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<p>'YOU will sooner or later pay for your pack of lies," read one threatening message last week. It went to the author of "The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change." In that book, just released in Canada, Irshad Manji, 34, explores such usually taboo themes as anti-Semitism, slavery and the inferior treatment of women with what she calls an "utmost honesty."</p>

The Columbus paper reports on a court case today in Ohio that has larger implications for parent-daughter relations in Muslim families living in the West. The facts of the case are thus: When Mohamed Shide, 38, a Somali immigrant who arrived to the United States in 1998, went to pick up his sixth-grade daughter, Rahma Rage, outside Eastmoor Middle School, he saw her standing with a boy. On getting home, Shide slapped Rage and put a pocketknife to her throat, then threatened to kill her with a butcher knife from the kitchen - or so Rage told an assistant principal...

"You will sooner or later pay for your pack of lies," read one threatening message last week. It went to the author of a just-released book in Canada titled "The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change". (CLICK HERE to purchase. Sales help fund JWR) In the book, JWR contributor Irshad Manji, 34, explores such usually-taboo themes as antisemitism, slavery, and the inferior treatment of women with what she calls an "utmost honesty." "Grow up!" she scolds Muslims. "And take responsibility for our role in what ails Islam." Although a television journalist and personality, Manji — a...

<p>September 23, 2003 -- 'YOU will sooner or later pay for your pack of lies," read one threatening message last week. It went to the author of "The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change."</p> <p>In that book, just released in Canada, Irshad Manji, 34, explores such usually taboo themes as anti-Semitism, slavery and the inferior treatment of women with what she calls an "utmost honesty."</p>

"'Intellectual thugs," huffed Rashid Khalidi, now of Columbia University. "Cyber-stalking," whined Juan Cole of the University of Michigan. "Crude McCarthyism" sniffed David Bartram of the University of Reading. "Totalitarian" thundered Jenine Abboushi of New York University. What so outrages these academic specialists on the Middle East? It's called Campus Watch (campus-watch.org), and it's a project I started a year ago today to "review and critique Middle East studies in North America, with an aim to improving them." Campus Watch provides peer review of a vital topic - think how many problems come out of the Middle East. Given the centrality...

The deal rested on a faulty premise: that Palestinians had given up their hope of destroying the Jewish state The deal rested on a faulty premise: that Palestinians had given up their hope of destroying the Jewish state Ten years later, it is embarrassing to recall the elation and soaring expectations. President Bill Clinton lauded it as a "great occasion of history." Secretary of State Warren Christopher ruminated on how "the impossible is within our reach." Yasser Arafat called it an "historic event, inaugurating a new epoch." Foreign Minister Shimon Peres of Israel discerned in it "the outline of peace...

The Bush administration’s war on terrorism has done little so far but increase the ranks of potential terrorists. And while this may seem to be the regrettable result of a bumbling foreign policy, there are signs the administration is deliberately trying to antagonize the Islamic world; there seems to be method to its madness. After a few bellicose statements about “crusades” early on, Bush’s public soundbites have consistently portrayed Islam as a peaceful religion that has been “hijacked” by the forces of terrorism. But his official policies have done little to mark that distinction. The latest White House affront to...

<p>September 3, 2003 -- 'I HAVE developed a habit," writes Richard Ingrams, a columnist for The Guardian, a far-left British newspaper, "when confronted by letters to the editor in support of the Israeli government to look at the signature to see if the writer has a Jewish name. If so, I tend not to read it."</p>

U.S. Muslim Leaders Announce Voter Plans CHICAGO (AP) - National Muslim leaders at their largest convention of the year announced plans to register 1 million Muslim voters and make civil rights a top issue in any endorsement of a presidential candidate. Upset by government scrutiny of their community in the domestic hunt for terrorists, they are mobilizing to express their anger at the polls. "A defining moment of Islam in America is approaching," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights group based in Washington. "We cannot surrender our future and our destiny to...

It's nearly two years since 9/11 and President Bush's declaring a "war on terror." How fare the forces of militant Islam? Paradoxically, their biggest loss was in Afghanistan and their biggest gain in Iraq. In Afghanistan, they lost the Taliban regime and the safe haven it provided. In Iraq, the fall of Saddam Hussein and the new presence of 200,000 Westerners in a situation of semi-anarchy offers unwonted opportunities to establish a militant Islamic order. In the larger world, counterterrorist efforts have been impressively successful, money flows staunched, suspects rounded up, and organizations disrupted. Although the drumbeat of deaths continues...

