Christine Tasin is co-leader with Pierre Cassen of the far-right Islamophobic campaign group Riposte Laïque and its front organisation Résistance Républicaine. Cassen and another Riposte Laïque activist were found guilty of inciting hatred against Muslims in 2012, and earlier year Tasin herself … Continue reading
Daniel Pipes has a solution to the crisis provoked by the Innocence of Muslims film.
Turkish prime minister Recep Erdoğan walks out of the room at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos after clashing with Shimon Peres over Israel’s attack on Gaza Over at the Washington Times, Daniel Pipes offers a bizarre assessment of … Continue reading
Daniel Pipes files an enthusiastic report from the founding conference of René Stadtkewitz’s right-wing Freedom Party: “The new party, whose slogan is ‘The party for more freedom and democracy’, speaks candidly about Islam, Islamism, Islamic law, and Islamization. Starting with … Continue reading
Over at the Washington Times Daniel Pipes opines that he found Pastor Terry Jones’ plan to ban the Qur’an “distasteful”. But the actual object of his attack is the Obama administration, who Pipes claims capitulated to the threat of “Muslim … Continue reading
A Massachusetts pharmacy college instituted a ban on clothing that obscures the face, including face veils and burqas, weeks after a Muslim alumnus who is also the son of a professor was charged with plotting terror strikes. The policy change … Continue reading
Danny Postel analyses the politics of the Iranian organisation the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) – “an Islamist-Stalinist cult that was on Saddam’s payroll and the State Department considers a terrorist organization” – and points out that it has some unlikely allies: “Here … Continue reading
“… burqas and niqabs should be banned in all public spaces because they present a security risk. Anyone might lurk under those shrouds – female or male, Muslim or non-Muslim, decent citizen or criminal – with who knows what evil purposes…. “Expressing … Continue reading
“Pipes calls himself a ‘soldier’ in the war against Islamic fundamentalism…. He soon plans to unveil Islamist Watch, a Web site which he describes as an attempt to monitor nonviolent radical Islam in the West…. Like his father, Daniel Pipes … Continue reading
Writing in the New York Sun, Daniel Pipes examines six cases of Muslims attempting to “intimidate” the West, from the Rushdie affair to the Pope. He concludes: “No conspiracy lies behind these six rounds of inflammation and aggression, but examined … Continue reading