Islamic extremism

Ben Shapiro

Humanitarian Aid in Syria Leads to War

The White House has led from behind on the Arab Spring, and the results show it; instead of U.S.-backed liberal democrats in the Arab world rallying to victory, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia have all turned strongly Islamist (and Iraq is well on the way). Now the U.S. is leading from behind again, this time on [...]
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Andrew G.  Bostom

Ataturk and Andrew McCarthy’s “The Grand Jihad”

Encounter Books has just released a remarkably compendious 4-minute video synopsis of Andrew McCarthy’s “The Grand Jihad”, re-issued in a paperback edition, which features captivating—and humorous—animation. embedded by Embedded Video Please also see a very insightful review of “The Grand Jihad” by Karen Lugo recently published at The American Thinker and a review I had published when [...]
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Niccolo Machiavelli

Lt-Col Challenges The Official Rosy Version Of Events In Afghanistan: ‘Absence Of Success On….Every Level’

From the Army Times: Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis An Army officer is fed up with “rosy official statements” that paint Afghanistan as a picture of progress, and he is demanding military leaders come clean about the “absence of success on virtually every level.” “How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding [...]
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Peter Schweizer

Europe’s New Iron Curtain: Rising Dictatorships On the Continent

The Cold War was about freedom vs. tyranny:  the belief that individuals had certain inalienable rights vs. the belief that the state was omnipotent.  We won,  right?! You wouldn’t know it by looking at trends in Europe,  where tyranny is on the rise.  It’s not in the direct form of Soviet gulags, military parades or police [...]
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Walid Phares

The Lesson of the Past Decade: Ideology Is Al Qaeda’s Power, Not Leaders

Ten years have slipped by since Osama bin Laden’s jihadists massacred thousands of men, women and children in the northeastern United States, prompting the start of what Americans came to know as the War on Terror. The current administration, however, insists on more benign terminology, choosing for political reasons to describe the conflict as an [...]
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Clare M. Lopez

Muslim Brotherhood Trying to Police the NYPD

After forcing the FBI and CIA to purge their counterterrorism training programs of all references to “Islam” in “Islamic terrorism,” the Muslim Brotherhood in America has turned its sights on the New York Police Department (NYPD). Image credit: Reuters Writers from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of [...]
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John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.),

New York Times Laments Income Loss for Afghan Businesses

After ten years of nearly constant derisiveness and complacency toward force protection and convenient ignorance of policies that have caused the severe wounding and killing of thousands of American Servicemen, The New York Times took the time to write about the loss of income for business in Afghanistan...
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Kerry Patton

Taliban to Retake Afghanistan While U.S. Officials Still Proclaim Success

Numerous U.S. reports allude to mass success in Afghanistan. President Obama has even went on believing our successes in Afghanistan should permit U.S. forces withdraw. Several Generals and politicians on the right and left have swallowed the Kool-Aid publicly proclaiming everything in Afghanistan is just “peachy-keen.” Today, we realize our positive perception of Afghanistan is [...]
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Ken Blackwell and  Ken Klukowski

Gen. Boykin Blocked at West Point

A three-star Army general and war hero cannot speak at West Point because he’s an outspoken Christian. From this incident, we see the Obama administration’s hostility toward religion—and especially Christians—continues even to the detriment of our men and women in uniform. Lieutenant General William G. (“Jerry”) Boykin is like an action movie hero. When the super-elite [...]
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Sun Tzu

Audio: Congressman Says Releasing Taliban Prisoners From Gitmo ‘Big Mistake’

The Obama administration appeared Wednesday to acknowledge discussions about transferring some Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay as part of U.S. efforts to jumpstart peace talks with the Taliban after 10 years of inconclusive fighting. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said no decision about releasing any Taliban detainees has been made. But in answering a question [...]
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