President Bush`s interim appointment of Daniel Pipes last Friday to the United Institute of Peace, a federally funded think peace tank, was both a welcome shot across the bow of political correctedness and a reiteration of his resolve in the war against terror. Pipes is well known for his uncompromising reporting and analysis of the violent, anti-West animus that is systemic to much Islamic thought these days and the threat it poses. When Mr. Bush first nominated Pipes to the post several months ago, Arab- American groups went ballistic claiming he is a an anti-Islam extremist and bigot, as did...

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has won another little personal vendetta and the nation is the worse off for it. President Bush decided to make a recess appointment of Middle East expert Daniel Pipes to the board of directors of the Peace Institute, a small government think-tank of about 70 researchers. That means Pipes does not have to face Senate confirmation but must leave at the end of the Senate's term next year. In other words, the nation gets his services for about 15 months instead of a normal four-year director's term. Kennedy has led opposition to Pipes on the...

<p>In the months since President Bush nominated me to the board of the United States Institute of Peace, confirmation etiquette has obliged me not to talk about my nomination. I thus found myself having to remain mute as opponents said what they would about me.</p> <p>For five months, I quietly endured Sen. Edward Kennedy borking me as someone not "committed to bridging differences and bringing peace" and a Washington Post editorial criticizing me as "a destroyer" of cultural bridges, among other slings.</p>

Etiquette called on me, as a nominee of the president of the United States, not to talk about my nomination to the board of the United States Institute of Peace while it was in process. Although the nomination was contested, I found myself having to remain mute as opponents said what they would about me. During five months of enforced quiet, I endured Senator Edward Kennedy borking me as someone not "committed to bridging differences and bringing peace," a Washington Post editorial criticizing me as "a destroyer" of cultural bridges, and other slings. Fortunately, others responded on my behalf; for...

<p>IN the months since President Bush nominated me to the board of the United States Instititute of Peace, confirmation etiquette has obliged me not to talk about my nomination. I thus found myself having to remain mute as opponents said what they would about me. For five months, I quietly endured Sen. Edward Kennedy borking me as someone not "committed to bridging differences and bringing peace" and a Washington Post editorial criticizing me as "a destroyer" of cultural bridges, among other slings.</p>

<p>August 25, 2003 -- President Bush did the right thing Friday in bypassing Congress and using a so-called recess appointment to name Daniel Pipes to the board of the United States Institute of Peace.</p> <p>That means Pipes' term, normally for four years, will only last 18 months.</p>

<p>President Bush announced yesterday that he is appointing Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes, who has long warned of the dangers posed by Islamic extremists, to the U.S. Institute for Peace, a federally funded think tank.</p> <p>The White House said Mr. Bush decided to place Mr. Pipes on the institute's 15-member board of directors as a temporary recess appointment, circumventing Democratic opposition led by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who blocked his confirmation in the Senate.</p>

Bad News for Islamists: Bush MakesRecess Appointment of Daniel Pipes to USIP By Andrew L. Jaffee, August 22, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms The White House announced today that: The President has signed the recess appointment of Daniel Pipes of Pennsylvania to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace. The President nominated Mr. Pipes on April 2, 2003. By signing appointments during a congressional recess, an American president can avoid the Senate's confirmation process. Senators Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), and their Islamist friends, CAIR - The...

Muslims Declare 'Moral Victory' in Pipes Appointment; Move Shows Lack of Support for Nominee, Led to Formation of Coalitions 8/22/03 12:12:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726, or cair@cair-net.org; Rabiah Ahmed, 202-488-8787 or 202-439-1441, or rahmed@cair-net.org; both of the Council on American-Islamic Relations WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group is declaring a "moral victory" in the fight to prevent Daniel Pipes from being appointed to the board of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). According to media reports, President Bush will today bypass the...

Two more American sons died in Iraq, two more mothers lost their sons in Israel to Palestinian terrorism. 53 more Muslims were slaughtered by Wahhabis in a mosque in Quetta, Pakistan. Maher Hawash, an Intel software engineer whose detention in Oregon, USA, prompted high-profile protests about civil rights abuse, pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiring to help the Taliban in Afghanistan. And taking advantage of our democratic traditions, religious radicals, disguised as Islamic advocacy groups have launched a campaign of intimidation to stop President George W. Bush from going ahead with his appointment of foremost Islamic scholar Dr....