February 6, 2019

Extremist Imam Keynotes 'Civil Rights' Fundraiser

Of all 50 states, Ohio has been one of the national hotspots for Islamist terrorism since 9/11. In 2016, Ohio State University was the site of an ISIS-inspired terror attack, and in January, investigators arrested a Muslim convert who was planning a ...

October 31, 2008

Obama Forgot to Spread His Own Wealth

Even when making more than $250,000, he gave away less than 1 percent to charity until he became a millionaire.Thinking about Barack Obama's impromptu lecture to Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher about his plans to "spread the wealth...

August 21, 2008

Confessed Al-Qaeda terrorist registered to vote in Ohio

Ohio Al-Qaeda terrorist Christopher Paul, who pled guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against targets in Europe and the US back in June, is still registered to vote according to the Ohio Secretary of State and the Franklin County...

July 24, 2008

Dem and Dumber in Ohio

Democratic congressional candidate Mary Jo Kilroy sent a look-alike to rural parade. Much like Saddam Hussein, Ohio 15th congressional district Democratic candidate Mary Jo Kilroy uses body doubles when she tires of having to deal with all ...

May 4, 2008

Homeland Security's Muslim advisors contradicted new terror lexicon

American Thinker publishes today Joseph Myers' critical assessment of Homeland Security's new terror lexicon, "Strategic Collapse in the War on Terror", as it published my own analysis, "Flying Blind in the War on Terror", last we...

April 30, 2008

Flying Blind in the War on Terror

Imagine that following the bombing of Peal Harbor in December 1941, that FDR had prohibiting the use of the terms "Nazi" or "Japanese Imperialism" due to pressure brought to bear by German and Japanese-American lobbying groups. Or...

October 31, 2007

Media establishment buries politician's bad news before election

Ohio political blogger Matt Naugle is alleging that the management of the Columbus Dispatch has quashed a potentially damaging story about Columbus Mayor Mike Coleman just days before the election. Naugle reports at Right Angle Blog:The article was w...

October 23, 2007

Bad News for Holy Land Defendants

While Islamist organizations, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), are celebrating Monday's declared mistrial in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case in Dallas, the defendants and their supporters might want to ...

October 11, 2007

Radical Islam's Willing Bloggers

The burgeoning left wing smear industry, set up to manufacture attacks on conservatives, has its own radical Islam sector. I know this by personal experience.Earlier this week I reported that a known HAMAS operative was scheduled to speak at the Ohio...

September 18, 2007

What's in a Name? 'Jihad' vs. 'Hiraba'

What's in a name? When it comes to identifying what we are fighting against in the war for our civilization, quite a lot. Members of a movement among military and intellectual circles want to avoid asserting that we are fighting against "jihad...

September 10, 2007

Employment Discrimination against American Muslims: Myths and Realities

A groundbreaking study published late last week investigates the skyrocketing trend of employment discrimination claims filed by members of the American Muslim community and finds that repeated assertions of a post-9/11 backlash against Muslims in th...

August 9, 2007

Local Law Enforcement and Homeland Security

Last month I had the pleasure of briefing a large group of local and state law enforcement officials on the Islamic extremist threat in their area. My interaction with these professionals reminded me that they are THE frontline defenders in the War o...

July 28, 2007

What does the Pew poll actually tell us?

The establishment media has been giddy this week reporting the results of a recently-released Pew Research Center poll which finds support for suicide bombings declining in parts of the Muslim world. This trend in itself should be heartening, and it ...

July 13, 2007

The curious links of a CAIR doctor who doesn't support terror

Last week, Dr. Asma Mobin-Uddin, CAIR-Ohio president and a pediatrician, penned a plaintive op-ed for the New York Post decrying the role of doctors in the recent attempted terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow, and distancing their actions fr...

July 9, 2007

Media Silence on Antiwar Violence (updated)

An Air Force airman was shot by antiwar protestor on July 4th, but the establishment media and liberal blogs yawn. Airman Jonathan Schrieken, 22, is fighting for his life after being shot in the heart by a gunman intending to make an antiwar statemen...

July 5, 2007

Islam's Global War against Christianity

From Nigeria to Indonesia, Christians are under siege in virtually every single country in the Muslim world, the victims of countless acts of discrimination, depredation, brutality, and murder that are so widespread and systematic that it can rightfu...

July 4, 2007

Response to Julia Gorin

Julia Gorin's hate-shtick is getting old. In fact, it was never funny to begin with, which lends itself to the proposition that professional stand-up comedians (such as Ms. Gorin) shouldn't engage in substantive public policy debates. Gorin's article...

June 21, 2007

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In an article I had published here on Thursday, "Talks with the Muslim Brotherhood", I critically cited some previous writings of Nixon Center scholar Robert Leiken. In that piece, however, I unintentionally confused in some of those quotes...

June 15, 2007

New Study: Political Islam Correlated to Support for Terrorism

A new study by the US Institute for Peace (USIP) of polling data from fourteen different Muslim countries finds that support for a role for Islam in politics strongly correlates with more likely support for terrorism. This statistical analysis is cer...

June 12, 2007

Mr. Bush Goes to Albania

President George W. Bush was greeted by thousands of American-flag waving Albanians and a 21-gun salute during his short visit to Albania on Sunday. Predictably, some will believe that this marks the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it...

