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President Frank T. Brogan Florida Atlantic University 777 Glades Road Boca Raton, Florida 33431 E-mail: skane@fau.edu Dear Mr. Brogan: We read your two press releases of yesterday (appended to this letter; also posted by us at http://danielpipes.org/article/1487) concerning the matter of Mustafa Abu Sway's ties to Hamas, a proscribed organization in the United States. We are pleased to learn that you are taking steps to investigate this matter, that you "notified the State Department of Mr. Pipes' allegations," and also "forwarded to the State Department and the coordinators of the Fulbright Program" our previous allegations. However, we wish you had...

President Frank T. Brogan Florida Atlantic University 777 Glades Road Boca Raton, Florida 33431 E-mail: skane@fau.edu Dear Mr. Brogan: We read your two press releases of yesterday (appended to this letter; also posted by us at http://danielpipes.org/article/1487) concerning the matter of Mustafa Abu Sway's ties to Hamas, a proscribed organization in the United States. We are pleased to learn that you are taking steps to investigate this matter, that you "notified the State Department of Mr. Pipes' allegations," and also "forwarded to the State Department and the coordinators of the Fulbright Program" our previous allegations. However, we wish you had...

We broke the news in October 2003 that Mustafa Abu Sway, a visiting Palestinian professor at Florida Atlantic University, is “known as an activist” in Hamas, a group on the U.S. government’s terrorism list. We also revealed that his salary is being paid by the U.S. taxpayer (via the Fulbright exchange program).Our little scoop met with yawns or with disbelief. Abu Sway himself denounced our article as a “witch hunt.” FAU ignored the revelation (“we have no reason to take any action”). The hometown Palm Beach Post published four skeptical responses, including an editorial insisting that “there is no...

'Anyone concerned with what's happening in our world ought to spend some time reading the Koran." Andy Rooney, the famed CBS commentator, gave this advice shortly after 9/11, as did plenty of others. His suggestion makes intuitive sense, given that the terrorists themselves say they are acting on the basis of the holy scripture of Islam. Accused 9/11 ringleader Muhammad Atta had a Koran in the suitcase he had checked for his flight. His five-page document of advice for fellow hijackers instructed them to pray, ask God for guidance, and "continue to recite the Koran." Osama bin Laden often quotes...

“Anyone concerned with what's happening in our world ought to spend some time reading the Koran.” Andy Rooney, the famed CBS commentator, gave this advice shortly after 9/11, as did plenty of others.His suggestion makes intuitive sense, given that the terrorists themselves say they are acting on the basis of the holy scripture of Islam. Accused 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta had a Koran (sometimes spelled Qur’an) in the suitcase he had checked for his flight. His five-page document of advice for fellow hijackers instructed them to pray, ask God for guidance, and “continue to recite the Koran.” Osama bin...

Dr. Daniel Pipes Tuesday, January 20, 2003 at 8:15 PM McDowell Formal Lounge Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum, a member of the presidentially appointed board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a prize winning columnist for the New York Sun and the Jerusalem Post. MSNBC describes him as one of the best known "Mideast policy luminaries." He has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the U.S. Naval War College. He has served in various capacities at the Departments of State and Defense. Please join us as we kick off KPU's spring...

Some people believe in the lost continent of Atlantis and in unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Others worry about an 18th-century secret society called the Bavarian Illuminati, or a mythical Zionist-Occupied Government (ZOG) secretly running the United States. What if these disparate elements shared beliefs, joined forces, won a much larger audience, broke out of their intellectual and political ghetto and became capable of challenging the premises of public life in the US? This is the frightening prospect, soberly presented by Michael Barkun in his important, just-published book A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. To understand the novelty...

For about a year, Republicans and Democrats agreed on the need vigorously to prosecute the war on terror. No longer. Nearly all the Democratic presidential contenders as well as other heavyweight Democrats have spoken out against the war on terror, preferring it to be a police action against terror. • Howard Dean, replying to a question that if bin Laden should be caught, whether to put him to death: "I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should...

Canadian Islamists host a neo-Nazi Posted: January 7, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A just-finished, very large Islamist conference in Toronto (the Toronto Star says it attracted 7,000 participants) called "Reviving the Islamic Spirit" featured such stars of the Islamist circuit as Tariq Ramadan and Siraj Wahhaj. It also hosted a neo-Nazi named William W. Baker. Baker was exposed in February 2002 in the Orange County Weekly in a major investigation by Stan Brin, titled "Hour of White Power: Reverend Robert H. Schuller relies on a man with ties to Neo-Nazis to build religious understanding." Brin established Baker's close ties to...

FOR ABOUT a year, Republicans and Democrats agreed on the need to prosecute the war on terror vigorously. No longer. Nearly all the Democratic Presidential contenders as well as other heavyweight Democrats have spoken out against the war on terror, preferring it to be a police action against terror. Howard Dean, replying to a question that if bin Laden should be caught, whether to put him to death: “I’ve resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do...

