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		<title>Professors Shill for Islamism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 04:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Islam has problems it's the West's fault. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sd2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-233360" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sd2-269x350.jpg" alt="EGYPT-NESF ELDONIA" width="269" height="350" /></a>Only ten people, including two imams and a reporter, showed up to hear University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, professor of religious studies <a href="http://www.unc.edu/~cernst/">Carl W. Ernst</a> deliver the “<a href="http://www.icmes.net/?p=3760">First Annual Ibrahim Abu-Rabi Lecture</a>” on May 7 at the <a href="http://www.icmes.net/">International Council for Middle East Studies</a> (ICMES) in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. Ernst was introduced by ICMES founder and president <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=mezvinsky&amp;sa=Search#960">Norton Mezvinsky</a>, who came to ICMES after a 42-year career teaching Middle East history at Connecticut State University.</p>
<p>A self-professed “<a href="http://www.icmes.net/?page_id=384">anti-Zionist</a>,” Mezvinsky endorsed the infamous 1975 Zionism-is-racism U.N. resolution and developed amiable relations with the deranged anti-Semitic <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/9871">Lyndon LaRouche</a> movement and once spoke at the LaRouchite <a href="http://newparadigm.schillerinstitute.com/media/norton-mezvinsky-the-destructive-effects-of-religious-extremisms/">Schiller Institute</a> in Germany. He also co-authored <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Fundamentalism-Israel-Introduction-Mezvinsky/dp/0745320902/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1247113061&amp;sr=8-1"><em>Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel</em></a> with the late Israel Shahak, whose <a href="http://www.meforum.org/87/israels-academic-extremists">work</a>, MEF Fellow Asaf Romirowsky <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/8029">wrote</a>, “rests on his conviction that Judaism is the font of all evil and that most global issues can ultimately be traced back to Judaism via a world-wide Jewish conspiracy.”</p>
<p>In dedicating its inaugural lecture series to the memory of former ICMES director <a href="http://pointdebasculecanada.ca/ibrahim-abu-rabi/">Ibrahim Abu-Rabi</a>, ICMES signals its support of his radical ideology. Mezvinsky tearfully recalled his late “very good friend” and “distinguished scholar,” about whose book on the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sayyid Qutb Daniel Pipes wrote, “author and subject meld into a nearly seamless whole” so that, for Qutb and likeminded individuals, Abu-Rabi was “their apostle to an English-speaking audience.”</p>
<p>Appreciatively hearing Mezvinsky were Imams Mohammad Magid and Johari Abdul-Malik. The <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2562">Sudanese-born Magid</a> heads two groups with disturbing Islamist connections, the Muslim Brotherhood-founded, terrorism unindicted co-conspirator <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/profile/178">Islamic Society of North America</a> and the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/all-dulles-area-muslim-society-center">All Dulles Area Muslim Society</a> mosque in northern Virginia. The American convert <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2286">Abdul-Malik</a>, meanwhile, who called Magid “my teacher” at a <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/4381/deceptive-islamist-support-for-nigerian-girls">press conference</a> the day after the ICMES lecture, is outreach director at northern Virginia’s <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/case/417">Dar al-Hijrah mosque</a>, known for many years of attracting violent individuals, some personally defended by Abdul-Malik.</p>
<p>Ernst used PowerPoint to illustrate a chapter on Islamic ethics from his 2004 book, <a href="http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-7369.html"><em>Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World</em></a>. Hackneyed accusations of “modern Islamophobia” with a “connection to racism &amp; anti-Semitism” in an aggressive, post-Cold War Western society seeking “another opponent to take the place of the Soviet Union” introduced Ernst’s comments. “Islamophobia,” Ernst elaborated, “draws upon a well-established attack” upon Catholics previously called disloyal to a secular state.</p>
<p>Colonialism’s “untold results continue to play out” among Muslims as well, Ernst claimed in yet another presentation of the erroneous thesis that present development ills derive from past Western imperialism. Ernst referenced a Dars-i Nizami curriculum established in northern India around 1700 with an “emphasis on rational subjects” suffering marginalization under British rule while more theological Islamic institutions such as the Deobandi prospered. Mixed “Anglo-Mohammedan” law also codified Islamic precedents, thereby eliminating Muslim judges’ “considerable degree of independence.” Ernst left unexplained why Muslim countries such as Turkey, defeated but never colonized, chose to import Western influence.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://quran.com/5/48">Koran 5:48</a>’s ambiguous words Ernst sees a supposedly unique Islamic acceptance of “multiple religious traditions and ethical ways.” “Against de-humanizing essentialism” of a monolithic Islamic civilization, Ernst rejected the “ludicrous concept” of a “separate planet . . . inhabited exclusively by Muslims.” “There is one world of which we are all a part,” rather than civilizational groupings like the West and Islam “juxtaposed as opposites.” Such platitudes, though, leave unexamined whether Western or Islamic civilization is more open to foreign influences such as Anglo-Saxon common law. Orthodox Islamic supremacist doctrines, expressed in canonical sources such as <a href="http://quran.com/3/110">Koran 3:110</a>, for example, belie Ernst’s vision of a Muslim mindset open to borderless experimentation.</p>
<p>“Stealth analysis” is Ernst’s favored tactic for dialogue without “complicated academic jargon” that “doesn’t really connect to the audience” and “gives scholars a bad name.” Yet Ernst’s thesis of multicultural Muslim societies suffering long-lasting imperialist harm is rather transparent. Deficient Islamic intellectual inquiry and the resulting civilizational inferiority vis-à-vis the West, though, is empirical and not part of any Western “selective amnesia” per Ernst in <em>Following Muhammad</em>. Ernst himself bemoaned at ICMES globalization, “ostensibly bringing together various parts of the world,” being “actually a one-way phenomenon” with many Muslims excited by the West, but not vice-versa. Perhaps they know something Ernst refuses to admit.</p>
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		<title>No Substitute for Victory: The Right Path to Peace for Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Harrod]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An all-star panel discusses the way forward after the failure of Oslo. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/danielpipes.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-204031" alt="danielpipes" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/danielpipes.jpg" width="251" height="186" /></a>“Wars end when one side wins,” Middle East scholar <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/">Daniel Pipes</a> trenchantly observed at a September 10, 2013, panel at Washington, DC’s National Press Club. Pipes addressed the topic “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/519242808145693/?notif_t=plan_edited">Twenty Years after Oslo:  Where Next for U.S. Policy?</a>” at an event hosted by the <a href="http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_new">Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights</a> (ARC).  Amidst concurring and opposing panelists, Pipes demonstrated that peace for Israel or any other state can only come not through compromise, but rather through completion of one conflict party’s strategic objective.</span></b></p>
<p>“No dispute,” as Pipes stated, existed among the panelists that the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/oslo/negotiations/">Oslo Arab-Israeli process</a> begun 20 years ago on September 13, 1993 “was a failure.”  Both <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/"><i>Commentary</i></a> editor <a href="http://www.worldji.com/people/view/215">Jonathan S. Tobin</a> and <a href="http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_ElanJourno">Elan Journo</a> from ARC called the Oslo Accords a “disaster,” with Tobin noting that the Israeli leftist parties supporting the accords had subsequently collapsed.  Among various procedural aspects hindering in his view an Arab-Israeli settlement such as lack of a good mediator, <a href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/">Wilson Center</a> scholar <a href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/staff/aaron-david-miller">Aaron David Miller</a> called the current gaps between Israeli and Palestinian positions “wide and perhaps unbridgeable.”</p>
<p>Pipes suggested the main obstacle to Palestinian peace was the fact that “neither side is defeated in this conflict&#8230;so the war goes on.”  Pipes cited the saying commonly heard during the Arab-Israeli conflict among others that “you make peace with your enemy.” Yet he qualified that in reality “one makes peace with one’s former enemy,” the “enemy who has given up.” The indecisive outcome of World War I, for example, led an embittered Germany to resume hostilities 20 years later. Pipes contrasted the unconditional surrender obtained by Germany’s enemies in World War II, in part precisely with the prior conflict’s result in mind.</p>
<p>Referencing <a href="http://www.cfr.org/palestine/terrorism-havens-palestinian-authority/p9515">Palestinian Authority</a> (PA) official statements and media, to say nothing of the even more extreme jihadist group <a href="http://www.cfr.org/israel/hamas/p8968">Hamas</a> ruling in Gaza, Pipes noted an “enduring Palestinian Authority hostility to Israel.”  Rather than pacify, “Israeli concessions inflamed Palestinian hostility,” something that grew to a “deafening roar” to destroy Israel in the 2000 <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7381378.stm">second intifada</a>.  Palestinian hostility to Israel was also definitive for Tobin, who recalled that Palestinian nationalism formed in opposition to Zionism and is today a “culture that still lauds and rewards terrorism.”  This contrasted with an Israeli hunger for peace, such that any Israeli leader facing a serious Palestinian peace offer, even with considerable Israeli concessions, will “have to make the deal.”</p>
<p>Pipes’ answer to this impasse was to “give up on this model of diplomacy and substitute a model of winning.”  The “clear message” of Israel and its allies like the United States to the Palestinians must be “you’ve lost.” Channeling his inner Ronald Reagan, Pipes deemed the proper strategy to be “really simple:  we win, they lose.”  Journo as well advocated a “binary” approach to the conflict of “defeat or victory.”</p>
<p>Journo complemented his desire for strategic clarity with a call to reject the “morally grey approach” often coloring perceptions of Israelis and Palestinians.  Oslo’s “framework assumes you can ignore basic moral differences” pitting an Israeli democracy against a Palestinian leadership not interested in creating a free society.  The “worst conceivable crimes” historically charged to Israel simply did not compare with the atrocities perpetrated by Israel’s Arab neighbors as presently in Syria.</p>
<p>Such grey-shaded views in a peace process, Journo analyzed, would only “encourage the more militant,” resulting not in reciprocal deals but “extortion.”  The Oslo process apparently demanded, for example, that Palestinian leader <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/yasser-arafat-9187265">Yasser Arafat</a> would transform from an Al Capone-like terrorist into a Mr. Rogers-like good neighbor.  Yet Arafat actually “had to do very little” to satisfy these high expectations.</p>
<p>Even in failure the Oslo process had a “consequential legacy” such as the PA’s “reality,” Miller observed, yet this gave little comfort to the other panelists. Tobin, for example, considered Oslo’s “benefits overdrawn.”  While Miller assessed that “Oslo enabled” an Israeli peace treaty with Jordan, this did not add much to the preexisting “cold peace” between the two countries for Tobin.  Oslo had also done little to affirm Israel’s continually embattled legitimacy globally.  World opinion seemed to view Israel during the past 20 years merely as a “thief disgorging its illegal booty.”</p>
