Branches of al-Qaida in the Middle East and North Africa are hoping to make advances amid civil unrest, particularly in shaky Yemen. The organization appears willing to use tactics that it has traditionally shunned, such as strategic limitations on attacks
He joined in the demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, enduring a beating from Hosni Mubarak’s forces while trying to topple a dictator. Mahmoud Salem’s hopes for Egypt’s future have everything to do with pluralism and economic growth and nothing to
Hamza Yusuf is a difficult man to figure out. As a new IPT profile on Yusuf shows, he believes that American culture “revels in” war and violence. He has argued that Muslims, including the inspiration for the 1993 World Trade
Israeli security forces have arrested two men who they say have confessed to carrying out the March 11 massacre of five Israelis in the West Bank settlement of Itamar. Investigators say Ehud and Ruth Fogel and three of their children
My son was programmed and trained to kill by radical Islam.” Jihadists “stole my son. They raped his mind. They changed his thoughts, they changed his behavior…and they manipulated him. He is no longer Carlos; he is Abdulhakim. I ask
Mark F. Giuliano assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, painted a troubling portrait of the jihadist threat in a Thursday afternoon address. Speaking to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Giuliano focused on two particular dangers: al-Qaida and
His emotional testimony, choking back tears as he discussed a Muslim-American first-responder killed on 9/11, garnered national headlines last month for U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison. But two days after a House committee hearing on Muslim radicalization, the Minnesota Democrat had
The Syrian government is executing soldiers who refuse to fire on protestors and preventing doctors from reaching wounded demonstrators, according to local opposition figures. It’s the strongest crackdown on simmering discontentamong pro-democracy activists and ethnic minorities, with more than 200
A northern Virginia man was sentenced to 23 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to two counts of trying to provide material support to al-Qaida. Farooque Ahmed scouted subway stops along Washington, D.C.’s Metro system and other potential targets
The Palestinian Authority has honored the terrorist responsible for the “Passover Massacre,” a 2002 bombing of Netanya’s Park Hotel that killed more than 30 mostly elderly Israelis attending a Seder. The Israeli government is terming the “gift” from its Palestinian
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin is denying a report that his recent hearing on anti-Muslim bigotry was triggered by a request from a radical mosque outside of Chicago. The Daily Caller reports that people associated with the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview,
Muslim Brotherhood officials must be confident in their chances in this fall’s Egyptian parliamentary elections. David Miller of Media Line picked up an Egyptian newspaper report citing a member of the Brotherhood’s governing board calling for a squad of virtue
The “Arab Spring” has been synonymous with secular and peaceful demonstrators taking to the streets of the Middle East and, in some cases, taking up arms to fight for lost freedoms. However, the latest issue of al-Qaida’s Inspire Magazine, as
A Lebanese-American professor described the deteriorating situation of Christians in the Middle East, now complicated by revolution and Islamism, in a speech Thursday for the Westminster Institute. For a community that has always walked a fine line between politics and
by Steven Emerson This morning Senator Dick Durbin, senior Democrat of Illinois, is holding a Senate Judiciary hearing on ”Protecting the Civil Rights of American Muslims.” Sounds all well and good. Who could be against the civil rights of Muslims
A global assortment of radical Islamists held an online conference last weekend, calling for the destruction of the West and the violent implementation of Islamic law. It isn’t clear how many people tuned in to the Rise of Islam Conference
There is good news and bad news about the effectiveness of allied airstrikes against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. On the plus side, U.S. Navy Admiral Samuel Locklear, commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe and Africa, said Tuesday that
Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), asked Muammar Gaddafi to underwrite CAIR’s efforts in the United States during a September 2009 audience with the Libyan dictator. According to an account of the meeting in a
President Obama’s visit to South America could help focus attention on Iranian-Venezuelan terror collaboration, according to Roger Noriega, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs under President George W. Bush. Noriega (who also served as U.S. ambassador to
New protests erupted in Syria, while violence by the Yemeni government against protestors reached unprecedented levels. Elsewhere, Saudi Arabia’s monarch combined handouts and threats to insulate his kingdom from regional unrest. The emerging pattern of bullets and bribes has characterized
