Learning in Arabic about Jews and Judaism

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Via Daniel Pipes: When I lived in Cairo in the 1970s, I conducted a little experiment: What, using only Arabic-language sources, could I learn about Jews, Judaism, Jewish history, Jewish culture, and the like? The paucity of resources stunned me; basically, the best way to learn about these subjects was to read between the lines of antisemitic tracts. It is therefore with delight that I read today that the American Jewish Committee, under the directorship of Yehudit Barsky, has launched a new website, Asl Al-Yahud (“origins of the Jews”), that deals in Arabic with these subjects, with an emphasis on

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Did Divine Intervention Fell Ariel Sharon?

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Via Daniel Pipes, Did Divine Intervention Fell Ariel Sharon? In January 2006, when Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon had a stroke, permanently incapacitating him, the American evangelical leader Pat Robertson attributed Sharon’s medical condition to divine intervention resulting from Sharon’s withdrawal from Gaza a few months earlier. The book of Joel, the prophet Joel, makes it very clear that God has enmity against those who, quote, “divide my land.” God considers this land to be his. You read the Bible and he says “this is my land,” and for any prime minister of Israel who decides he is going to

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Countries Threatened with Extinction

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From Daniel Pipes: Quiz time: Which Middle Eastern country disappeared from the map not long ago for more than six months? Answer: Kuwait, which disappeared from August 1990 to February 1991, becoming Iraq’s 19th province. This brutal conquest by Saddam Hussein culminated intermittent Iraqi claims going back to the 1930s. Restoring Kuwait’s sovereignty required a huge American-led expeditionary force of more than half a million soldiers. This history comes to mind because an Iranian spokesman recently enunciated a somewhat similar threat against Bahrain. Hossein Shariatmadari, an associate of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and editor of the daily newspaper

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The Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Council on American-Islamic Relations praise Osama bin Laden

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Via Daniel Pipes: The Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Council on American-Islamic Relations each have a problem. As perhaps the most prominent and effective Islamist organizations in the United States, they have distinct stylistic and ideological characteristics but work together effectively as a one-two punch. Their problem concerns two of their most prominent staffers, Edina Lekovic of MPAC and Hussam Ayloush of CAIR. Lekovic, who serves as MPAC’s communications director, appeared on CNBC’s Kudlow & Company with counterterrorism specialist Steven Emerson on May 23, where they discussed a Pew Research Center poll on U.S. Muslim attitudes. The exchange took

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Reviving Hitler’s “Big Lie” to Vilify the Jewish State

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From Reviving Hitler’s “Big Lie” to Vilify the Jewish State: “If today’s Arab anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish propaganda strongly resembles that of the Third Reich, there is a good reason.” So writes an associate of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Joel Fishman, in “The Big Lie and the Media War Against Israel” (Jewish Political Studies Review, Spring 2007), an insightful new piece of historical research. Fishman begins by noting today’s topsy-turvy situation: Because Israel defends its citizens against terrorism, conventional warfare, and weapons of mass destruction, it is perceived as a dangerous predator. How did such an insane inversion of

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UC-Intifada

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From UC-Intifada: On Jan. 31, Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes gave a talk at the University of California at Irvine titled, “The Threat to Israel’s Existence.” Roughly 100 members of UCI’s Muslim Student Union occupied the central seats in the lecture hall, most wearing t-shirts reading “UC Intifada.” A coordinated disruption began about five minutes into the talk. After the protesters exited the building while chanting slogans, student Reut Cohen followed the MSU students outside with her video camera running. Cohen’s video of an organizer of the protest declaring: “It’s just a matter of time before the State of Israel

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Request from D. Pipes concerning taxis & alcohol in Minnesota

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Received by email from D. Pipes:——————————- Dear Reader: A further decision is due in the controversy over taxi drivers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport who refuse to transport passengers visibly carrying alcohol. The Metropolitan Airports Commission, which has jurisdiction over the drivers, invites the public’s opinion; and I urge your involvement. MAC has sent a notice (which I have posted in full on my website, at http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/679#meetingthat recounts developments since its decision in October 2006 to deny requests by drivers to distinguish between Shar’i-compliant and –noncompliant taxis. MAC writes: For the past several months, the Metropolitan Airports Commission has

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Radical Islam vs. Civilization

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Text of a talk presented by Daniel Pipes on January 20, 2007, in London in a debate with the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, as transcribed by the 910 Group with the help of others. The original posting of the video can be seen at YouTube; for a single clip version, see the posting at the Global Defense Group. For accounts of the debate, see the bibliography at “My Debate with London Mayor Ken Livingstone.”

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