Washington - I was invited to give a talk at an INR seminar at the State Department on “Islamic radicalism in Europe.” My comments:
News media and political scholarship are all over the lot on their use of the term “radical Islam.” Daniel Pipes calls it “terroristic Islam.” Emmanuel Sivan says radical Islam is the doctrine […]

par Daniel Pipes
Jerusalem Post, 3 juillet 2008
VO: http://www.danielpipes.org/article/5723
«Depuis les attentats du 11 septembre, on a dénombré plus de 2300 arrestations liées du terrorisme islamiste en Europe, contre 60 environ aux États-Unis.» C’est ce qu’affirme Marc Sageman dans un nouvel ouvrage très remarqué: Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First Century (Djihad sans leaders: les réseaux […]

W. Thomas Smith, Jr. will be appearing on Unto the Breach on Friday, September 5. He will be discussing Hezbollah’s recent activities in Lebanon.
From his website, uswriter.com:

Author, journalist, nationally-acclaimed military analyst W. Thomas Smith, Jr. specializes in counterterrorism and international defense issues: His work appearing in The New York Post, USA Today, U.S. News […]

I am in Bangladesh, on a trip down memory lane, and I am befuddled by what I see! In the early 1970s this South Asian country used to be a model of Muslim secularity. Today an Islamist tsunami is roaring through much of it!
I spent my early youth in the town of Sylhet, which […]

This is a follow-up to my earlier post in regard to the article on how folklore served as a useful propaganda tool in Nazi Germany. The article was meant to point out that governmental power, totalitarian or otherwise, often makes use of “big picture” ideas - BELIEFS - to serve its own end. History literally […]

Yes! Its official. Sharia courts have come to the British Isles carrying the full weight of English law with them.
This information is taken from Times Online(1)
The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.
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Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, whose Muslim Arbitration […]

There is a fascinating article in the NY Times about the culture of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. This city has become a contemporary melting pot of the Islamic world, where expatriates form a new identity and try to merge the choices of modernity with the traditions of their Islamic religion.

In his old life […]

Le dernier rapport de l’Office fédéral de la police est en ligne.
Il y a eu sensiblement moins de vols en Suisse l’année passée (-5,5%), mais si on excepte cette catégorie, les cas recensés ont augmenté de 2,6% et leur l’évolution prend une tournure inquiétante. Ainsi, les violences ou menaces contre les autorités ont progressé de […]

C’est tout au moins ce que risquent, aujourd’hui, deux Somaliens qui ont fait exciser leur fille dans l’Oberland zurichois, il y a une dizaine d’années. Selon l’UNICEF, c’est le premier procès pour un tel acte commis sur territoire suisse. Il se pourrait que ce ne soit pas le dernier:
Selon un rapport présenté début juin à […]

Haaretz reports that Israel Police on Monday said a Palestinian shepherd found dead in the West Bank late Saturday was killed in an accidental explosion, not by settlers. This doesn’t really comes as a surprise, since the arab media was very quick on putting the blame on Israel. The Forensics experts say that he was […]