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<p>August 12, 2003 -- HOWLS of rage went up after the Joint Terrorism Task Force, guns drawn, arrested Maher Hawash in the parking lot of an Intel Corp. facility in March and placed him in solitary confinement. The protests intensified as prosecutors detained him without charges for more than a month in an Oregon jail while they pored over the evidence.</p>

<p>"The generals must be having nightmares." So observed a Turkish analyst after his country's parliament passed laws last week dramatically reducing the political role of the country's armed forces. Those laws will "revolutionize the conduct of Turkish politics," observes London's Daily Telegraph.</p> <p>What might seem like bureaucratic wrangling has such potentially profound importance because the Turkish armed forces have long been Turkey's main bastion for political moderation and close relations with the United States and Israel: How will the country fare absent this steady hand?</p> <p>A secular party with moderately conservative views (as the AKP portrays itself).</p>

It may not exactly be harmonic convergence, but the coincidence is still worth flagging. Last week, just about the time a Senate committee was failing to muster the quorum necessary to vote on Islamic terrorism expert Daniel Pipes' nomination to the United States Institute of Peace (thrilling the Islamic groups that apologize for such terrorism), the Pew Research Center was releasing a new poll finding that 44 percent of Americans now believe that Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence among its believers. This number is up sharply from the 25 percent who, in March 2002,...

It may not exactly be harmonic convergence, but the coincidence is still worth flagging. Last week, just about the time a Senate committee was failing to muster the quorum necessary to vote on Islamic terrorism expert Daniel Pipes' nomination to the United States Institute of Peace (thrilling the Islamic groups that apologize for such terrorism), the Pew Research Center was releasing a new poll finding that 44 percent of Americans now believe that Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence among its believers. This number is up sharply from the 25 percent who, in March 2002, had...

<p>It may be not be harmonic convergence exactly, but the coincidence is still worth flagging: Last week, just about the time a Senate committee was failing to muster the quorum necessary to vote on Islamic terrorism expert Daniel Pipes' nomination to the U.S. Institute of Peace —thrilling the Islamic groups that apologize for such terrorism — the Pew Research Center was releasing a new poll finding that 44 percent of Americans now believe that Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence among its believers. This number is up sharply from the 22 percent who in March 2002 had begun to notice jihadis in Sudan and Nigeria and Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and the Philippines and the Palestinian Authority and Malaysia (and ? Italy, France and Lackawanna) poking out from behind the smoother ranks of the "Islam is peace" PR professionals.</p>

body,h1,h2,h3,p,ul,ol,li { font-family:arial; } From www.danielpipes.org | Original article available at: www.danielpipes.org/article/1179 [Fixing] Islam's Image Problem by Daniel PipesNew York PostJuly 29, 2003 Americans are increasingly negative about Islam and Muslims - or so found an important survey that the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press published last week.Perhaps the most dramatic change has been the jump in Americans who find that Islam, more than other religions, is likely "to encourage violence among its believers." In March 2002, 25 percent of the sample advocated this view. Now 44 percent do.Other trends concerning Islam are also negative: American...

        Dear Valued FRiends and Peers,         Professor Daniel Pipes, Director of the Middle East Forum and publisher of Militant Islam Comes To America, has been nominated by President George Bush to the United States Institute of Peace. Most people here know his credentials. This nomination, when brought up in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, "failed to reach a quorum," under pressure by Islamic activist groups like The American Muslim Council (AMC), the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), and Democrat collusion.         These extremist Islamic interest...

Americans are increasingly negative about Islam and Muslims - or so reports the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press in an important opinion survey published last week. Perhaps the most dramatic change over time has been the jump in Americans who find that Islam, more than other religions, is likely "to encourage violence among its believers." In March 2002, 25 percent of the sample advocated this view. Now 44 percent do. (Technical aside: Conducted during the period June 24-July 8, 2003, replies in the Pew study titled "Religion and Politics: Contention and Consensus" have a 95-percent confidence...

Wednesday, the US Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee postponed indefinitely its vote on the White House's nomination of Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes to the board of directors of the federally mandated and financed United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. The Senate committee's tabling of the nomination of a scholar to a think tank is in itself a small story. After all, it can be argued, no lives are at stake, and no government contracts large or small hang in the balance. If it so desired, the White House could override the Senate's inaction by appointing...

<p>July 29, 2003 -- A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: CAIR, a group discussed in this column, has campaigned to derail Daniel Pipes' nomination to the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace.</p> <p>AMERICANS are increasingly negative about Islam and Muslims - or so found an important survey that the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press published last week.</p>

Daniel Pipes compares Islamic People to Nazis White House asked to drop nomination of Islamophobe CAIR today called on President Bush to withdraw the nomination of Daniel Pipes to the board of the United States Institute of Peace after he was quoted by an online news service as comparing "Islamic people" to "Nazis" and rejecting aid to Afghan civilians. That demand after CAIR learned of a July 25 article on CNSNews.com describing Pipes' address to the Young America's Foundation National Conservative Student Conference in Washington, D.C., that stated: "Pipes added that he doesn't perceive the Islamic people as divided into...

