America’s recent military withdrawal from Afghanistan “is a fantastic defeat for U.S. imperialism,” crowed Rutgers University professor of media studies Deepa Kumar during the Sept. 10 webinar “Twenty Years after 9/11: Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire.” With a penchant for impenetrable leftist jargon, she and her colleagues at New Jersey’s flagship public university engaged in an anti-American diatribe […]
Professors and Activists Spin 9/11 Conspiracies While Claiming Victimhood
The webinar “9/11: American Muslims Twenty Years Later” does not concern “who did it, was it Mossad, the CIA, and how did bin Laden get operatives in the building to orchestrate a controlled demolition,” stated Zaytuna College co-founder and professor emeritus Zaid Shakir. On 9/11’s twentieth anniversary, he and his fellow panelists spun absurd […]
Phyllis Chesler Discusses Women under the Taliban, Past and Present
Feminist Phyllis Chesler is Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at City University of New York and author of over 20 books. The return of Taliban jihadists to power in Afghanistan has particular resonance for her, as in 1961 she endured five months of seclusion in Kabul, Afghanistan, under her new Afghan husband’s command, […]
Robert Spencer Deconstructs Islam
“A thorough review of the historical records provides startling indications that much, if not all, of what we know about Muhammad is legend, not historical fact,” writes Robert Spencer in his new edition of Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins. Therein this bestselling author, scholar, and world-renowned “Islamophobe” details numerous factual, fatal […]
9/11 Survivor and Free Speech Advocate Deborah Weiss Reflects 20 Years After
Attorney and free speech advocate Deborah Weiss was across the street from the World Trade Center in Manhattan on September 11, 2001, when Al Qaeda terrorists attacked the center with hijacked airliners. She has worked for the Congressional Committee on House Oversight and national security think tanks, where her numerous publications include the monograph The Organization of […]
Afghanistan Through Michael Scheuer’s Eyes
Many Western observers “have ignored the very real accomplishments and popular acceptance of the Taliban government in Afghanistan,” then-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer wrote anonymously in 2002. His previously-analyzed book, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America, contains sobering analysis, which foresaw the failure of American-led nation-building efforts […]
Jihad Through Michael Scheuer’s Eyes
CIA analyst Michael Scheuer emphasized the “overwhelming centrality of religion in all of [Osama] bin Laden’s activities” in his 2002 book Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America. Twenty bloody, trauma-filled years after Al Qaeda’s devastating September 11, 2001, attacks, Scheuer’s writing remains as relevant as ever, however […]
Liberty Activist Chris Wright Discusses Jihad and the G-Men
Independent liberty activist Chris Wright, a leader of the Potomac Tea Party, a national Tea Party based in Northern Virginia, wants to know what the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) knows about threats stemming from Islamic doctrines such as sharia and jihad. He is currently suing under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to access […]
Robert Spencer Deconstructs Islam
Bestselling author and Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer has written a second, revised and expanded edition of Did Muhammad Exist?: An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins. Therein Spencer takes a critical look at Islam’s origins. How much of this faith is true? Are jihadists today merely dying for a Robin Hood myth? Spencer joined Conservative Casual Friday host Andrew […]
UNRWA’s Jihad against Israel (Part Three)
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has turned “their plight into a political tool” for Israel’s destruction, Center for Near East Policy Research (CNEPR) Director David Bedein noted in 2014. His book, Roadblock to Peace: How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict—UNRWA Policies Reconsidered, is […]