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Patrick Poole
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February 6, 2019
Extremist Imam Keynotes 'Civil Rights' FundraiserNot only have Imam Abdul-Malik's longtime associations with highly questionable organizations come under fire, but there has been publicity surrounding his own extremist statements.
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October 31, 2008
Obama Forgot to Spread His Own WealthEven when making more than $250,000, he gave away less than 1 percent to charity until he became a millionaire
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August 21, 2008
Confessed Al-Qaeda terrorist registered to vote in OhioAnd he may get to vote -- legally. Unbvelievable!
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July 24, 2008
Dem and Dumber in OhioDemocratic congressional candidate Mary Jo Kilroy sent a look-alike to a rural parade.
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May 4, 2008
Homeland Security's Muslim advisors contradicted new terror lexiconAt least some of the Muslim advisors consulted by Homeland Security dispute the new lexicon adopted avoiding the terms "jihad", "jihadist", and "mujahedeen" to describe Islamic terrorists.
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April 30, 2008
Flying Blind in the War on TerrorThe government's decision to ban the use of "jihad" and "mujahedeen" referring to Islamic terrorism exposes its failure to define who the enemy is in the Global War on Terror
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October 31, 2007
Media establishment buries politician's bad news before electionOhio political blogger Matt Naugle is alleging that the management of the Columbus Dispatch has quashed a potentially damaging story about Columbus Mayor Mike Coleman just days before the election
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October 23, 2007
Bad News for Holy Land DefendantsDefendants and their supporters in the Holy Land Foundation trial might want to keep the non-alcoholic champagne on ice for the moment.
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October 11, 2007
Radical Islam's Willing BloggersThe burgeoning left wing smear industry, set up to manufacture attacks on conservatives, has its own radical Islam sector. I know this by personal experience.
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September 18, 2007
What's in a Name? 'Jihad' vs. 'Hiraba'What's in a name? When it comes to identifying what we are fighting against in the war for our civilization, quite a lot.
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September 10, 2007
Employment Discrimination against American Muslims: Myths and RealitiesA groundbreaking study published late last week finds that repeated assertions of a post-9/11 backlash against Muslims in the workplace are pure fiction.
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August 9, 2007
Local Law Enforcement and Homeland SecurityLast month I had the pleasure of briefing a large group of local and state law enforcement officials on the Islamic extremist threat in their area
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July 28, 2007
What does the Pew poll actually tell us?The establishment media has been giddy this week reporting the results of a recently-released Pew Research Center poll which finds support for suicide bombings declining in parts of the Muslim world.
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July 13, 2007
The curious links of a CAIR doctor who doesn't support terrorLast week, Dr. Asma Mobin-Uddin, CAIR-Ohio president and a pediatrician, penned a plaintive op-ed for the New York Post decrying the role of doctors in the recent attempted terrorist attacks
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July 9, 2007
Media Silence on Antiwar Violence (updated)Airman Jonathan Schrieken, 22, is fighting for his life after being shot in the heart by a gunman intending to make an antiwar statement
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July 5, 2007
Islam's Global War against ChristianityFrom Nigeria to Indonesia, Christians are under siege in virtually every single country in the Muslim world, the victims of countless acts of discrimination, depredation, brutality, and murder
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June 21, 2007
errataIn an article I had published here on Thursday, "Talks with the Muslim Brotherhood", I critically cited some previous writings of Nixon Center scholar Robert Leiken
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June 15, 2007
New Study: Political Islam Correlated to Support for TerrorismA new study by the US Institute for Peace (USIP) of polling data from fourteen different Muslim countries finds that support for a role for Islam in politics strongly correlates with more likely support for terrorism.
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June 12, 2007
Mr. Bush Goes to AlbaniaPresident George W. Bush was greeted by thousands of American-flag waving Albanians and a 21-gun salute during his short visit to Albania on Sunday. Predictably, some will believe that this marks the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it.
