Carl in Jerusalem’s Israel Matzav has been a first-stop blog on news and opinion from Israel and the Middle East generally. Today, following the truly horrific terrorist murder of the five members of the Fogel family in the Samarian town
During his appearance on CNN’s Piers Morgan show, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that the phrase ‘War on Terror’ was a misnomer when the question was forthrightly posed by Morgan. After admitting that he thought the label was
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
I’ve already taken Rep Keith Ellison to task for making Mohammed Salman Hamdani a victim beyond the scope of his tragic death on 9/11 for his own political purposes: Rep. Keith Ellison’s Shameful Tears At Radicalization Hearing. What he was
From Accuracy in Media‘s Cliff Kincaid: An analysis of the propaganda campaign to get Al-Jazeera carried by more cable and satellite systems reveals an interesting fact. The terrorist TV channel is already available through something called MHz Networks. And it
It was Shariah adherent Islamists who killed Americans on 9/11 and more everyday Americans are learning about this ideology that has continued to animate terrorist attacks. On Today’s show, NYFD firefighter Tim Brown from The Bravest.com joined Frank in the
Somehow, Alex Jones works a paranoid reference to 9/11 into his defense of Sheen.
AWR: On the morning of 9/11, what was your first thought when you received word that a plane had struck one of the towers of the World Trade Center? Sec. Rumsfeld: That it was an accident. AWR: After the second
Though this year marks the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, economic concerns–especially those pertaining to the deficit–continue to dominate the national political conversation. This point was hammered home at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference held over
A Gaza-based radical leader says it is permissible to kill Jewish and Christian civilians while carrying out jihad, according to a document translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Abu Walid Al-Maqdisi, leader of the Jama’at Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad
At Pajamas Media, David Solway asks a question I, too, have been pondering, and includes a nice mention of The Death of the Grown-Up: And when Krauthammer proceeds to dismiss “Islamism” as merely “an ideology of a small minority,” he
The Muslim Brotherhood has long been a major political force in the Muslim world. Its power comes from a deep conviction among Muslims in general that its ideology represents True Islam and that it is the front line of defense
No sooner had Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak finished his speech on Tuesday evening vowing to step down in September, then pro-Mubarak and anti-Mubarak started throwing sticks and rocks at each other. Hosni Mubarak giving speech on Tuesday (Telegraph) Egypt’s president
Karin McQuillan has a fascinating article at American Thinker regarding the instrumental role the Muslim Brotherhood played in closing the doors of pre-state Israel to Europe’s Jews and radicalizing Middle East populations against their own Jewish citizens. Particularly poignant is
Ahmadinejad imagines a “world without America.” Nearly a decade after the attacks of 9/11, Americans remain terribly confused as to the nature of the terror threats we face. A jarring collection of disparate daily events appears to make little overall
He is a popular speaker at Islamist gatherings and hailed in the New York Times as being among a group of “leading intellectual lights for a new generation of American Muslims looking for homegrown leaders who can help them learn
The United States and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned remarks by UN human rights expert Richard Falk about “awkward gaps and contradictions in the official explanations” of the 9/11 terror attacks. The US ambassador to the United Nations also
Pete King is getting a lot of flack for the direction his planned hearings on homegrown Muslim radicalization have taken. But one aspect of the hearings that should be getting more attention–and credit–than it is concerns the Muslim Brotherhood. It
In the days after September 11, 2001 George W. Bush spoke at a Saudi mosque with some very questionable characters standing behind him, including the Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, Nihad Awad. Why would the President
Observers and interested parties have expressed amazement, confusion and concern at the growth of Islam in the West since 9/11. Apparently, no acts of mass murder, familial barbarism and cruelty, jihad violence against non-Muslims, and threat of (nuclear) war from
