In 627, Mohammad’s earliest biographer, Ibn Ishaq, records that his army held off a twenty-five day siege by Mecca’s ruling tribe, the Quraysh, at his redoubt near Medina. When the prophet learned that the Meccan army included some of the city’s Jews, he ordered the attack of a nearby largely defenseless Jewish settlement and tribe, [...]
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the May 2010 issue ofTownhall Magazine. The Muslim Brotherhood is leading the way for radical Muslims to infiltrate American society and government. Their goal is simple: control the United States and impose Shariah law. In A.D. 622, Muhammad was forced to flee to Medina from his birthplace in [...]
A Report from the Western Conservative Summit Over last weekend’s fifth annual Western Conservative Summit, strangely, a surprising number of the key note speakers quoted Alexis de Tocqueville; a Frenchman who visited America in the 1830’s and who wrote for a vast European audience, eager to know what life was like in the new Republic. [...]
In the mid fifth century A.D., in the waning days of the Roman Empire, the corrupt ruling elite in Rome turned the once revered legions against their citizen provincials in order to exact what had become a crushing tax burden. In my book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations I observe that one of the most recurring [...]
In my previous two articles [part I, part II] in this series I wrote that newly released intelligence, including a highly placed, eye-witness Iranian defector, reveal that the Mullahs running Iran provided planning, training and logistical support for the 9/11 hijackers. Today, the Iranian government’s role in 9/11 has finally become common knowledge within the [...]
A High-level Iranian Defector Warned the CIA that 9/11 Was Coming Hamid Reza Zakeri 9/11 tipster to CIA In my book “Lessons from Fallen Civilizations,” I reference Ken Timmerman in his ground breaking best seller “Countdown to Crisis”: …On July 26, 2001, at a backwater US Embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, a high-level Iranian security official, Hamid Reza [...]
(Part One) “If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. [...]
A Betrayed Generation In a recent five-part series of columns, I have posed the question, “Why won’t America follow the Egyptian model? That is, as we have recently seen in Egypt, why won’t millions of betrayed, out of work, and or underemployed young Americans flood the streets of DC, committing civil disobedience on a massive [...]
In the same week that the nation watched the Obamacare rollout crash and burn American supremacy in the Middle East continued to implode. Our allies signaled that they had had enough of this president’s relentless propensity to court enemies while snubbing friends. Among this administration’s myriad foreign policy blunders, the Syrian debacle continued to degrade [...]
