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August 25, 2008
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Barack Obama through Muslim Eyes
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How do Muslims see Barack Hussein Obama? They have three choices: either as he presents himself someone who has "never been a Muslim" and has "always been a Christian"; or as a fellow Muslim; or as an apostate from Islam. Reports suggests that while Americans generally view the Democratic candidate having had no religion before converting at Reverend Jeremiah Wrights's hands at age 27, Muslims the world over rarely see him as Christian but usually as either Muslim or ex-Muslim.
August 12, 2008
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The West's Islamist Infiltrators
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[Bulletin title: "Examples Of How The West's Islamist Infiltrators Proceed"] Aafia Siddiqui, 36, is a Pakistani mother of three, an alumna of MIT, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis University. She is also accused of working for Al-Qaeda and was charged last week in New York City with attempting to kill American soldiers. Aafia Siddiqui is accused of working for Al-Qaeda. Her arrest serves to remind how invisibly most Islamist infiltration proceeds. In particular, an estimated forty Al-
July 28, 2008
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May an American Comment on Israel?
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May I, an American citizen living in the United States, comment publicly on Israeli decision making? Yoram Schweitzer wants me not to judge decisions made by the Israeli government. I recently criticized the Israeli government for its exchange with Hizbullah in "Samir Kuntar and the Last Laugh" (The Jerusalem Post, July 21); to this, the eminent counterterrorism expert at Tel Aviv University, Yoram Schweitzer challenged the appropriateness of my offering views on this subject. In "
July 21, 2008
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Samir Kuntar and the Last Laugh
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Israel has lived the past sixty years more intensively than any other country. Its highs the resurrection of a two-thousand year old state in 1948, history's most lopsided military victory in 1967, and the astonishing Entebbe hostage rescue in 1976 have been triumphs of will and spirit that inspire the civilized world. Its lows have been self-imposed humiliations:
July 17, 2008
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Will Washington Betray Anti-Regime Iranians?
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As the United Nations mandate that legitimizes the presence of U.S forces in Iraq expires on December 31, 2008, a humanitarian and strategic disaster is coming into view. The fate of about 3,500 anti-regime Iranians will be decided in the course of status-of-forces negotiations between Washington and Baghdad. MEK members display their flag as they pass through a U.S. checkpoint in Iraq in 2003 (AFP). They are members of the Mujahedeen-
July 14, 2008
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The Problem with Middle East Studies
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As one of the few pro-U.S. and pro-Israel voices in the field of Middle East studies, I find my views get frequently mangled by others in the field thus I have had to post a 5,000-word document titled "Department of Corrections (of Others' Factual Mistakes about Me)" on my website. Usually, the precise evolution of such mistakes escapes me. Recently, however, I discovered just how one developed in three steps and confronted the two academics who made the errors.
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[The Islamist-Leftist] Allied Menace
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[This version includes some materials cut from the published National Review version.] "Here are two brother countries, united like a single fist," said socialist Hugo Chávez during a visit to Tehran last November, celebrating his alliance with Islamist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Che Guevara's son Camilo, who also visited Tehran last year, declared that his father would have "supported the country in its current struggle against the United States."
July 03, 2008
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Which Has More Islamist Terrorism, Europe or America?
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"Since 9/11, there have been over 2,300 arrests connected to Islamist terrorism in Europe in contrast to about 60 in the United States." Thus writes Marc Sageman in his influential new book, Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century (University of Pennsylvania Press). This one statistical comparison inspires Sageman, in a chapter he calls "The Atlantic Divide," to draw sweeping conclusions about the superior circumstances of American Muslims. "
June 19, 2008
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The Enemy Has a Name
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If you cannot name your enemy, how can you defeat it? Just as a physician must identify a disease before curing a patient, so a strategist must identify the foe before winning a war. Yet Westerners have proven reluctant to identify the opponent in the conflict the U.S. government variously (and euphemistically) calls the "global war on terror," the "long war," the "global struggle against violent extremism," or even the "global struggle for security and progress."

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