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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.... October 26, 2009 Unfortunately, Failure Is an Option By Reuel Marc Gerecht and Lawrence B. Lindsey One of the standard accoutrements of the decision making process in the West Wing is the three-option "decision memorandum... October 26, 2009 Afghanistan Matters Because of Pakistan President Obama is taking his time deciding what to do next in Afghanistan. Never mind that he's rethinking a war he declared a "war of necessity" just a few short months ago. Never mind tha... October 23, 2009 Imprison Here, Release Here If Guantanamo Bay is closed, scores of trained jihadists, committed to killing Americans, will be released to dwell among us: It is that simple. Pres. Barack Obama and Attorney Gen... October 23, 2009 The Government’s Allegations Against Tarek Mehanna On Wednesday, Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury, Mass., was charged in federal court with conspiring to provide... October 23, 2009 The Pretense of Reform By Tony Badram and Mara E. Karlin Senior officials in the Obama administration are batting around the notion that the Taliban in Afghanistan could play a role comparable to that... October 22, 2009 Disconnecting the Dots Don't fault President Obama for reconsidering his strategy in Afghanistan. Fault him for reconsiderin... October 22, 2009 U.N. Injustice Founded "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war," today's United Nations is instead laying the groundwork for war galore. In the name of "justice," the U.N. handicaps democra... October 22, 2009 The New U.S. Sudan Policy: A Preliminary Review By Dr. J. Peter Pham After a weekend marked by leaks to the Washi... October 22, 2009 The Strategic Challenge of Somalia’s Al-Shabaab Since emerging from an era of colonialism under Italy and Britain, Somalia has passed through military dictatorship, famine, and civil war to regional fragmentation. In the modern period, America... October 21, 2009 The Problem of Evil Since 9/11, Michael Ledeen has been warning that this war against America was never about Afghanistan or Iraq, but has always been a regional war, with malefactors are up to no good around the wo... October 20, 2009 The Code Is Mightier Than The Sword By Mark Dubowitz and Larry Footer The Long War against radical Islam is a war of... October 20, 2009 We Have Met the Enemy . . . Speaking publicly about the role of Iran in Afghanistan--which is substantial, and about which we have considerable information--seems to be taboo for our current leaders. This is neither new nor... October 20, 2009 Taliban Rattles Pakistan By Dr. Walid Phares As the Taliban send suicide bombers inside Pakistan's cities, observers focus on the horrors and the continuing bloodshed. And though the Talib... October 16, 2009 Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West From Accomplice to Evil: “The world is simmering in the familiar rhetoric and actions of movements and regimes—from Hezbollah and al Qaeda to the Iranian Khomeinists and the Saudi Wahhabis—who s... October 16, 2009 Can Obama Accept the Prize? By Dr. J Peter Pham and Ronald D. Rotunda People can, and undoubtedly will, argue for some time about whether President Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Meanwhile, though,... October 15, 2009 House Approves Iran Sanctions Enabling Act of 2009 Press Release October 14, 2009 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948 judy@defenddemocracy.org House Approves Iran Sanctions Enabling... October 15, 2009 Pakistan Notebook Islamabad — I picked an interesting moment to visit Pakistan: four terrorist attacks in less than a week. The first was at the World Food Programme office here in the capital: five killed....

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