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Published Friday, November 7, 2003 Pipes meets with protest at talk Guest discusses current state of Middle East before audience of 200 BY BESS HINSON Staff Reporter Middle East Forum Director and columnist Daniel Pipes speaks in Linsly Chittenden Hall Thursday. More than one-third of audience members dressed in black to protest Pipes' former comments, which they claim are prejudiced and anti-Muslim. (NATHAN FRANCIS/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR) Amid campus-wide controversy, Middle East Forum Director Daniel Pipes spoke yesterday on the Middle Eastern conflict. Nearly 200 members of the Yale community, including a large number of protestors, attended the talk. At least a...

America the unpopularby Daniel PipesJerusalem PostNovember 4, 2003 German version of this itemPolish version of this item As the overthrow of Saddam Hussein showed, American conservatives believe that preemption, the overwhelming use of force, and going it alone are at times necessary to bolster US national security.Liberals beg to differ. The New York Times, speaking for many of the latter, editorializes against what it calls President George W. Bush's "lone-wolf record [and] overly aggressive stance," saying that these risk undermining his goals by provoking the world s enmity. All nine of the Democratic presidential candidates raise similar criticisms, as...

As the overthrow of Saddam Hussein showed, American conservatives believe that preemption, the overwhelming use of force, and going it alone are at times necessary to bolster US national security. Liberals beg to differ. The New York Times, speaking for many of the latter, editorializes against what it calls President George W. Bush's "lone-wolf record [and] overly aggressive stance," saying that these risk undermining his goals by provoking the world s enmity. All nine of the Democratic presidential candidates raise similar criticisms, as do the AFL-CIO, countless columnists, religious leaders and academics. Beyond differing with the administration's specific actions in...

by Daniel Pipes and Asaf Romirowsky Fulbright's Terrorist Tie 10/27/03 The killing of three Americans by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza on Oct. 15 had a bitterly ironic quality. The victims were security personnel protecting an academic review committee en route to interview Palestinian applicants for the Fulbright program, an academic exchange funded and run by the U.S. government. The three, in other words, were murdered by Palestinians while on a humanitarian mission to help Palestinians. But the irony runs deeper: According to the Israeli government, a current Fulbright scholar from the West Bank “is known as an activist” in Hamas...

The prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, informed the world this month, among other things, that "Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them." Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. national security adviser, described Mahathir's comments as "hateful, they are outrageous." But she then added, "I don't think they are emblematic of the Muslim world." If only she were right about that. In fact, Mahathir's views are precisely emblematic of current Muslim discourse about Jews - symbolized by the standing ovation his speech received from an all-Muslim audience of leaders representing 57 states. Then, a...

<p>The prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, informed the world this month, among other things, that "Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them." Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. national security adviser, described Mahathir's comments as "hateful, they are outrageous."</p>

<p>Mustafa Abu Sway just began teaching about Islam at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Jupiter, Fla. Superficially, he appears to be prime Fulbright material.</p> <p>He has a Ph.D. from Boston College, is an associate professor of philosophy and Islamic studies at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, has written two books on a medieval Muslim thinker and received an award from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley.</p>

The Oct. 15 killing in Gaza had a bitterly ironic quality. The victims were three Americans, security personnel protecting an academic review committee en route to interview Palestinian applicants for the Fulbright program, an academic exchange funded and run by the U.S. government. The killers were Palestinian terrorists. The three, in other words, were murdered by Palestinians while on a humanitarian mission to help Palestinians. But the irony runs deeper: According to the Israeli government, a current Fulbright scholar from the West Bank "is known as an activist" in Hamas - one of the terror groups suspected in the bombing...

Daniel Pipes: Back in the News: The Treaty of Hudaybiya October 16, 2003 http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/106 Back in the News: The Treaty of Hudaybiya. Yasir Arafat somewhat cryptically mentioned the Treaty of Hudaybiya in a 1994 speech in South Africa while discussing his views of the Oslo Accord ("I see this agreement as being no more than the agreement signed between our Prophet Muhammad and the Quraysh in Mecca.") and this reference prompted years of speculation about his intentions. Iin 1999, I took up the issue in "Lessons from the Prophet Muhammad's Diplomacy," http://www.danielpipes.org/article/316 in which I reviewed the historiography of the...

Is there any subject that the mainstream media treats worse than the Palestinian Authority (PA)? Case in point: placing the Oct. 15 murder of three American security personnel in Gaza. Here is USA Today's comment, representative of media assessments of the topic: "the killings reflected a potentially dangerous new escalation in a conflict that for the past half-century has largely treated U.S. officials as bystanders. Terrorist Palestinian groups have generally avoided attacks on U.S. officials." To find out the real situation, one has to go to such sources at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA),...