In comments to the American Jewish Congress in October 2001, I made the following statement, (PBS)I worry very much, from the Jewish point of view, that the presence, and increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of American Muslims, because they are so much led by an Islamist leadership, that this will present true dangers to American Jews. Asked to clarify this statement in October 2002, (clarification) ... you must note that this was spoken to a Jewish audience. I make the same point respectively to audiences of women, gays, civil libertarians, Hindus, Evangelical Christians, atheists, and scholars of Islam, among...

The United Muslims Association of Florida, Tampa Bay Area Chapter is a group that openly and closely aligns itself with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and other Islamist organizations. Not long ago, it posted with pleasure on its website news that the University of South Florida (known in the bad old days of Sami Al-Arian's tenure as "Jihad U.") will include two courses on Islam in the Spring 2004 semester. (They are "Islam in World History," taught by William Cummings, and "Islam in America," taught by K. O'Connor). So far so good. But then UMA follows the news with this...

"The California Congress of Republicans Endorses CAIR. Yes, believe it or not, if local chapters are seeking speakers on "Middle Eastern Affairs and understanding Islam," the CCG, which presents itself as "a grass-roots political organization, founded in 1989 and permanently chartered by the California Republican Party," offers first up none other than the director of CAIR's Northern California office, Helal Omeira. And here I thought only left-wing Democrats like Dennis Kucinich would wish to associate with an organization with three of its leadership in jail on terrorism-related charges. What an embarrassment this is to Republicans everywhere. Let's hope wiser heads...

What if terrorists are 'disproportionately younger Muslim men of Middle Eastern background'? In mid-November, Yusuf Suleman Motala, a Muslim leader in the United Kingdom said to be highly regarded and have a vast following, was at Heathrow Airport on his way to the lesser pilgrimage in Mecca. But British officers stopped him, and Motala reports they asked him questions about the Islamic religion, the instruction at schools under his guidance, and his association with jihadi groups. The resulting delay caused him to cancel his pilgrimage. The Muslim Council of Britain responded with "outrage and shock" and demanded that such "profiling...

In mid-November, Yusuf Suleman Motala, a Muslim leader in the United Kingdom said to be highly regarded and have a vast following, was at Heathrow Airport on his way to the lesser pilgrimage in Mecca. But British officers stopped him and Mr. Motala reports they asked him questions about the Islamic religion, the instruction at schools under his guidance, and his association with "jihadi groups." The resulting delay caused him to cancel his pilgrimage. The Muslim Council of Britain responded with "outrage and shock" and demanded that such "profiling of Muslims " not recur. Is this demand reasonable? What, in...

CAIR's assault on Paul Harvey Posted: December 24, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Paul Harvey, 84, is an ABC radio personality whose "News and Comment" program appears on 1,600 radio stations. His radio career goes back 60 years and he is known as "the most listened-to voice in the history of radio" and is "generally considered the greatest salesman in the history of radio." His recent run-in with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, militant Islam's most powerful institution in North America, provides a textbook example of Islamist aggression. The story begins on Dec. 4, 2003, when Harvey described the vicious nature...

In a much-noted speech last week, Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ostensibly made a dramatic reversal in course. But I am wondering whether to take his shift at face value. Mr. Sharon announced that the "road map," a U.S. plan that envisions Israel and the Palestinians negotiating a settlement between them, has only a "few months" left to live. If "the Palestinians still continue to disregard their part in implementing the road map," he warned, "Israel will initiate the unilateral security step of disengagement from the Palestinians." This "Disengagement Plan," he explained, will include "the redeployment of [Israeli] forces along...

Lies Mariam Sobh Tells Miriam Sobh, a graduate student in journalism at the University of Illinois, writes a regular column for the Daily Illini. Her disregard for factual accuracy is breathtaking. Here is the lie that Mariam Sobh published on Dec. 11.. She wrote, “Stop Turning a Blind Eye,” that Ariel Sharon said the following in an interview with General Ouze Merham in 1956: "I don't know something called International Principles. I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian woman and child is more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian...

Paul Harvey, 84, is an ABC radio personality whose "News and Comment" program appears on 1,600 radio stations. His radio career goes back 60 years and he is known as "the most listened-to voice in the history of radio" and is "generally considered the greatest salesman in the history of radio." His recent run-in with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), militant Islam's most powerful institution in North American, provides a textbook example of Islamist aggression. The story begins on Dec. 4, 2003, when Harvey described the vicious nature of cock fighting in Iraq, then commented: "Add to the [Iraqi]...

In a much-noted speech last week, Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ostensibly made a dramatic reversal in course. But I am wondering whether to take his shift at face value. Sharon announced that the "road map," a U.S. plan that envisions Israel and the Palestinians negotiating a settlement between them, has only a "few months" left to live. If "the Palestinians still continue to disregard their part in implementing the road map," he warned, "Israel will initiate the unilateral security step of disengagement from the Palestinians." This "Disengagement Plan," he explained, will include "the redeployment of [Israeli] forces along new...