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#p2:Meet the Palestinians

The events in Syria have captured the world’s attention but it would be regrettable if they overshadowed an important study released last week. The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society, published by the respected Pew Research Center, surveyed social, political, and religious attitudes across the Muslim world. It is an in-depth report worthy of much … Continue reading »

Jihad Is Now Truly Global

Jihad Is Now Truly Global By Lydia Khalil Before he was known as Suspect No 1 in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was better known as the son of an immigrant family and promising boxer with Olympic aspirations. Though he won a few local championships, his Olympic dreams fell short. He didn’t make it … Continue reading »

Boston Bombing Suspect Shootout Pictures

Go throw these boys some time n a couple bucks..Posted by Andrew Kitzenberg On Thursday night [Friday morning] at 12:45am EST.  I was in my living room working on my computer when I heard multiple “pops” coming from outside.  At that point, I had no idea that I was about to become an eye witness to … Continue reading »

Don’t Rule Out Anything

By STEPHEN F. HAYES “In this age of instant reporting and tweets and blogs, there’s a temptation to latch on to any bit of information, sometimes to jump to conclusions,” said President Obama, in the late evening of April 19, after Dzokhar Tsarnaev was captured alive in Watertown, Mass. “But when a tragedy like this … Continue reading »

Chechen Bombers Linked to Russia’s Bin Laden?

By Ryan Mauro The name of Chechen terrorist Doku Umarov may soon become a household name. In The Third Jihad, former CIA intelligence officer Wayne Simmons warned that the 2004 school massacre in Beslan, Russia by Umarov’s Islamist terrorist group is “a perfect example of exactly what will take place in this country.” That prediction was … Continue reading »

A Muslim ‘Reformer’s’ Idea of Free Speech

By Andrew Harrod  – KARAMAH is a self-proclaimed group of “Muslim women lawyers for human rights” that “contributes to the understanding and promotion of human rights worldwide, particularly the rights of Muslim women under Islamic and civil law.”  On March 19, 2013, KARAMAH hosted at Howard University School of Law in Washington, DC, in conjunction … Continue reading »

Blog: Islamists’ Primary Target

Blog: Islamists’ Primary Target. Two articles that appeared yesterday reveal an astonishing lack of historical perspective. Both of them were written by people for whom I have a great deal of respect, Jonathan Tobin and Andrew McCarthy. Tobin and McCarthy point to the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 as “The Day the War on … Continue reading »

The State of Global Jihad Online

An in-depth analysis of past and present chatter on prominent jihadist internet forums, including its implications for extremist ideological penetration in the West. Download PDF More than eleven years after the 9/11 attacks and nearly a decade since the rise of popular online jihadist internet forums, there is strikingly little empirical research on the manner … Continue reading »

Obama’s Favorite Islamic University Goes Zombie

Everyone has standards. Even Islamist cannibals. In 2009, Obama visited Cairo and in his famous speech praised Al Azhar University as “a beacon of Islamic learning; and for over a century.” “It was Islam, at places like Al-Azhar,” Obama said, “that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s … Continue reading »