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 […]
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 […]
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 it to privateer […]
JNS: “CAIR’s Philadelphia Branch is Among the Islamist Organization’s Most Abhorrent”
Note: CAIR’s Philadelphia branch is also the one that the US Army War College capitulated to. The following JNS article by Sean Savage is especially useful in that it summarizes some of CAIR’s more troubling ties with extremism, terrorism, and hate for Israel. (June 19, 2019 / JNS) The U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., is coming […]
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 […]
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 insist […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
“Army War College Sides with CAIR ,” Says Center for Security Policy
Note: The following article by Christopher Holton, Vice President for Outreach at the Center for Security Policy, appeared on the CSP site today and is especially useful because it notes several examples of CAIR’s subversive agenda and malignant role in the American body politic: Raymond Ibrahim is one of the most esteemed and intrepid experts […]