Daniel Pipes

Israeli responses have been stark, blunt unlike anything in memory.

Publishing house Palgrave Macmillan apologized for appearing to endorse "the Palestinian struggle."

Middle East expert Daniel Pipes appeared on the 'Cross Talk' program to argue that the West should use its influence to oppose Islamism instead of supporting it.

Odd that CUFI is out there swinging and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is silent.

As ever, Muslims raise startling new issues and Islam drives the social and legal agenda in the West.

The Nation of Islam's historic role as a bridge between American blacks and Islam ended in 1975 when W. Deen Mohammed followed his father, Elijah Muhammad, as leader of the Nation and immediately disavowed his father's folk religion, bringing his followers to normative Islam, the Islam of the Middle East. From then on, despite the theatrics of Louis Farrakhan, the Nation has been in a long downward trajectory. Now comes evidence, thanks to Tony Ortega in the Village Voice and Eliza Gray in The New Republic, of a jaw-dropping turn by Farrakhan, 79, to Scientology; as Gray's subtitle puts it, "America's two weirdest sects join forces."

By all accounts, the mullahs in Tehran are getting ever closer to the point where they at will can order nuclear bombs to be made and readied for use.

Even the modestly dressed and Islamist friendly Catherine Ashton did not escape being photoshopped.

Israelis lead in the search for a COVID-19 cure is being twisted to confirm conspiracist suspicions of Israeli profiteering.

If Assad is winning, Western governments should respond by helping the rebels to prevent Assad from crushing them.

Five Muslim parties are mainly engaged in this intricate, consequential struggle for the Temple Mount: the Palestinian Authority, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Turkey, and the Kingdom of Morocco. Each has distinctive strengths and goals.

In Russia, Christians are declining by 0.6 percent a year and Muslims are increasing at the same rate, which will have dramatic effects over time

Both Hamas and Fatah are playing the game of pretending to end violence.

80% of Jewish Israelis seek victory. Half that number are willing to pay the price for it.

Western powers enjoy overwhelming battlefield superiority but face great difficulty when trying to shape other countries.

In fact, I disagree often and volubly with Israeli policies.

What a launch for Kerry, whose mental vapidity promises to make Hillary Clinton actually look good in retrospect.

Obama got away with saying that he had characterized the attack on the Benghazi consulate as a terrorist incident because the moderator confirmed his point; in fact he misrepresented the facts when he said "The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that … this was an act of terror."

As U.S. credibility and stature diminish, the president and his secretaries of state and defense engage in eloquent denial.

It happens every four years, as U.S. presidential elections roll around: I feel like a stranger. That's because news reports blare out what's not of interest: trivial statistics (171,000 jobs added in October; jobless rate up 0.1 percent to 7.9 percent), biographical irrelevancies (claims that Romney outsourced jobs to other countries when at Bain Capital), and forgettable gaffes (Obama saying that "Voting is the best revenge"). This limited discussion misses the main points.

White racists invented the idea that accomplished black Americans are not Africans but "Moors."

It will be a long, hard road to traverse, but there is no short cut and it can succeed.

Barack Obama's approach pulls the United States back from its customary adult role and has it join the children.

Now that Israelis humiliated themselves and Erdogan is rampaging ahead, some are awakening to the fact that this apology only made matters worse.

Sometimes one is better off when an opponent feels compelled to prove his bona fides.

"Whoever tries to uproot us from the city of our forefathers will achieve the opposite."

Muslims show increasing indifference to the breakdown in Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy, but Leftists express growing anger over it. Thanks to a mix of Palestinian public relations expertise and continued antisemitism, the welfare of this small and powerless but fanatical population has transmogrified into the premier global issue of human rights

Many of Trump's Israeli and Zionist admirers, including Evangelicals, will be rudely shocked by his proposal and lash out further weakening the conservative movement and diminishing Trump's chances at re-election.

If Hamas knows it cannot defeat the Israel Defense Forces and will get a bloody nose for its efforts, it obviously has motives other than victory in mind.

As a clandestine phenomenon, the practice of what are sometimes called Muslim Background Believers (MBBs). Iranian MBBs tend to be fervently pro-Israel.