Copyright 2008 The New York Sun Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:34:26 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Daniel Pipes :: Stories from The New York Sun http://www.nysun.com/authors/Daniel+Pipes istoll@nysun.com (Ira Stoll) webmaster@nysun.com en-us DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/americas-crash-course-on-islam/62377/ Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST How goes the "war on terror"? One would think that the absence of a successful dramatic terrorist operation against Westerners since the London bombings in July 2005 would be heartening. But an atmosphere of gloom predominates. A recent much-publicized Foreign Policy magazine poll of 108 American specialists, myself included, found merely 6% who agreed, "The United States is winning the war on terror." A whopping 84% disagreed. This negativism reflects twin realities: Islamism (outside Iran) is... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/new-york/getting-the-instruction-right-at-khalil-gibran/61911/ Wed, 5 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EST The city's Arabic-language public school, the Khalil Gibran International Academy, opens its doors this week, with special security, for about 55 12-year-old students. One hopes that the prolonged public debate over the school's Islamist proclivities will prompt it not to promote any political or religious agendas. Count me as skeptical, however, and for two main reasons. First is the school's genesis and personnel, about which others and I have written extensively. Second, and my topic here... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/keep-the-koran-legal/61524/ Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST Non-Muslims occasionally raise the idea of banning the Koran, Islam, and Muslims. Examples this month include calls by a political leader in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, to ban the Koran — which he compares to Hitler's Mein Kampf — and two Australian politicians, Pauline Hanson and Paul Green, demanding a moratorium on Muslim immigration. What is one to make of these initiatives? First, some history. Precedents exist from an earlier era, when intolerant Christian governments forced Muslims... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/uniting-to-exclude-saudi-arabian-airlines/60966/ Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST Saudi Arabian Airlines declares on its English-language Web site that the kingdom bans "Bibles, crucifixes, statues, carvings, items with religious symbols such as the Star of David." Until the Saudi government changes this detestable policy, its airline should be disallowed from flying into Western airports. Michael Freund brought this regulation to international attention in an August 8 Jerusalem Post article, "Saudis might take Bibles from tourists," in which he points out that a section on... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/new-york/new-approach-needed-for-arab-school/60542/ Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST When Dhabah "Debbie" Almontaser resigned as principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy on August 10, her action culminated a remarkable grassroots campaign in which concerned citizens successfully criticized the New York City establishment. But the fight goes on. The next step is to get the academy itself canceled. The five-month effort to get Almontaser removed began in March with analyses, including one by this writer, pointing out the inherent political and religious problems in an... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/countries-threatened-with-extinction/60004/ Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST Quiz time: Which Middle Eastern country disappeared from the map not long ago for more than six months? Answer: Kuwait, which disappeared from August 1990 to February 1991, becoming Iraq's 19th province. The country's brutal conquest by Saddam Hussein culminated intermittent Iraqi claims going back to the 1930s. Restoring Kuwait's sovereignty required a huge American-led expeditionary force of more than half a million soldiers. This history comes to mind because an Iranian spokesman recently... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/salvaging-the-iraq-war/59032/ Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST Two positions dominate and polarize the American body politic today. Some say the war is lost, so leave Iraq. Others say the war can be won, so keep the troops in place. I split the difference and offer a third route. The occupation is lost, but the war can be won. Keep American troops in Iraq but remove them from the cities. I already predicted failure for an American-led military occupation of Iraq in February 1991, right after the Kuwait war ended, writing then that an occupation lasting for... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/red-mosque-in-rebellion/58511/ Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST Imagine that an Islamist central command exists — and that you are its chief strategist, with a mandate to spread full application of Shariah, or Islamic law, through all means available, with the ultimate goal of a worldwide caliphate. What advice would you offer your comrades in the aftermath of the eight-day Red Mosque rebellion in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan? Probably, you would review the past six decades of Islamist efforts and conclude that you have three main options... