Daniel Pipes

Is there any subject that the mainstream media treats worse than the Palestinian Authority (PA)? Case in point: placing the Oct. 15 murder of three American security personnel in Gaza. Here is USA Today‘s comment, representative of media assessments of the...

Suppose for an instant that no weapons of mass destruction ever turn up in Iraq. Of course, they might well still appear, but let’s imagine that Saddam Hussein did not have an advanced program for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, as well as the missiles...

“Intellectual thugs,” huffed Rashid Khalidi, now of Columbia University. “Cyber-stalking,” whined Juan Cole of the University of Michigan. “Crude McCarthyism” sniffed David Bartram of the University of Reading....

“You will sooner or later pay for your pack of lies,” read one threatening message last week to the author of The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change. In that book, just released in Canada, Irshad Manji, 34, explores such usually...

Ten years later, it is embarrassing to recall the elation and soaring expectations. President Bill Clinton lauded it as a “great occasion of history.” Secretary of State Warren Christopher ruminated on how “the impossible is within our reach.”...

Howls of rage went up after the Joint Terrorism Task Force, guns drawn, arrested Maher Hawash in the parking lot of an Intel Corp. facility in March and placed him in solitary confinement. The protests intensified as prosecutors detained him without charges for more...

Here’s a puzzle: How do Palestinian refugees differ from the other 135 million 20th-century refugees? Answer: In every other instance, the pain of dispossession, statelessness, and poverty has diminished over time. Refugees eventually either resettled, returned...

Americans are increasingly negative about Islam and Muslims – or so found an important survey that the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press published last week. Perhaps the most dramatic change has been the jump in Americans who find that Islam, more...

Can the “road map” that President Bush just launched do better than the dismal failure of prior Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy? Yes – if it avoids making the same mistakes. The failure of the last round was foreshadowed at its very start, on Sept. 13,...

A day after suicide bombers killed 29 people in Morocco in mid-May, that country’s interior minister noted that the five nearly simultaneous attacks “bear the hallmarks of international terrorism.” More strongly, the Moroccan justice minister...

When President Bill Clinton deployed American troops in places like Bosnia and Haiti, he was criticized for turning foreign policy into “social work” (as Michael Mandelbaum pungently put it). By what authority, many asked in the 1990s, did the president...

by Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Calt Harris “U.S. flags are the emblem of the invading war machine in Iraq today. They are the emblem of the occupying power. The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military.” Those words were...

How did the enemy get into our camp?” That’s what Bart Womack, a command sergeant major of the elite 101st Airborne Division, asked himself as a grenade rolled past him after 1 a.m. on Sunday at an American camp in Kuwait. The attacker worked methodically,...

Has anyone noticed an indifference in the precincts of the far Left to the fatalities of 9/11 and the horrors of Saddam Hussein? Right after the 9/11 attack, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen called it “the greatest work of art for the whole cosmos.”...