October 26, 2018

Khashoggi: A Political Murder or a Convenient Excuse?

Media outrage directed against Saudi Arabia is boiling following the apparent murder of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Turkey. Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle are demanding that President Trump hold Crow...

October 14, 2017

Donald Trump's Middle East masterstroke

"Why does he keep stirring the pot?"  "He should just keep his mouth shut and do his job!" I'm sure you've heard many express these sentiments regarding Trump and his penchant for tweeting, commenting, and poking a...

October 24, 2015

What does Saudi Arabia have on David Cameron?

Saudi Arabia is not a regime known for sentimentalism toward human rights.  In fact, the Saudis are quite brutal in repressing dissent and equally zealous in enforcing the mandates and punishments of sharia law.  Hardly a résum...

October 5, 2015

NYC Police Ignore Muslim Brotherhood Assault on the Streets of New York

New York City residents were treated to a glimpse of their (and our!) future recently when Egyptian journalists in town to cover the visit of Egyptian president Al-Sisi to the U.N. were assaulted by Muslim Brotherhood agents -- in full view of New Yo...

March 2, 2015

Advocates or Recruiters?

Which is the likelier scenario?  The Islamic killer known as "Jihad John" was driven to his brutal acts by repeated harassment and oppression by British intelligence interrogators?  Or was he in fact encouraged to travel this path...

September 1, 2014

The Return of the Arab Spring

The “Arab Spring” changed seasons with Benghazi.  In the eyes of many Americans, the media-hyped chimera of democratic forces seeking freedom from dictatorships vanished with the reported sodomy and murder of our ambassador to Libya....

November 9, 2013

Where is Fathi al-Obeidi?

As we breeze into the second year of Obama-administration stonewalling on Benghazi, details surrounding the abject abandonment of American citizens under fire in that Libyan outpost remain scarcer than hen's teeth.  The developments in the sto...

October 13, 2013

The Latest in Islamic Revisionism

Many are familiar with the concept of revisionist history -- the rewriting of past events to reflect a particular bias -- but there is a contemporary example that receives far too little attention in our American media, that being the history of Jews...