Islamic Assassination: Silencing Freedom Fighters
by Raymond Ibrahim* Tunisia, one of the most secular Arab countries in modern times—and the first country to experience the “Arab Spring”—was also recently the first Arab country to experience a high...
View ArticleAmerica’s Withdrawal from the Middle East under the Obama Doctrine
A briefing by Lee Smith* Lee Smith, senior editor with the Weekly Standard, Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and author of the 2010 critically-acclaimed book, The Strong Horse:...
View ArticleObama’s New Libya
by Raymond Ibrahim* Remember all the hoopla the Obama administration engaged in after helping Libya’s “freedom fighters” oust (and sodomize and murder) the nation’s former president, Muammar Gaddafi?...
View ArticleObama Administration Calls for the ‘Human Rights’ of Jihadi Murderers
by Raymond Ibrahim* It’s well known that whenever jihadis attack and slaughter innocent people — especially Christians — the Obama administration tries to ignore or whitewash. Lesser known, however, is...
View ArticleThe Calm Before the Jihadi Storm
by Raymond Ibrahim* On this Memorial Day, it’s important to remember that the very same U.S. policies that created al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in the 1980s—leading to the horrific attacks of 9/11—are today...
View ArticleBenghazi Terrorists: ‘Dr. Morsi Sent Us’
by Cynthia Farahat* The terrorist attack in Benghazi is far more disturbing than previously thought. Although it has not been reported in the U.S. media, the possibility exists that the Egyptian...
View ArticleMuslim Persecution of Christians: March, 2013
U.S. Defends “Human Rights” of Persecutors of Christians by Raymond Ibrahim* The Islamic jihad against Christians in Nigeria is proving to be the most barbaric. A new report states that 70% of...
View ArticleIsrael’s Bad Neighborhood
by Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative,” “Israel Hayom” While the Middle East combusts, threatening vital US interests, the US attempts to clip the wings of Israel...
View ArticleBehind Benghazi: Muslim Brotherhood and Obama Administration
by Raymond Ibrahim* Evidence that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was directly involved in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, where Americans including U.S....
View ArticleMuslim Persecution of Christians: October, 2012
by Raymond Ibrahim* These reports of the persecution of Christians by Muslims around the world during the month of October include (but are not limited to) the following accounts, listed by form of...
View ArticleA Paradox of U.S. Middle East Policy: The Friend Who Acts like an Enemy is an...
By Barry Rubin The expression, “With friends like you who needs enemies?” is an apt summary of a major problem for U.S. foreign policy during Obama’s second term. Here’s the issue: a number of supposed...
View ArticleConflict in Africa shows world hypocrisy when fighting terrorism
By Gary Gerofsky In the conflict taking place in Africa involving France’s military force in Mali there are no UN high commissions, no special “raconteurs” and human rights tribunals demonizing and...
View ArticleInnocents Abroad Build Foreign Armies
by Daniel Pipes* In the near-century that the United States has been a great power, it has developed some original and sophisticated foreign policy tools. Examples include the Marshall Plan, special...
View ArticleDeath for Preaching Christ in ‘Liberated’ Libya
by Raymond Ibrahim* Four foreign Christians—including one who holds American-Swedish citizenship—were arrested days ago in Libya. According to the Guardian, their crime is arousing “suspicion of being...
View ArticleMiddle East and Syria: Obama has forgotten lessons of the recent past
by Gary Gerofsky The Obama administration lies, feigns horror, ignores history (especially recent history), and purposely chooses to make the wrong conclusions. Obama panders to Islamists, nationally...
View ArticleLooking at Tunisia
by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi* A country noteworthy in the region for the establishment of a thoroughly liberal education system under Habib Bourghuiba, Tunisia has often been held up as a cause for...
View ArticleThe Islamic Schoolyard-Bully and Obama’s America
by Raymond Ibrahim* In an era of high education and specialty degrees—from psychology to political science—perhaps it was inevitable for simple common sense to fall by the wayside. The embassy attacks...
View ArticleRomney Stumbles on Foreign Policy
by Daniel Pipes* The final presidential debate focused disproportionately on the Middle East. Four of the six segments were on the Middle East, just two on other topics (one about the U.S. role in the...
View ArticleObama ‘knew within two hours of the Benghazi murders that the attack was a...
Breaking from SecureAmericaNow.org: … Last night, CBS News confirmed Secure America Now’s contention that the Obama Administration knew within two hours of the Benghazi murders that the attack was a...
View ArticleCIA operatives ordered NOT to protect Benghazi U.S. embassy staff
“Ambassador Chris Stevens asked the State Department repeatedly for more security in Libya before he was killed in the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi…” So we know that the Obama...
View ArticleHumanitarian Hypocrisy
by Raymond Ibrahim* The world’s double standards concerning which peoples qualify as oppressed and deserving of help are staggering. Two recent stories illustrate this point: First, a report exposed,...
View ArticleIslamism’s Unity
by Daniel Pipes* A Sept. 14 attack on the U.S. embassy in Tunis left 4 dead, 49 injured, several buildings looted and burnt out, and the black Salafi flag flying above the embassy grounds. In response,...
View ArticleThe Sunni-Shia Conflict Will Be The Major Feature of Middle East Politics for...
By Barry Rubin Once upon a time, Arab nationalism ruled the Middle East. Its doctrine saw Arab identity as the key to political success. Some regarded Islam as important; others were secular. Yet there...
View ArticleOne Thousand and One Articles Later: Why Obama Should be Voted Out of Office...
By Barry Rubin For four years now — yes, I started before he was actually inaugurated — I have been chronicling the disastrous policies of President Barack Obama on the Middle East. I may have written...
View ArticleIsrael’s Situation and Strategy In Obama’s Second Term
By Barry Rubin “Don’t Panic” – Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy What should Israel’s policy and priorities be in President Barack Obama’s second term? There will be two key themes:...
View ArticleFighting the age of irrationality
By Gary Gerofsky There are many examples today of irrational behaviour on a grand scale. Those of us not engaged in this mass irrationality feel very alone in the world — especially after Obama was...
View ArticlePetraeus was ‘looking forward’ to testifying on Benghazi attack; what happened?
I’m smelling a stronger whiff of cover-up after reading this from ABC. How did we get here now: … But now Petraeus is telling friends he does not think he should testify [regarding the Benghazi...
View ArticleTop intel officials ‘struggled to explain’ why early accounts of Benghazi...
Why has President Obama tried so hard to appease and engage with Islamists, people whose stated goal is the destruction of the U.S. and the entire Western World? Today, speaking of the terrorist attack...
View ArticleMiddle East Stories Behind the News: Libya, Palestinians, Anti-American...
By Barry Rubin The most interesting developments in the Middle East aren’t in the news stories but can be discovered by analyzing those reports. Here are a few developing right now. –The Libyan...
View ArticleJihadist Ritual Murder and Mutilation at the Mall
by Dawn Perlmutter* During the four-day siege in Kenya’s Westgate shopping Mall al-Shabaab jihadists raped, tortured, beheaded, dismembered, castrated, gouged out eyes, amputated fingers and hung...
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