Once upon a beautiful balmy autumn day, expansionist Islam, ever spreading by pointing its sword at suitably weakened sections within countries, staged a dramatic debut across virgin North America, forcing us to watch as nineteen of its fanatics murdered thousands of our Mr. Rogers ‘neighbors’ in fiery, crashing, hellish infernos; a black, smolderingly sadistic Machiavellian example of performance art. “Why are you calling me now about your appointment? The world is coming to an end! The World Trade Centre has been bombed and the Pentagon is in flames,” said the person at the other end of my telephone line. “Excuse...

The Senate Committee considering the nomination of Daniel Pipes to the board of an obscure group, the United States Institute for Peace, broke up for failure to achieve a quorum on Wednesday. At the hearing five Senators voiced objection to the nomination, and four of them , all Democrats (I include Jim Jeffords in this category), indicated that if a vote were held, they would have voted no. The less than noble four include Ted Kennedy, Tom Harkin and Chris Dodd, in addition to Jeffords, the modern day Benedict Arnold, or as Nathan Hale might have said about him: "I...

WASHINGTON: A coalition of major American Mideast organizations declared its endorsement of Dr. Daniel Pipes nomination to the US Institute of Peace and warned against the Jihadist nature of the militant campaign against Pipes. In a joint statement, the American Maronite Union, World Lebanese Organization, the American Coptic Associations, the Assyrian American Movement, Iranian Christian Organization, South Sudan Movement of America, the Assembly for Lebanon, Aramaic Democratic Organization, Shuraya Movement and the Middle East Christian Committee, called on the US Senate to confirm Dr. Pipes. Failing to do so, said the statement, would be a slap in the face of...

Posted: July 24, 20035:00 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Amid intense resistance from Muslim lobby groups and several Democratic senators, led by Edward Kennedy, a Senate committee has postponed voting on the nomination of Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes to the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which calls the Bush nominee an "Islamophobe," hailed the oppostion at a news conference after yesterday's session of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Nihad Awad "We view the outcome of today's meeting as a victory for all those who reject bigotry and, unlike Daniel Pipes, seek negotiated...

Israel Lobby Watch Pipes vote fails to draw quorum Jennifer Salan, Arab American Institute, 23 July 2003 Washington, DC -- Today after a contentious executive session of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on the nomination of Daniel Pipes to the board of the U.S. Institute for Peace, the Committee lost a working quorum. Based on an AAI initiative, organizations present agreed that they would send a joint letter to the White House asking that the President withdraw this nominee from consideration. During the Committee's discussion of the Pipes nomination, it became clear that many of the Senators...

by Daniel PipesNew York PostJuly 22, 2003 "Since the events of 9/11," observes Lee Harris, America's reigning philosopher of 9/11, "the policy debate in the United States has been primarily focused on a set of problems - radical Islam and the War on Terrorism, the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein in Iraq."We sense that these three problems are related, Harris notes in an article at TechCentralStation.com, but we can't quite figure out how. He proposes a subtle link between these seemingly disparate issues - and it's not specifically...

Dr. Daniel Pipes and CAIR's Lynch MobBy Robert SpencerFrontPageMagazine.com | July 23, 2003 As a Senate committee prepares to meet today to discuss the nomination of Dr. Pipes to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its allies are working to turn the hearings into a lynching party of Borkian proportions. But why? You would think that CAIR would count a man who maintains, as Pipes does, that “militant Islam is the problem, and moderate Islam is the solution” as a friend and ally. After all, isn’t CAIR a moderate Muslim group, a...

If you've followed the war on terror with any degree of care, you know that Daniel Pipes has been a major player in our debates over what to do about militant Islam. To his great credit, Pipes was one of the very few scholars who warned the country, well before September 11, of the potential terrorist threat stemming from militant Islam. Pipes is both a serious scholar of contemporary Islam and a tireless advocate for a policy that takes the threat of militant Islam seriously — while still encouraging the forces of liberalism within Islam. I don't always agree with...

[Why the U.S. is] Discarding War's Rulesby Daniel PipesNew York PostJuly 22, 2003 German version of this item "Since the events of 9/11," observes Lee Harris, America's reigning philosopher of 9/11, "the policy debate in the United States has been primarily focused on a set of problems - radical Islam and the War on Terrorism, the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein in Iraq."We sense that these three problems are related, Harris notes in an article at TechCentralStation.com, but we can't quite figure out how. He proposes a...