<p>The PA “really is now a permanent part of the international system,” Tobin agreed with Miller, with Gaza in particular being an “independent state in all but name.” The Palestinians “now have their facts on the ground.”  Most Israelis judged the <a href="http://www.npr.org/series/4797062/israel-s-withdrawal-from-gaza">2005 Israeli withdrawal from Gaza</a> as “really a bad idea,” but “Hamastan” is now irreversible.  Journo noted the bad precedent Gaza set for any future Israeli territorial withdrawals while Tobin analyzed that Israel’s “problem with these concessions is that they are not reversible.” Concerning any future concessions, therefore, Israel “plays close to the vest.”  For their part, the Palestinians, with a “lack of a culture that can produce a good leader,” have wasted post-Oslo aid with “corrupt, crony politics.”</p>
<p>Not a final Arab-Israeli peace deal, but “lower expectations” to “merely manage the conflict” seemed appropriate to Tobin under the circumstances.  The Obama Administration’s “focus on Israel” similarly appeared a “foolhardy enterprise” as well to Pipes. The “a bit crazy” diplomatic efforts of Secretary of State John Kerry reflected Pipes&#8217; evaluation that the lawyers of the State Department were “excellent, superb at negotiating fishing treaties with Canada,” but not so good at handling aggressive, dangerous individuals like the Palestinian leaders.</p>
<p>Additionally for Pipes, the Arab-Israeli conflict had lost its “historic prominence” as <i>the</i> “Middle East conflict” amidst numerous regional crises.  This called into question the past common assumption cited by Tobin that “solving this problem was central to the Middle East.” Yet many in the Democratic Party believed that conflict resolution here would alleviate other Middle East headaches such as Egypt, Iran, and Syria, according to Pipes.</p>
<p>Pipes&#8217; peace through victory strategy demanded that “largely psychological” measures eliminate the Palestinians’ still “vibrant dream” to destroy Israel.  American Israel policy should accordingly “tell our ally that it should win.”  As positive precedent, Pipes cited Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s hardline taken in the years 2001-2003.  While disagreeing with much of Pipes’ analysis, Miller, though, likewise recalled that hawkish Israeli politicians in the past were responsible for successful peace initiatives.</p>
<p>One way to “send a signal” to the Palestinians for Pipes would be a final relocation of the American embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.  The United States could likewise apply <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/palestinians-refugees-forever-1.434508">traditional definitions of refugees to the Palestinian diaspora</a>, such that generations of descendants from those who lost their homes in 1948 would no longer count as refugees.  This would entail a significant cut in funding for <a href="http://www.unrwa.org/index.php">UNRWA</a> (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East).</p>
<p>Pipes remembered that waking up on May 1, 1975, after the Communist conquest of South Vietnam was a “miserable thing.”  Yet conflict end demands unambiguous winners and losers, results that in the best case mirror objective moral standards.  One conflict party, Pipes concluded, must drink the “bitter crucible of defeat.”</p>
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		<title>The Case for Keeping the Muslim Brotherhood Out of Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Yes, we do indeed want to break the brotherhood's neck because that is good for Egypt, the region, and (not least) ourselves"]]></description>
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<p>Yes it&#8217;s obvious common sense to 99% of the people reading this, but it&#8217;s not at all obvious to much of the political establishment which insists that political participation moderates.</p>
<p>Daniel Pipes <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2013/07/what-to-want-in-egypt">once again makes the point </a>that it does not.</p>
<blockquote><p>Yes, we do indeed want to break the brotherhood&#8217;s neck because that is good for Egypt, the region, and (not least) ourselves. Both the above assumptions are wrong. (1) Islamists can do more damage within the political process than outside it. To put it graphically, I worry more about a Turkey, with elected Islamists in charge, than Syria, where they are engaged in a civil war to attain power. (2) Islamists have a history of using the political process for their own ends, and not of being tamed by it: see Mohamed Morsi&#8217;s year in power for one clear example.</p></blockquote>
<p>The idea that fanatical groups set on absolute power with no interest on compromise will become moderated based on the need to participate in the political process is wishful thinking.</p>
<p>The Nazis and the Communists did not become moderate when they participated in the political process. They either</p>
<p>1. Played moderate long enough to take over</p>
<p>2. Were marginalized</p>
<p>There was no 3rd option in which they became more sensible. Pipes is quite correct that Erdogan is more dangerous than the Syrian rebels. A head of state is always more dangerous than a rebel army.</p>
<p>At the head of a government, the Brotherhood is far closer to fulfilling its goals than it is in the armed camp. The notion that the give and take of politics will moderate it and cause it to lose sight of its goals is naively optimistic.</p>
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		<title>Europe’s Last Stand?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 04:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week The American Freedom Alliance hosts a major international conference in Los Angeles.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/st.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192279" alt="st" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/st.jpg" width="350" height="451" /></a>The American Freedom Alliance is hosting a major international conference on June 9-10 focused on the future of Europe to be held at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles. The conference, which is titled <a href="http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/microsite/europeslaststand2013/index.htm" target="_blank"><i>Europe’s Last Stand? Debt Demography and the Abandonment of National Sovereignty</i></a>, is designed to determine the course of Europe and the impact that this direction might have upon the United States.  It will feature Geert Wilders, George Gilder, Daniel Pipes and Robert Spencer  among 20 other speakers from around the world. Details on the conference can be found <a href="http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/microsite/europeslaststand2013/index.htm" target="_blank">HERE.</a></p>
<p>We have with us today Avi Davis, the President of the <a href="http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org" target="_blank">American Freedom Alliance</a> and the man who conceived the conference and is its organizer.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> Avi Davis, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>Tell us about your conference. Who is joining and why were they invited?</p>
<p><b>Davis: </b>Geert Wilders, the prominent Dutch politician, who has been prosecuted for criticizing Islam,  George Gilder, the renowned economic thought leader, Daniel Pipes, Middle East commentator and Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch will all be with us, together with a roster of 20 other speakers drawn from around the world. All were invited because of their expertise one of three main issues of the conference:  the Euro Crisis, the  demographic and ethnic threats to mainstream European society and the seeming abandonment of national sovereignty by many European countries</p>
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<p><b>FP:</b> What motivated you to organize this conference at this time?</p>
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<div><b>Davis: </b>AFA had already held two conferences on the fate of Europe &#8211; <a href="http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/microsite/collapseofeurope/program.htm" target="_blank">in 2007 at Pepperdine University </a>and in<a href="http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/microsite/identitycrisis/bios.htm" target="_blank"> 2008 at the University of Rome</a>. We focus on Europe because we believe  that of the two major arms of Western civilization it is the weaker, with far greater structural and systemic problems than the United States. In the past 18 months the Euro Crisis raised an entirely new view of Europe &#8211; that its monetary system has been established on a very narrow foundation and that its collapse could imperil the West. This, together with continuing evidence that Muslim immigrants in many European countries might never be integrated into mainstream European society and the continuing riots, terror and protests emerging from those communities contributed to our sense that it was time to revisit the issue of Europe&#8217;s longevity as a bastion of representative government and liberal democracy.<b></b></div>
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<div><b>FP:</b> What do you hope to achieve with this conference?</div>
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<div><b>Davis:  </b>Europe has always operated as a bellwether for the United States and many of  the political, social and cultural trends on the continent can often be seen developing here.  Certainly the Obama Administration&#8217;s policies in health care, immigration and taxation bear an unmistakable European stamp.  But as the European Union totters on its financial foundation and European countries seem helpless to stem the tide of Muslim separatism, it is time for us here in United States to recognize that we cannot repeat Europe&#8217;s mistakes &#8211; for without question they are threatening the future of liberal democracy.  The conference is designed to address the problems of Europe as they apply to the United States &#8211; a very valuable thing in a time of great instability.</div>
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<p><b>FP: </b>Can people attend? Where can they get some information and register?</p>
<p><b>Davis:  </b>Yes, its open to the public and tickets can be purchased at the <b><a href="http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/microsite/europeslaststand2013/index.htm" target="_blank">Conference website.<br />
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<p>People can come for one day or both days.   There are also two other great features of the weekend.</p>
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<p>The first is a premiere U.S. screening of a daring documentary by an Israeli investigative reporter who dares to enter into some of the most dangerous Muslim enclaves on the continent.  His reporting delivers a very grim picture of Muslim restiveness in Europe and the failures of European societies to address Muslim separatism.  That screening will take place at the InterContinental Hotel on Sunday, June 9 at 7: 30 pm. We hope to be joined by video link with the producers and director of the documentary.  Your readers can find information about the screening at <a href=" http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/cinemagateway-allahislam.jsp">AmericanFreedomAlliance.org</a>.</p>
<p>The second is the June installment of our Literary Cafe, which will feature two experts on the threats represented to Islam by the West: Robert Spencer and  Stephen Coughlin who will address the topic<i> The West&#8217;s Confrontation with Islam </i>at a private home in Westwood.  All  the details for that event can be found at <a href="http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/literarycafe-thewestsconfrontation.jsp">AmericanFreedomAlliance.org</a>.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> Avi Davis, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview. Good luck on your event!</p>
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		<title>Leftists Defend Radical Islam &#8212; Conservatives Befriend Secular Muslims</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do "progressives" give anti-Islamist Muslims short shrift?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rtr1j5cw.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-187458" alt="rtr1j5cw" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rtr1j5cw-450x338.jpg" width="270" height="203" /></a>On April 11th, 2013, I participated in a public forum entitled “Islamists Rising in the Middle East: Where Next for America?”</p>
<p>The panel was held at the University of California at Davis, (UCD), as a free event for the community, organized by the student club of the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI).</p>
<p>As an alum of nearby UC Berkeley, I expected some interest in the program, having previously <a href="http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/458/the-rise-of-campus-anti-zionism-in-california">documented</a> campus radicalism in California.</p>
<p>The panel included a leading scholar on the Middle East, Daniel Pipes, known for well-informed and well-traveled insights. His main theme for the evening was that radical Islam is the problem, and moderate Islam is the solution.</p>
