Category Archives: Islam

If We Want to Beat Al Qaeda, We Have to Stop Arming It

FRONT PAGE MAG by Daniel Greenfield June 30, 2014 Obama’s call for $500 million to arm and train Syrian Jihadist fighters couldn’t have possibly come at a more inappropriate time as Al Qaeda in Iraq menaces both countries. It wasn’t … Continue reading

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ISIS Risks Everything to Declare a Caliphate

THE DAILY BEAST by J.M. Berger June 29, 2014 After months of gaining territory, weapons, and cash, ISIS is putting its global credibility on the line in a play that could backfire spectacularly. On Sunday morning, the Islamic State of … Continue reading

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Next Goal for ISIS : Jordan. And Then?

ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS by Dr. Mordechai Kedar June 26, 2014 Israel is going to face a tough choice if and when ISIS tries to take over Jordan. And the countdown has begun…A clear and razor-sharp choice will then  face Israel … Continue reading

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Following Abduction of Teens, Israel Embassy Releases Study on Hamas Kidnapping Handbooks

ALGEMEINER by Shiryn Ghermezian June 27, 2014 Two weeks after three Israeli teens were kidnapped in the West Bank, Israel’s Embassy in New Zealand on Friday released an analysis of three kidnapper’s handbooks published by terror group Hamas that provide doctrinal and … Continue reading

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Exclusive: The Hawks’ Playbook for Opposing an Obama Nuclear Deal with Iran

FOREIGN POLICY / THE CABLE by John Hudson June 27, 2014 Though the United States has yet to secure a final deal to restrain Iran’s nuclear program, an influential pair of hawks in Washington have already devised a way for … Continue reading

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Obama’s Cognitive Inflexibility, by former Obama supporter

COMMENTARY by Peter Wehner June 25, 2014 Writing in the American Interest, the scholar Walter Russell Mead–who voted for Barack Obama in 2008–offered a withering assessment of the Obama foreign policy, saying few in the mainstream press seem interested in tracing the full … Continue reading

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Turkey’s high-risk power play

JERUSALEM POST by Caroline Glick June 24, 2014 Like Iran, Erdogan aims to destroy the global order and replace it with an Islamic empire. For most Westerners, Turkey is a hard nut to crack. How can you understand a state … Continue reading

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Sudanese Christian mother jailed for Apostasy in more danger than ever after rearrest

BREITBART by Dr Phyllis Chesler June 24, 2014 Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian woman whom an Appeal Court freed yesterday, has just been re-arrested at the airport trying to leave Khartoum. She is now in more danger than ever … Continue reading

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Obama Thinks Iran Can Rescue American Interests in the Middle East: He’s Wrong

TABLET MAG by Lee Smith June 18, 2014 The State Department now says that the United States has “shared interests” with Iran in Iraq, and talks are apparently ongoing between the two countries about the rapidly deteriorating security situation in … Continue reading

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Arab and Muslim Antisemitism: A Muslim Perspective

GATESTONE by Salim Mansur June 19, 2014 The contemporary resurgence of post-Shoah anti-Semitism in Europe is an indisputable reality. It rides on, or is fuelled by, the even more menacing spread of global Arab and Muslim anti-Semitism – driven by anti-Jew and … Continue reading

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