Posted on Sat, July 25, 2015 at 15:38 pm CEST
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The Textual Debacle of the Birmingham “Qur’an”

What can we learn from the Birmingham Qur’an… Read more

Topics: Global Islam • History • R. Joseph Hoffmann • Religion 
Posted on Mon, September 29, 2014 at 12:37 pm CEST
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Open Letter to Abu Bakr al-Bagdhadi: Muslim Scholars vs Traditional Islamic Narrative

Is there a false Islam… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Global Islam • Global Jihad • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Jihadism • Religion • Syrian Revolution 
Posted on Mon, December 10, 2012 at 19:11 pm CET
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“Obey The Prophet, Even If He Tells You To Kill”

Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi maintains that Muslims must obey the commands of Islam’s prophet Muhammad, even unto murder… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Christianism • Global Islam • Global Jihad • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion 
Posted on Fri, July 6, 2012 at 16:54 pm CEST
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Erdogan’s Invitation to Gülen: Reconciliation or Power Play?

On June 14, 2012, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan publicly invited Fethullah Gülen, the leader of the powerful Gülen Movement, to return to Turkey from self-imposed exile in the United States… Continue reading

Topics: Islamism • Politics • Religion • Turkey 
Posted on Wed, June 27, 2012 at 19:59 pm CEST
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Founding National Myths

The vast literature proving the historic Jewish connection to the Land of Israel has been extensively manipulated and distorted as part of the Palestinian politics of nationalism… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • History • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Jewish Life • Judaism • Palestinian Arabs • Zionism 
Posted on Mon, May 28, 2012 at 20:38 pm CEST
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Did Muhammad Exist?

Go to a high-street or online bookstore, and one can find numerous biographies written about Muhammad… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Religion 
Posted on Sun, February 19, 2012 at 14:11 pm CET
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Riyadh Enters the Yemen-Huthi Fray

On August 11, 2009, the Yemeni government launched “Operation Scorched Earth,” aimed at putting an end to the Huthi uprising that had destabilized the country’s northern province of Sa’da for more than five years… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Islamic Terrorism • Saudi Arabia • Security and Defense • Yemen 
Posted on Fri, October 21, 2011 at 23:37 pm CEST
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The Closing of the Muslim Mind

Far from being absurd aberrations to be dismissed, such accounts… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Islamic Countries • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism 
Posted on Thu, September 1, 2011 at 01:12 am CEST
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How Anti-Semitism Prevents Peace

Despite the obsessive preoccupation with Israeli building activities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Anti-Semitism • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Islamic Terrorism • Islamofascism • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Jew-Hatred • Nazi Germany • Palestine Liberation Organization 
Posted on Tue, August 16, 2011 at 14:36 pm CEST
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A Guide to the Galaxy of Islamic Anti-Semitism

It is a truism that anti-Semitism is an extremely prevalent phenomenon in the Muslim world today… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Semitism • Christianity • Global Islam • Jew-Hatred • Jihadism 
Posted on Sat, August 6, 2011 at 00:21 am CEST
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Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?

There is far more violence in the Bible than in the Qur’an; the idea that Islam imposed itself by the sword is a Western fiction… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Global Islam • Global Jihad • Judaism • The Crusades 
Posted on Sun, July 10, 2011 at 23:35 pm CEST
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s stance on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

The Muslim Brotherhood’s stance on the existence of the State of Israel is dictated by its fundamental ideological principles… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Global Islam • Global Jihad • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Wed, June 8, 2011 at 20:25 pm CEST
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Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques

How great is the danger of extremist violence in the name of Islam in the United States… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Jihadism • Multiculturalism • Salafism • Sharia Law • United States of America 
Posted on Thu, March 10, 2011 at 23:33 pm CET
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Shahbaz Bhatti and the Death of Reason

My time in Pakistan was glorious. I taught bright, beautiful and hopeful students who saw the world not as a series of… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Global Islam • Human Rights • Islamic Fundamentalism • Pakistan 
Posted on Mon, March 7, 2011 at 00:07 am CET
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Iran to Ban Keeping Pet Dogs, Considered a “Blind Imitation” of Western Culture

