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As the Pentagon and Senate launch what one analyst dubs "dueling Fort Hood investigations," will they confront the hard truth of the Islamic angle?
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One of the difficulties in discussing Islam's more troubling doctrines is that they have an anachronistic, even otherworldly, feel to them; that is, unless actively and openly upheld by Muslims, non-Muslims, particularly of the Western variety, tend to see them as abstract theory, not standard pract...
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"Who will survive 2012?" asks a website promoting Roland Emmerich's new end-of-the-world film set three years from now. The answer: Muslims — or at least their cherished holy places.
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In the wake of the horrific attack at the Fort Hood military base in Texas earlier this month, and the mounting evidence that the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was motivated by Islamist beliefs, the media has turned to Middle East studies "experts" for enlightenment. Instead, what the media, and...
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Audio recording of speech at the Sydney Institute, Australia.
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The Legal Project has joined the Becket Fund for Religious Freedom and over 100 other non-governmental organizations from around the world, in a joint statement decrying the danger to free speech rights posed by a series of pending UN resolutions prohibiting defamation of religions.
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Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury's struggle in Bangladesh has played out dramatically: his 2003 arrest; his 2005 release; middle of the night battles to prevent his re-incarceration; accolades for his stance as a "Muslim Zionist"; and resolutions from the U.S. Congress and others in 2006 and 2007.
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In a blog entry for Islamist Watch, David J. Rusin shows how the word "jihad" continues to be euphemized in the West. Despite Islamic law's unequivocal portrayal of it as a military endeavor to empower Islam, jihad is still being peddled as "nothing more than a student laboring to pass algebra, or a...
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Last week, the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles co-sponsored a seminar with the ungainly title, "Invasion Is a Structure, Not an Event: Settler Colonialism Past and Present." It was billed as a "two-day event organized by Gabriel Piterberg," a notoriously ...
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I write to request your financial support for the Middle East Forum, the think tank I founded in 1994 and have since headed. The Forum complements my own work by providing sound analyses and policy recommendations regarding the Middle East and Islam.
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It seems strange that in today's New York Times article on the Ft. Hood shooter, Army Major Nidal Hasan, Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) president Ingrid Mattson stated, "I don't understand why the Muslim-American community has to take responsibility for him. The Army has had at least as muc...
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If Obama were to emerge from a meeting with Netanyahu with their partnership on Iran restored, all the friendly governments in the Mideast would be gratified -- from Riyadh to Cairo to the Mukata in Ramallah, not to mention the people of Israel.
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When a Muslim in the West for no apparent reason violently attacks non-Muslims, a predictable argument ensues about motives.
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The parents of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, the Ft. Hood killer of 13, opposed his joining the U.S. military. Their attitude helps explain why, despite assiduous efforts to attract more Muslims, the Army has so few Muslims in its ranks.
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How interesting that Obama praised 1989 as a time of exemplary U.S.-Muslim relations, and not the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
