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The news last month that police had arrested Sajid Badat at his home in Gloucester, England, shook many Britons. The charges against him concerned his training with al-Qaida in Afghanistan and his possessing PETN explosives, the same substance would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid had tried to set off. Police believe Badat intended to carry off the very first suicide bombing in the United Kingdom. But not everyone was shaken by this news. Gloucester's Muslim community esteemed Badat too much to credit the charges. One admirer called him "a walking angel" and "the bright star of our mosque." Another described him...

Terror & Denial [at LAX] by Daniel Pipes New York Post July 9, 2002 On the 4th of July, an Egyptian immigrant to the United States who believes in wild conspiracy theories about Jews, is known for his great "hate for Israel," and has possible ties to al Qaeda, armed himself to the teeth and assaulted the Israeli airline counter at Los Angeles International Airport, killing two. It is obvious why Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet targeted Jews in a highly visible place on so prominent a date: to engage in terrorism against Israel. But one important institution - the U.S....

Frontpage Interview: Daniel PipesBy Jamie GlazovFrontPageMagazine.com | December 16, 2003 Frontpage Magazine: Mr. Pipes, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Congratulations on your new book Miniatures: Views of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics, a collection of about a hundred of your masterpiece essays. Many of those essays deal with the current War on Terror. So let’s begin with some current developments. How do you see the capture of Saddam affecting this war?Pipes: Thanks for the invitation and the kind words. I see Saddam Hussein’s capture having powerful repercussions within Iraqi society and perhaps beyond, but having least impact on the adherents of militant...

Frontpage Interview: Daniel Pipes by Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com December 16, 2003 Frontpage Magazine: Mr. Pipes, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Congratulations on your new book Miniatures: Views of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics , a collection of about a hundred of your masterpiece essays. Many of those essays deal with the current War on Terror. So let's begin with some current developments. How do you see the capture of Saddam affecting this war? Pipes: Thanks for the invitation and the kind words. I see Saddam Hussein's capture having powerful repercussions within Iraqi society and perhaps beyond, but having least impact on...

THE DISCOVERY of Saddam Hussein in a crypt-like hole, hidden by bricks and dirt, in a farm house in a small town near Tikrit, brings to mind the story of another Iraqi who also hid from the authorities by literally going underground. That Iraqi would be Jawad Amir Sayyid, 45, of Karada, a town south-east of Baghdad. He dwelt for an astonishing 21 years in a cell below his family's kitchen, entering it on Dec. 2, 1981, and never once emerging from it until April 10, 2003, a day after the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime. Sayyid disappeared from the...

David Horowitz knows subversive activity when he sees it, and after much painful study of the facts, he encouraged the Center for Security Policy to present them in his online FrontPageMagazine.com. The problem: Islamist terrorist support networks have penetrated the American political system not only through allies on the Left, but in the conservative movement under the aggressive protection of Grover Norquist. A lengthy article by our own Frank Gaffney, published this week in FrontPageMagazine, establishes the facts. "I have known Grover Norquist for almost twenty years as a political ally," Horowitz writes in an important introduction. "It is with...

Anti-Semitism in Europe was for nearly two millennia a Christian phenomenon; now it is basically a Muslim one. That is the basic message of an officially-commissioned study by the European Union (EU) which became notorious in recent weeks when the EU itself quashed the 104-page draft version. The Financial Times, which broke this story, reported that it did so "because the study concluded Muslims and pro-Palestinian groups were behind many of the incidents it examined. This focus on Muslim and pro-Palestinian perpetrators, the Financial Times went on, "was judged inflammatory." One person familiar with the draft study concluded that "The...

If militant Islam is the problem and moderate Islam is the solution, as I often argue, how does one differentiate between these two forms of Islam? It’s a tough question, especially as concerns Muslims who live in Western countries. To understand just how tough it is, consider the case of Abdurahman Alamoudi, a prominent American figure associated with 16 Muslim organizations. FBI spokesman William Carter described one of those, the American Muslim Council, as “the most mainstream Muslim group in the United States.” The Department of Defense entrusted two of them, the Islamic Society of North America and the American...

When I first saw the flyer announcing Daniel Pipes’ upcoming visit to the University of Illinois campus this week, my first thought was, “How long until The Daily Illini decides to smear him?” Predictably, Wednesday’s DI editorial (which, interestingly enough does not appear online) and recent published letters have spared no rhetoric to discredit him. “Pipes is an extremist,” declares the DI, and verifies this with an out-of-context quotation more than ten years old. This is not all. The Daily Illini has been running a campaign against Dr. Pipes for months. “People like Daniel Pipes are dangerous and need to...

