Feisal Abdul Rauf

April 4, 2012 | Clifford D. May

The Messages of Toulouse

Lone-wolf terrorists are a growing threat. Moderate Muslims are among those in the crosshairs.

June 15, 2011 | Clifford D. May

American Muslims Are Victims

That’s the mainstream media’s faith-based narrative and they’re sticking to it.

March 10, 2011 |

It’s Not Just Al-Qaeda

It is a fact -- not an opinion -- that al-Qaeda and similar groups are waging what they call a jihad against America, Israel and the West. Also beyond dispute: These groups are not equal opportun...

February 16, 2011 |

Bangladesh Today, Egypt Tomorrow

James Clapper issued a clarification last week. Within hours of testifying to Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood is a “largely secular” organization, he clarified that he had meant...

January 24, 2011 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

Islam and the State of the Union

The state of our union is . . . denial — at least when it comes to Islam.” I’m not holding my breath waiting for President Obama, as denier-in-chief, to make that prono...

January 19, 2011 | National Review Online

Wrong on Rauf

Imam Feisal Rauf, the cleric behind the provocative Ground Zero Mosque (GZM) project, as one critic put it, “is no moderate. He presents himself as a peacemaking Islamic Gandhi, but he is i...

October 7, 2010 | Clifford D. May |

Two Sides of the Jihadi Coin

As I write this, European police are searching for “hit teams” plotting attacks against civilians in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden. Why would al-Qaeda plan such strikes now? Tha...

September 30, 2010 |

Going Ghost

Molly Norris is not as well known as Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf or Pastor Terry Jones. But you should know who she is - even though she is no more. It will take just a moment for me to explain....

September 18, 2010 |

There Oughtn’t Be a Law

République française has banned the burqa. Along with the face-covering veil (the niqab), the burqa is the garment with which Muslim women conceal their bodies from head to toe. Mor...

September 16, 2010 |

Cry Islamophobia!

We Americans should be ashamed! What an intolerant, bigoted, hateful lot we are! Or so we are being told by our political and media elites. Lawrence Wright, in The New Yorker – yes, The New...

September 10, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report

Remember the Twin Towers: Here’s the Community Center, Sept. 10, 2001

The talk right now is endlessly about Islam, whether one tunes in to news of Pastor Terry Jones and the will-he won't-he question of whether he'll burn the Koran, or news of Feisal Abdu...

September 10, 2010 |

If We Don’t Build It, They Will Kill You?

“Peace” is a word so over-used and abused that by now it’s wise to brace yourself every time some self-declared “peace-maker” pipes up. But even by those standards,...

September 10, 2010 | Accuracy in Media

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...

September 8, 2010 |

This Is Where We Begin to Say No

A tectonic shift is in motion: How fitting that its focal point is Ground Zero, the inevitable fault line between Islam and the West. Only the blink of an eye ago, uttering the unpleasan...

September 7, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report

Ground Zero Mosque: The Bombast of Imam Feisal

After summering in Malaysia and assorted petro-capitals of the Arabian Gulf, the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque project, Feisal Abdul Rauf, is back in America - though not for long. His...

August 31, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report

Imam Feisal Meets With UAE Mosque and Money Crowd

As the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque project, Feisal Abdul Rauf, continues his State Department-hosted "public diplomacy" visit to the United Arab Emirates, the glimpses of his activities ov...

August 30, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report

Daisy Khan’s ‘Postponed’ Travels — Now What?

Yet another news flash on the whereabouts of the self-described "bridge-building" couple behind the Ground Zero mosque: Last week, Daisy Khan was poised to travel to the Middle East, pla...

August 26, 2010 | Clifford D. May

Muslims + Mainstream Media = Madness

Wow! The Washington Post has identified “rabble-rousing outsiders!” I don’t think I’ve heard language like that since southern segregationists complained about young civil...

August 25, 2010 |

Germany Learns to Tolerate Radical Islamic Intolerance

Germany's foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, offered the following justification for not traveling with his gay partner to Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries: "We want to encourage t...

August 24, 2010 |

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...