Daniel Pipes

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  • Hunger Growls in Egypt

    Hunger Growls in Egypt

    Egypt, famed for millennia as the "breadbasket of the Mediterranean," now faces alarming food shortages. A startlingly candid report in Cairo's Al-Ahram newspaper by Gihan Shahine, entitled "Food for Stability" makes clear the extent of the crisis.

  • Turkish President Fails to Conquer New York City

    Turkish President Fails to Conquer New York City

    The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, appeared at an hour-long on-the-record event at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York yesterday afternoon. The complete — if not entirely coherent — transcript of the English-language simultaneous translation can be found here

  • Sorry Mr. President, ISIS Is 100 Percent Islamic

    Sorry Mr. President, ISIS Is 100 Percent Islamic

    In a televised address on how to address the Islamic State this evening, President Barack Obama declared the organization variously known as ISIS or ISIL to be "not Islamic."

  • How Church Attendance Affects Attitudes Toward Israel

    How Church Attendance Affects Attitudes Toward Israel

    What role does religion play in American attitudes towards Israel? An analysis by Frank Newport, the editor-in-chief of Gallup Inc., reviews 14 annual Gallup polls from 2001 to 2014 in which respondents answer the same question.

  • Don't Put Terrorists on Trial

    Don't Put Terrorists on Trial

    The Obama administration has brought an accused Libyan terrorist named Ahmed Abu Khattala to Washington for trial. His saga reveals how the government views the Islamist threat, and it's discouraging. Fortunately, a much better alternative exists.

  • Islamism with a Human Face?

    Islamism with a Human Face?

    Until now, Islamist rule has implied violence and dictatorship; can it evolve into something decent?

  • Conservatives Rally on the Streets of Paris

    Conservatives Rally on the Streets of Paris

    On a recent Sunday in Paris, I had the opportunity to witness an anti-immigration street protest. The approximately 600 participants followed started next to the catacombs in Place Denfert-Rochereau, walked a 1.9 km route in about 1½ hours along two broad boulevards, and ended at the Place d'Italie, where they spent an equal length of time listening to speeches.

  • Has Iran Gained a Foothold in the Arabian Peninsula?

    Has Iran Gained a Foothold in the Arabian Peninsula?

    According to a sensational report by Awad Mustafa in Defense News, not only has Tehran signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates over three disputed islands in the Persian Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, but it has also reached a possibly even more important accord with the government of Oman. Both of these agreements have vast implications for the oil trade, the world economy, and Iranian influence.

  • Saudi's Bristle at Obama's Outreach to Iran

    Saudi's Bristle at Obama's Outreach to Iran

    The "Joint Plan of Action" signed with Iran by the so-called P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S.) on Nov. 24 in Geneva caused Shiite Arabs to celebrate, Sunni Arabs to worry, and Saudis to panic. The Saudi response will have far-reaching and unpredictable consequences.

  • The Silver Lining of Obama's Weak America

    The Silver Lining of Obama's Weak America

    That the socialist French government of François Hollande just blocked a bad deal with Tehran, emerging as the hero of the Geneva negotiations, is on one level a huge surprise. But it also follows logically from the passivity of the Obama administration.

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