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Why the Left Loves Osama [and Saddam] by Daniel Pipes March 19, 2003 Has anyone noticed an indifference in the precincts of the far Left to the fatalities of 9/11 and the horrors of Saddam Hussein? Right after the 9/11 attack, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen called it "the greatest work of art for the whole cosmos." Eric Foner, an ornament of Columbia University's Marxist firmament, trivialized it by announcing himself unsure "which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House." Norman Mailer called the suicide hijackers "brilliant." More...

<p>WASHINGTON — Daniel Pipes (search), the Middle East scholar who has been called a bigot by senators and Muslim groups alike, makes no apologies for his views, and said he believes some of his Muslim critics are dangerous extremists who need to be exposed.</p>

SAVING THE PIPES NOMINATION-- Bush Outwits The Insidious Kennedy-Cair Axis by Denis Schulz "Okay, boys, here's the gamer. I'll drop back to pass; the Veep will fake up the middle; Colin will go long; we'll trap Teddy Kennedy when he comes in, and if anybody clips Ibrahim Hoopercrit, make it look like an accident; then while the Democrats are catching their breaths (recessing), we'll send the White House water boy around the end with the Pipes nomination. Slick as a whistle. It works every time." The President has used this play before. It's called The Recess Appointment. It's a way...

The Fight Over Daniel PipesBy Wall Street JournalWall Street Journal | August 19, 2003 In fighting the war on terror, it would be nice to think there is a role for one of the few U.S. scholars to warn of the danger from militant Islam in advance of September 11. Instead, the nomination of Mideast scholar Daniel Pipes to the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace has turned into one of the nastier confirmation battles of the Bush Presidency. Bear in mind this is not a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. It's a position at a relatively...

Here's a puzzle: How do Palestinian refugees differ from the other 135 million 20th-century refugees? Answer: In every other instance, the pain of dispossession, statelessness, and poverty has diminished over time. Refugees eventually either resettled, returned home or died. Their children - whether living in South Korea, Vietnam, Pakistan, Israel, Turkey, Germany or the United States - then shed the refugee status and joined the mainstream. Not so the Palestinians. For them, the refugee status continues from one generation to the next, creating an ever-larger pool of anguish and discontent. Several factors explain this anomaly but one key component -...

<p>August 19, 2003 -- HERE'S a puzzle: How do Palestinian refugees differ from the other 135 million 20th-century refugees?</p> <p>Answer: In every other instance, the pain of dispossession, statelessness, and poverty has diminished over time. Refugees eventually either resettled, returned home or died. Their children - whether living in South Korea, Vietnam, Pakistan, Israel, Turkey, Germany or America - then shed the refugee status and joined the mainstream.</p>

Watching hardcore Democrats trying to tear down Bush by whatever means possible, even at the expense of encouraging our enemies to attack US troops makes one realize how morally depraved their party has become. But no one should be surprised by their behavior. The public were given a taste of the Dems' malice when Kennedy interrogated Ashcroft. The man who while under the influence drove off a bridge into six feet of water and then left his helpless passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, to drown while he swam to safety, pompously sat in judgment on Ashcroft and presumed to publicly question...

Has hell frozen over? The LA Times--what my eloquent colleague calls a "flower-power liberal newspaper"--has come out in support of President Bush's nomination of Daniel Pipes to the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP). Will wonders never cease? The LA Times yesterday stated (click here for alternate source): But in trying to prevent Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes from joining the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) are abusing their privilege. Pipes has a long record of stirring up controversy on Islamic affairs. Long before Sept. 11,...

WASHINGTON -- The president has nominated Islamic scholar Daniel Pipes to the board of directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace. This has resulted in a nasty eruption of McCarthyism. Pipes' nomination has been greeted by charges of Islamophobia, bigotry and extremism. Three Democratic senators (Kennedy, Dodd and Harkin) have shamefully signed on to this campaign, with quasi-Democrat Jeffords tagging along. Who is Daniel Pipes? Pipes is a former professor at the U.S. Naval War College. He has taught history and Islamic studies at Harvard and the University of Chicago. He is a scholar and the author of 12 books,...

Liberals turn McCarthyite The President has nominated Islamic scholar Daniel Pipes to the board of directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace. This has resulted in a nasty eruption of McCarthyism. Pipes' nomination has been greeted by charges of Islamophobia, bigotry and extremism. Three Democratic senators have shamefully signed on to this campaign, with at least one other tagging along. Who is Daniel Pipes? He is a former professor at the Naval War College. He has taught history and Islamic studies at Harvard and the University of Chicago. He is a scholar and the author of 12 books, four of...

