Open Letter to President Obama about Christmas Bells in the Middle East
Dear President Obama, In your recent statement on persecuted Christians at Christmas you stated: In some areas of the Middle East where church bells have rung for centuries on Christmas Day, this year...
View ArticleEvidence Contradicts Cleric's Claim of 'Casual' Relationship with San...
Originally published under the title "San Bernardino Terrorist's Mosque Cleric Exchanged 38 Texts With Terrorist, Claimed 'Casual' Relationship." The mosque at the centre of the San Bernardino...
View ArticleGerman Human Rights Chief: Erdogan's Turkey 'Does Not Belong in the EU'
Originally published under the title "German Human Rights Chief: Turkey Does NOT Belong In The European Union." Germany's Human Rights Commissioner has asserted that Turkey does not belong in the...
View ArticleUnseen Islamic State Pamphlet on Slavery
The news outlet Reuters has been a running a series of pieces on Islamic State documents and files obtained by U.S. special forces during the Abu Sayyaf raid earlier this year. A recent article by the...
View ArticleMuslims 'Have Nothing Whatsoever to do with Terrorism'?
Excerpt from Raymond Ibrahim's monthly roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world. As Muslim jihadis, mobs and regimes terrorized Christians and others throughout the world of Islam,...
View ArticleParis' Eerily Familiar 1930s Immigrant Problem
The world's most prolific author, the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, published a mock-memoir in 1951, Les Mémoires de Maigret (Paris: Les Presses de la Cité; English: Maigret's Memoirs, London:...
View ArticleTranslation: Eulogy to Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Islamic State Leader in Libya
Of all Islamic State [IS] affiliates abroad, the Libyan 'provinces' are by far the most successful. Despite being driven out of the city of Derna in the eastern Cyrenaica region last year, IS has been...
View ArticleThe Islamic State, Turkey & Transportation
The Guardian recently published a story based on documents captured by the Kurdish YPG forces after expelling the Islamic State (IS) from the town of Tel Abyad in northern Raqqa province on the border...
View Article2015's Hits at DanielPipes.org
Which articles, blog posts, speeches, and interviews on my web site, DanielPipes.org, fared best in the year recently concluded? In ascending order, here are 2015's ten most widely read, listened-to,...
View ArticleAl Azhar Promotes Abuse of and Discrimination for Christians
During a televised Egyptian talk show that aired on January 18, lawyer Ahmed 'Abdu Maher called for the "punishment of those who author books that promote strange and perverse ideas in Al Azhar." As...
View ArticleDo Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?
Originally published under the title "Do we worship the same God? Wheaton College, Larycia Hawkins and Miroslav Volf." The recent suspension of Larycia Hawkins by Wheaton College is a symptom of a...
View ArticleAn Account of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi & Islamic State Succession Lines
Abu al-Waleed al-Salafi, whose complete history of Jamaat Ansar al-Islam I have previously translated, has also written Twitter essays on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and compiled lists of...
View ArticleMuslims Disproportionately Found Among Dangerous Prisoners in UK
Previously, IW reported that as of December 2014, Muslims made up 12,225 or 14.4% of the UK's 84,691 prisoners, but only 4.8% of its population. This week, the Sun reported that over 1 in 5 prisoners...
View ArticleMerkel Deputy: Anti-Migration Party Should Be 'Monitored' by Govt
Originally published under the title "Merkel Deputy: Surging Anti-Mass Migration Party Should Be 'Monitored' By Govt." Germany's vice chancellor called on Sunday for the surging Eurosceptic political...
View ArticleNew Mobilization Call from Azaz: Translation & Analysis
Introduction and Analysis Though the regime offensives backed by Russian airpower and Iranian-backed militias to supplement the manpower on the ground initially seemed to make little headway...
View ArticleShould Radical Islamists Be Segregated in Prison?
What to do with Islamist prisoners? Should they be segregated, in which case they may further radicalize each other; or diffused, in which case they may radicalize other prisoners, as happened with the...
View ArticleYale's Jim Sleeper Targets Campus Watch
In a convoluted apologia for political correctness in academe (HuffPost College, "The 'Blame the Campus Liberals' Campaign Targets Yale," Feb. 12, 2016), Jim Sleeper, a lecturer in political science at...
View ArticleEgypt: Another Christian Killed in His Military Unit, Supposedly by "Suicide"
Another young Coptic Christian conscript has allegedly committed suicide in his unit in Menufia, Egypt, says a February 17 report by MCM (actual date of incident not indicated). According to Maj. Gen....
View ArticleChallenges for the Islamic State: Manpower, Finance, and Information
Originally published under the title "Challenges for the Islamic State and Restrictions on the Information Environment." As the war against the Islamic State [IS] continues, it is clear that the state...
View ArticleDissent in the Islamic State's Yemen Affiliates: Documents, Translation &...
Of all the places where the Islamic State (IS) has declared official affiliates outside of Iraq and Syria in the form of 'wilayas' ('provinces'), Yemen arguably represented one of the most attractive...
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