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<p>November 19, 2002 -- HAS anyone noticed the difference in the way America's two wars are approached? When the subject is Iraq, the U.S. government is proactive, articulate and specific. But when it comes to militant Islam, officialdom is reactive, awkward and vague.</p>

Hey, y'all down in Florida: I subscribe to Daniel Pipes's mailing list, and I got this today. I can't go since I live in Maine, but y'all down there might be interested in attending these talks (if you're thrifty like a Yankee, the latter two are free). Should be a wicked good time. Ayuh. Message from Daniel Pipes:InvitationI will be giving three public talks on Monday, October 7th in Orlando, Florida, under the general rubric of "America's Response to Terrorism." All three are open to the public; I invite you to attend, especially as the extremist Al-Awda organization ("The Palestine...

<p>MILITANT Islam keeps on killing, but politicians and journalists still avert their eyes.</p> <p>There have also been many more non-lethal assaults on churches and church services, the most recent this past Sunday.</p> <p>There is no doubt about the motives of the perpetrators: Militant Islamic groups brazenly speak their minds, declaring their goal is "to kill Christians" and afterwards bragging of having "killed the nonbelievers."</p>

Furor erupts over Web site monitoring of Middle Eastern scholars By RON TODT The Associated Press 9/27/02 10:22 PM PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A pro-Israel organization has set up a Web site to monitor professors and universities for pro-Arab, anti-Israel bias -- a move some academics are decrying as campus McCarthyism and attempted intimidation. The Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum said it organized the Campus Watch site to counter pervasive bias in universities' Middle Eastern studies. The site names schools and specific professors. Forum director Daniel Pipes said the think tank hopes eventually to monitor 250 North American academic institutions. "Our goal...

The software is blocking the posting of material from the callous, cynical, hate-filled, hypocrite lefties at CounterPunch. I'm going to go ahead and provide a link under this vanity for the following reasons: 1) To further publicize the Middle East Forum's important new website, Campus Watch, which is devoted to monitoring and countering the extreme political radicalism and anti-Westernism dominant in academic Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies. 2) So y'all can have a good laugh at how the lefties HOWL when the merest shadow of their tactics of academic insurgency are applied to them. (Somebody call the WHAAAAAAAAAAAMBULANCE!) CounterPunch article...

An important new organization that promises to focus public concern on "blame America first" bias in the academy is in danger of being discredited. The Middle East Forum, under the direction of Daniel Pipes, has established a project and website called, "Campus Watch." Campus Watch is designed to monitor Middle East Studies in the United States, analyzing and criticizing errors and biases, and drawing public attention to controversies over funding, academic appointments, etc. Campus Watch maintains that Middle East Studies in the United States is dominated by professors who are actively hostile to America's interests in the world. The organization's...

As featured on IntellectualConservative.comIt appears that according to the "Hate Free Zone Campaign" of Washington, if only the people who worked in the World Trade Center had placed "hate free" signs in their windows they would be alive today. Professor Edward Alexander analyzes the hate from the "Hate Free Zone Campaign" and other militants protesting the UW's hosting of a lecture by Daniel Pipes on Terrorism and Militant Islam.In late March, about two hours after I had sent the announcement of Daniel Pipes’ forthcoming (April 10) lecture at the University of Washington on “The War on Terrorism and Militant Islam”...

Invitation Colorado College has invited Hanan Ashrawi, Yasir Arafat's spokeswoman, to deliver a keynote address at a symposium titled "September 11: One Year Later,"on Thursday, Sept. 12. Very heavily criticised by the Rocky Mountain News, the governor of Colorado, and many others, the college responded by inviting me to follow Ms Ashrawi and reply to what she says. Ms Ashrawi will speak at 10:30 that morning at Armstrong Hall; I will follow immediately after she finishes, at about 12:15 p.m. For an announcement of my talk by Colorado College, please go to http://www.coloradocollege.edu/news_events/. Both talks are free and open to...