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/to-terrify-tehran-unleash-the-iranian-opposition/58099/ Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST Navigating the fractious currents of émigré politics is never easy, and especially for the Iranian opposition group known as the Mujahedeen-e Khalq, or the People's Mujahedeen of Iran. Simply put, the rogue oil state regime it opposes terrifies one half of the West and tempts the other, and the MEK is itself accused of being a superannuated Marxist-Islamist terrorist cult. These obstacles have not, however, prevented the MEK from trumpeting that Islamism is the new global threat, providing... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/shoeless-president-bush/57745/ Tue, 3 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST When President Eisenhower dedicated the Islamic Center in Washington, D.C., in June 1957, his 500-word talk effused good will ("Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements") even as the American president embarrassingly bumbled (Muslims in America, he declared, have the right to their "own church"). Conspicuously, he included nary a word about policy. Exactly 50 years later, standing shoeless, President Bush rededicated the center last week. His... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/salman-rushdie-and-british-backbone/57284/ Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST Is the knighting of Salman Rushdie, 60, by the queen of England "a sign of the changing mood" toward British Muslims, as a columnist for the Observer, Nick Cohen, wrote? Is it "a welcome example of … British backbone," as the Islamism specialist Sadanand Dhume described it in the Wall Street Journal? I think not. Rather, the knighting, announced June 16, was done without regard for its implications. Most of the uproar against the honor is taking place in Pakistan, as it did in 1988, when Sir... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/for-israel-an-overt-vs-half-covert-foe/56871/ Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST The Hamas victory over Fatah in Gaza on June 14 has great importance for Palestinian Arabs, for the Islamist movement, and for America. It has rather less significance for Israel. Tensions between Fatah and Hamas are likely to endure and, with them, the split between the West Bank and Gaza. The emergence of two rival entities — "Hamasstan" and "Fatahland" — is the culmination of a long-submerged conflict; noting the two regions' fissiparous tendencies in 2001, Jonathan Schanzer predicted it... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/israeli-jets-vs-iran-nukes/56386/ Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST Barring a "catastrophic development," Middle East Newsline reports, President Bush has decided not to attack Iran. An administration source explains that Washington deems Iran's cooperation "needed for a withdrawal [of American forces] from Iraq." If correct, this implies the Jewish state stands alone against a regime that threatens to "wipe Israel off the map" and is building the nuclear weapons to do so. Israeli leaders are hinting that their patience is running out; Deputy Prime Minister... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/national/islamists-in-the-courtroom/55883/ Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST The decision by the Islamic Society of Boston to drop its lawsuit against 17 defendants, including counterterrorism specialist Steven Emerson, gives reason to step back to consider radical Islam's legal ambitions. The lawsuit came about because, soon after ground was broken in November 2002 for the ISB's $22 million Islamic center, the press and several nonprofits began asking questions about three main topics: why the ISB paid the city of Boston less than half the appraised value of the land... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/soviets-six-day-war/55348/ Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 EST One of the great enigmas of the modern Middle East is why, 40 years ago next week, the Six-Day War took place. Neither Israel nor its Arab neighbors wanted or expected a fight in June 1967; the consensus view among historians holds that the unwanted combat resulted from a sequence of accidents. Enter a husband and wife team, Gideon Remez and Isabella Ginor, to challenge the accident theory and offer a plausible explanation for the causes of the war. As suggested by the title of their new book... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/new-york/real-arab-school-fear/54935/ Tue, 22 May 2007 00:00:00 EST A question mark hangs over the opening of New York City's planned Arabic-language school, the Khalil Gibran International Academy. That the topic remains open is surprising. Other than objections from a few of us — The New York Sun's editorialists, its columnist Alicia Colon, the investigative team of Beila Rabinowitz and William Mayer, and education specialist Diane Ravitch, as well as my own article and blog on the subject — the school enjoys unflagging support. The Bill and Melinda Gates... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/critical-moment-for-turkey/54490/ Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 EST My visit to Istanbul this week comes in the midst of the greatest challenge to the Turkish secular republic since its creation in 1923. Founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk out of the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire, the republic came into existence at the high water mark of Western confidence, when it appeared that European ways would become the global template. As president, Ataturk imposed a dizzying array of changes, including European laws, the Latin alphabet, the Gregorian calendar, personal... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/ignoring-moderates-empowers-extremists/54042/ Tue, 8 May 2007 00:00:00 EST Finding moderate Muslims is as likely as finding "moderate unicorns," a reader huffed in response to my recent plea for Western states to bolster such Muslims. Dismissing their existence as a myth, he notes that non-Muslims "are still waiting for moderates to stand and deliver, identifying and removing extremist thugs from their mosques and their communities." It's a valid skepticism and a reasonable demand. But recent events in Pakistan and Turkey prove that moderate Muslims are no myth. In... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/reviving-hitlers-big-lie-to-vilify-the-jewish/53527/ Tue, 1 May 2007 00:00:00 EST "If today's Arab anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish propaganda strongly resembles that of the Third Reich, there is a good reason." So writes an associate of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Joel Fishman, in "The Big Lie and the Media War against Israel" (Jewish Political Studies Review, spring 2007), an insightful new piece of historical research. Mr. Fishman begins by noting today's topsy-turvy situation: Because Israel defends its citizens against terrorism, conventional warfare, and... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/madrassa-grows-in-brooklyn/53060/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST Come September, an Arabic-language public secondary school is slated to open its doors in Brooklyn. The New York City Department of Education says the Khalil Gibran International Academy, serving grades six through 12, will boast a "multicultural curriculum and intensive Arabic language instruction." This appears to be a marvelous idea, for New York and the country need native-born Arabic speakers. They have a role in the military, diplomacy, intelligence, the courts, the press, the academy... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/bolstering-moderate-muslims/52638/ Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EST When I suggest that radical Muslims are the problem and that moderate Muslims are the solution, the nearly inevitable retort from most people is: "What moderate Muslims?" "Where are the anti-Islamists' demonstrations against terror?" they ask me. "What are they doing to combat Islamists? What have they done to reassess Islamic law?" My response: Moderate Muslims do exist. But of course, they constitute a very small movement when compared to the Islamist onslaught. This means that the American... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/how-the-west-could-lose/45705/ Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST After defeating the fascists and the communists, can the West now defeat the Islamists? On the face of it, the West's military predominance makes victory seem inevitable. Even if Tehran acquires a nuclear weapon, Islamists have nothing like the military machine the Axis deployed in World War II, nor the Soviet Union during the Cold War. What do the Islamists have to compare with the Wehrmacht or the Red Army? The SS or Spetznaz? The Gestapo or the KGB? Or, for that matter, to Auschwitz or the... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/israels-domestic-enemy/45383/ Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST After nearly 60 years on the sidelines, Israel's third and final enemy may be joining the battle. Foreign states are Israel's enemy no.1. With the declaration of Israeli independence in May 1948, five foreign armed forces invaded Israel. All the major wars that followed — 1956, 1967, 1970, and 1973 — involved Israelis at war with neighboring armies, air forces, and navies. Today, the greatest threat comes from weapons of mass destruction in Iran and Syria. Egypt increasingly presents a... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/baker-report-would-turn-failed-ideas-into-policy/44962/ Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST The Iraq Study Group Report, cobbled together by 10 individuals lacking specialized knowledge of Iraq, dredges up past failed American policies in the Middle East and would enshrine them as current policy. Most profoundly, the report moronically splits the difference of American troops staying or leaving Iraq without ever examining the basic premise of the American government taking responsibility for the country's minutiae, such as its setting up public works projects. Instead, the report... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/moderate-islam-may-be-key-to-winning-war-on-terror/44597/ Tue, 5 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST An effective counterterrorism strategy must focus on the fact that terrorism by Muslims in the name of Islam presents the strategic threat today to civilized peoples, whether Muslim or non-Muslim. On the low end, this threat involves lone individuals seized by the Sudden Jihad Syndrome who unpredictably set off on a murder spree. At the high end, it involves an outlaw organization like Hamas running the quasi-governmental Palestinian Authority, or even Al Qaeda's efforts to acquire weapons of... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/national/redeeming-the-wayward-university-system/44184/ Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST Should outsiders try to influence faculty hiring or tenure procedures at universities? The question arises because, with the radicalization of the American universities, moderate voices have jumped into academic personnel issues. For example, note the following scandals in Middle East studies alone in 2006: Joseph Massad at Columbia: His promotion to associate professor met with public opposition; the forthcoming decision over his tenure will likely spark even more contention. Juan Cole at Yale... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/time-to-recognize-failure-of-israel-egypt-treaty/43906/ Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST Ninety-two percent of respondents in a recent poll of 1,000 Egyptians over the age of 18 called Israel an enemy state. In contrast, a meager 2% saw Israel as "a friend to Egypt." These hostile sentiments express themselves in many ways, including a popular song titled "I Hate Israel," venomously anti-Semitic political cartoons, bizarre conspiracy theories, and terrorist attacks against visiting Israelis. Egypt's leading democracy movement, Kifaya, recently launched an initiative to collect a... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/steyns-new-book-combines-humor-accuracy-depth/43450/ Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST The political columnist and cultural critic Mark Steyn has written a remarkable book, "America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It" (Regnery). He combines several virtues not commonly found together — humor, accurate reportage, and deep thinking — and then applies them to what is arguably the most consequential issue of our time: the Islamist threat to the West. Mr. Steyn offers a devastating thesis but presents it in bits and pieces, so I shall pull it together here. He begins with the... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/national/in-1796-us-vowed-friendliness-with-islam/43030/ Tue, 7 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST Has America ever engaged in a crusade against Islam? No, never. And, what's more, one of the country's earliest diplomatic documents rejects the very idea. Exactly 210 years ago this week, toward the end of President Washington's second administration, a document was signed with the first of two Barbary pirate states. Awkwardly titled the "Treaty of Peace and Friendship, signed at Tripoli on November 4, 1796 (3 Ramada I, A.H. 1211), and at Algiers January 3, 1797 (4 Rajab, A.H. 1211)," it... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/un-indecision-on-iran-leaves-bush-with-tough/42617/ Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST Where, one wonders, will the desultory, perpetual efforts to avert a crisis with Iran end? With a dramatic calling of the vote at the U.N. Security Council in New York? Around-the-clock negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna? A special envoy from the European Union hammering out a compromise in Tehran? None of the above, I predict. As the Iranian government announced a doubling of its uranium enrichment program last week, the Security Council bickered over a feeble... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/in-iraq-stay-the-course-but-change-it/42158/ Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST As coalition policy reaches a crisis, may I resurrect an idea I have been flogging since April 2003? It offers a way out of the current debate over staying the course (as President Bush has long advocated) or withdrawing troops on a short timetable (as his critics demand). My solution splits the difference: "Stay the course — but change the course." I suggest pulling coalition forces out of the inhabited areas of Iraq and redeploying them to the desert. This way, the troops remain indefinitely... Daniel Pipes http://www.nysun.com/foreign/west-must-learn-the-public-relations-of-war/41715/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST Soldiers, sailors, and airmen once determined the outcome of warfare, but no longer. Today, television producers, columnists, preachers, and politicians have the pivotal role in deciding how well the West fights. This shift has deep implications. In a conventional conflict like World War II, fighting had two premises so basic they went nearly unnoticed. The first: Conventional armed forces engage in an all-out fight for victory.The opposing sides deploy serried ranks of soldiers, lines of... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/national/dont-bring-that-booze-into-my-taxi/41264/ Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST A minor issue at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) has potentially major implications for the future of Islam in America. Starting about a decade ago, some Islamic taxi drivers serving the airport declared that they would not transport passengers visibly carrying alcohol — in transparent duty-free shopping bags, for example. This stance stemmed from their understanding of the Koran's ban on alcohol. A driver named Fuad Omar explained: "This is our religion. We could be... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/nato-vs-radical-islamists/40818/ Tue, 3 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST When he was secretary of state, Colin Powell called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization "the greatest and most successful alliance in history." It's hard to argue with that description. NATO so successfully waged and won the Cold War that it didn't even have to fight. But this greatest alliance is now in the throes of what a prime minister of Spain called "possibly the greatest and most serious crisis in its entire history." A "climate of perpetual crisis" results from a perceived loss "of... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/look-at-islamic-violence/40391/ Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST The violence by Muslims responding to comments by the pope fit a pattern that has been building and accelerating since 1989. Six times since then, Westerners have done or said something that triggered death threats and violence in the Muslim world. Looking at them in the aggregate offers useful insights. • 1989 — Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" prompts Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a death edict against him and his publishers, on the grounds that the book "is against Islam, the... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/west-should-be-free-to-criticize-islam/39939/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." These words, expressed six centuries ago by a Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologus, in dialogue with an Iranian scholar, spur three reflections. Pope Benedict XVI offered the quotation, neither endorsing nor condemning it, in his academic speech "Faith, Reason and the University: Memories and Reflections," delivered in... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/national/how-terrorism-has-failed-the-cause-of-radical/39492/ Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST Five years after the attacks of September 11,2001, it is clear how terrorism has set back the cause of radical Islam. The horrors of September 11 alarmed Americans and fouled the quiet but deadly efforts of lawful Islamists working to subvert the country from within. They no longer can replicate their pre-September 11 successes. This fits an ironic pattern whereby terrorism usually (but not always) obstructs the advance of radical Islam. For an illustration of this change, consider an example... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/national/five-years-after-9-11-us-makes-progress/39031/ Tue, 5 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST The five years since the attacks of September 11, 2001, in retrospect, have been like a perpetual workshop in which Americans argue about the nature of their enemy and how to defeat him. Along the way, they have made plenty of mistakes, ranging from Secretary of State Powell claiming that September 11 "should not be seen as something done by Arabs or Islamics" to not allowing an Arab to board an airplane because he wore a T-shirt bearing Arabic script. What impresses me, however, is how... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/piggybacking-on-terror-in-britain/38748/ Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST Two days after British authorities broke up an alleged plot to blow up multiple aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean, the "moderate" Muslim establishment in Britain published an aggressive open letter to Prime Minister Blair. It suggested that Mr. Blair could better fight terrorism if he recognized that the current British government policy, especially on "the debacle of Iraq," provides "ammunition to extremists." The letter writers demanded that the prime minister change his foreign policy to... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/national/calls-for-racial-profiling-increase-after-london/38309/ Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST The debate over profiling airline passengers revived after the thwarted Islamist plot to bomb 10 airplanes in London. The sad fact is, through inertia, denial, cowardice, and political correctness, Western airport security services — with the notable exception of Israel's — search primarily for the implements of terrorism while largely ignoring passengers. Although there has been some progress since the attacks of September 11, 2001, most involves the scrutiny of all travelers' actions. For... Daniel Pipes http://www.nysun.com/foreign/press-bias-exposes-strange-logic-of-war/37935/ Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST As staff at some of the world's most prestigious press organizations effectively take Hezbollah's side in its war with Israel, they inadvertently expose a profound transformation in the logic of warfare. Some examples of their actions: • Reuters: Adnan Hajj, a freelance photographer with more than a decade of experience at Reuters, doctored his pictures to make Israeli attacks on Lebanon look more destructive and Lebanese more vulnerable. His embellishments created thicker and darker plumes of... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/national/seattle-rampage-is-a-case-of-sudden-jihad-syndrome/37483/ Tue, 8 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST At about 4 p.m. on July 28, on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath, a Muslim terrorist of Pakistani origins named Naveed Afzal Haq forced a 14-year-old girl to get him into the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building by holding a gun to her back. He then pulled out the two large-caliber semi-automatic pistols he had just purchased and went on a murderous rampage. Mr. Haq killed one woman, Pam Waechter, 58, an assistant director at the federation, and injured five others, one of whom was 17... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/this-cease-fire-wont-hold/37111/ Tue, 1 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST "There will be an international force [in Lebanon], because all the key players want it," an American official asserted recently. He appears to be right, as even the Israeli government has embraced the plan, announcing it "would agree to consider stationing a battle-tested force composed of soldiers from European Union member states." The key players might "want it," but such a force will certainly fail, just as it did once before, in 1982–84. That was when American, French, and Italian troops... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/mistakes-that-led-to-this-unnecessary-war/36193/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EST The blame for the current fighting falls entirely on Israel's enemies, who deploy inhuman methods in the service of barbaric goals. While I wish the armed forces of Israel every success against the terrorists in Gaza and Lebanon and hope they inflict a maximum defeat on Hamas and Hezbollah while taking a minimum of casualties, erroneous Israeli decisions in the last 13 years have led to an unnecessary war. For 45 years, 1948-93, Israel's strategic vision, tactical brilliance, technological... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/what-british-muslims-think/35758/ Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EST The London transport bombings of July 2005 prompted no less than eight surveys of Muslim opinion in Britain within the year. When added to two surveys from 2004, they provide in the aggregate a unique insight into the thinking of the nearly 2 million Muslims in "Londonistan." The hostile mentality they portray is especially alarming when one recalls that London's police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, recently told the Times of London that the threat of terrorism "is very grim" because there are... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/survey-of-worlds-muslims-yields-dismaying-results/35140/ Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EST How do Muslims worldwide think? To find out, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press carried out a large-scale attitudinal survey this spring. Titled "The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other," it interviewed Muslims in two batches of countries: six of them with long-standing, majority-Muslim populations (Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey) and four of them in Western Europe with new, minority Muslim populations (France, Germany, Britain... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/exploring-the-strength-of-jewish-ties-to-jerusalem/34751/ Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EST Historically, the religious standing of Jerusalem for Muslims waxed and waned with political circumstances. In a consistent and predictable cycle repeated six times through 14 centuries, Muslims focused on the city when it served their needs and ignored it when it did not. This contrast was especially obvious during the past century. British rule over the city, in 1917-48, galvanized a passion for Jerusalem that had been absent during the 400 years of Ottoman control. Throughout the Jordanian... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/new-york/does-the-police-department-profile-should-it/34332/ Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EST Does the New York Police Department profile for potential terrorists - does it stop, arrest, search, or otherwise investigate a person on the assumption that his racial or ethnic identity makes him more likely to commit a certain type of crime? The NYPD, like every Western law enforcement agency, indignantly denies profiling. Its spokesman, Paul Browne, said in August, "Racial profiling is illegal, of doubtful effectiveness, and against department policy." But it does, in fact, profile. For... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/power-of-muslim-zionism/33945/ Tue, 6 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EST Might Muslim Zionism be stronger than Jewish Zionism? Although the question may sound preposterous, it is not. Jewish Zionism evolved out of a steadfast three-millennium-old love of Jerusalem that flourished despite a dispersion that settled Jews far from their holy city. This love of Zion inspired the most extraordinary nationalist movement of the 20th century, one that motivated a far-flung population to relocate to their ancient homeland, revive a dead language, and establish a new polity... DANIEL PIPES http://www.nysun.com/foreign/new-route-to-the-west/33545/ Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 EST The illegal immigration of non-Western peoples, I predict, will become an all-consuming issue in every Western country. As Western birth rates plummet, as communication and transportation networks improve, and as radical Islam increasingly rears its aggressive head, Europeans, Americans, and others worry about their economic standards and the continuity of their cultures. After ignoring this issue for decades, reactions in Europe especially have sharpened of late. The French lower house of...