<p>Joining Dr. Pipes and myself was Elan Journo, a thoughtful author on international affairs and ARI professional.</p>
<p>Our panel explored fundamentalist Islamic text, law, theory, and practice, the rise of the third Jihad, global Islamic violence and terrorism, the concept of abrogation (later Koranic verses replace earlier, more peaceful ones), martyrdom ideology, UN Bias against Israel, and how the Revolutionary Republic of Iran has long deceived the West about its nuclear proliferation program.</p>
<p>Interestingly, 4 days before the terror attacks in Boston, we also focused on Central Asian radicalism, including Chechen Islamists.</p>
<p>The audience was polite and offered sincere applause at several points. There was a spirit of calm, thoughtful learning, and the organizers and attendees are to be complimented for inviting, allowing, and participating in the event.  We did not hold back from castigating violent Islamist actions and Jihadist ideology.  One self-identified Muslim Student Association leader rose to challenge our views, but he offered not a single rebuttal to our fact-based presentation.</p>
<p>All good, right?  Except for the fact that on the day of the event, the California Aggie, the weekly student newspaper, published a <a href="http://www.theaggie.org/2013/04/11/letter-to-the-editor-regarding-islamists-rising-event/">letter</a> to the UC Davis Chancellor condemning the “hate” speakers as “racist” and “Islamophobic.”</p>
<p>This pre-emptive, censorious, and libelous attack, by an organized group of campus students and faculty leftists, failed to prevent the event, but threats of disruption required campus police and security to be present, at taxpayer expense (the student group received no funding from the University for the program).</p>
<p>However, a week later, it was revealed in a <a href="http://www.theaggie.org/2013/04/18/event-sparks-free-speech-debate-among-campus-community/">letter</a> to the editor at the Aggie that the UC Davis administration had been intimidated into responding to the students with its own letter full of careful language opposing “hate speech.”</p>
<p>Campus officials might do well to note and advise in the future that free speech implies no feelings protection for those who assert “offense” at speakers whose views they detest.  The truth may hurt, but that doesn’t make it hateful.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the radical students had another trick up their sleeve. They proposed Senate Resolution 21, asserting concerns about the event and longstanding upset with author David Horowitz, and UC Santa Cruz teacher Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, frequent critics of abusive bullying of Jewish students on UC campuses.</p>
<p>This resolution follows similar student government resolutions passed at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara condemning &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;</p>
<p>The bottom line is that there is a dedicated political strategy within radical Islam to smear critics of Jihadi violence as “discriminatory,” proclaim offense at “hate speech,” and label scholarship and teaching about human rights abuse and mass murder of Christians, for example, throughout Araby and the Middle East, as “Islamophobic.”</p>
<p>If I needed a further clarification of just how far left the campus environment has become, this was a fresh reminder.  But, what is interesting in my own case is that I truly do distinguish between radical Islamism and pro-West, peaceful Muslims who specifically and forcefully and repeatedly reject extremist, violent Islamism.</p>
<p>It is one thing for soft-hearted, utopian liberals to preach peace and to wax lovingly for all mankind.  They often have no background in military-security affairs, and no standing in the circles of patriotic defense of our country.  Mere sentiments by fools with a poor grasp of reality.</p>
<p>Of course, we know the hate-America crowd cheered the Boston Marathon massacre (that&#8217;s you, UN Rapporteur Richard Falk, and Palestinians on the streets), but they aren&#8217;t liberals; they are enemies of decency.</p>
<p>It is quite another path for conservatives to offer dialogue and connection to Muslim anti-Islamists.  We are rooted in hard-headed knowledge of, and advocacy against, such Islamo-fascist behavior as female genital mutilation and honor killings, and Sharia-based murder, beheadings, fatwas, incitement, and persecutions emanating from Madrassas, mosques, the Arab media, and radical Imams.</p>
<p>It is therefore constructive and credible for severe critics of violent Jihad to note and applaud Muslim critics of anti-Americanism, and of anti-Christianism and anti-Semitism as well.</p>
<p>On April 15th, 2013, the day of the Boston Islamic terrorist attacks, I was on a flight to the Republic of Turkey to participate in a media tour and build relationships with advocates of positive relations between Americans and moderate Muslims.</p>
<p>In a series of televised <a href="http://en.a9.com.tr/watch/161805/World-Leaders-Discuss-Peace-Religion-and-Politics/Larry-Greenfield---Fellow-in-American-Studies-at-the-Claremont-Institude-Executive-Director-of-the-Reagean-Legancy-Foundation">interviews</a> and private meetings with business, political, and cultural leaders, I offered appreciation to Muslims who have repeatedly stood up against radical Islam, violence against the West, terrorism, and the kidnapping of the Koran by extreme voices.</p>
<p>Indeed, there are non-radical Muslim scholars and thinkers who have long <a href="http://www.islamdenouncesterrorism.com/">denounced</a> Jihadi terrorism and reject their violent interpretation of the Koran.</p>
<p>Turkey, a majority-Muslim nation of over 75 million citizens, is an American ally.  A member of NATO, Turkey hosts both Patriot Missile Defense against threats by the Assad regime in Syria, as well as Forward Based X-Band radars that couple with Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) batteries to help protect Europe, Israel, the U.S., and Turkish territory from Iranian ballistic missile threats.</p>
<p>Strategically located between Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, Turkey has its hands full seeking resolution to its own decades-long terror problem in the form of the Marxist-Kurdish PKK, along with regional challenges in Cyprus/Greece, Armenia/Azerbaijan, and the Balkans.</p>
<p>Turkey must also deal with refugees from Syria, fallout from Iraqi sectarian violence, a powerful neighbor in Russia, and the aforementioned Iran.</p>
<p>Turkey is not perfect. The modern Turkish state is less than 100 years old, and has bounced between military rule and democratic progress.</p>
<p>Current Prime Minister Erdogan is credited with economic growth and stable politics, but has been dismissive of concerns about his treatment of his critics. His attitude towards Israel has been unfriendly, though the Turks are now at the table of reconciliation with Israel after a controversial Israeli apology for the Mavi Marmara deaths of a few years ago.</p>
<p>Historically, the Ottoman Empire, which lasted over 600 years, was unlike the bloodthirsty modern Arab wars against Israel and the West. Today, Turkey remains rooted in Kemalist secularism, though it now seeks passive, not aggressive, treatment of religionists (read: more religious schools and dress are allowed).</p>
<p>By most standards, though, Turks model modernity for the entire Muslim world.</p>
<p>Impressive Istanbul offers cultural riches, dynamic economic opportunity, a diverse private sector, and the famous, gracious hospitality of the Turkish people.</p>
<p>The Turks are confident, conspiratorial, and clever.  They are also respectful of religious minorities, and completely opposed to violent Islamists who have declared war against reason and humanity.</p>
<p>Traditions of flexibility and pragmatism, along with growing economic power, political maturity, and diplomatic sophistication have made the Republic of Turkey the key to building bridges between the East and West. Diplomats and investors alike are therefore grabbing onto Turkey’s rising regional star and hanging on for the ride.</p>
<p>This is all lost on un-informed student radicals at UC Davis, who have failed on all fronts.  They failed to take the opportunity to learn from a scholarly panel; they failed to stop the campus community from hearing some truthful free speech about radical Islam; and they are unaware of conservatives with bona fides in confronting the Jihad (Daniel Pearl was my boyhood pal) who engage with and applaud moderate Muslims who regularly speak out against both militant and politically hostile Islamism.</p>
<p>But, of course, radical Islamists and their leftist defenders actually have no interest in secularist Muslims, or the honorable goal of befriending and encouraging them in the battle for the future of both Islam and Western peace, freedom, and security.</p>
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		<title>Academics or Agitprop Artists?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When "scientists" smear human rights promoters as "fascists." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/fjordman/academics-or-agitprop-artists/razieh20100831063916560-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-184735"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-184735" title="razieh20100831063916560" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/razieh20100831063916560.jpg" alt="" width="294" height="208" /></a>In late 2012, the academics Øystein Sørensen, Bernt Hagtvet and Bjørn Arne Steine, among others, published a work in Norway called <em>Høyreekstremisme. Ideer og bevegelser i Europa</em> (“Right-wing extremism. Ideas and Movements in Europe”) I figure prominently in this <a href="http://www.abforlag.no/index.php?ID=Bok&amp;counter=271">book</a>, which in my view symbolizes the decay and intellectual dishonesty in modern academia.</p>
<p>Co-editors Bernt Hagtvet and Øystein Sørensen, both of them professors at the University of Oslo, <a href="http://www.frifagbevegelse.no/politikk_ff/article6377695.ece">suggest</a> that my ideology is anti-democratic and dangerous and will lead to oppressive and authoritarian societies. It is unclear how this could be the case, since I want to move power away from unelected supranational organizations such as the EU, and back to the people, and reduce state interference in the lives of individual citizens. I must be the first alleged “Fascist” in history who wants <em>less</em> state power over the lives of individual citizens.</p>
<p>The chapter written by Vidar Enebakk on “Fjordman’s radicalization” is particularly incompetent and ridiculously politicized. For example, he refers totally uncritically to <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/religion/report/2011/08/26/10165/fear-inc/">the report</a> “Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America” from 2011, which was published by the left-wing organization The Center for American Progress, with several Muslim collaborators.</p>
<p>This report was clearly intended to smear people in North America and other Western countries who oppose Islamization and sharia law in any significant way. It also tied Breivik’s terror attacks directly to the emergence of so-called “organized Islamophobia.”</p>
<p>Yet Enebakk claims without a single critical remark on page 63 that the authors of this report mapped and identified “a small network of experts on disinformation, who have largely defined the anti-Muslim hate rhetoric in the USA in the wake of September 11<sup>th</sup> 2001.”</p>
<p>Knowledgeable individuals such as the Harvard-educated Daniel Pipes are dismissed without further evidence or explanation as “experts on disinformation,” while the words of those who warn against the dangers of Islamic global expansionism and Jihadist aggression are smeared unfairly with the label “hate rhetoric.” If anything, they are warning <em>against</em> hate.</p>
<p>Mr. Enebakk and too many others like him in this manner take the partisan ideological statements of decidedly left-wing organizations at face value and treat them as the Gospel Truth. At the same time, they casually dismiss conservative viewpoints simply as unfounded and irrational “hate.” Enebakk has done virtually nothing to check if some of the statements made by these “Islamophobes” are actually correct, a behavior that violates the most fundamental principles of genuine research and critical investigation.</p>
<p>What we see here is classic <em>agitprop</em>, or agitation propaganda directed against ideological opponents. This kind of aggressive character assassination unfortunately has long traditions among left-wing activists, dating back at least to the Bolsheviks and the Soviet Union.</p>
<p>Science is a method, not a title. Vidar Enebakk likes to wrap himself in the mantle of “science” and pretends to be a scientist, but he does not behave like one, and is therefore unworthy of the title.</p>
