Islam & Islamism

Islam and its infidels by Daniel Pipes, Washington Times, May 13, 2013

Why the CIA Director is Wrong: Rethinking al-Qaida by Barry Rubin, Rubin Reports, February 22, 2013

Video (22’45”): Nonie Darwish on Islam, Sharia & Apostasy, December 2012

Where Are the Muslim Anti-Islamists? They’re the People Battling and Being Murdered by the Islamists by Barry Rubin, Rubin Reports, August 29, 2012

The problem today is that we are caught between two lies. The mainstream Western lie is that Islam is a religion of peace full stop. There is nothing at all militant in its texts. A small fringe of extremists have misinterpreted it or are even heretics. So all Muslims are moderates pretty much, either moderate moderates or moderate Islamists. And anyone who says otherwise is an Islamophobic racist.  That is a lie.

But then there are those—far smaller in number and lacking power in the mainstream media or universities but present in other places—who say Islam is the problem full stop. It is inevitably militant, extremist, and violence. There is no such thing as political Islamism because all Muslims want Sharia dictatorships. So the radicals are proper representatives and there are few or no moderates at all. And anyone who says otherwise is a wimpy apologist sell-out.  And that’s a lie.

Why Revolutionary Sunni Islamism is the World’s Greatest Strategic Threat and None of it is Moderate by Barry Rubin, Rubin Reports, August 26, 2012

Existential Questions Facing the Muslim World by Harold Rhode, Gatestone Institute, June 1, 2012

Georgetown and the Islamist Money Changers by Stephen Schwartz, American Thinker, June 24, 2011

A 57-member international body headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the OIC was founded in Morocco in 1969 to “protect” the Islamic sites in Jerusalem from Israel. It defines “Islamophobia” with considerable and questionable latitude, as any criticism of Muslim individual, institutional, ideological, legal, or cultural behavior. Combating Islamophobia as it conceives it, OIC seeks to prevent free discussion about Islam or the lives of Muslims under, for example, the radical Islamists dominating Saudi Arabia and ruling Iran.

Who’s Corrupting What? by Ira Sharkansky, Shark Blog, May 4, 2011

The pinnacle of incompetence by Efraim Karsh, Jerusalem Post, March 23, 2011

My Optimism About Europe by Daniel Pipes, National Review Online, February 8, 2011

Islam and Democracy – Much Hard Work Needed by Daniel Pipes, National Post (Canada), February 7, 2011

The Feminist Politics of Islamic Misogyny by Phyllis Chesler, American Thinker, November 13, 2010

Ban the Burqa? The Argument in Favor by Phyllis Chesler, Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2010 (pdf)

Offensive Jihad: The One Incontrovertible Problem with Islam by Raymond Ibrahim, Pajamas Media, October 28, 2010

Ehr Kumt by Rabbi Shalom Lewish [Atlanta], PRIMER-Connecticut, September 28, 2010

Nie Years After September 11, 2001 by John Hillen, Foreign Policy Research Center E-Notes, September 2010

“[T]o be so politically correct as to dismiss entirely from public dialogue the profound connections between Islamic terrorism and issues within the Islamic polity and Ummah is to completely cloud one’s ability to have any strategic and moral clarity about the issue.”

The Ground Zero Mosque: Lessons from Israel by Daniel Gordis, Jerusalem Post, September 3, 2010

Informing or Misinforming the U.S. Military on Islam and Islamism by Barry Rubin, Rubin Reports, September 4, 2010 [a review of Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat by Youssef H. Aboul-Enein]

Islam’s Nowhere Man by Fouad Ajami, Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2010 [on Faisal Shahzad and the "Islamists at the gates" of the U.S. and the West]

We are at War – Others May Not Be, The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, JINSA Report #954, January 11, 2009

Only Muslims Can Stop Muslim Terror by Leslie H. Gelb, The Daily Beast, January 7, 2010

Moderate Islam: Western Ally or Western Myth? [full video], A Debate by Daniel Pipes and Wafa Sultan, Middle East Forum, December 1, 2009

Suicide Bombing as Worship: Dimensions of Jihad by Denis MacEoin, Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2009

“Mainstream” Islamist Convention Features Hate Speech and Hezbollah Defense, The Investigative Project on Terrorism, IPT News, July 8, 2009

Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam? by Raymond Ibrahim, Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2009, pp. 3-12

Islam Should Prove It’s a Religion of Peace by Tawfik Hamid, Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2009

Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence? by Phyllis Chesler, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2009, pp. 61-69

The War on Words by Supna ZaidiMuslim World Today, October 24, 2008

Lawful Islamism’s Greatest Attack Yet: The OIC Resolution Against Defaming Religion by Supna Zaidi, Muslim World Today, October 10, 2008

Counting Islamists by Daniel Pipes, Jerusalem Post, October 7, 2008

Freedom of Speech in Jihad Analysis: Debunking the Myth of Offensive Words, U.S. Central Command Red Team, August 21, 2008

The enemy has a name by Daniel Pipes, Jerusalem Post, June 18, 2008

CAIR: Civil Rights or Extremism? by Meredith Braverman and Eric Rozenman, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), June 14, 2008

Islam’s war doctrines ignored by Raymond Ibrahim, Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) blog, May 29, 2008

Book review by Bat Ye’or of: Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t by Robert Spencer, Middle East Quarterly, Volume XV, No. 2, Spring 2008

Book review by Michael Rubin of: World War IV: The Long Struggle against Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz, Middle East Quarterly, Volume XV, No. 2, Spring 2008

The Third Jihad: When radical Muslims distort Islam by Stephen Schwartz, The Weekly Standard, Volume 13, Issue 31, April 28, 2008

The Psychological Asymmetry of Islamist Warfare by Irwin J. Mansdorf and Mordechai Kedar, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2008, pp. 37-4

Fatah’s Embrace of Islamism by Ido Zelkovitz, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2008, pp. 19-26

We must defeat Islamofascism by Mike Huckabee, Jerusalem Post, February 4, 2008The Crisis of Islam

Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism by George Weigel, Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Notes, February 2008

Americanism vs. Islamism: A Personal Perspective by Zuhdi Jasser, 12th Annual Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs, Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Notes, January 2008

Contrasting Secular and Religious Terrorism by Jonathan Fine, Middle East Quarterly Winter 2008, Volume XV, Number 1, pp. 59-69

Defending Islamofascism: It’s a valid term. Here’s why. by Christopher Hitchens, Slate.com, October 22, 2007

Why the Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant by Paul E. Marek, IsraelNationalNews.com, March 18, 2007

The Roots of Muslim Rage by Bernard Lewis, The Atlantic, September 1990