Dear Reader: I would like to bring to your attention two unusual television transcripts from Tuesday, August 27. In the first, Ali Al-Ahmed of the Saudi Institute says some remarkable things about the Saudi government (“They arrest everybody that sneezes in the country, except al Qaeda members”) and about U.S. policy (“America should not let Saudi Arabia have any role in the Iraqi liberation campaign because if they do, they put their hand in it, it will stink”). In the second, I have a civil and even constructive conversation with Pat Buchanan. Daniel Pipes Interview With Ali Al-Ahmed, Daniel Pipes...

What happened to Daniel Pipes's website, if anything?

Faces of American IslamBy Daniel Pipes and Khalid Durán ur respective bookshelves groan under the weight of books bearing titles like Islam and the West, The Future of Islam and the West, and The Islamic World and the West. What is striking about these books — all quite recently written and published — is the anachronism of their geographic premise. With millions of Muslims now living in the West, especially in North America and Western Europe, the old dichotomy of Islam and the West exists no more. This presence of Muslims in the West has profound importance for both...

Militant Islam is on the ascendant almost everywhere around the globe -- except in the country that experienced it longest and knows it best. In Iran, it is on the defensive and perhaps in retreat. This situation has vast potential consequences. It derives from the fact that (putting aside the exceptional case of Saudi Arabia) militant Islam first attained power in Iran in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah. Twenty-three years later, Khomeini's aggressive, totalitarian project has left Iranians deeply disillusioned and longing for a return to normal life. The population wants freedom from a regime that bullies them...

"Conspiracy theories beget conspiracies. Imaginary plots generate actual ones, actual ones generate imaginary ones, mutually reinforcing each other in an endless, and ever-deepening, cycle of irrationality." Daniel Pipes wrote these words in a 1996 book on the role of conspiracy theories in the Middle East. Today, Pipes finds himself in the grips of the very cycle he described. Pipes' backers say it's not the first time that the writings of the Philadelphia-based Middle East scholar foreshadowed the future. Since the 1980s, Pipes has been warning that militant Islam had declared war on the United States. Before Sept. 11, he was...

Dealing With Middle Eastern Conspiracy Theories Daniel Pipes, Orbis, 1992 http://www.danielpipes.org/articles/1992.shtml [N.B.: The following reflects what the author submitted, and not exactly what was published. To obtain the precise text of what was printed, please check the original place of publication.] Don't make the mistake of thinking that the longer you've been here the more you understand Iran. Most of our intelligence reporting has been wrong all along and not just since the revolution. Yours will be too. None of us understands the Iranians. - An Asian diplomat in Tehran A strange event took place in November 1977 as the...

"Become a Muslim warrior during the crusades or during an ancient jihad." Thus read the instructions for seventh graders in Islam: A Simulation of Islamic History and Culture, 610-1100, a three-week curriculum produced by Interaction Publishers, Inc. In classrooms across the United States, students who follow its directions find themselves fighting mock battles of jihad against "Christian crusaders" and other assorted "infidels." Upon gaining victory, our mock-Muslim warriors "Praise Allah." Is this a legal activity in American public schools? Interaction says it merely urges students to "respect Islamic culture" through identification with Islam. But the Thomas More Law Center, a...

The more destruction I see, the stronger I get," announced Yasser Arafat after viewing the effects of the just-ended Israeli incursion into Ramallah. In the same defiant spirit, a Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal, insisted that the damage wrought by Israeli troops in Jenin constituted "a Palestinian victory that lifted the morale of our people." Palestinian spokesmen in the United States repeat this same point. Hussein Ibish of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee contends that recent setbacks "will only increase, not break, the will of the Palestinians to resist Israeli rule." Journalists too have picked up this theme and made it a...

At this time of war between Israel and the Palestinians, half-baked suggestions for a speedy resolution are whizzing by almost as fast as bullets. Let's review some of the more prominent schemes. * A new Palestinian leadership: Israel's Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer believes that pushing Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat out of power will bring a more pragmatic and flexible leadership to office. * Unilateral Israeli withdrawal: Peace Now, a powerful Israeli organization, promotes the slogan, "Leave the Settlements, Return to Ourselves" - meaning a complete withdrawal to the 1967 border lines. (This is somewhat along the lines of the...