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Walid Phares
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May 21, 2013
U.S. administration wrongly advocates the Islamist interpretation of IslamophobiaWe have a problem when the U.S. State Department is taking the same tack on Islamophobia as the Muslim Brotherhood's.
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April 7, 2013
The AP Capitulates to the Muslim BrotherhoodIn a stunning move, the Associated Press (AP) capitulated to pressures by Islamist group CAIR to drop the use of the term "Islamist" when describing self-declared Islamist militants and movements.
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April 22, 2011
Assad's Taqiyya Against His PeopleAssad can't fool his own people; he can only frustrate them further.
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March 24, 2011
After Gaddafi, Democracy or Jihadists?As far as Libya is concerned, removing Gaddafi is not the question. That should have been done years ago on the grounds of abuse of human rights. The question is who will come next?
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January 21, 2011
Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution vs. the Forces of Counter-democracyTunisia's revolt is a bold example of the vulnerability of Arab regimes to popular revolt. But there is a long journey ahead, and many pitfalls.
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June 3, 2010
The Gaza Flotilla Decoy for Iranian Missiles to Hezb'allahCamouflaging a real land fleet bringing missiles and advanced weapons to Hezb'allah from Syria to the Bekaa Valley.
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April 18, 2010
Jihadism's War on DemocraciesThe war of ideas between jihadists and democracies explained by one of the world's leading experts.
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March 7, 2010
India's Strategic Role in Countering JihadismThree democracies -- India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan -- confront jihadi terrorism. They can and must cooperate more.
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March 2, 2010
Internationalization of the Fight against the JihadistsSalafists and their radicalization network worldwide aim to confront their own foes, mostly democracies, one at a time. We have to turn the tables on them and coordinate the worldwide resistance to jihad.
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February 24, 2010
Najibullah Zazi: Genome of the Homegrown JihadistThe Zazi case shows that America is being penetrated by a network that is producing the jihadists, whether as lone wolves or in cells.
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January 23, 2010
Major Hasan and the Ideological BlindersMajor Hasan was not flagged because Washington has disarmed its own analysts.
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December 25, 2009
Christmas is Not NegotiableUntil I was 12, I thought that no one would mess with Christmas.
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November 10, 2009
One Wall Falls, Another RisesIt makes sense that President Obama skipped the Berlin celebration.
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October 4, 2009
World Must Sustain Push against Iran's Human Rights Abuses -
September 11, 2009
The War on '9-11'Gradually, 9-11 symbolism may be on its way to a museum, or perhaps to cold storage.
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June 6, 2009
15 Hard Questions about the Cairo SpeechThe building blocks of the Obama "Muslim platform" drawn from his speech.
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February 6, 2009
President Obama's TV interview on al ArabiyaPresident Barack Obama chose to grant the Saudi-funded, Dubai-based al Arabiya TV the first media salvo of the new presidency.
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January 28, 2009
Obama's Middle East ChallengesPresident Obama faces a series of challenges. His responses will depend on one factor above all others.
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December 9, 2008
A Modern-day Islamist Inquisition?The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), an association of the world's Islamic states, is pushing the United Nations to outlaw "defamation" of religion in general, and of one religion in particular.
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October 30, 2008
Vote for National SurvivalAfter Comparing the war on terror agendas of McCain and Obama, I made my choice.
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September 11, 2008
9/11 and Future JihadWhen the second jet slammed into the north World Trade Center Tower in Manhattan, I immediately told students standing next to me, "It's a jihad Ghazwa ... they have chosen the Yarmuk option."
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August 14, 2008
South Ossetia: The perfect wrong warThe confrontations taking place today in the Caucasus were triggered strategically in the Balkans few months before. We were warned.
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July 28, 2008
The Deobandi Fatwa Against Terrorism Didn't Treat the Jihadi RootMany in the West were impressed by the issuing of a fatwa (Islamic theological edict) condemning Terrorism by one of the leading religious centers in the Muslim world. Not so fast.
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June 4, 2008
How to measure al Qaeda's defeatCIA Director Michael V. Hayden is quoted as portraying al Qaeda movement as "essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the rest of the world." But that judgment depends on what the measure is.
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May 21, 2008
Hezb'allah Takes Control in LebanonVery grim news from Qatar where Hezb'allah has gotten pretty much everything it wanted in an agreement with the government to defuse the crisis that nearly led to civil war in Lebanon.
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May 10, 2008
Hezbollah's Beirut BlitzThe Syro-Iranian axis enflaming various battlefields in the region, from Basra to Gaza, has instructed its proxy local force on the Lebanese battlefield to surge against the pro-Western Government of Fuad Seniora.
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March 21, 2008
Bin Laden's Threat and the New Jihadist Message for EuropeIn an audiotape posted on Internet, Osama Bin Laden threatened Europe. I see in it the imprint of Jihadi "politicians" and strategists in international relations deeply immersed in the diplomatic games across the Mediterranean.
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December 29, 2007
2007: A Global Assessment of the ConfrontationThe conflict we call the War on Terror still continues at the end of 2007 and all indications are that its battlefields are expected to spread further, and escalate, in the upcoming year.
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December 13, 2007
Be Wise on KosovoOver the past few months a number of Western leaders, including senior United States figures, have lent their support to separating the province of Kosovo from the Republic of Serbia. They should think more carefully.
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October 15, 2007
Holy War and Anti War: An Axis against NatureThe oddest of all factional relationships is the open alliance between the Jihadists and the so-called "antiwar" neo-Left movement in the West.
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September 21, 2007
Is Al Qaeda Iraq a Threat to Sweden?The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq recently offered a bounty encouraging the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist and his editor for having published drawings deemed insulting to the religion of Islam.
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September 10, 2007
The 'Bin Trotsky' Video and the Jihadi Failure in IraqHas Osama bin Laden turned into Osama bin Trotsky? As I was watching bin Laden reading carefully from his prepared speech, I couldn't help but notice the dramatic drifting in the rhetoric from Salafi Jihadism to a new brand of neo-Wahabism
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August 6, 2007
An Idealistic Alternative to the Saudi Arms DealThe US Government is considering a new gigantic arms sale to the Saudi Kingdom. The regime should consider better ways to spend its money on defending its survival.
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July 17, 2007
Preventing the West from Understanding JihadIn the 1990's, apologist literature attempted to convince readers and audiences in the West that jihad was a "spiritual experience only, and not a menace."