Islam And The West

After its first month, the bombing campaign conducted against Iran by the United States and Israel has produced some unprecedented “firsts” in the history of human conflict.

With four Americans including a US ambassador killed by a motley band of terrorists, our consulate burned down, a highly decorated general and CIA Director dissembling before Congress, a Secretary of Defense, a UN...

One of the lesser understood phenomenon of history is that small ruthless bands of thugs will inevitably take over vastly larger docile civilizations, the operative words being ruthless and civilized. The civilized...

In the wake of the first ever Tunisian elections, it is worth reflecting upon the Athenians of the fifth century BC who first conceived of a system of governance where the many would rule the few, and worth...

This week two suicide bombers from Jundallah (army of God), the Sunni separatists in Iran’s southeastern province Baluchistan blew up a Shiite religious procession killing 39. Relative to this, in April of 2007, I...

Mohammad al-Asi of the Islamic Education Center in Potomac, Maryland,

In reading a recent prescription for Democrat duplicity, by USA Today’s DeWayne Wickham titled, If Democrats lay low on war, Bush will defeat himself, I found myself wondering what part of President Bush’s new...

“I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

Similarly to this phony outrage over Bush's state of the union speech, one can only conclude that, in an effort to impose on the rest of us their own sense of shame about defending the nation, former Secretary of...

“We have found no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States.”

With the bombings in London providing a backdrop, it’s important to note that just last year, the U.S. State Department named Iran as the most active sponsor of terrorism. And with the sham election and elevation of...