Terrorism has shown its hand but our national broadcaster remains timid and censorious. The suicide-homicide bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad - and the murder of the UN envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello - does not represent the beginning of the end of the war on terrorism. Nor even the end of the beginning. But it does signify the cessation of ambiguity. Before and after the events of September 11, there was a dispute about the causes of the world's latest global conflict - the war against terrorism which followed the Cold War. The debate can be conveniently...

What to do in Iraq? The question is made urgent by the steady attrition of coalition forces, punctuated by seven large car-bomb explosions. The latest of them, on Sunday, killed six and wounded dozens at the Baghdad Hotel. More broadly, the briefly held gratitude to the coalition for being relieved of Saddam Hussein's hideous rule has been overtaken, as the weeks turn into months, by feelings of resentment. Iraqis complain that the bridges have not been rebuilt fast enough, the currency is not steady enough, and utilities are not regular enough. A people accustomed to live in the confines of...

Dear Reader:   On Sept. 28, I sent you an announcement of the paperback edition of Militant Islam Reaches America and I mentioned that it has new materials. Please find below one of these, the book's epilogue: "World War IV?"   Daniel Pipes Epilogue: World War IV? Daniel Pipes Militant Islam Reaches AmericaPaperback edition, W.W. Norton, 2003. Is the "war on terror" really World War IV? That's what the American strategist Eliot Cohen argues[1] and the term is apt.[2] It captures two points: that the cold war was in fact World War III and that the war on terror is...

Oct. 8, 2003 Where are Iraq's weapons? By DANIEL PIPES Suppose for an instant that no weapons of mass destruction ever turn up in Iraq. Of course, WMDs might well still appear, but let's imagine that intelligence estimates were completely wrong about Saddam Hussein having an advanced program for chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, as well as the missiles to carry them. What would that imply? US President George W. Bush's Democratic opponents say it renders the decision to go to war a "fraud" or "hyped." But they miss the point, for there was indeed massive and undisputed evidence to...

<p>October 7, 2003 -- SUPPOSE for an instant that no weapons of mass destruction ever turn up in Iraq. Of course, they might well still appear, but let's imagine that Saddam Hussein did not have an advanced program for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, as well as the missiles to carry them. What would that imply?</p>

Printer-friendly version Email this article to a friend The Guantánamo Arrests – What Do They Mean? Fox News: The O'Reilly Factor September 30, 2003 O'REILLY: Thanks for staying with us. I'm Bill O'Reilly. In the "FACTOR Follow-Up" segment tonight, there are currently 12 Muslim chaplains on active duty in the U.S. armed forces, ministering to about 4,200 American-Muslim military personnel. That's causing some controversy because of the arrest at Guantánamo Bay, which we mentioned earlier in the broadcast. The arrest of a man named Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was authorized by the Pentagon to nominate Muslim chaplains, has now been charged...

THE news last week that two Muslim military personnel, James Yee and Ahmad al-Halabi, had been arrested on suspicion of aiding Al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantnamo Bay (with another three Muslim servicemen under watch) seemed to prompt much surprise. It should not have. It has been obvious for months that Islamists who despise America have penetrated U.S. prisons, law enforcement, and armed forces. In February, a milestone Wall Street Journal article established that imams who consider Osama bin Laden "a hero of Allah" dominate the Islamic chaplaincy in the New York state prison system. In March, I documented the case of...

The news last week that two Muslim military personnel, James Yee and Ahmad al-Halabi, had been arrested on suspicion of aiding Al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantánamo Bay (with another three Muslim servicemen under watch) seemed to prompt much surprise. It should not have. It has been obvious for months that Islamists who despise America have penetrated U.S. prisons, law enforcement, and armed forces. In February, a milestone Wall Street Journal article established that imams who consider Osama bin Laden "a hero of Allah" dominate the Islamic chaplaincy in the New York state prison system. In March, I documented the case of...

<p>September 29, 2003 -- THE news last week that two Muslim military personnel, James Yee and Ahmad al-Halabi, had been arrested on suspicion of aiding Al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantnamo Bay (with another three Muslim servicemen under watch) seemed to prompt much surprise. It should not have.</p>

"You will sooner or later pay for your pack of lies," read one threatening message last week to the author of The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change. In that book, just released in Canada, Irshad Manji, 34, explores such usually taboo themes as anti-Semitism, slavery and the inferior treatment of women with what she calls an "utmost honesty." "Grow up!" she scolds Muslims. "And take responsibility for our role in what ails Islam." Although a TV journalist and personality, Manji - a practicing Muslim - brings real insight to her subject. "I appreciate that every...