<p>Among those allegedly engaged in “systematically spreading Islamophobia in the USA,” Enebakk names Robert Spencer, Frank Gaffney, Daniel Pipes and David Horowitz. He claims that not only do they spread propaganda and disinformation in the darkest corners of the Internet, they also operate a “well-organized and interconnected network that has systematically financed, produced and disseminated rhetoric of hate and Islamophobia in the United States.”</p>
<p>Notice how hopelessly unscientific this is statement is, written by a person who is supposed to have had scientific training. This is politics, not science. Enebakk describes “rhetoric of hate” (<em>hatretorikk</em>) and “Islamophobia” as being virtually the same thing. He has repeatedly accused me falsely, but very aggressively, of encouraging violence. I have written that I support both the First and the Second Amendment to the US Constitution; that is, freedom of speech and the right to bear arms. I stand by this statement and see nothing wrong with it.</p>
<p>Enebakk does not explicitly blame me for Breivik’s terror attacks, but he goes very far towards blaming me personally for shaping the killer’s mindset, thereby portraying me as a de facto indirect accomplice in the worst mass murder in recent Scandinavian history. This claim that I have a moral, if not legal, co-responsibility for the murder of 77 people has been suggested by a number of writers in Norway, among them the left-wing activist Eivind Trædal.</p>
<p>The defense lawyer Geir Lippestad has stated that Breivik had become radicalized already at the age of <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/10/18/nyheter/innenriks/terror/18672278/">21</a>, around the year 2000, although his actual terror plans developed later. The exact date remains disputed, but Breivik apparently had already written comments online in June 2003 warning about the possibility of future civil wars due to Muslim immigration.</p>
<p>At this time I was working in the Middle East, in Israel and the Palestinian territories in a (not terribly effective) observer mission called TIPH in the city of Hebron. At that point I had not published a single essay about Islam under any name, although I was extensively reading critical websites and books about Islam, by Ali Sina, Ibn Warraq and other ex-Muslims.</p>
<p>It is thus well documented, and admitted by Breivik himself, that he had become “radicalized” and had started on his so-called manifesto before he had read a single word I had ever written.</p>
<p>Enebakk further notes – correctly this time – that I have argued that the current immigration policies could lead to serious ethnic conflicts in some Western countries. I still fear that this could indeed be the tragic outcome at some point if the current policies are not changed, but I warn against this. I certainly don’t “recommend” civil war, as some of my critics have perversely accused me of doing. Who in their right mind would do such a thing, anyway?</p>
<p>It is striking to notice how aggressive many left-wing self-proclaimed intellectuals can be in demonizing those who question their beliefs. Apparently, if conservative writers point out the negative consequences of policies supported by left-wing ideologues, then conservative writers are to blame for the existence of these problems. As such, those who point out real problems related to Muslim mass immigration to Europe and the Western world are accused of spreading “hate,” whereas many groups who have supported and promoted this mass immigration while suppressing any real discussion of its consequences largely go free.</p>
<p>By following this logic, Vidar Enebakk devotes very little space to discussing real problems caused by mass immigration, yet enthusiastically smears anyone who disagrees with his views. In my case, he is engaged in what can only be labeled a systematic attempt at character assassination.</p>
<p>I have briefly engaged him in direct discussions online, but soon found these efforts to be fruitless due to his chronic lack of honesty. For instance, I noted that while he loves to wear the mantle of a scientist, he does not always follow the most basic scientific principles, such as basing his statements on demonstrable facts. He has earlier made <a href="http://www.verdidebatt.no/debatt/cat1/subcat11/thread170730/">public claims</a> that “Fjordman” is really a name used by an entire group of people, and that I have not actually written all of the essays I claim to have written. This conspiracy theory is, of course, totally without basis in reality.</p>
<p>Yet when I pointed this out to him, Enebakk did not apologize for having made baseless accusations against my person but instead immediately made another false accusation against me, namely “<a href="http://snaphanen.dk/2012/11/21/pressens-morke-side/">plagiarism</a>”. He has a background in studies of the history of science and has previously been a Visiting Scholar at the <a href="http://no.linkedin.com/pub/vidar-enebakk/3/858/b25">University of Cambridge</a> in England. He earlier evaluated some of my quite extensive writings on the history of science and found them to be “scarily good.” Yet later on, he suggested that they were not as impressive after all, since I had simply engaged in “plagiarism”.</p>
<p>In the common understanding of the term, <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plagiarize">Plagiarism</a> implies that one outright steals the work of other people without giving proper credit, and pretends it is his own work. This practice is not just immoral, but can in some cases be illegal. Enebakk thus publicly and falsely accused me of engaging in potentially illegal activities, without providing the tiniest shred of evidence to support it — since none exists.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, one of my essays that is reproduced in full in Breivik’s so-called manifesto or compendium deals with medieval science in Europe vs. the Islamic world. In <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/08/fjordman-on-science-and-religion.html">this 2008 essay</a> I praised the work of scholars David C. Lindberg, Toby E. Huff and Edward Grant, leading authorities on science during the Middle Ages. I have never had any contact with Mr. Grant and bought his book <em>Science and Religion </em>with my own money. I thereafter publicly praised his work in very positive terms and recommended that other buy his book, giving full credit to the author and providing page references to the quotes from it that I used in my essay.</p>
<p>I have openly cited leading international authorities in this particular field, praised them by name and recommended that others buy their books. I did all of this entirely for free, simply because I respect their work.</p>
<p>Yet instead of applauding me for doing this, Enebakk responded by accusing me of engaging in shady and possibly illegal activities. Clearly, this is a person who is <em>not</em> interested in honest debate.</p>
<p>Vidar Enebakk is engaged in systematic character assassination, not research. His obsessive preoccupation with me gives Mr. Enebakk a profile resembling that of a cyber-stalker — a bit like Anders Behring Breivik once was.</p>
<p>He is a living symbol of the decline of modern academia.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new film featuring author Dinesh D'Souza explores the untold life history of President Obama and what it may mean for America.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2016-obama-s-america01.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-139147" title="2016-obama-s-america01" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2016-obama-s-america01.gif" alt="" width="375" height="259" /></a>A new movie, <a href="http://2016themovie.com/">2016: Obama&#8217;s America</a>, features author Dinesh D&#8217;Souza traveling the world to unravel the life history of President Barack Obama and along the way D&#8217;Souza makes some stunning discoveries about Obama&#8217;s father&#8217;s views, not only with regard to anti-colonialism, but also with regard to the state of Israel and the views of those who have influenced Obama over the years.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;</strong>Obama comes out of a milieu in which the state of Israel is seen as a horrible entity,&#8221; declared Daniel Pipes. &#8220;Edward Said was his professor at Columbia, a leading anti-Zionist. Rashid Khalidi was his friend in Chicago, a important anti-Israel professor, and Ali Abunimah was an activist blogger from Chicago, who’s far more vicious than either of those two. And these were his buddies that we know about.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The world could be a pretty scary place in 2016,&#8221; declared D&#8217;Souza in the film. &#8220;Israel brought to its knees, America’s defenses weakened, the Muslim world united. But America would still be a rich country. How does Obama change that? How does he restore the world before colonialism? Actually, there is a way, and it’s a beautiful way. I call it, debt as a weapon of mass destruction.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Watch a clip from 2016: Obama&#8217;s America below:</strong></p>
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		<title>Listen to Daniel Pipes and David Meir-Levi Discussing the &#8220;Invented People&#8221; on The Jamie Glazov Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Middle East experts appear on Frontpage's talk blog radio show to shed light on Gingrich's statement about the "Palestinians." ]]></description>
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<p>Listen to the Jamie Glazov Show that aired on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week&#8217;s guests were:</p>
<p><strong>Daniel Pipes</strong>, the president of the <a href="http://www.meforum.org/">Middle East Forum</a> and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He has written twelve <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/books.php">books</a>, including <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/books/militantislam.php"><em>Militant Islam Reaches America</em></a>. Visit his website at <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/">DanielPipes.org.</a></p>
<p><strong>David Meir-Levi</strong>, author of <em><a href="http://bookstore.frontpagemag.com/big-lies">Big Lies: Demolishing the Myths of the Propaganda War Against Israel</a>. </em>He writes and lectures on Middle East topics, until recently in the History Department of San Jose State University.</p>
<p>Listen to the program by clicking <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2011/12/14/the-jamie-glazov-show">here</a>. Or go to:</p>
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<p>See you next Tuesday night!</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Middle East experts appear on Frontpage's talk blog radio show to shed light on Gingrich's statement about the "Palestinians." ]]></description>
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<p>Listen to the Jamie Glazov Show that aired on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week&#8217;s guests were:</p>
<p><strong>Daniel Pipes</strong>, the president of the <a href="http://www.meforum.org/">Middle East Forum</a> and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He has written twelve <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/books.php">books</a>, including <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/books/militantislam.php"><em>Militant Islam Reaches America</em></a>. Visit his website at <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/">DanielPipes.org.</a></p>
<p><strong>David Meir-Levi</strong>, author of <em><a href="http://bookstore.frontpagemag.com/big-lies">Big Lies: Demolishing the Myths of the Propaganda War Against Israel</a>. </em>He writes and lectures on Middle East topics, until recently in the History Department of San Jose State University.</p>
<p>Listen to the program by clicking <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2011/12/14/the-jamie-glazov-show">here</a>. Or go to:</p>
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<p>See you next Tuesday night!</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Middle East experts appearing on Frontpage's talk blog radio show to shed light on Gingrich's statement about the "Palestinians." ]]></description>
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<p>Join the Jamie Glazov Show on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week&#8217;s guests are:</p>
<p><strong>Daniel Pipes</strong>, the president of the <a href="http://www.meforum.org/">Middle East Forum</a> and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He has written twelve <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/books.php">books</a>, including <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/books/militantislam.php"><em>Militant Islam Reaches America</em></a>. Visit his website at <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/">DanielPipes.org.</a></p>
<p><strong>David Meir-Levi</strong>, author of <em><a href="http://bookstore.frontpagemag.com/big-lies">Big Lies: Demolishing the Myths of the Propaganda War Against Israel</a>. </em>He writes and lectures on Middle East topics, until recently in the History Department of San Jose State University.</p>
