Copyright 2013 Middle East Forum Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:32:07 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Middle East Forum :: Writings http://www.meforum.org webmaster@meforum.org (Middle East Forum) webmaster@meforum.org en-us http://www.meforum.org/3534/hezbollah-lebanon Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:12:37 EST Hezbollah first became known to the Lebanese public in 1985 with its now-famous open letter, whose introductory statement read: "We are the sons of the umma (Muslim community)—of the party of God (Hezbollah), the vanguard of which was made victorious by http://www.meforum.org/3533/islam-magic-witchcraft Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:50:20 EST "Saudi Woman Beheaded for Witchcraft" read media headlines around the world on December 13, 2011. News reports described how a 60-year-old woman was executed after being convicted of practicing witchcraft on the basis of such evidence as books on http://www.meforum.org/3532/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:22:30 EST The Islamic jihad against Christians in Nigeria is proving to be the most barbaric. A new report states that 70% of Christians killed around the world in 2012 were killed in the African nation. Among some of the atrocities committed in March alone, at http://www.meforum.org/3531/syria-iran-stalingrad Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:38:57 EST The growing infusion of Iranian-backed Lebanese and Iraqi Shiite fighters into the Syrian civil war is causing some veteran pundits to panic. Vali Nasr, dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, warns that "Iran is http://www.meforum.org/3530/center-for-american-progress Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:13:55 EST The Center for American Progress (CAP) unveiled its report Foreign Law Bans: Legal Uncertainties and Practical Problems at a May 16, 2013, event at CAP's Washington, DC, headquarters. CAP's analysts are unconcerned by the influence of sharia and other http://www.meforum.org/3529/assad-syria-revolution Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:05:08 EST The outbreak of the Syrian revolution in March 2011 surprised many people. Until that time, it seemed that the 40-year reign of the Assad dynasty, at first under its founder, Hafiz, and then under his son and heir, Bashar, had succeeded in turning Syria http://www.meforum.org/3528/russia-middle-east-role Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:30:43 EST Russia has thrown a monkey wrench into Western plans for Syria by promising to deliver its top-of-the-line S300 surface-to-air missile system to the Bashar al-Assad government. Exactly when the missiles might arrive remains unclear; the last word from http://www.meforum.org/3526/muslim-civil-wars Fri, 7 Jun 2013 08:36:52 EST Daniel Pipes of the Middle East Forum (where I am associate fellow) replies this morning to Bret Stephens' June 3rd Wall Street Journal column, "The Muslim Civil War: Standing by while the Sunnis and Shiites fight it out invites disaster." The Iran-Iraq http://www.meforum.org/3525/france-jihadist Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:07:41 EST On May 25, a 21-year-old soldier named Cédric Cordiez was stabbed in the neck in the La Defense district of Paris. He survived, but the aggressor's intention was clearly to kill him (possibly even to sever his head). Four days later, a suspect referred http://www.meforum.org/3524/egypt-christian-children Tue, 4 Jun 2013 03:55:44 EST Attacks on Christian children, both boys and girls, are on the rise in Egypt. Last week, a six-year-old Coptic Christian boy named Cyril Yusuf Sa'ad was abducted and held for ransom. After his family paid off the Muslim kidnapper, Ahmed Abdel Moneim http://www.meforum.org/3523/islamophobia-australia Mon, 3 Jun 2013 16:15:15 EST Like student magazines all over the world, Woroni, put out by students at the Australian National University, publishes satire. It did when I attended 30 years ago, and it still does today. Much of what is written is offensive to someone or other, but it http://www.meforum.org/3522/turkish-spring-economics Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:19:04 EST Pitched battles between anti-government demonstrators and Turkish police over several days at Istanbul's Taksim Square constitute a national uprising against Recep Tayyip Erdogan's incipient Islamist dictatorship. As of this writing on June 2, tens of http://www.meforum.org/3521/benghazi-terrorists-egypt Sun, 2 Jun 2013 00:48:44 EST The terrorist attack in Benghazi is far more disturbing than previously thought. Although it has not been reported in the U.S. media, the possibility exists that the Egyptian government may have played an operational role in the attack. YouTube videos of http://www.meforum.org/3520/australia-geert-wilders Fri, 31 May 2013 09:38:46 EST This is the second in a four part series of posts written in response to Geert Wilders' visit to Australia in early 2013. In a previous post I contrasted Geert Wilders' view that 'Islam is the problem' with the claims of many Muslims who preach with http://www.meforum.org/3519/islam-london-beheading Fri, 31 May 2013 04:33:01 EST Last week in London, two Muslim men shouting jihad's ancient war-cry, "Allahu Akbar" beheaded a British soldier with a cleaver—in a busy intersection and in broad daylight. They boasted in front of passersby and asked to be videotaped. As surreal as this http://www.meforum.org/3518/jihadi-storm Thu, 30 May 2013 15:07:08 EST On this Memorial Day, it's important to remember that the very same U.S. policies that created al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in the 1980s—leading to the horrific attacks of 9/11—are today allowing al-Qaeda to metastasize all around the Muslim world. As in the http://www.meforum.org/3517/berkeley-islamophobia-terrorism Wed, 29 May 2013 02:32:20 EST The false narrative that "Islamophobia" is a growing threat received a boost at the "Fourth Annual International Conference on the Study of Islamophobia: From Theorizing to Systematic Documentation," which took place at the University of California, http://www.meforum.org/3516/jihad-murderers-human-rights Tue, 28 May 2013 03:03:34 EST It's well known that whenever jihadis attack and slaughter innocent people — especially Christians — the Obama administration tries to ignore or whitewash. Lesser known, however, is that whenever foreign governments try to subdue the jihadis, the Obama http://www.meforum.org/3515/niac-court-defeat Mon, 27 May 2013 14:35:13 EST Last September, Seid Hassan Daioleslam, an American of Iranian origins, won a major court victory against the informal Iranian U.S. lobby in Washington. The decision legitimated Mr. Daioleslam's investigative research that exposed the National Iranian http://www.meforum.org/3514/woolwich-killing Sun, 26 May 2013 17:39:15 EST Today in Woolwich, England, a man reported to be a British soldier was cut down by two Anglo-African Muslims wielding knives and a machete. One of the killers, speaking in a home-grown English accent, is heard (here) to say: The only reason we have