Fred Barnes just said that it looks as if president Bush will make a brave move and make a recess appointment naming Daniel Pipes to the Peace organization he set up (I forget the exact name of it).

<p>WASHINGTON -- The president has nominated Islamic scholar Daniel Pipes to the board of directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace. This has resulted in a nasty eruption of McCarthyism. Pipes' nomination has been greeted by charges of Islamophobia, bigotry and extremism. Three Democratic senators (Kennedy, Dodd and Harkin) have shamefully signed on to this campaign, with quasi-Democrat Jeffords tagging along.</p>

Howls of rage went up after the Joint Terrorism Task Force, guns drawn, arrested Maher Hawash in the parking lot of an Intel Corporation facility in March 2003 and placed him in solitary confinement. The protests intensified as prosecutors detained him without charges for over a month in an Oregon jail while they pored over the evidence. Given Maher Mofeid "Mike" Hawash's biography, this all came as a particular shock, for he personified the American success story. A Palestinian born in Nablus in 1964 and reared in Kuwait, he arrived in the United States in 1984, earning degrees in electrical...

Muslims Say Pipes Appointment Harms U.S. Image; CAIR: Move Would 'Poison the Well' of Interfaith Relations Worldwide 8/14/03 12:52:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726; e-mail: cair@cair-net.org WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- At a news conference this morning with a number of Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and interfaith groups, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said a recess appointment of Daniel Pipes to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) would "poison the well" of interfaith relations and harm American interests worldwide. (A recess appointment allows the president to circumvent the normal...

Despite strong opposition from Muslim groups and some Democrats, President Bush is expected to make a recess appointment of Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes to the U.S. Institute of Peace, possibly this week, according to congressional sources. Pipes's nomination to the federally funded think tank is stalled in a Senate committee, but an appointment during the current recess would bypass the confirmation process and allow him to serve a one-year term. Daniel Pipes The Council on American-Islamic Relations and other Muslim, Arab-American and interfaith groups will hold a news conference today to continue their campaign against Pipes. CAIR, which has...

Bush Plans to Sidestep Senate on Daniel Pipes By Adam Entous Reuters | August 13, 2003 Over objections from some Muslim American groups, President Bush is expected to sidestep Congress and appoint a Middle East scholar who has been derided by critics as anti-Muslim to a federally funded think tank, congressional sources said on Tuesday. Bush's recess appointment of Daniel Pipes could spark a backlash from some Muslim Americans and Democrats in Congress, who oppose his nomination to serve on the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, which was created by Congress to promote peaceful solutions to world conflicts....

When I read that Daniel Pipes had been nominated to the board of the United States Institute of Peace (a federally funded body whose members are proposed by the president and confirmed by the Senate), my first reaction was one of bafflement. Why did Pipes want the nomination? After all, USIP, a somewhat mild organization, is devoted to the peaceful resolution of conflict. For Pipes, this notion is a contradiction in terms. I am not myself a pacifist, and I believe that Islamic nihilism has to be combated with every weapon, intellectual and moral as well as military, which we...

Aug 12, 2003 Bush to Make Recess Appointment to Peace Institute By Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is expected to bypass the Senate and appoint an outspoken Middle East scholar to a federal think tank over the objections of Democrats and others who say he is anti-Muslim. According to sources close to the matter, Bush intends to appoint Daniel Pipes, director of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, to the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace. The move would come just weeks after Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee raised...

Howls of rage went up after the Joint Terrorism Task Force, guns drawn, arrested Maher Hawash in the parking lot of an Intel Corporation facility in March, 2003, 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. Given Maher Mofeid "Mike" Hawash's biography, this all came as a particular shock, for he personified the American success story. A Palestinian born in Nablus in 1964 and reared in Kuwait, he arrived in the United States in 1984, earning degrees in...

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - Over objections from some Muslim American groups, President Bush is expected to sidestep Congress and appoint a Middle East scholar who has been derided by critics as anti-Muslim to a federally funded think tank, congressional sources said on Tuesday. Bush's recess appointment of Daniel Pipes could spark a backlash from some Muslim Americans and Democrats in Congress, who oppose his nomination to serve on the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, which was created by Congress to promote peaceful solutions to world conflicts. Bush has sought to improve relations with the Muslim American community since...