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Daniel Pipes: Muslim Acts of Beheading in the West
The gruesome murder yesterday of a soldier outside London by a Muslim convert, Michael Adebolajo, brings to mind that throat slitting and beheading are Islamically sanctioned forms of execution. Although these occur particularly often in the course of...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 9:00pm -07:00T (38 words)
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Daniel Pipes: The U.S. Government Compiles a Bibliography
At this moment of sequester and belt-tightening, the U.S. government has delivered a reading list on Islam. The National Endowment for the Humanities has joined with two private foundations, Carnegie and Duke, to fund "Muslim Journeys," a project that...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 11:15am -07:00T (39 words)
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Daniel Pipes: Islam vs. Islamism
What motives lay behind last month's Boston Marathon bombing and the would-be attack on a VIA Rail Canada train? Leftists and establishmentarians variously offer imprecise and tired replies – such as "violent extremism" or anger at Western imperialism ...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 6:45am -07:00T (39 words)
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Daniel Pipes: Support the Syrian Rebels?
A Washington Post article today, "Assad forces gaining ground in Syria" by Liz Sly, argues that recent events suggest that the Assad regime is not just surviving but has gone on the offensive. Drawing on local analysts, she finds that in the civil war,...
Dateline: 2013-05-11 9:00pm -07:00T (44 words)
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Daniel Pipes: Support the Syrian Rebels?
A Washington Post article today, "Assad forces gaining ground in Syria" by Liz Sly, argues that recent events suggest that the Assad regime is not just surviving but has gone on the offensive. Drawing on local analysts, she finds that in the civil war,...
Dateline: 2013-05-11 9:00pm -07:00T (44 words)
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Daniel Pipes: Lessons from the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List
The FBI's list of "Ten Most Wanted" fugitives dates back to 1950 but the list of "Most Wanted Terrorists" dates back to just after 9/11 and sense that terrorism had become a strategic threat. Today, the list includes 31 individuals, all of them male and...
Dateline: 2013-04-30 8:30am -07:00T (45 words)
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Daniel Pipes: Viscount Samuel, Meet Secretary Hagel
Emerging from intense controversy, the British politician Herbert Samuel (1870-1963) was appointed the first High Commissioner of Palestine, where he served 1920-25. A Jew and an influential Zionist, Samuel bent over backwards not to favor the Yishuv, to...
Dateline: 2013-04-24 10:30pm -07:00T (38 words)
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Daniel Pipes: Education by Murder in Boston
What will be the long-term impact of the Apr. 15-19 Boston Marathon attack and the ensuing action-movie-style chase, killing a total of four and wounding 265? Let's start with what its impact will not be. It will not bring American opinion together; if...
Dateline: 2013-04-24 6:45am -07:00T (43 words)
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Daniel Pipes: Boston Bombing Lesson: Ban Niqabs and Burqas
The Tsarnaev brothers pulled off their terrorist attack with great skill but made a fatal mistake in letting their faces and bodies be seen at a heavily photographed international sporting event. This meant that multiple images of them were available for...
Dateline: 2013-04-21 9:00am -07:00T (41 words)
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Daniel Pipes: "U.S. Fears Syria Rebel Victory, for Now"
The commentariat universally rejected my Apr. 11 column arguing that Western governments should "Support Assad" on the grounds that he is losing and we don't want the Islamist rebels to win in Syria but prefer a stalemate. An Arabic website in France...
Dateline: 2013-04-17 7:00pm -07:00T (42 words)
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Daniel Pipes: 140,000 Canisters of U.S. Teargas to Egypt's Morsi
The Egyptian publication Al-Masry Al-Youm reports that the U.S. government has supplied five containers carrying 140,000 teargas canisters to Egypt's Interior Ministry. It further reports that this shipment left Wilmington, Delaware, on Mar. 14 aboard...
Dateline: 2013-04-14 8:15am -07:00T (35 words)
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Daniel Pipes: Support Assad
Analysts agree that "the erosion of the Syrian regime's capabilities is accelerating," that it step-by-step continues to retreat, making a rebel breakthrough and an Islamist victory increasingly likely. In response, I am changing my policy recommendation...
Dateline: 2013-04-11 2:30pm -07:00T (36 words)
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Daniel Pipes: Mainstream Jewish Institutions Celebrate Anti-Zionists
Major Jewish institutions show a marked propensity to promote and celebrate the enemies of Israel and even antisemites. Here are some examples, working backwards chronologically:Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University: Plans to give its International...
Dateline: 2013-04-07 10:30pm -07:00T (35 words)
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Daniel Pipes: On Second Thought … Maybe that Israeli Apology to Turkey was a Good Idea
I was appalled to learn a week ago that the Israeli prime minister had apologized to his Turkish counterpart for his government's actions during the Mavi Marmara incident, seeing this as feeding the Turkish government's inflated sense of grandeur and...
Dateline: 2013-03-29 10:15am -07:00T (40 words)
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Daniel Pipes: Obama to Palestinians: Accept the Jewish State
One key shift in U.S. policy was overlooked in the barrage of news about Barack Obama's eventful fifty-hour visit to Israel last week. That would be the demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state, called by Hamas leader Salah Bardawil...
Dateline: 2013-03-26 7:00am -07:00T (42 words)
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