<p>Listen to the program by clicking <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2011/12/14/the-jamie-glazov-show">here</a>. Or go to:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2011/12/14/the-jamie-glazov-show">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2011/12/14/the-jamie-glazov-show</a></p>
<p>The call in number is <a href="tel:347-857-1380" target="_blank">347-857-1380</a>.</p>
<p>See you on Tuesday night!</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Middle East experts appearing on Frontpage's talk blog radio show to shed light on Gingrich's statement about the "Palestinians." ]]></description>
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<p>Join the Jamie Glazov Show on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week&#8217;s guests are:</p>
<p><strong>Daniel Pipes</strong>, the president of the <a href="http://www.meforum.org/">Middle East Forum</a> and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He has written twelve <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/books.php">books</a>, including <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/books/militantislam.php"><em>Militant Islam Reaches America</em></a>. Visit his website at <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/">DanielPipes.org.</a></p>
<p><strong>David Meir-Levi</strong>, author of <em><a href="http://bookstore.frontpagemag.com/big-lies">Big Lies: Demolishing the Myths of the Propaganda War Against Israel</a>. </em>He writes and lectures on Middle East topics, until recently in the History Department of San Jose State University.</p>
<p>Listen to the program by clicking <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2011/12/14/the-jamie-glazov-show">here</a>. Or go to:</p>
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		<title>Landslide Islamist Victory in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Champions of Sharia now set to rewrite constitution. ]]></description>
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<p>Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan and his Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) won a landslide victory in Sunday’s elections. The Islamists won half of the vote, leaving them short of the two-thirds majority they sought in the parliament, which would have allowed them to rewrite the constitution unobstructed. However, the AKP’s huge victory means the Islamists will still control Turkey and oversee the writing of a new constitution.</p>
<p>The election actually results in a slight loss for the AKP. The party currently holds 331 of the 550 seats in parliament, and is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/13/recep-erdogan-turkey-general-election">projected</a> to now only have 325. The Islamists must win the support of only five non-AKP seats to put up a draft constitution for a referendum. The popularity of Prime Minister Erdogan and his party means that such a referendum is very likely to pass. The AKP may not have the two-thirds majority that would have allowed for a unilateral writing of the constitution, or even enough to unilaterally submit a draft for a referendum, but not much stands in its way.</p>
<p>“Elections taking place today are likely to be the last fair and free ones in Turkey. With Turkey&#8217;s leading Islamist party controlling all three branches of the government and the military sidelined, little will stop it from changing the rules to keep power into the indefinite future,” <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2011/06/turkey-last-free-election">wrote</a> Dr. Daniel Pipes of the electoral results.</p>
<p>In September, 58 percent of Turks voted in favor of a referendum that paved the way for a new constitution. Tellingly, Iran <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/142389.html">endorsed</a> the referendum. A key objective was to undermine the power of the military that has acted as a vanguard of secularism. It <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/world/europe/16iht-letter.html">asserts</a> civilian control over the military and increased the power of the president and the parliament over the judiciary. Both the presidency and the parliament are controlled by the AKP.</p>
<p>The Erdogan government’s reforms were <a href="http://turkey.usembassy.gov/statements_091310.html">welcomed</a> in the West because they make Turkey more democratic structurally, but these reforms have coincided with disturbing crackdowns on political opponents. The government has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/world/europe/13turkey.html">blocked</a> many websites, including YouTube, without having to explain why. Over 60 journalists have been imprisoned for what they’ve written. Two of them were arrested in March and have still not been informed of the charges against them. As Dr. Barry Rubin <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/gloria/2010/06/turkish-regime-changes-sides">points out</a>, the Erdogan government has “repressed opposition and arrested hundreds of critics, bought up 40 percent of the media, and installed its people in the bureaucracy.”</p>
<p>There has also been a concerted effort to decrease the political influence of the military. Over 160 current and former military officers have been <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/turkey-begins-arrest-of-military-officers-linked-to-alleged-2003-coup-attempt-1.342946">charged</a> with involvement in an alleged coup plot in 2003. It has been <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/27/MNQ21C7OKE.DTL&amp;feed=rss.news_world">called</a> the “the largest-ever crackdown on Turkey&#8217;s military.” The government claims that elements of the military sought to carry out attacks, including the bombing of mosques. Those arrested have also been accused of planning to foment conflict by provoking Greece to shoot down a Turkish military aircraft. Top officials including the former commander of the First Army and former leaders of the air force, special forces and navy have been arrested. Erdogan’s opponents allege that the arrests are politically-motivated.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 17 years of leading the Mideast-focused think tank, the founder is stepping aside.]]></description>
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<p>After 17 years of leading the Mideast-focused think tank he founded, Daniel Pipes will be stepping aside as director. Efraim Karsh will take over the directorship of the Middle East Forum in June.</p>
<p>“Obviously it’s a big challenge to get into such big boots,” Karsh told me about taking over for Pipes. “And Daniel has made the forum, in my view, one of the foremost centers on the Middle East in the United States.”</p>
<p>Pipes, who will remain at the forum as president, has long been considered one of the most knowledgeable scholars on the Middle East and Islam. He established the forum in 1994, along with the <em>Middle East Quarterly</em>, the center’s journal of Mideast affairs, of which Karsh is currently editor. The forum has since added the Legal Project, to aid targets of Islamist “lawfare,” as well as campus programs.</p>
<p>Karsh is a research professor at King’s College London, and is the author of a bevy of books on the Middle East, including his most recent <em>Palestine Betrayed</em>, about the origins of Palestinian rejectionism of the two-state solution. Karsh spoke with me about the current state of affairs in the Middle East.</p>
<p>On the issue of the impending vote on the establishment or recognition of a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September, Karsh said it is important to place this current bid for statehood in its proper context. “The story really begins in Oslo,” he said.</p>
<p>The Oslo agreements set the Palestinians on the path to statehood, which was the end goal of the process. “But then it turned out that Arafat was not interested in peace,” Karsh said, adding that the process continued on its course—negotiations with the Palestinians, despite the fact that Arafat never intended to put his name on a compromise.</p>
<p>That process has been derailed by the Obama administration, Karsh said, which has enabled the Palestinians to avoid negotiations entirely.</p>
<p>“Now since Obama came to power, and he began to put pressure on Israel, so he made life easier for the Palestinian leadership—which in the first instance was not interested in negotiations,” Karsh said. “And basically he allowed them to disengage. Since Obama came to power the Palestinians haven’t negotiated with the Israelis—something they continued to do over the past seventeen years even though they didn’t intend to reach a solution, but at least they were forced to negotiate. Now they are not.”</p>
<p>This is an important point, because the seeming futility of negotiations between the two parties often gives the impression that there are no benefits to the actual talks. As Karsh shows, there is something worse than circular and frustrating negotiations. “Why should they negotiate if they can get what they want without giving basically anything in return?” he said.</p>
<p>The Israeli strategy, then, should revolve around convincing the U.S. and much of the free world of the value of negotiations, that “the only way to peace is through negotiating between the two sides and agreeing on something, and then abiding by what they agreed.”</p>
<p>That’s on the diplomatic front. On the security front, Karsh expects Israel to continue to show restraint in the face of rocket attacks from Gaza, including the anti-tank missile that hit a school bus recently, killing a teenager. It’s one way the Palestinian threat of unilateral declaration ties Israel’s hands.</p>
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		<title>The Meaning of Miss Muslim USA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much does the Left care about what would happen to Rima Fakih under Sharia Law? ]]></description>
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<p>The explosion in the blogosphere about the crowning of a Muslim Miss USA comes at a time when Americans have been tested to the limit, at least for the many patriots who recognize the threats to the American way of life since the declaration of the War on Terror.</p>
<p>Some pressing issues: Questions about <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" target="_new">Barack Obama</a>’s Muslim sympathies are still unresolved, complicated by his pitiful bowing to American enemies and plans to build a mosque on ground zero, a site of grief and trauma for New Yorkers and fellow empathizers.  So now with the crowning of a Muslim Miss America, it should come as no surprise that questions will be raised.   Rima Fakih has become more than a beauty queen.  She has become the battle ground between those critical of her crown (branded as racists) and politically correct appeasers.</p>
<p>From the moment he took office, Obama’s posture has served to divide America, racially and otherwise:  he took to insulting long-standing American allies while apologizing for America’s sins among the country’s worst enemies.  Obama snubbed British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on a visit to the White House right after he took office.  More recently his deplorable treatment of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has left Israel aghast.  Then there was his reading of the <em>riot act</em> to Afghanistan President<em> Hamid Karzai, </em>and his promise to unveil a detailed strategy on nuclear nonproliferation in the middle of a War on Terror. To top it off, the Obama administration’s support for illegal immigration at the expense of hard-working American citizens and <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/16/obama-bowing-to-the-world/">the president bowing to foreign tyrants</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>President Obama has disgraced the United States – again. During this week’s nuclear summit in Washington, he bowed when greeting Chinese President Hu Jintao.</p>
<p>The act was not only shocking but revealing. Mr. Obama has come under intense criticism for bowing to leaders in the past – the king of Saudi Arabia, the emperor of Japan. But never before has America’s commander in chief prostrated himself to a foreign tyrant on U.S. soil.</p>
<p>By bowing, Mr. Obama degraded and cheapened the office of the presidency; as commander in chief, he represents every American when meeting with other heads of state. He is supposed to embody the dignity of the Oval Office, reflecting our collective heritage as a self-governing, constitutional republic.</p></blockquote>
<p>Sadly, the crowning of Rima Fakih as Miss America comes at a bad time and has raised questions among the political Right.  Among them, conservative scholar <em>Daniel Pipes</em> who asserted in his blog that this and five other recent Muslim beauty pageant winners in the West indicate “<a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2010/05/affirmative-action-in-beauty-contests">an odd form of affirmative action</a>.”<strong></strong></p>
