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...]
Archives for June 2019
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...]
The Suppressed Plight of Palestinian Christians
Gatestone Institute At a time when Christians throughout the Muslim world are suffering from a variety of persecution, the plight of Palestinian Christians is seldom heard. It exists. Open Doors, a human rights group that follows the persecution of Christians, notes that Palestinian Christians suffer from a “high” level of persecution, the source of which is, in … [Read more...]
Western Journal: “Did Army College Just Cave? Islam Expert Postponed After Muslim Activists’ Uproar”
Note: The following report by Ryan Ledendecker appeared on the Western Journal's Conservative Tribune on June 15. It also has a poll asking readers if the War College should have caved in to CAIR or not (in a red box half way through the article here). An earlier report titled "US Army War College Drops Speech by Terror Expert, CAIR Cites ‘Anti-Muslim Racism’" also appeared … [Read more...]
‘Field of Blackbirds’: The 630 Year-Old Reason Eastern Europeans Dislike Islam
Why Eastern Europeans are much more reluctant to accept Muslim migrants than their Western counterparts can be traced back to circumstances surrounding a pivotal battle, that of Kosovo, which took place on June 15, 1389, exactly 630 years ago today. It pitted Muslim invaders against Eastern European defenders, or the ancestors of those many Eastern Europeans today who are … [Read more...]