Note: In the following article (original here), Allen West -- a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, author, and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives -- shares his thoughts on the US Army War College's recent surrender to CAIR, an Islamist organization with well known terror ties: Greetings, everyone! Yes, you know what today [June 15] is, it is time to … [Read more...]
Sign Now: NAS Letter to Trump on War College’s Surrender to CAIR
The National Association of Scholars (NAS), “the leading organization of scholars and citizens committed to higher education as the catalyst of American freedom,” has come forth in my support and written an open letter to the President of the United States. The signatories, most of whom are academics, call President Trump’s attention to the US Army War College’s recent … [Read more...]
Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean
Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean by Joshua M. WhiteStanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. 376 pp.Reviewed by Raymond IbrahimAuthor of Sword and Scimitar Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2019 In the late sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire and its European opponents increasingly withdrew from the Mediterranean, their primary theater of war, leaving … [Read more...]
Washington Times: “Global Jihad’s Information Warfare Campaign”
Note: The following Washington Times article (Jun 18) was written by Joseph C. Myers, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who specializes in counterterrorism and insurgency issues. He served in Afghanistan and as a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, and authored the important essay, "The Quranic Concept of War." The mission statement of the U.S. Army Heritage and … [Read more...]
Juan Cole’s Imaginary Muhammad
Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires by Juan ColeNew York: Nation Books, 2018. 336 pp.Reviewed by Raymond IbrahimAuthor of Sword and Scimitar Middle East QuarterlySummer 2019 (view PDF) Note: Cole's ludicrous pro-Islamic revisionist history, which I review below, is representative of the only sort of history that CAIR and its Islamist allies … [Read more...]