The Taliban are getting rich from the immigration business. And we’re paying for it. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Ariana Afghan Airlines used to fly Al Qaeda terrorists from Afghanistan to the Middle East. As a sideline, it […]
Father Miceli’s Muslim Mirage
Late Catholic priest Vincent P. Miceli wrote in his 1981 book, The Antichrist: The Final Campaign Against the Savior, that “religious Muslims are revolting in disgust against Western—and especially American—commercialism and moral decadence.” Over 40 years later, Sophia Institute Press’ republishing of his work, which contains insightful comments on leftist evils such as the cult […]
Bin Laden wanted to replicate 9/11 jihad attacks, didn’t expect magnitude of US response to them
There were gross miscalculations on both sides. Osama bin Laden thought antiwar sentiment would be much stronger than it turned out to be, and that the U.S. government’s response to 9/11 would be much weaker. The U.S., meanwhile, along with the rest of the West, steadfastly refused to face the ideological wellsprings of the attacks, […]
UK: Muslims enraged as teacher uses picture of Osama to depict Muhammad, school suspends teacher and apologizes
The “unreserved and sincere apology” is actually a plea: please don’t bomb the place, please don’t cut off anyone’s head, as French teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded after he showed his class a picture of Muhammad. This is how Sharia adherence spreads: through fear. “Dunstable school sorry after using picture of Osama Bin Laden to […]
Islam: Wave of the Future?
“Islamism is the sole growing, developing, and truly popular populist ideology in the Middle East,” wrote House Taskforce on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare Director Yossef Bodansky in 1999. His book, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, documented the enduring appeal in Muslim-majority societies of Islam as a political system as opposed […]
Islam’s Religion of Power
“Religiously motivated to the extreme, Islamists usually rally around charismatic religious leaders for guidance and motivation,” wrote Yossef Bodansky in his 1999 book, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America. Contrary to common claims that Islam means peace, this House Taskforce on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare director emphasized the role that political […]
Scholars’ Ink, Martyrs’ Blood in Afghanistan
Rice University sociology professor Craig Considine, a self-proclaimed “Islamic apologist,” likes to quote the dubious hadith that the “ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.” In his argumentation, this canonical narrative about Islam’s prophet Muhammad evinces Islam’s pacific nature, yet Muslim scholars often inspire the shedding of martyrs’ […]
Saudi Arabia between Machiavelli and Muhammad
House Taskforce on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare Director Yossef Bodansky described Saudi Arabia’s monarchy as “cynically pragmatic” in his 1999 book, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America. As he documented, the life of the terrorist-mastermind Osama bin Laden exemplified how rulers in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh have often instrumentalized religious zeal […]
Saudi Arabia and Osama bin Laden Between God and Mammon
“Had he followed the path chosen for him by his father, [Osama] bin Laden could have been a respected building contractor in Saudi Arabia and a billionaire in his own right,” wrote in 1999 Yossef Bodansky. In his pre-9/11 book, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, the then director of the House […]
Islam’s Crisis and Osama bin Laden
In 1999, House Taskforce on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare director Yossef Bodansky noted that “starting in the late 1970s, Islamist thinkers could see no way out of the crisis of Islam except for an all-out confrontation with the West.” His pre-9/11 book, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, remains revealing and […]