The news last week that police had arrested Sajid Badat at his home in Gloucester, England, shook many Britons. The charges against him concerned his training with al-Qaida in Afghanistan and his possessing PETN explosives, the same substance would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid had tried to set off. Police believe Badat intended to carry off the very first suicide bombing in the United Kingdom. But not everyone was shaken by this news. Gloucester's Muslim community esteemed Badat too much to credit the charges. One admirer called him "a walking angel" and "the bright star of our mosque." Another described him...

http://www.jewishworldreview.com | If "militant Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution," as I often argue, how does one differentiate between these two forms of Islam? It's a tough question, especially as concerns Muslims who live in Western countries. To understand just how tough it is, consider the case of Abdurahman Alamoudi, a prominent American figure associated with some sixteen Muslim organizations. FBI spokesman Bill Carter described one of those, the American Muslim Council, as "the most mainstream Muslim group in the United States." The Defense Department entrusted two of them (the Islamic Society of North America and...

Miniatures by Daniel Pipes The first thing that must always be noted, these days, about Daniel Pipes, is that after a long and widely examined career as a commentator on Islamic and Middle Eastern topics, he has been demonized to a point of psychosis by apologists for Arab and Muslim extremism. This is the consequence of his refusal to retire into academic passivity or succumb to "political correctness." Possessing a doctorate in medieval Islam, he has nonetheless become a polemical public intellectual, mainly working in journalism. Many of Pipes' enemies enjoy academic tenure, and many speak against him from powerful...

He, too was known as a "moderate" If "militant Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution," as I often argue, how does one differentiate between these two forms of Islam? It's a tough question, especially as concerns Muslims who live in Western countries. To understand just how tough it is, consider the case of Abdurahman Alamoudi, a prominent American figure associated with some sixteen Muslim organizations. FBI spokesman Bill Carter described one of those, the American Muslim Council, as "the most mainstream Muslim group in the United States." The Defense Department entrusted two of them (the Islamic Society...

Richard Pipes is an historian who made, as well as studied, history. An expert on Soviet and Russian history, Pipes helped change the direction of U.S. foreign policy. In the 1970s, he headed a government panel of outside experts brought in to assess Soviet nuclear strategy; his "Team B" unit (as opposed to the CIA's "Team A") concluded that the Soviet posture was more threatening than U.S. policy had assumed. In the early 1980s, Pipes worked in the Reagan administration, heading the East European and Soviet desk of the National Security Council. As such, he pushed for a hard line...

The case for 'Iraqification'by Daniel PipesJerusalem PostNovember 19, 2003 Stay the course – but change the course. That was the meaning of the sudden, sharp, and understated change in Washington's Iraq policy last week.After the American civilian administrator of Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III, made a hurried visit to the White House, President George W. Bush said he wants "the Iraqis to be more involved in the governance of their country" and offered some ideas toward that end. Two days later, the Iraqi Governing Council announced that the formal occupation of Iraq would end by June 2004, becoming at...

"Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe." This sentence, spoken last week by George W. Bush, is about the most jaw-dropping repudiation of an established bipartisan policy ever made by a US president. Not only does it break with a policy the US government has pursued since first becoming a major player in the Middle East, but the speech is audacious in ambition, grounded in history, and programmatically specific. It's the sort of challenge to existing ways one expects to hear from a columnist, essayist,...

"Thank you for everything. But do not stay." An exchange with the late Nizar Hamdoon Introduction by Daniel Pipes, publisher of the Middle East Quarterly: I first met Nizar Hamdoon in mid-1985 when he was Iraq's immensely popular ambassador in Washington. He promoted the thesis that Iran had started the war with Iraq and bore the onus for its continuation, therefore the U.S. government should help Baghdad. Nizar made these points with a competence, reasonableness, and self-criticism rare in any diplomat, and extraordinary in one representing a brutal totalitarian thug. Indeed, Nizar was probably the most skilled diplomat I ever...

From www.danielpipes.org | Original article available at: www.danielpipes.org/article/1304Bush the radical by Daniel PipesJerusalem PostNovember 12, 2003"Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe."This sentence, spoken last week by George W. Bush, is about the most jaw-dropping repudiation of an established bipartisan policy ever made by a US president.Not only does it break with a policy the US government has pursued since first becoming a major player in the Middle East, but the speech is audacious in ambition, grounded in history, and programmatically specific. It's the...

In a 1997 Middle East Quarterly article titled "Prince Charles of Arabia," Ronni L. Gordon and David M. Stillman looked at evidence that Britain's Prince Charles might be a secret convert to Islam. They shifted through his public statements (defending Islamic law, praising the status of Muslim women, seeing in Islam a solution for Britain's ailments) and actions (setting up a panel of twelve "wise men" to advise him on Islamic religion and culture), then concluded that, "should Charles persist in his admiration of Islam and defamation of his own culture," his accession to the throne will indeed usher in...

(New Haven-AP Nov. 7, 2003 8:00 AM) _ Dozens of students wore black gags over their mouths yesterday to protest a lecture at Yale University by Middle East scholar and commentator Daniel Pipes. Critics say he is anti-Muslim, but Pipes insists he is aiming his fire only at those Muslims who are terrorists. Pipes heads the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia and was recently nominated by President Bush to the U-S Institute of Peace. He warned before September Eleventh, 2001, of a radical form of Islam that is on the rise and posed a danger to the United States and...