Jakarta

May 25, 2024 | David May |

FIFA Is Latest Target of Palestinian Hijacking

The Palestinian political intifada reached FIFA, soccer’s governing body, last Friday. Cloaked in the language of justice and human rights, the Palestinian FIFA delegation continued its decades-long...

January 29, 2024 | David May |

Don’t Punish Israeli Athletes for Receiving Death Threats

Instead of protecting Israeli athletes facing threats of violence, some sporting bodies have rewarded terrorism by banning Israeli competitors, often while insisting the exclusion is for the athletes’...

November 21, 2023 | |

Hamas Using Hospital as Cover for Attacks

Israeli forces and Hamas fighters clashed on November 20 near a hospital next to the Gazan city of Jabalia, which has seen fierce fighting in recent days. The Hamas-run Gaza Health...

October 21, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

How Iran keeps the initiative in attacks on Israel, US in MidEast

Iran’s foreign minister went to Qatar and met with the Hamas leadership in the first week of the war, pledging cooperation with Hamas.

April 1, 2023 | David May |

Indonesia scores own goal with hostility to Israel

Attempting to ban Israeli athletes proved to be a costly own goal for Indonesia. On Wednesday, FIFA stripped Indonesia of hosting duties for the under-20 soccer World Cup due to Jakarta’s inability...

July 20, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Bloody Ramadan: How The Islamic State Coordinated A Global Terrorist Campaign

In late May 2016, the Islamic State (ISIL) ...

May 16, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy Ordered Liberty

Moderation Happens To Islam, Not In Islam

“If you want meaningful moderation in Islam, then turn for more lessons to the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, Indonesia.” I imagine my colleague Irshad Manji is having...

January 19, 2011 | Thomas Joscelyn Weekly Standard

The Beginning of the End of Swiss ‘Active Neutrality’?

 Tuesday morning, NBC News broadcast an interview with Saad Iqbal Madni, a former Guantanamo detainee. Madni’s story is an old one and there is no real “news” here. The New...

November 13, 2010 | |

Obama Knocks Israel in a Budding Sharia State

In fine Alinskyite tradition, Pres. Barack Obama is ready to say anything at any moment if it seems expedient. So it was that he spoke some months back of the “unbreakable bond of friendshi...

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...

June 24, 2010 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Senior Jemaah Islamiyah commander captured in Indonesia

Click the photo to view a presentation on Jemaah Islamiyah, al Qaeda's affiliate in Southeast Asia. The presentation was created by Nick Grace and Bill Roggio in January 2008....

September 24, 2009 |

Gaddafi, Ahmadinejad and the Muslim Political World’s Ongoing Clown Show

Pop quiz: Who is the President of Indonesia? If you knew the answer was Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, award yourself a gold sticker in the shape of the Wikipedia logo. But if you're amo...

April 9, 2009 | |

Hezbollah’s al-Manar television glorifies terrorism on Indonesia Telkom television

Washington, April 9, 2008 - Washington, DC -- The Coalition Against Terrorist Media today called on Indonesia Telkom to cease its broadcasts of al-Manar, Hezbollah...

July 31, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Senior al Qaeda commander in Afghanistan killed in US airstrike

The US Air Force killed an al Qaeda field commander in Afghanistan during an airstrike this month, al Qaeda said in a statement released on the Internet earlier this month. Abu Abdallah...

June 9, 2008 |

Hate To Break This To You: Moderate Isn’t Mainstream and Extremist Isn’t Radical

Hard to decide what is more maddening in stories like these — the fact that there are ALWAYS stories like these, or the media’s stubborn refusal to come to grips with the evidence of...

June 13, 2007 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Middle East Quarterly

Jihad’s New Leaders

The recent deaths of prominent Al-Qaeda terrorists such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq and Abu Hafs al-Urdani in Daghestan, as well as a host of less publicized kills and captures, have hastened...

October 12, 2005 | Clifford D. May |

Name Thy Enemy

For more than a generation, a war was fought against the United States. Most Americans, however, didn't know it. And even those who did may have been puzzled about whom it was we were fighti...

October 5, 2005 | Clifford D. May

Why Bali?

The latest suicide-bombings in Bali should make us stop and think: What did the people of Bali do to so anger Militant Islamists? Balinese troops are not battling Baathist insurgents and...

October 2, 2005 | FrontPageMagazine |

Blood in Bali

At 8 o'clock Saturday night, horror struck once again in Bali. As of this writing, at least 26 people were killed 101 injured -- including Indonesians, Americans, Australians, Koreans, and...

September 22, 2003 | Clifford D. May |

No Excuses

Speaking at the United Nations on Tuesday, President Bush wasted no time and minced no words. The world today, he said, faces "an unfinished war." That war is being fought in such places as Baghd...