In the post just below this one you’ll see Bill Maher on the “Tonight Show” last night wringing his hands over the age old practice of using combat metaphors in the arena of politics. And yet, this comes from a
No, I’m not kidding..I wish I were. Hillary Clinton was speaking in front of an Arab audience in Abu Dhabi and was asked `why the 9/11 terror attacks, the work of a handful of men, had been allowed to color
No, I’m not kidding..I wish I were. Hillary Clinton was speaking in front of an Arab audience in Abu Dhabi and was asked `why the 9/11 terror attacks, the work of a handful of men, had been allowed to color
In July 2010, Mayor Bloomberg outrageously told reporters it was “un-American” to investigate the individuals behind the Ground Zero Mosque. Now we know why he wanted no one to look into the controversy. Judicial Watch just obtained a new batch
With so many repulsively liberal Hollywood moments in 2010, where does one start? So many uninformed celebs ranting angrily about Fox News, Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin, Glenn Beck, and the Tea Party Movement, so little time. This was a tough
So 2010 is coming to a close, and man, what a year it was for music. These next few entries will chronicle my personal favorites from the year– first the Top 25 individual songs, then the Top 10 albums. There
Five Minarets in New York In a coincidental echo of the debate over the Ground Zero Mosque (or as Keith Olbermann might put it, the Nowhere Near Ground Zero Community Center), Turkey has just released New York Ta Bes Minare,
Democrats and their media lapdogs and busy exploiting first responders in the Zadroga bill in whatever way possible to gain political advantage. Despite President Obama telling the NY delegation that he opposed funding the legislation earlier this year and waffling
While Bush was busy taking care of his base and professing his love for our troops, he proposed cutting combat soldiers’ pay by 33% and assistance to their families by 60%. Why it’s a left-wing film Writer/director Michael Moore’s paranoid
A leader of a homegrown terror cell plotting an attack that would be “bigger than the World Trade Center” was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday. A federal judge rejected the pleas of leniency from Abdul Kadir, a former
When I heard the Huffington Post recently carried an op-ed from Robert Redford bashing a new coal mine slated to open near Utah’s Bryce-Canyon, I thought to myself, “There he goes again.” And once I read the op-ed for myself,
This week marked a milestone in our nation’s history – and the American people smell a rat. “Washington, D.C.,” is not only rotten to the core, it is now clear to all that the government establishment wants to destroy us.
Julian Assange Reckless transparency comes at a high price – Security. In an extensive update on the WikiLeaks’ torrential release of State Department cables (login required to read whole article), Oxford Analytica, an international consulting firm providing geopolitical analysis of
A database used by Islamist groups to support claims that the Muslim community is responsible for helping to break up one-third of terrorist plots is based on flawed and selective use of data, an Investigative Project on Terrorism analysis shows.
On Dec. 3, Maj. Gen. John Campbell, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division, spoke to reporters about the Afghan Border Policeman who shot and killed six US soldiers from the 101st on Nov. 28. He doesn’t mention teatime, as
There are three myths about terrorists that must be corrected if we are to battle terrorism effectively, according to Col. Matt Venhaus: that Muslim youth become terrorists for economic reasons; that they become terrorists primarily for religious reasons; and that
Wikileaks finally dropped the motherlode. What next? Judgment. What effect? Whose error? We should quickly dispense with the criminal charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning, assigning proper sentence for his serious violations. And anyone else subject to United States jurisdiction and
The ladies of “The View” discussed National Opt Out Day, which took place on November 24th, wherein passengers boycotted the – as O’Reilly once called them – “super naked scanners” to send a message about respecting our civil liberties to
It’s a holiday and some might say we should be charitable to the unfortunate. By unfortunate usually they mean those that don’t have as much as you and I. But one might construe “unfortunate” to mean being gut wrenchingly stupid,
It seems like just as the Ground Zero mosque controversy was receding, NBC has decided to stoke the flames of passion again by naming the project’s developer Sharif El-Gamal a “Person Of The Year“. Gee, NBC once again demonstrates how