<p>For even posing this question, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail?blogid=95&amp;entry_id=63819">Pipes was branded a racist</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>That rate of wins is enough to send Daniel Pipes to the moon. This is a perfect example of how some people are brainwashed to think one person who’s white and female should be a beauty standard, and someone of color like Rima Fakih could only win a contest due to affirmative action. His view is so sick it makes me sick.</p></blockquote>
<p>And let’s not forget, this not the first time that politics has run rough shod over the Miss USA pageant.  Carrie Prejean—despite the scandal surrounding her that followed—faced a grilling by openly gay blogger Perez Hilton about her conservative views regarding gay marriage.  Did the left come to her rescue?  No, she was then <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517137,00.html">taken to the woodshed</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Keith Lewis</strong>, who runs the Miss California competition, tells FOXNews.com that he was “saddened” by Prejean’s statement. Associated Press.</p></blockquote>
<p>So could it be true that Rima Fakih’s win represented affirmative action in action?  She is undeniably beautiful and the countdown of any beauty pageant is a close one, so who could prove either way?  At least we can still entertain discourse in our superior way of life:  democracy.</p>
<p>There is a win-win to this for all those who support freedom:  <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/05/rima-fakih-is-first-muslim-miss-usa.html" target="_blank">Rima Fakih is an icon of a liberated Muslim.</a> She would be brutally murdered under strict Shariah law—yes under those inferior cultures—for not wearing a head covering, let alone baring skin for a swimsuit competition.  Leftists can meditate on that as they contemplate how to berate America &#8212; and make excuses for Islamic gender apartheid &#8212; the next time around.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genocide girl, Jumanah Imad Albahri, helps expose the true agenda of anti-Israel activism on campuses.]]></description>
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<p>The world should be thanking Jumanah Imad Albahri, the by now infamous Hezbollah and Hamas supporting <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fSvyv0urTE">MSA student</a> at University of California San Diego who, at a recent David Horowitz lecture, publicly demonstrated the true face of anti-Israel activism on campuses.</p>
<p>As universities around the globe wrap up for the summer, many students will leave unaware that the liberalism they claim to stand for is often quite false. Case in point: The Middle East Forum has reported that the Saudi government has spent <a href="http://www.meforum.org/572/turning-off-the-tap-of-terrorist-funding">$87 billion</a> spreading radical Islam in the last decade. As a clear product of this activity, we have seen a frightening increase in campuses around the globe hosting &#8220;Israel Apartheid Week.&#8221; More non-Muslim students have become active in these events in conjunction with the Muslim Student Association (MSA), the Pan-Arab radical Islam organization that is the derivation of these Saudi funds.</p>
<p>When watching the short <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/18/lies-of-a-truthful-girl/">YouTube video</a> of the MSA student at UCSD (that proved to the world how MSA actively supports terrorism) I remembered back a year ago when my Sderot Media Center event at DePaul University was hijacked by MSA and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) along with their following of false liberals. As I described a year ago in the Jerusalem Post article, <a href="http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&amp;cid=1238562905981"><em>Shell-shocked in DePaul</em></a>, what these so-called liberals were preventing was free speech and what they were promoting was everything that liberalism has historically fought against. Due to the radical response of these MSA students and false liberals, this incident made the Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s top four 2009 anti-Semitic campus events of the year.</p>
<p>Even more telling of the true face of this false liberalism is the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oLvwMxwHFs">short video of Cartoonist Lars Vilks</a>, who created the cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed published in a Denmark newspaper, being attacked at Uppsala University in Sweden. Leave aside the multiple death threats Vilks has received and the price Al Qaeda has put on his head, and watch in the video how students physically attack him during a lecture on free speech. As the police try to wrestle down the attacking mob, the students are chanting &#8220;Allah hu Akbar!&#8221; In this type of liberalism, freedom of speech and press are not allowed but the infamous Muslim jihadist mantra, of course, is.</p>
<p>This false liberalism stands beside the sword of Mohammed that has spread across every continent in the form of student organizations like MSA and SJP. This false liberalism clearly supports Islamic terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda. This false liberalism stands against freedom of speech and freedom of the press. This false liberalism supports honor killings such as the Said sisters that were murdered in Texas by their father for dating non-Muslims. This false liberalism supports the lynching of homosexuals. This false liberalism stands against the progression of women and for the oppression seen on the streets of the radical Islamic territories of the Gaza Strip and Iran. This false liberalism that silenced me in Chicago laughed at live footage of Jewish children running from missiles in Sderot. What has been masked on university campuses worldwide as liberalism is only masked radical Islam.</p>
<p>Unlike, as Daniel Pipes proves, the popular avoidance of the usage of the terms &#8220;terrorist&#8221; or &#8220;terrorism&#8221; following the attacks in <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/6055/still-asleep-after-mumbai">Mumbai</a> and <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/7737/sudden-jihad-inordinate-stress-ft-hood">Ft. Hood</a>, when the unpopular pro-Israel opinion is voiced, it is deemed right-wing, extreme, fanatical, conservative, fascist, close-minded, and other exacerbated connotations. I received many responses to an article about removing the terrorist organization of Hamas from Twitter, an apolitical article that readers would undoubtedly agree with.</p>
<p>Some of the responses included:</p>
<p><em> •	You Guy are wrong Hamas is a resistance organization who are defending their small-left land called GAZA</em>… <em>HAMAS has the right to resist until it liberates all Palestine [sic.]</em></p>
<p><em>•	WHO is a terrorist? Yet a Terrorist. Isael has been taught a small lesson by the Hesbollah and Hamas and they will teach again and again untill those settlers Including Jacob Shrybman should go back to America and where they Came from (sic).</em></p>
<p><em>•	Jacob Shrybman is a Settler who came from America and occupied a piece of Palestine (sic).</em></p>
<p><em>•	Jacob, Do you think that trying to silence one of the few voices this imprisoned people have is going to make Israel look less a jailer (sic)?</em></p>
<p><em>•	Hamas was also a response to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and the ethnic cleansing that has gone with that occupation. So, I state again that given Israel&#8217;s sixty years of state sponsored and condoned terrorism, attacking Hamas without acknowledging Israeli crimes is hypocritical.</em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-style: normal;">While all five comments vary in their extremity, they all point to the same thing. Each comment in some way excuses or encourages the terrorists&#8217; action using this false liberalism and then bastardizes the democratic state of Israel.</span></em></p>
<p>Looking at examples from just this month of the MSA student in San Diego publicly voicing her support for Hezbollah&#8217;s dream of gathering all the Jews in Israel to kill them all in one place; of a student mob in Sweden attacking a controversial cartoonist at his lecture on free speech while chanting &#8220;Allah hu Akbar,&#8221; and the commonality of the five article comments above, we clearly see this false liberalism as only a mask for collusion with radical Islam.</p>
<p><em>Jacob Shrybman is the Assistant Director of the<a href="www.SderotMedia.org.il"> </a><a href="http://www.SderotMedia.org.il/">Sderot Media Center</a></em><em>. He hosts elected officials from around the world and international media visiting the Sderot/Gaza region. He has been published in The Jerusalem Post, The Huffington Post, YNet News, and has appeared on several international television and radio stations.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[UCLA’s "see no evil" approach to terrorism financing.]]></description>
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<p>A conference at the University  of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on April 16,  2010, offered “<a href="http://www.international.ucla.edu/calendar/showevent.asp?eventid=8022">Critical Perspectives on the Criminalization of Islamic Philanthropy in the War on Terror</a>.” Co-sponsored by the UCLA International Institute, the Critical Race Studies Program, and the <em>UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law</em>—and including speakers from UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES)—the conference proffered the usual apologist fare.</p>
<p>It was also an echo chamber. Of the approximately 30 people in attendance, 20 of them were academics. Several students showed up, in addition to the usual assortment of aging leftist revolutionaries.</p>
<p>The thrust of the conference was simple: The war on terror has led to a crackdown on Muslim charities, which has had a chilling effect on Muslims by rendering them unable to engage in <em>Zakat </em>(charity), one of the five pillars of Islam.</p>
<p>Unmentioned throughout this eight-hour infomercial was that the majority of the charities that have been investigated for financially aiding terrorism were found guilty and that decent Muslims are capable of giving to charities that do not foment bombings and beheadings.</p>
<p>Asli Bali, acting professor of law at UCLA, organized the conference and acted as one of the principal moderators. She responded to challenging questions from the audience by stating: “We will take three questions from presenters; others will have to wait.”</p>
<p>Jennifer Turner of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Human Rights Program was the speaker over whom everybody seemed to be fawning. Her presentation was titled, “Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity,” and, in typical ACLU fashion, she made excuses for Islamists’ bad behavior while bashing America.</p>
<p>She began by stating: “I’m not a social scientist. I am not here to offer any statistical analysis”—a fig leaf she employed to make wildly unsubstantiated claims, as when she announced that “the conviction in the Holy Land Foundation case was based on faulty evidence.” She didn’t bother to elaborate.</p>
<p>It turned out her “research” that had the entire room in a swoon consisted of the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>I did 120 interviews with American Muslims in Michigan and Texas. People reported that they were unable to give<em> Zakat</em>. Some had stopped giving entirely. Some felt fear of deportation or denial of citizenship.</p></blockquote>
<p>Turner excused her extremely small sample size with more platitudes about not being a statistician. She insisted that she did not ask leading questions, although the process was clearly an exercise in promoting victimhood. She did not verify the accuracy of her respondents or analyze any tax returns. In short, she relied on her own biased views to justify a predetermined conclusion.</p>
<p>University  of Michigan, Dearborn, history professor Sally Howell actually found oppression in increased giving. As she put it:</p>
<blockquote><p>Since 2001, there have been 14 new mosques, and 17 mosques have doubled in size. This is proof that people are not donating overseas.</p></blockquote>
<p>Howell followed this with more bizarre commentary:</p>
<p>“The Arab charity LIFE [Life for Relief and Development] had their board resign one year after Israel invaded Lebanon.”</p>
<p>Foiled again!</p>
<p>“As a result of restrictive policies” a board member of another charity, according to Howell, “embezzled $10,000.”</p>
<p>Yes: and as a result of inconvenient and restrictive securities laws, Bernie Madoff was forced to steal. It was all America’s fault.</p>
<p>“Does government get to decide what is good Islam and what is bad Islam?,” she asked.</p>
<p>No, but it does get to decide what constitutes funding terrorism.</p>
<p>Howell concluded, “The FBI has to show results or lose resources.”</p>
