Bush Foreign Policy Settles into Weird State of Denial
It's an alarming sign for U.S. foreign policy when Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Hayden says, as he did last month on NBC's Meet the Press, that, personally, he...
Claudia Rosett
Dating Yourself
Fear and frustration in Geneva
Op-eds
Questions for the Pentagon: Who is Hesham Islam?
In the sorry tradition of shooting the messenger, the Pentagon is cashiering its top expert on Islamist doctrine, Stephen Coughlin. Some members of Congress are now contemplating hearings to ask...
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Feeding North Korea’s Madness
Here we go again. Amid warnings of an impending "food crisis" in North Korea, the Obama administration is working to send yet more big subsidies, in the form of free food, to the totalitarian reg...
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Uncharitable
‘In the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation,” President Obama claimed during his 2009 Cairo speech. “...
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America and Syria
If Pres. Barack Obama prefers not to intervene on behalf of the protesters being slaughtered in Syria, the least his administration could do is refrain from endorsing their tyrant. In Obama&rsquo...
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Libya’s Backseat Drivers
Maybe the next time Pres. Barack Obama is tempted to follow the leadership of the Arab League, he’ll think twice. Having brandished the Arab League’s call as the classiest of multilat...
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New FDD Iran Human Rights Project to Serve as Resource for Policy Makers
Press Release March 21, 2011 CONTACT: Susan Firey (202) [email protected] New FDD Iran Human Rights Project to Serve as Resource for Policy MakersThe Project Holds Tehran Accountable for Record of Abuse Washington, D.C. –The
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Nations United Against Israel
Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen are in turmoil. In Libya, Colonel Moammar Gadhafi is using mercenaries to slaughter peaceful protestors. Hezbollah is staging a slow-motion coup in Lebanon. Iran’s...
Op-eds
An Islamic Republic in Lebanon
Is there a Churchillian lesson to be found in Ahmadinejad's visit this week to wildly enthusiastic Hezbollah supporter...
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An Islamic Republic in Lebanon
Is there a Churchillian lesson to be found in Ahmadinejad's visit this week to wildly enthusiastic Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon? If one thing has become clear, it's that Ahmadinejad's rad...
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Raped Under UN Auspices
Can United Nations peace keeping deliver peace? It sure failed this summer in an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where armed groups went on a spree of gang rape just 20...
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Interview with Claudia Rosett on Middle East and Ground Zero Mosque
Accuracy in Media recently interviewed Claudia Rosett, the director of the Investigative Reporting Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, about Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel...
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Cashing In On Ground Zero
Among the prime planners of a $100 million Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero, it's not just Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf who is visiting the Middle East this summer at U.S. taxpayer expen...
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Mysteries Of The Absent Imam Feisal
For a man whom one would hope has nothing to hide, the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque project sure has dropped out of sight. Having triggered an uproar in the U.S., Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf duc...
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Further Travels Of Imam Feisal
While debate rages over plans for an Islamic center in Lower Manhattan, the imam behind this project, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is not available to answer questions in New York. Since locating the absen...
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Where In The World Is Imam Feisal?
Plans for a $100 million high-rise Islamic Center next to New York's Ground Zero are generating lots of controversy, as well as great distress among families of some of the thousands murdere...
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Iran’s Mini-Empire At The U.N.
The United Nations has just created a new "entity" on women's rights, called U.N. Women. Elections to its governing board are now being organized. How long before Iran wins a seat?...
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Kick North Korea Out Of The U.N.
"Amputations without anesthesia" is the headline some news outlets have culled this week from a new Amnesty International report on "The Crumbling State of Health Care in North Korea." That title...
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Being American
This weekend, on July 4, Americans celebrate the 234th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Over the burgers and sweet corn, that’s always a good day to think about what, exactly...