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December 17, 2009 Gitmo Does Not Cause Terrorism So we're going to shut down the detention center at the U.S. naval base on Guantanamo Bay and move the 200-plus terrorists detained there to a seldom-used civilian correctional center in Tho... December 17, 2009 Attempt to Attack the Paul Findley Federal Building in Springfield, Illinois By: Madeleine Gruen On September 23, 2009, Michael C. Finton (a.k.a. Talib Islam) attempted to detonate what he believed to be one (1) ton of explosives packed in... December 17, 2009 Iran’s Global Bedfellows If you listen to U.S. officialdom, Iran is a pariah, cast out by the world community for its sanctions-violating, nuclear-wannabe ways. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just warned Latin Am... December 16, 2009 Foundation for Defense of Democracies Welcomes French Warning Against Hamas TV Washington, D.C. (December 17, 2009) - The Coalition Against Terrorist Media, a project of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, praised France’s audiovisual authority for warning the... December 15, 2009 Imad Mustapha: the Ambassador No One Wants The Washington rumor mill is in high gear again amid reports that the State Department, after a lengthy delay, has finally sent the White House its recommendation for the new American ambassador... December 15, 2009 Out of Gas: Why Sanctions on Iran Are Still the Best Option Following the passage of the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act in the U.S. House of Representatives today, it's worth considering the following facts in response to those who claim that t... December 13, 2009 Was CAIR Responsible for the Zamzam Arrests? Recently, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) helped to alert US authorities that Ramy Zamzam and four of his friends from Northern Virginia had gone missing by encouraging the famil... December 11, 2009 Rumors of David Headley, Rogue CIA Asset David Headley was convicted on heroin smuggling charges in 1998, and the available evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the following year he did undercover surveillance work in Pakistan for the... December 10, 2009 Through Our Enemies’ Eyes We’ve heard a lot in recent days about how conservatives and liberals are responding to President Obama’s plans for Afghanistan. But what does the enemy think? Mullah Mohamme... December 10, 2009 Guinea: In Search of a Soft Landing Guinea cannot seem to catch a break. In 1958, it was the only French colony to opt for an immediate break with France rather than continued association with Paris leading to gradual inde... December 9, 2009 New Charges Against Headley for 2008 Mumbai Attacks In October, 49-year-old Chicago man David Headley (born Daood Gilani) was arrested for his role in planning terrorist attacks against the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten and two individuals asso... December 8, 2009 For Hezbollah, Lebanon is an Afterthought Two things were unsurprising about Hezbollah’s political document, unveiled on November 30 by the party’s secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, namely its content and characteriz... December 8, 2009 From ‘Gitmo Poet’ to Qaeda Kingpin A former Guantanamo de tainee has emerged as a leading ideologue and theo logian for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- one of the strongest al Qaeda affiliates in the world. Pakistani... December 7, 2009 FDD Praises Legislation Targeting Media that Incites Violence Against Americans Press Release December 8, 2009 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948 judy@defenddemocracy.org FDD Praises Legislation Targeting... November 26, 2009 The Shooting of Luqman Abdullah Co-authored by Madelein Gruen In late October, a shootout at a warehouse in Dearborn, Michigan, claimed the life of Luqman Abdullah -- the imam of Detroit's Masjid al-... November 25, 2009 Western Terrorism Recruits in Somalia On Monday, the United States unsealed terrorism charges against eight defendants for supporting a Somali Islamist group called al-Shabaab. While few lay people in Canada or the United States have... November 24, 2009 The Danger Signs of Terror In the wake of U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan's shooting rampage at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, experts are debating the process by which people are radicalized into accepting militan... November 24, 2009 Don’t Mention the M-word For those of us who have tracked Islamic militancy in Europe, Major Nidal Malik Hasan's actions are not extraordinary. Since Muslim militants first tried to blow a French high-speed train of... November 23, 2009 Major Hasan and Holy War For those of us who have tracked Islamic militancy in Europe, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's actions are not extraordinary. Since Muslim militants first tried to blow a French high-speed train off... November 20, 2009 CTR Vantage: The Luqman Abdullah Shooting and Cause Celebre Islam The Center for Terrorism Research (CTR) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies is proud to present its second issue of CTR Vantage. This issue examines the Oct. 28 shooting of Detroit imam Luqman Abdullah by FBI agents. November 20, 2009 Cause Célèbre Islam: Racism, Revolution, Black Nationalism “We can’t just be saying, ‘O.K., everything is run by the U.S. government,’ we got to take out the U.S. government. The U.S. government is nothing but Kuffars.”... November 20, 2009 The Darul Islam Movement in the United States The 1960s were a time of great social upheaval in the U.S. Within the African-American Muslim population, young organizations trumpeted separation from mainstream American culture. Of these group... November 20, 2009 Jamil al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown The criminal complaint against Luqman Abdullah and his associates states that when al-Ummah succeeds in establishing a "separate, sovereign Islamic state," they intend for it to be led by Jamil a... November 19, 2009 Lessons of Fort Hood When a military officer participates in a war against his own country, that is high treason, and that is the charge that ought to be brought against Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. But it's not goin... November 19, 2009 Iran’s Man In Manhattan It made headlines last week when federal prosecutors moved to seize assets of the Alavi Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit that is allegedly a front for the U.S.