<p>Erica James, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) anthropology professor, offered proof—of nothing:</p>
<p>“I have an anthropology background. I am here to theorize what is happening.”</p>
<p>Her solution to the supposed problems faced by Muslim charities? “Defiant giving.”</p>
<p>During the question and answer period of this panel, an audience member—resorting to the usual name calling directed at critics of Middle East studies— proclaimed that “well-known bigot Daniel Pipes wrote an article about ‘stealth Islamists.’”</p>
<p>The panelists all nodded in agreement. There was no word on <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/1841/stealth-islamist-khaled-abou-el-fadl">Pipes’s findings</a> regarding UCLA law professor—and moderator at this conference—Khaled Abou El Fadl’s status as, in fact, a stealth Islamist.</p>
<p>Laila Al-Marayati, the chairperson of KinderUSA—a charity that terrorism analyst Matthew Levitt <a href="http://www.nysun.com/national/charity-drops-suit-against-terrorism-analyst/60635/">included</a> in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hamas-Politics-Charity-Terrorism-Service/dp/0300122586/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268664162&amp;sr=1-1">his book</a> on funding Hamas—portrayed the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah as harmless. As she put it, “Hamas helps Palestinian children in Gaza. I don’t consider Hamas and Hezbollah as threats to me and my family.”</p>
<p>Jonathan Benthall of University College, London, gave a talk that can be summed up in one quote: “The United States is the key to the problem.”</p>
<p>Mona Atia, assistant professor of geography and international affairs at George Washington University, claimed that “Egypt has been a model of fighting terrorism.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, McGill University political science and Islamic studies professor Khalid Medani demonstrated willful blindness by opining, “Somalia is a place where Islamic terrorism is not possible because they are not organized.”</p>
<p>When asked if the definition of a terrorist was hard to prove, Medani responded, “You’re right. I try to critique them based on their own terms. I’m not a lawyer.”</p>
<p>No UCLA conference would be complete without <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6835">offensive</a> <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/8648">commentary</a> from a member of the Center for Near Eastern Studies faculty. This time, CNES director and anthropology professor Susan Slyomovics—speaking during a break with colleagues about a book she’s working on—said:</p>
<blockquote><p>If Jews can get reparations from Germany, then Palestinians should get reparations from Israel. After all, <em>what the Germans supposedly did to the Jews</em> [emphasis added] is what Israel is doing to the people of Palestine.</p></blockquote>
<p>All the while, she kept smiling and laughing. Nothing makes for a good academic sitcom like Holocaust denial from a prominent professor of Middle East studies.</p>
<p>Despite eight hours of groupthink, I was able to finally cut through the leftist clutter to determine why the U.S. is investigating Muslim charities: 9/11 actually did happen, and the majority of the charities accused of funding terrorism actually did.</p>
<p>Only a UCLA Middle East studies conference could deliberately fail to grasp this.</p>
<p><em>Eric Golub is the publisher of the <a href="http://www.tygrrrrexpress.com/">Tygrrrr Express</a> blog. He wrote this article for <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/" target="_blank">Campus Watch</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.meforum.org/" target="_blank">Middle East Forum</a>.</em><em></em></p>
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<p>On April 17, a refugee camp at Kohat in Pakistan was struck by two suicide bombers that disguised themselves with burqas, the full-body veil worn by some Muslim women to make sure none of their skin is exposed. The attacks, which killed 41 people and injured 62, are sure to heighten the debate in Europe about whether wearing burqas and niqabs in public should be banned.</p>
<p>A parliamentary committee in Belgium has unanimously <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1977350,00.html">approved</a> such a ban, with the final vote in the House of Representatives coming April 22 and it is expected to pass. Movements to ban the burqa in Europe are quickly growing due to concern that the burqas can be used to disguise the identities of terrorists planning attacks like those that just happened in Pakistan and over the lack of assimilation of Muslim immigrant communities.</p>
<p>These concerns are not unfounded. Even though Islam frowns upon cross-dressing, male terrorists dressing up as burqa-clad women in order to carry out attacks is becoming more and more part of their modus operandi. This tactic has even been used by bank robbers and other criminals on many occasions, including in the U.S., as thoroughly <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2006/11/niqabs-and-burqas-as-security-threats">documented</a> by Daniel Pipes.</p>
<p>Terrorists have repeatedly donned burqas in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as in the United Kingdom, Iraq, the Gaza Strip, India, Somalia and Mauritania. In the United   Kingdom, one man who tried to set off a bomb in July 2005 in London was able to escape by wearing a burqa. The use of this clothing makes counter-terrorism more difficult because female police, which are in shorter supply, must be used to search those wearing it. The police chief of Iraq’s Babil Province in August 2008 complained about this after two burqa-wearing females attacked Shiite piligrims.</p>
<p>Daniel Bacquelaine of the Reformist Movement party in Belgium says that he supports the ban because it contradicts liberal democratic values. “There is nothing in Islam or the Koran about the burqa. It has become an instrument of intimidation, and is a sign of submission of women. And a civilized society cannot accept the imprisonment of women,” he <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1977350,00.html">told</a> <em>TIME Magazine.</em> The argument follows that the ban, therefore, does not violate freedom of religion since it is more of a cultural practice than something mandated by Islam. Of course, radical Salafists like those in Saudi   Arabia would disagree.</p>
<p>Banning or at least severely limit the wearing of burqas will cause outrage in the Muslim world and raises legitimate questions about civil liberty violations. However, a surprising amount of Muslims, including imams, support the ban. The Conference of French Imams has declared its support of the ban, saying it is not required in Islam. The chairman of the group, Hassen Chalghoumi, has had his Paris mosque <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/7053101/Paris-imam-backs-Frances-burqa-ban.html">stormed</a> and has received death threats in response.</p>
<p>The ruling of the group of French imams is supported by Sheikh Mohammed Tantawi, who was until his death in March the Grand Mufti of Egypt and highest Sunni authority in the Islamic world.  In October, Tantawi <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/6262819/Egypt-purges-niqab-from-schools-and-colleges.html">created</a> a stir when told a student to remove her niqab, saying it “had no connection with religion” and said it shouldn’t be worn, especially in schools.</p>
<p>A female Muslim in the U.K. has <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1195052/Why-I-British-Muslim-woman-want-burkha-banned-streets.html">written</a> an op-ed saying that “Nowhere in the Koran does it state that a woman’s face and body must be covered in a layer of heavy black cloth. Instead, Muslim women should dress modestly, covering their arms and legs.” She favors the ban because it “is a sign of creeping radicalization” and “is an imported Saudi Arabian tradition.”</p>
<p>Dounia Bouzar, a female Muslim who sits on the board of the Council of the Muslim Faith in France, is particularly <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905554,00.html">forceful</a> in her opposition to the burqa. “Imposition of this garment on women is one manner Salafists get individuals to renounce their individuality and submit to the extremist cult thinking that masquerades as Islam—but which is an abomination of it,” she says.</p>
<p>When an Indian college in September 2009 banned the burqa (and went one step further and banned the headscarf), some Muslim leaders defended the decision. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, the author of over 200 books about Islam, <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3613.htm">said</a> that it is “un-Islamic” to force anyone to dress a certain way, and that “the burqa is not part of Islam.” He was even lenient about the headscarf ban, saying to respect the rules of the school, and “if you don’t agree, you quit the college.” A professor at a New Delhi school that is a Muslim scholar agreed, saying “the burqa has become the symbol of rigidity and has nothing to do with Islam” and recommended that students not wear it at school.</p>
<p>Terrorists have shown that they have no qualms about using burqas as a disguise to carry out attacks with. The European movement to outlaw the wearing of the burqa is understandable in light of the criminal and violent activities carried out by wearing the clothing. Such a ban brings up legitimate civil liberties concerns, but those that disagree are obligated to offer a different solution. If Belgium becomes the first country to enforce the ban and other states take similar measures, they can count on extremists to portray it as proof that the West has declared war on Islam, but there will be plenty of brave Muslims that will not allow that theme to go unchallenged.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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<p>This Sunday, February 14, is Valentine’s Day, the sacred day that intimate companions mark to celebrate their love and affection for one another. If you’re thinking about making a study of how couples celebrate this day, the Muslim world and the milieus of the radical Left are not the places you should be spending most, if any, of your time. Indeed, it’s pretty hard to outdo jihadists and “progressives” when it comes to the hatred of Valentine’s Day. And this hatred is precisely the territory on which <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602">the contemporary romance</a> between the radical Left and Islamic fanaticism is formed.</p>
<p>The train is never late: every time Valentine’s comes around, the Muslim world reacts with ferocious rage, with its leaders doing everything in their power to quash the festivity that comes with the celebration of private romance. Imams around the world thunder against Valentine&#8217;s every year &#8212; and the celebration of the day itself is literally <em>outlawed</em> in Islamist states. The Saudis, for instance, ruthlessly punish the slightest hint of celebrating Valentine’s Day. Just a few days ago, the Kingdom and its religious “morality” police officially issued a stern warning that anyone caught <em>even thinking</em> about Valentine’s Day will suffer some of the most painful penalties of Sharia Law.</p>
<p>This is typical of the Saudis of course. As <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/1563/hating-valentines-day">Daniel Pipes has reported</a>, the Saudi regime takes a firm stand against Valentine’s every year, and the Saudi religious police monitor stores selling roses and other gifts. They have even arrested women for wearing red on that day. This time around, the narrative is no different: the Saudis have announced that, starting the week of Valentine’s and until February 15, it will <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/11/saudi-arabia-takes-action-to-safeguard-islams-primacy-in-the-kingdom/#more-31609">be illegal for a merchant to sell any item that is red</a>, or that in any way hints of being connected to Valentine’s Day.</p>
<p>As Claude Cartaginese <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/11/saudi-arabia-takes-action-to-safeguard-islams-primacy-in-the-kingdom/#more-31609">reports at Newsreal Blog</a>, any merchant found selling such items as red roses, red clothing of any kind (especially dresses), toys, heart-shaped products, candy, greeting cards or any items wrapped in red, must destroy them or face the wrath of Saudi justice.</p>
<p>Christian overseas workers living in the Kingdom from the Philippines and other countries <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/11/saudi-arabia-takes-action-to-safeguard-islams-primacy-in-the-kingdom/#more-31609">are taking extra precautions</a>, heeding the Saudis’ warning to them specifically to avoid greeting anyone with the words “Happy Valentine’s Day” or exchanging any gift that reeks of romance. A spokesman for a Philippine workers group <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/11/saudi-arabia-takes-action-to-safeguard-islams-primacy-in-the-kingdom/#more-31609">commented</a>: “We are urging fellow Filipinos in the Middle East, especially lovers, just to celebrate their Valentine’s Day secretly and with utmost care.”</p>