June 8, 2007

Muslim Brotherhood victim granted asylum

The Dallas Morning News reports a victory this week ("Egyptian never wavered in courtroom") for a victim of persecution by the Muslim Brotherhood and Mubarak regime, who fled his homeland after an eight-year ordeal following his conver...

June 5, 2007

Lies, Damned Lies, and CAIR's Statistics

In his Autobiography, Mark Twain offers these words of wisdom:  "There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies, and statistics". When presented anything by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), you usually get all three...

May 30, 2007

Muslim American Society declares victory

Following up on yesterday's entry, "Jihad-by-lawsuit fails in Boston", it is interesting to note the response by the Boston chapter of the Muslim American Society, which has claimed victory in the wake of the lawsuit's withdrawal,...

May 17, 2007

Schwarzenegger Should Terminate His health Care Plan

I didn't anticipate that when I commented on the plan in California to impose taxpayer-financed universal health coverage that it would prompt a correspondence exchange between Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger....

May 16, 2007

The Ft. Dix Six and sudden jihad syndrome

My analysis of the Fort Dix Six situation last week is entirely vindicated by John Schindler of the NSA and Navy War College: 1) No connection to the Balkans or Kosova;2) Appears to be an entirely homegrown operation;3) Al-Qaeda has "a pretty sl...

May 9, 2007

Kosova and Anti-Jihad Bigotry

The announcement earlier this week by the FBI of the arrest of a terrorist cell near Fort Dix, New Jersey has prompted a number of emails to chastise me. My crime? Having some kind words to say about the Albanian people a few weeks ago in an article ...

May 8, 2007

The US and the Muslim Brotherhood

Western media and Beltway foreign policy establishments are engaged in a push to rehabilitate the image of the Muslim Brotherhood in order to convince US diplomats to initiate a dialogue with the organization. The Muslim Brotherhood has spawned virtu...

April 27, 2007

Albania and the Perils of the 21st Century

The tiny nation of Albania has been pulled out of communist isolation and thrust into the era of globalization, and with it into the very real ideological and religious conflicts of the 21st Century. A crossroads and regular battleground be...

February 13, 2007

The Militarization of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood

In late October, a series of exchanges here at American Thinker debated the extremism or moderation of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the largest and oldest Islamist organization in the world and the de facto political opposition party in Egypt. Ev...

January 19, 2007

Health Insurance and "Adequate" Care

Health insurance is the key to adequate medical care. The standard of care supplied to those without insurance and lacking substantial means is perhaps "adequate" by some lights, but you wouldn't settle for it.I appreciate Steven M. Warshaw...

January 17, 2007

Governor Schwarzenegger Should Go to Nashville

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off his first full term in office this week by announcing during his state-of-the-state address that he intends to implement a state health insurance plan to cover all residents, including illegal alie...

December 29, 2006

Why Saddam Must Hang

The news that Saddam Hussein has lost his final legal appeal and that he will be hanged sometime within the next 30 days should be welcome news for war-weary Americans. Thus, Saddam will receive the just punishment for his crimes against humanity tha...

December 23, 2006

New York Times Passes Sensitive Information to Terrorists - Again

In yet another breath-taking display of callous disregard for public safety against potential terror attacks, the New York Times yesterday published information obtained from a disgruntled Port Authority employee concerning the dangerous vulnerabilit...

December 13, 2006

Bush's March to the (Mediterranean) Sea

Last week, the Iraq Study Group told the President and the nation that we need to prepare for retreat from Iraq. In their numerous recommendations, there are none that are directed towards actually winning the present conflict, and the mainstream med...

December 1, 2006

Islam and the Problem of Rationality

In the run-up to Pope Benedict's current visit to Turkey, TIME Magazine opened its pages to Tariq Ramadan, Europe's favorite Islamist and perhaps the most influential Muslim figure in the West today. Ramadan chided the Pope and Europe for ignoring th...

November 3, 2006

NPR Joins Sen. Kerry in Insulting Servicemen

On the same day that Senator John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, outraged voters of all political persuasions with his comments made at a rally in support of California gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides that military personne...

October 3, 2006

The Islamist Cult of Death at Work in Iraq

'All those who hate me love death' — Jehovah, Proverbs 8:36 'We love death. The US loves life. That is the difference between us two.' — Osama bin Laden, November 2001 Superlatives are insufficient to describe the horror currently seen i...

September 20, 2006

Reuters' Global Megaphone Slurs America

In the lead—up to the fifth anniversary of 9/11, a glut of news stories appeared decrying the increase of alleged bias against Muslims in America since that tragic day. One such article that has been reprinted in dozens of papers all over the c...

August 31, 2006

Kafir-phobia: Americans as Violent Anti-Muslim Bigots

The story that developed in July was just too good to pass up: a Jordanian—born restaurant owner in Xenia, Ohio had been the apparent victim of repeated attempts to burn down his store. The day after the third attack, when a Molotov cocktail ha...

July 26, 2006

Radical Islamists and Western Governments

A shocking program aired on British TV's Channel 4 recently that should give pause to every Western government concerned about their domestic terror threat and raise questions from citizens about who their elected representatives are seeking advice a...