. Continue reading “Nigerian New Year, Christian Slaughter”
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
Earlier I discussed how mosques, some of which breed radicalization and serve as terrorist bases, flourish in America, while churches are increasingly targeted and destroyed in the Muslim world, especially the Middle East, the cradle of Christianity. Continue reading “Christmas Under Islam: Hardly a Season to be Jolly”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Watch
Although many Muslim leaders openly articulate their efforts as part of a larger picture — one that culminates in the resurrection of a caliphate adversarial by nature to all things non-Muslim — many Western leaders see only the moment, either out of context or, worse, in a false context built atop wishful thinking. Continue reading “Muslim Brotherhood Seeks ‘Mastership of World’”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Reset/Outreach R.I.P
It is not surprising how little foreign policy comes up in the debates, given the sorry state of the economy. Continue reading “Diplomacy Carterizes”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
Iran’s 30-year war against the United States may be reaching its decisive moment. Signs of the worsening crisis abound. Continue reading “The Case for Military Action Against Iran”
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”
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”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Two terrible September days sum up the first decade of the new American millennium. Continue reading “Two Bad September Days”