Keeping pet dogs, considered to be unclean (Najes) in Shi’ite law, is viewed as an expression of the corrupting influence of the West… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Sharia Law • Shi'ism • Shia Islam 
Posted on Thu, March 3, 2011 at 03:32 am CET
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History of Jihad against the Egyptian Coptic Christians

How the Jihadis vandalized this ancient land and wiped out Christianity as well as the ancient culture of Egypt… Continue reading

Topics: Byzantine Empire • Christianity • Copts • Egypt • Global Islam • Global Jihad 
Posted on Mon, February 28, 2011 at 23:29 pm CET
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Portrait of Sheikh Dr. Yusuf Abdallah al-Qaradawi: A “Moderate” Islamist?

Sheikh Dr. Yusuf Abdallah al-Qaradawi is a central figure affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. He was expelled from Egypt and found refuge in… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Anti-Semitism • Egypt • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Islamism • Jew-Hatred • Muslim Brotherhood • Sunni Islam 
Posted on Wed, February 2, 2011 at 22:38 pm CET
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What’s Really Wrong with Western Understanding of the Middle East?

Rarely has a mass media article shaken me up as this one does. It is a rare, intense, view of what the Middle East is really like nowadays, though it is about Pakistan, on the eastern end of the region… Continue reading

Topics: Egyptian Revolution • Global Jihad • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Pakistan • The Middle East 
Posted on Mon, January 31, 2011 at 23:00 pm CET
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Muslim Brotherhood Declares Jihad on America; America Declares MB is Moderate

The best thing I can do for you to understand the Muslim Brotherhood is to ask you to read what I wrote… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Muslim Brotherhood • United States of America 
Posted on Mon, January 24, 2011 at 02:22 am CET
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Religious Ruling Bans Use of “Islamic” Mobile Phones in Bathrooms

Top conservative cleric Ayatollah Ja’far Sobhani has recently ruled that religious law forbids the use of mobile phones containing Islamic contents in bathrooms… Continue reading

Topics: Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iran • Sharia Law • Shi'ism • Shia Islam 
Posted on Fri, October 8, 2010 at 20:34 pm CEST
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Muslim Brotherhood Declares War On America

This is one of those obscure Middle East events of the utmost significance that is ignored by the Western mass media, especially because they happen in Arabic, not English; by Western governments, because they don’t fit their policies; and by experts, because they don’t mesh with their preconceptions… Continue reading

Topics: Global Jihad • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • United States of America 
Posted on Sat, September 25, 2010 at 02:57 am CEST
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President Ahmadinejad Addresses the General Debate of the 65th Session of the General Assembly

After about one hundred years of domination, the system of Capitalism and the existing world order has proved to be unable to provide appropriate solution to the problems of societies, thus coming to an end. I shall try to examine the two main causes of this failure and picture some features of the ideal future order… Continue reading

Topics: Iran • United Nations 
Posted on Sun, September 12, 2010 at 15:20 pm CEST
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Trying To Bring Reality Into the Debate On Islam and Islamism

People are fascinated by the discussion over Islam and seem hungry for some honest and accurate analysis on it. So let me continue to try to bring reality into this debate. Now I know too many Muslims and how they act in practice to accept some mechanistic model that they respond like robots to the presence of radical concepts in… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Global Islam • Islamic Countries • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • The Middle East 
Posted on Fri, September 10, 2010 at 12:44 pm CEST
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Israel, Islamism and the War Within Islam

I would stress that “Islam” as a religion functioning in the world is not at war with anyone as such. There are those who want to steer Islam toward an active war against how the majority of Muslims live at present and almost all the governments… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Israel • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • The Middle East 
Posted on Tue, August 31, 2010 at 20:00 pm CEST
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Media Outlets Miss Critical Analysis of Overhyped Muslim Counter-Radicalization Video

The New York Times, CNN, and other “mainstream media outlets” recently reported on a video that was put out by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). The video was dished up by both the Times and CNN with virtually no critical assessment or investigation… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • Global Jihad • Islamism • The Media • United States of America