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Philadelphia, PA | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Thomas Alan Bowe
Thomas Alan Bowe
Friday, November 6, 2009 7:55 AM

The base commander at Fort Hood says soldiers who witnessed a shooting rampage that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allah Akbar!" before opening fire at the Texas post.

Lt. Gen. Robert Cone told NBC's "Today" show on Friday that suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, made the comment, which is Arabic for "God is great!" before the rampage Thursday that also left 30 people wounded. ... Read More

Military officials say they are still piecing together what may have pushed Hasan, an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress, to turn on his comrades.

Keep it up you damn camel jockeys!Your just making it worse for the good muslims in the U.S.
Yesterday at 4:36pm
Middle East Forum
Source: www.meforum.org
Philadelphia, PA | Wednesday, November 4, 2009 | 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Chris Minihane
Chris Minihane
As usual Pipes is dead on. Man, I'd love to be there for this...
Thu at 6:57am
Middle East Forum
Source: www.meforum.org
It is one of the great shames of the modern world that there is still a question as to whether Israel has a right to exist in its present form or any form at all. Despite the relative insecurity of the country militarily, this problem was absent during the first twenty years of Israel's existence.
Randy
Randy
Israel belongs to the Jewish folks and no on else period..no two state solution ever..i aint Jewish either..y'all have suffered enough..PERIOD.
Wed at 5:12am
Middle East Forum
Source: www.meforum.org
Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard discovered that a letter purportedly written by Judge Richard Goldstone to criticize a House of Representative resolution condemning the Goldstone report was substantially written by Morton H. Halperin, who serves on the J Street advisory council.
Middle East Forum
Source: www.islamist-watch.org
Two Chicago-area Muslims were charged last week with plotting attacks against those involved in publishing the Danish Muhammad cartoons. Shortly before that, Dutch MP Geert Wilders was welcomed to the UK by Islamist thugs.
Gary Katz
Gary Katz
What a vile Islamist atrocity- the murder of Van Gogh!
November 2 at 11:15pm
Gary Katz
Gary Katz
Because comfortable socialist-hedonists (who have done fine with capitalism-the only system that works) don't want to spoil their fantasy land and denial of the obvious total failure of Communism and Fascism. COMFORTABLY NUMB!
COMFORT & CONVENIENCE UBER ALLES.
And it's so easy and convenient to simply "blame Israel."
Wed at 3:35am
Middle East Forum
Source: www.meforum.org
The Middle East Forum is pleased to announce the appointment of Daniel Huff as director of the Legal Project. Mr. Huff succeeds Brooke Goldstein who led the Project since 2007.
Middle East Forum
Source: www.meforum.org
Where is Cyprus? What happens there? Find a rusty boat, tie a Palestinian flag to the mast, as a host of activists have done in the past year, and it is a short journey southeast to Gaza.
Gary Katz
Gary Katz
Pointing out a typo---the first refuge of scoundrels.
November 2 at 2:13pm
Gary Katz
Gary Katz
But the proof is in the pudding!
November 2 at 2:14pm
Middle East Forum
Source: www.meforum.org
Dalia Mogahed, appointee to President Obama's Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships appeared (by phone) earlier this month on the UK-based Islam Channel television program "Muslimah Dilemma". Ibtihal Bsis, the show's host, is a member of the Islamist group Hizb ut Tahrir.
Jael Greenleaf
Jael Greenleaf
Oh, don't be dumb.
October 30 at 9:26am
Cheryl Espy-Dalton
Cheryl Espy-Dalton
No theory Farhâd...past experience yields knowlege!!!
October 30 at 10:07am
Middle East Forum
Source: www.islamist-watch.org
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the head of Detroit's Masjid al-Haqq, was killed during an FBI raid on October 28 as he engaged federal agents in a gun battle. Prosecutors call Abdullah "a highly placed leader of a nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group."
Thomas Alan Bowe
Thomas Alan Bowe
Jimminy Cricket quit trying to sound all diplomatic!The truth is now he is a good muslim!I hope he likes his virgins,cause there probably men in drag anyway!
Yesterday at 4:32pm
Middle East Forum
Source: www.islamist-watch.org
I have always viewed push-up bras as false advertising, but does wearing one deserve a whipping because of their "deceptive" and "un-Islamic" nature? I don't know, but the controlling Islamist Shabaab party of Somalia seems to think so.
Cheryl Espy-Dalton
Cheryl Espy-Dalton
Muslim is about controlling women.......period!
October 28 at 6:24pm
Farhâd
Farhâd
Right on Cheryl. I come from a Muslim country and this is exactly true. They control women because their men are weak and their minds have been corrupted.
October 28 at 7:14pm
Middle East Forum
Source: www.danielpipes.org
Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president, "a go-between between the Americans and the Taliban," and "a suspected player in the country's booming illegal opium trade," the New York Times informs us, "gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past ei...
Michael Ryan
Michael Ryan
Disgusting Sickening Corruption. Funny though Most of these Regimes eventually fail. Then there are others Saudis Syrians ect that never seem to go away.
October 28 at 3:19pm
Gary Konecky
Gary Konecky
No surprise here. And this is the ally who is going to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists - NOT!
October 28 at 4:09pm
Middle East Forum
Source: www.danielpipes.org
"There is no doubt he is our friend," Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, says of Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza.
Jeff
Jeff
Now I know why I've been told by so many, Greeks, Jews, and others who had direct knowledge, to never trust Turkey. I never believed them. How sad. Something is brewing we do not see.
I want to know why Arab leaders backed off their support of Israel after being very warm to them soon after the Iran nuke issue heated up. It was as if someone ... Read Moreinformed the Arab leaders were told something tat silenced them.
Remember how Mubarak said that this war was 'under cover of Islam' etc.?
Someone has a boot on necks of the leaders of the middle east. All of them. IMHO.
October 28 at 11:38am
Gary Katz
Gary Katz
It's all a filthy rich dance of the dictators.
October 28 at 5:27pm
Middle East Forum
Source: www.meforum.org
Audio briefing from Oct. 20th.
Sharon ContraCosta
Sharon ContraCosta
Join Act for America and join in the 'fight'. We can 'fight' before it becomes violent if we wake up our politicians, media and others, especially our schools. Our politicians need a boot in the butt for what they allow in our schools, those compounds, immigration, etc.
October 26 at 3:37pm
Middle East Forum
Source: www.meforum.org
Since emerging from an era of colonialism under Italy and Britain, Somalia has passed through military dictatorship, famine, and civil war to regional fragmentation. In the modern period, Americans best remember the loss of U.S. military personnel that followed attempts to secure order in the countr...
Farhâd
Farhâd
I see behind he there are signs about "Badr" - one of Mohammed's wars against the Meccans. These Somalis still live in the 7th century.
October 22 at 7:01am
Middle East Forum
Source: www.islamist-watch.org
Words matter in the battle against radical Islam. As Raymond Ibrahim explains, "In the war on terror, to acquire accurate knowledge — which is pivotal to victory — we need to begin with accurate language." And nowhere is accuracy more wanting than in discussions of jihad.
Leo Bletnitsky
Leo Bletnitsky
You mean the wall that keeps palestinian halfwits from blowing up school buses and pizza parlors?
October 21 at 3:42pm
Judithe Thompson
Judithe Thompson
Leo, You have a gift for the apt phrase!
October 21 at 4:27pm