NOVEMBER 1, 2011 When secular politics fail, Islamism is the last big idea standing. By BRET STEPHENS “This is not an Islamic Revolution.” So opined Olivier Roy, arguably Europe’s foremost authority on political Islam, in an essay published days after Hosni Mubarak was forced from power in February. “Look at those involved in the uprisings, […]
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WASHINGTON POST By Colum Lynch, Published: October 31 NEW YORK — UNESCO voted Monday to admit Palestine into the organization as its newest member, and the United States promptly responded by cutting off funding for the agency. Acting under a legal requirement to cut U.S. funds to any U.N. agency that recognizes a Palestinian state, the
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Islam content spurs FBI review of anti-terror training By Shaun Waterman – The Washington Times Thursday, October 6, 2011 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: John Guandolo, a former FBI agent and another counterterrorism trainer, called it “outrageous” that “almost the only people our leaders in national security and law enforcement are looking to for guidance about
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KUHNER: Obama’s Arab winter President plays active role in America’s decline, Islam’s rise By Jeffrey T. Kuhner– The Washington Times Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Illustration: Obama and Islam President Obama is empowering radical Islam across the Arab world. He is presiding over both the American decline and the rapid advance of our mortal jihadist enemies.
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Victor Davis Hanson October 19, 2011 Grand ahistorical apologies for others can obscure one’s own actual sins. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: But such distancing is tricky. It opens a Pandora’s box of flawed assumptions. Is any nation free of sin? Apologizing for both ancient American sins and George W. Bush’s more
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OCTOBER 19, 2011 FROM TEHRAN TO TIJUANA Time to notice Iran’s decades-old infiltration of Latin America. By BRET STEPHENS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: policy analysts, military officials and even a few columnists have been warning for years about Iran’s infiltration of Latin America. The story begins with the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in
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OCTOBER 17, 2011, 7:11 P.M. ET The Contradictions of Harold Koh The former Yale Law dean who hounded the Bush administration over its interrogation policies is now justifying drone strikes. By WILLIAM MCGURN We forget it now, but there was a day, not so very long ago, when members of our most prestigious law schools
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OCTOBER 11, 2011 Egypt’s Silhouette of Fire Sectarian violence flares on the streets of Cairo. By BRET STEPHENS In the wake of Sunday’s clashes in Cairo that left 24 dead and some 200 wounded, Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf wasted no time hinting at the culprit. “What’s happening is not sectarian tension,” he said. “There
