Mein Kampf

August 24, 2021 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Introducing How to Fight Anti-Semitism in Arabic

Ideas Beyond Borders asked me to write a forward to Bari Weiss’s book How to Fight Anti-Semitism, which the organization is translating to Arabic. The lines below are a rough translation to English of...

May 20, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Nobody Knows Anything About Fascism

As I wrote in this space a few weeks ago, Donald Trump is no fascist, but there...

May 22, 2015 |

Egypt’s Religious Freedom Farce

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt presents himself as an Islamic reformer. He has...

July 25, 2011 |

Anders Breivik and The Turner Diaries: How a 2011 Norwegian Massacre Echoes a 1978 American Novel

Anders Behring Breivik, the 32-year-old Norwegian man who slaughtered 76 people, is not only a terrorist and a murderer, but also a plagiarist: Sections from his 1,500-page manifesto were copied...

June 13, 2011 | Scripps Howard News Service

Carter’s Confusion

Let’s be fair to Jimmy Carter. Let’s suppose he isn’t indulging in egotistical grandstanding, that he doesn’t harbor a deep-seated bias against Israel, and that he’s...

October 20, 2010 |

Who Says Islam Is Totalitarian?

Who says Islam is a totalitarian doctrine? Well, Geert Wilders does, of course. As the editors point out in Monday’s superb National Review Online editorial, the Dutch parliamentarian has e...

April 17, 2008 |

Carter’s Confusion


Former US president Jimmy Carter in Ramallah.
Former US president Jimmy Carter in Ramallah.

Let’s be fair to Jimmy Carter. Let’s suppose he isn’t indulging in egotistical grandstanding, that he doesn’t harbor a deep-seated bias against Israel, and that he’s not been influenced by the millions of dollars Islamists have provided to his Carter Center. Let’s suppose his freelance diplomacy is sincerely in pursuit of the elusive path to peace in the Middle East.

January 29, 2006 | |

Sanction — Before it’s Too Late

By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. The Mideast mess just gets messier. Last week's Palestinian election win by the Islamist terrorist party Hamas was bad enough. Now we face a growin...

December 13, 2005 |

The Elephant in the Middle East Living Room

Watching Wahhabis.

November 2, 2005 | Clifford D. May |

When Someone Tells You He Wants to Kill You – Take Him Seriously

Call it Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Mein Kampf moment.  Eighty years ago, Adolf Hitler published an autobiography-cum-manifesto. Its title translates as “My Struggle.” In...