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June 8, 2007
Muslim Brotherhood victim granted asylumThe Dallas Morning News reports a victory this week for a victim of persecution by the Muslim Brotherhood and Mubarak regime
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June 5, 2007
Lies, Damned Lies, and CAIR's StatisticsIn his Autobiography, Mark Twain offers these words of wisdom: "There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies, and statistics". When presented anything by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), you usually get all three
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May 30, 2007
Muslim American Society declares victoryFollowing up on yesterday's entry, "Jihad-by-lawsuit fails in Boston", it is interesting to note the response by the Boston chapter of the Muslim American Society
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May 17, 2007
Schwarzenegger Should Terminate His health Care PlanI didn't anticipate that when I commented on the plan in California to impose taxpayer-financed universal health coverage that it would prompt a correspondence exchange between Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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May 16, 2007
The Ft. Dix Six and sudden jihad syndromeMy analysis of the Fort Dix Six situation last week is entirely vindicated by John Schindler of the NSA and Navy War College
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May 9, 2007
Kosova and Anti-Jihad BigotryThe announcement earlier this week by the FBI of the arrest of a terrorist cell near Fort Dix, New Jersey has prompted a number of emails to chastise me. My crime? Having some kind words to say about the Albanian people
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May 8, 2007
The US and the Muslim BrotherhoodWestern media and Beltway foreign policy establishments are engaged in a push to rehabilitate the image of the Muslim Brotherhood in order to convince US diplomats to initiate a dialogue with the organization.
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April 27, 2007
Albania and the Perils of the 21st CenturyThe tiny nation of Albania has been pulled out of communist isolation and thrust into the era of globalization, and with it into the very real ideological and religious conflicts of the 21st Century.
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February 13, 2007
The Militarization of the Egyptian Muslim BrotherhoodIn late October, a series of exchanges here at American Thinker debated the extremism or moderation of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the largest and oldest Islamist organization in the world
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January 19, 2007
Health Insurance and "Adequate" CareHealth insurance is the key to adequate medical care. The standard of care supplied to those without insurance and lacking substantial means is perhaps "adequate" by some lights, but you wouldn't settle for it.
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January 17, 2007
Governor Schwarzenegger Should Go to NashvilleCalifornia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off his first full term in office this week by announcing during his state-of-the-state address that he intends to implement a state health insurance plan to cover all residents, including illegal aliens. But before riding the universal health care train too far, Gov. Schwarzenegger might want to make a stop in Nashville
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December 29, 2006
Why Saddam Must HangThe news that Saddam Hussein has lost his final legal appeal and that he will be hanged sometime within the next 30 days should be welcome news for war-weary Americans. To deny him the hangman's noose is to say that he - and all of us for that matter - is less than a human.
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December 23, 2006
New York Times Passes Sensitive Information to Terrorists - AgainIn yet another breath-taking display of callous disregard for public safety against potential terror attacks, the New York Times yesterday published information obtained from a disgruntled Port Authority employee concerning the dangerous vulnerability of the PATH transit tunnels running beneath the Hudson River
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December 13, 2006
Bush's March to the (Mediterranean) SeaLast week, the Iraq Study Group told the President and the nation that we need to prepare for retreat from Iraq. In their numerous recommendations, there are none that are directed towards actually winning the present conflict. Permit me, if you will, to make a completely out-of-Left-field suggestion, one I doubt will ever be entertained inside the Beltway
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December 1, 2006
Islam and the Problem of RationalityIn the run-up to Pope Benedict's current visit to Turkey, TIME Magazine opened its pages to Tariq Ramadan, Europe's favorite Islamist and perhaps the most influential Muslim figure in the West today. Ramadan chided the Pope and Europe for ignoring the positive contributions of Islam to the development of rational thought in the West.
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November 3, 2006
NPR Joins Sen. Kerry in Insulting Servicemen -
October 3, 2006
The Islamist Cult of Death at Work in Iraq -
September 20, 2006
Reuters' Global Megaphone Slurs America -
August 31, 2006
Kafir-phobia: Americans as Violent Anti-Muslim Bigots -
July 26, 2006
Radical Islamists and Western Governments