Archives: Posts From April 2008
Dangerous Word Games
By Steven Emerson | Fri, 25 Apr 2008 at 10:40 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: This is a memo to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement), Hizballah (the Party of God), the Islamic State of Iraq, Egyptian Islamic Jihad and others: Please consider changing your names to something a tad less religious sounding. ...
Do Hamas Columnists Get Paid? - Post Won't Say
By Steven Emerson | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 at 4:29 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Former President Jimmy Carter's Middle East trip has generated a fair amount of scorn because of his direct meetings and open embrace, both literal and figurative, of the terrorist group Hamas. Carter argues that peace between Israel and Palestinians ...
What about Sami? - New York Times Buys Into American Ikhwan Lobbying on Behalf of Convicted Terrorist
By Steven Emerson | Fri, 18 Apr 2008 at 3:19 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: The New York Times today became the latest tool in an aggressive lobbying campaign aimed at sabotaging a terror investigation in northern Virginia. The campaign to free Sami Al-Arian started last year, led by the Council on American-Islamic Relations ...
Fighting Global Islamist Ideology the Key to War on Terror
By Steven Emerson | Thu, 10 Apr 2008 at 12:16 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: (Note: This article summarizes my testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. My written remarks can be found here. Also, Congressional Quarterly's coverage of the hearing can be found here.) American outreach efforts with the ...
CAIR Pushes Phony Charges of Anti-Muslim Hysteria, Hate Crimes
By Steven Emerson | Fri, 4 Apr 2008 at 1:28 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: For links to the complete CAIR series, click here: http://www.investigativeproject.org/profile/172) In a series of thorough and carefully documented articles, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has detailed the sinister side of the self-proclaimed ...
Leaders' Statements Illustrate CAIR's Extremism, Anti-Semitism
By Steven Emerson | Thu, 3 Apr 2008 at 11:33 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: Repeated statements by CAIR's leaders illustrate the group's extremist and anti-Semitic positions. Today's installment in the Investigative Project on Terrorism's detailed analysis of the self-proclaimed civil rights group, the ninth in a series, ...
CAIR Has Backed Islamist Meetings, Denigrated Muslim Moderates
By Steven Emerson | Wed, 2 Apr 2008 at 2:13 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: CAIR has co-sponsored and taken part in multiple Islamist conferences in the United States, while at the same time condemning and seeking to censor more moderate Muslims. Those actions are described in today's installment in IPT's comprehensive 10-part ...
CAIR Seeks To Define Away Threat Posed by Radical Islamists
By Steven Emerson | Tue, 1 Apr 2008 at 11:28 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: Jihad? Fatwa? Wahhabism? Islamist terrorism? All terms distorted or created by the U.S. government and media to stigmatize the Muslim religion and scare the public -- or so CAIR officials would have you believe. But their protestations ignore much ...