One of the biggest losers in the Libyan revolt against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was Sir Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics (LSE), who resigned in disgrace earlier this month for accepting a contribution from a charity
While this week marked the 100th anniversary of International Woman’s Day, which celebrates women’s rights around the world, a new pro-jihad publication is pushing for a different form of empowerment in the “path of victory for Allah’s religion and raising
American leaders will suffer the same fate as despotic Middle Eastern rulers, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Thursday. Just as revolution brought about regime change in Egypt and Tunisia, the United States will be defeated by an Islamic
A federal grand jury in Lubbock, Texas, has indicted Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari on one charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The indictment was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Lubbock in connection with an alleged
During his testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Muslim radicalization Thursday, Rep. Keith Ellison continued to repeat the flawed findings and interpretations of two studies issued in recent months. Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat and one of two
More than 80 percent of all convictions tied to international terrorist groups and homegrown terrorism since 9/11 involve defendants driven by a radical Islamist agenda, a review of Department of Justice statistics shows. Though Muslims represent about 1 percent of
The political spin against Thursday’s congressional hearing into Islamic radicalization against America is off base, a Muslim journalist argues. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, R-N.Y., is not waging a McCarthyite witch hunt, but acknowledging a problem self-anointed Muslim
Two members of Congress, two men whose families were devastated by a relative’s radicalization and two civic leaders with opposing views on Muslim community support for law enforcement will testify Thursday at the first hearing on Islamic radicalization in America.
On a day when Libyan forces unleashed what is being called “their fiercest counterattack yet” on anti-government rebels, concern is mounting over radical forces that can capitalize on the unrest. That makes decisions for the United States and others hoping
CAIR expanded its attack on law enforcement Wednesday when it filed a lawsuit against the FBI, alleging it placed a GPS tracking device on the car of a California Muslim. Yasir Afifi found the device on his car on October
Pakistan’s only Christian cabinet minister, and a staunch opponent of his nation’s blasphemy laws, was gunned down Wednesday as he went to work in Islamabad. Police reportedly found leaflets from the Pakistan Taliban near the scene of Shahbaz Bhatti’s assassination
The wave of change now sweeping the Middle East should give pause to those who argue that if only Israel would recognize a Palestinian state, there would be peace, writes James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal. “In the past
As it comes under increasing fire for its poor human-rights record, Iran has decided to change the subject by focusing on purported Zionist and Freemason “conspiracies” against Muslims. On Sunday, the United States condemned Iranian repression of opposition supporters, and
The Muslim Brotherhood seems to be trying to preserve its recently burnished image as a moderate party dedicated to maintaining a modern, secular, and just Egypt. In keeping with this apparent internal strategy, the Brotherhood has removed its explicitly worded
Iran is expanding its covert global effort to obtain uranium, according to a new intelligence report from an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) member nation. The Associated Press reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly expressed interest in Zimbabwe’s
The U.S. government has expressed some concern about Libya’s chemical weapon supplies and dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s irrationality, as protesters march on the Libyan capital of Tripoli. The demonstrators claim to be acting to preempt any Gaddafi’s retaliation, in light of
The U.N. and the Obama Administration seem more interested in condemning Israeli settlements than in denouncing Arab dictators who commit atrocities against their own people, according to the Jerusalem Post‘s Khaled Abu Toameh. Settlements may be a problem, he writes,
The mounting violence in Libya could have the unintended consequence of reviving radical Islamists including the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), a terror organization aligned with al-Qaida. As Muammar Gaddafi’s 41-year-old dictatorship totters on the brink, U.S. policymakers should pay
American policymakers are trying to downplay any role the Muslim Brotherhood will play in an emerging Egyptian government, saying only that President Hosni Mubarak’s successors must be open and tolerant of religious minorities and govern an open society. Statements by
Diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks provide another reminder that al-Qaida remains committed to obtaining weapons of mass destruction (WMD) – nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and “dirty bombs.” Security briefing cables published by the London Telegraph – some as recent