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Facebook Fatwa: Saudi Clerics, Wahhabi Islam and Social Media
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies has released the first-ever study of what radical Saudi Wahhabists are preaching to their followers about the United States and non-Muslims on social media sites.
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A Slow Expansion of Policies Begun Under George W. Bush
President Barack Obama got Osama Bin Laden -- but has he kept his 2008 promise to "address the problem in our prisons, where the most disaffected and disconnected Americans are being explicitly... more...
The Friends of Bill Pascrell
Because of redistricting, Rep. Bill Pascrell (D, NJ) is running for re-election this coming Tuesday against a fellow Democratic incumbent Congressman. Pascrell’s slogan: “100% New Jersey Fighter.” more...
Media Matters for America Linked with Anti-American, Anti-Israel Al-Jazeera Network
Joel Mowbray, an adjunct fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told TheDC that Rosenberg’s Jewish heritage provides Al-Jazeera cover. “Here’s what Al-Jazeera probably does like — is if they can get less heat for anti-Semitic comments from having them come from a Jew,” said Mowbray. more...
Dem Congressman Winks…
The growing predilection on the Left of accusing people who are pro-Israel of having dual loyalties has now emerged in a Democratic congressional primary in New Jersey, where two longtime Congressmen are squaring off because of redistricting. more...
Pyrrhic Palestinian Victory?
When the Palestinian Authority (PA) was pushing last month to receive $50 million in direct funding to help alleviate its dire fiscal situation, it received critical support from a seemingly unlikely source: the right-wing government of Israel. more...
Deceit on the Nile
For the first time in a generation, Egypt is in strategic play. It could either stay a U.S. strategic partner and maintain peace with Israel, or it could join an Islamist axis with Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. Recent events show how quickly the pendulum can swing. more...
Time to Talk Sense Into Palestinians
When President Obama makes his first major address Thursday to the Muslim world since the "Arab Spring," he needs to speak directly to the people who have taken to the streets to demand a better life. more...
J-Street Defends the Indefensible
J-Street suffered a humiliating defeat yesterday on Capitol Hill -- which means Israel scored an important victory. more...
Palestinian Smoke Screen
As the Arab world burns, the Palestinians are sending out smoke signals. Rather than engage in peace talks with Israel or reform the rampant corruption within its government, the Palestinian Authority is driving the West to distraction. more...
West Bank is Ripe for Democracy
Usually when chaos erupts in the Middle East, attention turns immediately to Israel and the Palestinians. Not so this time. more...
Media Fantasy Land
In the terrorism case of two young Egyptian nationals and University of South Florida students arrested Aug. 4 in South Carolina, fascinating twists and turns abound. more...
A Possible Hoax
In the seven years since the start of the Palestinian intifada, perhaps no incident has inspired more Western criticism of Israel, nor generated as much terrorism against the Jewish state, than the supposed cold-blooded murder of 12-year-old Mohammed al-Durra on Sept. 30, 2000. more...
Post-Oslo Gaza
The tidy Western view of Palestinian politics coming down to Islamists vs. secularists faces yet another reality check. Both Hamas and the supposedly secular Fatah are engaging in a new propaganda war, each portraying itself as the defender of the faith, while accusing the other party of defiling Islam, according to a report being released today by the Palestinian Media Watch. more...
CAIR’s Duplicitous Ways
While the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been busy attacking syndicated columnist Cal Thomas recently for supposedly “Islamophobic” comments, the media-hungry group did not condemn the foiled terrorist plots in London or the successful one in Glasgow, Scotland. more...
Mad TV
Testifying under oath recently, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice misled Congress in her strong defense of Al-Hurra, the taxpayer financed Arab TV network. It was unwitting, though. She herself was misled. more...
Covering the War
Ask most Americans if they were aware that Iraqis, by almost a 2-to-1 margin, believe that life today is better than it was under Saddam Hussein, and you’d most likely elicit incredulousness, blank stares or outright laughter. Not because it isn’t true, though. It is. more...
Careful Vetting’?
How could the U.S. government be funding Hamas’s university in Gaza? It’s the question that has been asked often since my front-page story in this paper earlier this month, from Capitol Hill to the State Department’s daily press briefing. more...
Television Takeover
Fighting to create a secular democracy in Iraq, parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi had come to rely on at least one TV network to help further freedom: U.S. taxpayer-financed Al-Hurra. more...