The assault by Islamist thugs – with the apparent connivance of Egyptian government security forces – on a funeral at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo on Sunday may be looked back upon as a grim milestone. It wasn’t just that two people were killed and 90 hospitalized. This wasn’t just a violation, by hoodlums … Continue reading »
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Revolution in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The overthrow of the Saudi royals is finally a possibility. In an excerpt from a new Brookings Institution briefing book for Obama’s second term, Bruce Riedel on what a catastrophe it would be for Obama. Saudi Arabia is the world’s last absolute monarchy. Like Louis XIV, King Abdullah has complete authority to do as he … Continue reading »
Iran is everywhere
“In recent years, we, as Turkey, have come across Iran wherever we turn.” This remark does not belong to a conspiracy theorist who utters unbelievable arguments or a partial analyst who does not care about reality. It was said by an official who possesses information on intelligence but who also has information on both the … Continue reading »
Turkey:Greatest Church Soon To Be Mega Mosque
Though ostensibly dealing with a building, a recent report demonstrates how Turkey’s populace—once deemed the most secular and liberal in the Muslim world—is reverting to its Islamic heritage, complete with animosity for the infidel West and dreams of Islam’s glory days of jihad and conquest. According to Reuters: Thousands of devout Muslims prayed outside Turkey’s … Continue reading »
Marx: Jews Were Majority In Jerusalem
According to the godfather of communism, Karl Marx, the Palestinian claim that Jews only had a significant presence after the advent of modern Zionism is false. Marx, who was the grandson of two rabbis but then became a virulent anti-Semite, (as demonstrated in his essay “On the Jewish Question”) wrote an article for the New … Continue reading »
From Europe to Eurabia
There is almost universal ignorance about the origins of the term “Eurabia,” despite its widespread usage and a meticulous documentation of the term’s genesis by historian Bat Ye’or. The intimately related Euro-Arab Dialogue (EAD) was born of the Arab League‘s October 1973 defeat in their Yom Kippur war against Israel and the associated oil embargo. … Continue reading »
Jihad Denial and Armenian Genocide Remembrance
The Center for Security Policy, under security analyst Frank Gaffney’s bold and thoughtful leadership, is launching a 10-part, web-based video course (key findings summarized here), today, April 24, 2012, entitled, “The Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Enemy Within.” Today, appropriately, also marks the 97th anniversary of the date officially commemorated as the start of the … Continue reading »
Palestinians: The Invented People
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The concept of Palestinian identity and nationalism is a recent invention. Both historically and in contemporary times, the Arabs living in the area now known as Palestine were regarded both by outsiders and by their own spokespeople as members of the greater Arab population, without a separate or distinct identity. … Continue reading »