<p>The Iranian despots, meanwhile, are trying to make sure the Saudis don’t outdo them in suffocating Valentine’s Day. Iran’s “morality” police order shops to remove heart-and-flower decorations and images of couples embracing on this day &#8212; and anytime around this day. In Pakistan, the student wing of the fundamentalist Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami has called for a complete ban on Valentine’s Day celebrations. Khalid Waqas Chamkani, a leader in the party, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2749667.stm">calls it a “shameful day.”</a></p>
<p>Typical of this whole pathology in the Islamic world was a development witnessed back on February 10, 2006, when activists of the radical Kashmiri Islamic group Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Community) <a href="http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=62679">went on a rampage</a> in Srinagar, the main city of the Indian portion of Kashmir. Some two dozen black-veiled Muslim women stormed gift and stationery shops, burning Valentine’s Day cards and posters showing couples together.</p>
<p>In the West, meanwhile leftist feminists are not to be outdone by their jihadi allies in reviling &#8212; and trying to kill &#8212; Valentine’s Day. Throughout all Women’s Studies Programs on American campuses, for instance, you will find the demonization of Valentine’s Day, since, as the disciples of Andrea Dworkin angrily explain, the day is a manifestation of how capitalist and homophobic patriarchs brainwash and oppress women and push them into spheres of powerlessness. As a person who spent more than a decade in academia, I was privileged to witness this grotesque attack and “deconstruction” of Valentine’s Day at close range. Feminist icons like Jane Fonda, meanwhile, help lead the attack on Valentine’s Day in society at large. As David Horowitz <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=15430">has documented</a>, Fonda has led the campaign to transform this special day into “V-Day” (“Violence against Women Day”) &#8212; which is, when it all comes down to it, a day of hate, featuring a mass indictment of men.</p>
<p>So what exactly is transpiring here? What explains this hatred of Valentine’s Day by leftist feminists and jihadis? And how and why does it serve as the sacred bond that brings the radical Left and Islam into its current feast of solidarity?</p>
<p>The core issue at the foundation of this phenomenon is that Islam and the radical Left both revile the notion of private love, a non-tangible and divine entity that draws individuals to each other and, therefore, distracts them from submitting themselves to a <em>secular </em>deity.</p>
<p>The highest objective of both Islam and the radical Left is clear: to shatter the sacred intimacy that a man and a woman can share with one another, for such a bond is inaccessible to <em>the order.</em> History, therefore, demonstrates how Islam, like Communism, wages a ferocious war on any kind of private and unregulated love. In the case of Islam, the reality is epitomized in its monstrous structures of gender apartheid and the terror that keeps it in place. Indeed, <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=852">female sexuality and freedom are demonized</a> and, therefore, forced veiling, forced marriage, <a href="../2009/10/02/female-genital-mutilation-islam-and-leftist-silence-by-jamie-glazov/">female genital mutilation</a>, honor killings and other misogynist monstrosities become mandatory parts of the sadistic paradigm.</p>
<p>The puritanical nature of totalist systems (whether Fascist, Communist, or Islamist) is another manifestation of this phenomenon. In Stalinist Russia, sexual pleasure was portrayed as unsocialist and counter-revolutionary. More recent Communist societies have also waged war on sexuality &#8212; a war that Islam, as we know, wages with similar ferocity. These totalist structures cannot survive in environments filled with self-interested, pleasure-seeking individuals who prioritize devotion to other individual human beings <em>over the collective and the state</em>. Because the leftist believer viscerally hates the notion and reality of personal love and “the couple,” he champions the enforcement of totalitarian puritanism by the despotic regimes he worships.</p>
<p>The famous twentieth-century novels of dystopia, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s <em>We</em>, George Orwell’s <em>1984</em>, and Aldous Huxley’s <em>Brave New World</em>,<em> </em>all powerfully depict totalitarian society’s assault on the realm of personal love in its violent attempt to dehumanize human beings and completely subject them to its rule. In Zamyatin’s <em>We</em>, the earliest of the three novels, the despotic regime keeps human beings in line by giving them license for <em>regulated</em> sexual promiscuity, while private love is illegal. The hero breaks the rules with a woman who seduces him &#8212; not only into forbidden love but also into a counterrevolutionary struggle. In the end, the totality forces the hero, like the rest of the world&#8217;s population, to undergo the Great Operation, which annihilates the part of the brain that gives life to passion and imagination, and therefore spawns the potential for love. In Orwell’s <em>1984</em>, the main character ends up being tortured and broken at the Ministry of Truth for having engaged in the outlawed behavior of unregulated love. In Huxley’s <em>Brave New World</em>, promiscuity is encouraged &#8212; everyone has sex with everyone else under regime rules, but no one is allowed to make a deep and independent private connection.</p>
<p>Yet as these novels demonstrate, no tyranny’s attempt to turn human beings into obedient robots can fully succeed. There is always someone who has doubts, who is uncomfortable, and who questions the secular deity &#8212; even though it would be safer for him to conform like everyone else. The desire that thus overcomes the instinct for self-preservation is erotic passion. And that is why love presents such a threat to the totalitarian order: it dares to serve itself. It is a force more powerful than the all-pervading fear that a totalitarian order needs to impose in order to survive. Leftist and Muslim social engineers, therefore, in their twisted and human-hating imaginations, believe that the road toward earthly redemption (under a classless society or Sharia) stands a chance <em>only</em> if private love and affection is purged from the human condition.</p>
<p>This is exactly why, forty years ago, as Peter Collier and David Horowitz document in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/DESTRUCTIVE-GENERATION-Second-Thoughts-About/dp/0684826410/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265950493&amp;sr=1-1">Destructive Generation</a>,</em> the Weather Underground not only waged war against American society through violence and mayhem, but also waged war <em>on private love within its own ranks.</em> Bill Ayers, one of the leading terrorists in the group, argued in a speech defending the campaign: “Any notion that people can have responsibility for one person, that they can have that ‘out’ &#8212; we have to destroy that notion in order to build a collective; we have to destroy all ‘outs,’ to destroy the notion that people can lean on one person and not be responsible to the entire collective.”</p>
<p>Thus, the Weather Underground destroyed any signs of monogamy within its ranks and forced couples, some of whom had been together for years, to admit their “political error” and split apart. Like their icon Margaret Mead, they fought the notions of romantic love, jealousy, and other “oppressive” manifestations of one-on-one intimacy and commitment. This was followed by forced group sex and “national orgies,” whose main objective was to crush the spirit of individualism. This constituted an eerie replay of the sexual promiscuity that was encouraged (while private love was forbidden) in <em>We</em>, <em>1984</em>,<em> </em>and <em>Brave New World.</em></p>
<p>Thus, it becomes completely understandable why leftist believers were so inspired by the tyrannies in the Soviet  Union, Communist China, Communist North Vietnam and many other countries. As sociologist Paul Hollander has documented in his classic <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Political-Pilgrims-Western-Intellectuals-Society/dp/1560009543/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265950825&amp;sr=1-1">Political Pilgrims</a>,</em> fellow travelers were especially enthralled with the desexualized dress that the Maoist regime imposed on its citizens. This at once satisfied the leftist’s desire for enforced sameness and the imperative of erasing attractions between private citizens. The Maoists’ unisex clothing finds its parallel in fundamentalist Islam’s mandate for shapeless coverings to be worn by both males and females. The collective “uniform” symbolizes submission to a higher entity and frustrates individual expression, mutual physical attraction, and private connection and affection. And so, once again, the Western leftist remains not only uncritical, but completely supportive of &#8212; and enthralled in &#8212; this form of totalitarian puritanism.</p>
<p>This is precisely why leftist feminists today do not condemn the forced veiling of women in the Islamic world; <em>because they support all that forced veiling engenders</em>. It should be no surprise, therefore, that Naomi Wolf finds <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36177">the burqa “sexy.”</a> And it should be no surprise that Oslo Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Unni Wikan, found a solution for the high incidence of Muslims raping Norwegian women: the rapists must not be punished, but <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20646">Norwegian women must be veiling themselves.</a></p>
<p>Valentine’s Day is a “shameful day” for the Muslim world and for the radical Left. It is shameful because private love is considered obscene, since it threatens the highest of values: the need for a totalitarian order to attract the complete and undivided attention, allegiance and veneration of every citizen. Love serves as the most lethal threat to the tyrants seeking to build Sharia and a classless utopia on earth, and so these tyrants yearn for the annihilation of every ingredient in man that smacks of anything that it means to be human.</p>
<p>And so perhaps it is precisely on this Valentine’s Day that we are reminded of the hope that we can realistically have in our battle with the ugly and pernicious <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Unholy-Alliance-Radical-Islam-American/dp/089526076X">unholy alliance</a> that seeks to destroy our civilization. On this day, we are reminded that we have a weapon, the most powerful arsenal on the face of the earth, in front of which despots and terrorists quiver and shake, and sprint from in horror into the shadows of darkness, desperately avoiding its piercing light. That arsenal is love. And no Maoist Red Guard or Saudi fascist cop ever stamped it out &#8212; no matter how much they beat and tortured their victims. And no al-Qaeda jihadist in Pakistan or Feminazi on any American campus will ever succeed in suffocating it, no matter how ferociously they lust to disinfect man of who and what he is.</p>
<p>Love will prevail.</p>
<p>Happy Valentine’s Day to all of our Frontpage readers.</p>
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<p><strong>To get the whole story on Islam&#8217;s and the radical Left&#8217;s war on private love, read Jamie Glazov’s new book, <em><a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602');" href="http://www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071602">United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror.</a></em></strong></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who is the most important European alive today? I nominate the Dutch politician Geert Wilders. I do so because he is best placed to deal with the Islamic challenge facing the continent. He has the potential to emerge as a world-historical figure.</p>
<p>That Islamic challenge consists of two components: on the one hand, an indigenous population’s withering Christian faith, inadequate birthrate, and cultural diffidence, and on the other an influx of devout, prolific, and culturally assertive Muslim immigrants. This fast-moving situation raises profound questions about Europe: Will it retain its historic civilization or become a majority-Muslim continent living under Islamic law (the Shari’a)?</p>
<p>Wilders, 46, founder and head of the Party for Freedom (PVV), is the unrivaled leader of those Europeans who wish to retain their historic identity. That’s because he and the PVV differ from most of Europe’s other nationalist, anti-immigrant parties.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjI0MTYxNjQxNThjMDQ0ZWU5ZTJiNDk4YzY4MWIxYTA=">Why I Stand with Geert Wilders by Daniel Pipes on National Review Online</a>.</p>
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