ISIS Loses Grip on Mosul
ISIS has now lost much of the old section of Mosul, a city it conquered in 2014, to Iraqi coalition forces. In this section of the old city stands the ruin of the al Nuri Grand Mosque built in the 12th century.
A New Kurdistan and an Islamic Reformation
In my new book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, Vol. II, - The Way Forward, I report that the nearly autonomous Kurds of Northern Iraq, have not only exhibited great heroism in driving ISIS out of the towns and cities near their homeland but have made enormous strides in bringing about the coming Islamic reformation. I [...]
Grief in the Disappearing Christian Middle East
On April 8, I attended a wedding reception where I was seated next to an attendee who felt the need to let me know my views regarding resurgent militant Islam were, in his view, misguided. Given that we all know about the Inquisition, the Crusades, the Hundred Years War and all the other myriad sins [...]
The Crushing Wages of Progressivism
(First in a series on National Security and the 2016 presidential election) On the same day, September 27, 2016, nine days before the first presidential debate between Clinton and Trump, a Somali American, Dahir Adan, stabbed nine people in a Minneapolis mall and an Afghan American, Ahmad Rahami detonated a pressure-cooker bomb in the heart [...]
Book Review: The Field of Fight by Lt. General Michael T. Flynn
The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Islam and Its Allies As we are in the final run up toward a presidential election where one of the candidates is arguably guilty of criminal malfeasance and very possibly treason, General Flynn’s new book, The Field of Fight, is an important argument for [...]
President Al Sisi, Good Muslims, and Their Apostates
In the wake of the Paris shootings, the horrors visited by ISIS upon Syria and Iraq and the genocide being perpetrated by Boko Haram in North Africa, finally there seems to be an awakening even among the western mainstream media and the politically correct that there could be something endemic to Islam itself that accounts [...]
Saudi Royals and Iranian Mullahs Were Co-Conspirators in 9/11 (Part III)
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 [...]
War is Deceit*
Last week’s talks with the Iranians ended badly. The Iranians actually hardened their position. Instead of agreeing to shut down uranium enrichment at its new underground facility at Fordo, a facility which they undoubtedly believe can survive an Israeli attack; they stated that they planned to increase the number of centrifuges there. This should have [...]
Islamist Infiltration
UPDATE: August 2, 2010 This article has been posted online at Townhall Magazine. It was first published in the May 2010 print issue. I welcome your comments here also. Original article in Townhall Magazine (pdf) In A.D. 622, Muhammad was forced to flee to Medina from his birthplace in Mecca, where the ruling tribe, the [...]