-sanctioned government of Iran... November 18, 2009 The Shooting of Luqman Abdullah The shootout occurred during an FBI raid designed to disrupt a variety of illegal activities being carried out by Abdullah and at least ten of his associates—activities that were uncovered... November 18, 2009 It’s Time to Open the Fuel Market to Methanol By: Dr. Robert Zubrin. Here's a fact that is worthy of lawmakers' attention: Methanol is currently selling internationally, without any subsidy, for $1 per gallon.... November 18, 2009 Al Qaeda’s Civil Liberties Union "I'll talk to you guys after I get to New York and see my lawyer." That, according to former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, is what September 11 planner Khalid Sheik... November 16, 2009 Connecting the Dots On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stinging rebuke to a district court that granted a Guantanamo detainee’s habeas petition last year. The detainee in question is... November 13, 2009 September 10? It’s Worse Than That ‘September 10 America.” The phrase signifies a reprise of the “terrorism is just a crime” mindset that reigned in the years before the 9/11 attacks. Like other observers,... November 12, 2009 Media Mush Imagine if, in 1942, the son of German immigrants from the Sudetenland had yelled "Heil Hitler!" and then gunned down several dozen of his fellow soldiers on an American military base. Most repor... November 12, 2009 Fog Of War There's been plenty of debate about President Barack Obama's omission of the word "terrorism" when he spoke Tuesday at Fort Hood to honor the 13 Americans shot to death and dozens wound... November 12, 2009 Return of the Somali Pirates By Dr. Peter Pham After maintaining a relatively low profile since the end of the monsoon season two months ago, Somali pirates literally shot their way back into the headlines... November 12, 2009 Arrest in Netherlands May Yield Insight Into Shabaab Recruiting Networks Yesterday the Star Tribune (published in Minneapolis-St. Paul) reported on a seemingly significant arrest in the Netherlands related to the al Shabaab recruiting networks that have centered on th... November 10, 2009 It’s Mainstreamism, Not Extremism At the Daily Standard blog, FDD's Tom Joscelyn is doing his usual stellar work, this time detailing the FBI's shocking lapses in the failure to investigate Nidal Hasan.... November 10, 2009 Review of African Immigrant Religions in America By Dr. J. Peter Pham African Immigrant Religions in America. Edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Regina Gemignani. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2007. viii 1 352... November 10, 2009 One Wall Falls, Another Rises By Dr. Walid Phares The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was a benchmark that made an impression on me, as it did on millions of people around the world. The sight of thousands o... November 10, 2009 Michael Ledeen on Iran and Democracy I hadn't seen Michael Ledeen in years when I bumped into him at a party for George Gilder's new book, The Israel Test. An admirer of Machiavelli, Ledeen has for years focused o... November 9, 2009 Peripheral Vision: A Model Solution for Somalia By Dr. J. Peter Pham Somalia is once again in turmoil. In the last issue of the Journal, Ken Menkhaus explored the prevailing dynamics, concluding that the government's stu... November 9, 2009 Review of “Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change” By Dr. J. Peter Pham In this volume, Dr. Vlahos gives a book-length treatment to the theses he raised in his much-debated essay for Military Review two years ago in whi... November 6, 2009 Ft. Hood: The Largest ‘Terror Act’ Since 9/11? By Dr. Walid Phares The Fort Hood killings, perpetrated by Major Malik Nadal Hasan a psychiatrist by training, no matter what the judiciary reports conclude is, for now, the lar... November 4, 2009 The Indictment of Abdow Munye Abdow and the Application of “False Statements” Charges By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross. Madeleine Gruen On Oct. 13, 2009, a Minnesota grand jury indicted 26-year-old Abdow Munye Abdow on two counts of ma... November 4, 2009 Understanding al-Shabaab By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Madeleine Gruen The advance of Islamist groups in Somalia is seen as a cause for concern by Western law enforcement and... November 4, 2009 Al-Shabaab Recruiting in the West By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Madeleine Gruen, Sara R. Westfall Beginning in late 2007, dozens of young men of Somali descent disappeared from diaspora c... November 4, 2009 Somali President Sheikh Sharif’s Diplomatic Efforts in the U.S. By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Madeleine Gruen Somali president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed traveled to the U.S. in early October; among other things, h... November 4, 2009 Pull the Plug on Afghanistan President Karzai of Afghanistan has just stolen an election and gotten away with it. Despite being universally criticized as corrupt and incompetent, he is likely to rule Afghanistan for another... November 4, 2009 Small Miracle People forget how small Israel is. Its entire population is a little over 7 million - smaller than Lima, Per... November 3, 2009 Climate Change and Security in Africa By Dr. J. Peter Pham For much of Africa's post-independence history, "African unity" was more an aspiration than a reality. Consequently, even when, as I... November 2, 2009 How The Wall Fell When the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, it did not fall from sheer wear and tear of tyranny. People actively chose to destroy it. They tore down that iconic wall not only with pickaxes, hamm... October 29, 2009 Where Rohde Leads Almost a year ago, New York Times correspondent David Rohde was abducted by the Taliban....

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