THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA

An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis

Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor



Conservative & Free-Market Analysis of Government, Politics & Public Policy, Covering Political, Legal, Constitutional, Economic, Cultural, Military, International, Strategic, & Geopolitical Issues
PUBLIC ISSUES & POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES
ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM -- ISLAMISM, JIHAD, & JIHADISM:
AMERICA, WESTERN CIVILIZATION, & THE THREAT OF RADICAL ISLAM:
THE GLOBAL WAR THAT MILITANT ISLAM IS WAGING AGAINST US
THE FOURTH WORLD WAR
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THE EXTENT OF MUSLIM SUPPORT FOR THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT:  WHO ARE THE ISLAMISTS? HOW MANY ISLAMISTS ARE THERE?  WHAT ARE THEIR GOALS?  ISLAMISM & ISLAMIC LAW -- HOW MANY ADHERENTS OF MILITANT ISLAM ENDORSE THE RESORT TO VIOLENCE TO ACHIEVE WORLDWIDE APPLICATION OF THE SHARI'A?
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Volume X, Issue # 259, October 8, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

COUNTING ISLAMISTS

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE U.S.A. & THE WEST UNDER ISLAMIC LAW:  WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & TOLERANCE, IF SHARIA & ISLAMISM SPREAD TO THE WESTERN WORLD -- HOW ISLAMISTS WOULD GOVERN THE WORLDWIDE MUSLIM UMMAH -- HOW WOMEN & NON-MUSLIMS WOULD BE TREATED -- ISLAMISM AS A TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGY
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Volume X, Issue # 258, October 7, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

"SHARIA IS HATE"

By Supna Zaidi



CULTURE, RELIGION, IDEOLOGY, & HONOR KILLINGS:  WHAT DRIVES A MUSLIM FATHER TO MURDER HIS OWN DAUGHTER IN THE NAME OF FAMILY HONOR, SHOW NO REMORSE FOR HAVING DONE SO, & THEN RAVE & RANT AT BEING SERVED HAM SANDWICHES WHILE IN PRISON, DEMANDING THAT HE BE PROVIDED HALAL FOOD INSTEAD?   WHAT IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF SUCH BEHAVIOR -- TRIBALISM, ISLAM, OR ISLAMISM?
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Volume X, Issue # 249, September 29, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DOES ISLAM JUSTIFY HONOR KILLINGS?

By Supna Zaidi



THE ISLAMIST PUSH FOR THE ADOPTION & IMPLEMENTATION OF ISLAMIC LAW IN WESTERN SOCIETIES:   WESTERN ACADEMIC APOLOGISTS FOR MILITANT ISLAM IGNORING OR COVERING UP THE INJUSTICES OF SHARIA LAW & FOCUSING ON REPACKAGING IT IN WAYS THAT WILL APPEAL TO WESTERN SENSIBILITIES -- MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROFESSORS AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES SEEKING TO DOWNPLAY THE THREAT THAT SHARIA LAW POSES TO CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY -- INROADS OF ISLAMISM IN GREAT BRITAIN & THE INTRODUCTION SHARIA LAW THERE -- THE ROLE OF SAUDI FUNDING OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROGRAMS IN FURTHERING THE APPLICATION OF ISLAMIC LAW IN THE WEST
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Volume X, Issue # 246, September 26, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SHARIA LAW: COMING TO A WESTERN NATION NEAR YOU?

By Cinnamon Stillwell



COUNTERINSURGENCY & CONVENTIONAL WARFARE:  CAN A SOVEREIGN STATE & ITS AGENCIES PREVAIL IN A COUNTERINSURGENCY WAR WAGED AGAINST A NONSTATE ENEMY?  CAN A SOVEREIGN STATE SUCCESSFULLY DEFEND ITSELF & ITS VITAL INTERESTS AGAINST INSURGENCY & TERRORISM?
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Volume X, Issue # 230, September 14, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MUST COUNTERINSURGENCY WARS FAIL?

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



ISLAMISM & AMERICAN SOCIETY:  ISLAMIST INROADS ON AMERICA'S EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS & POLITICAL PROCESSES -- ISLAMIST PENETRATION OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES & U.S. POLITICS -- THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY INVITES TO A GATHERING OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS A PRO-ISLAMIST PROFESSOR WHO HAS OBFUSCATED THE THREAT OF RADICAL ISLAM, NUMBING HER STUDENTS & THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TO A DANGEROUS IDEOLOGY
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Volume X, Issue # 228, September 12, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

Meet Ingrid Mattson

By Jonathan Schanzer



THE MUSLIM PERCEPTION OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, JR.:  PERCEPTION OF OBAMA AS A LIFELONG CHRISTIAN, AS A FELLOW MUSLIM, OR AS AN APOSTATE FROM ISLAM?  THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY & THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MUSLIM VIEW OF OBAMA'S RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION
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Volume X, Issue # 210, August 25, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BARACK OBAMA THROUGH MUSLIM EYES

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE UNSEEN INTERNAL ENEMY:  THE ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN -- EXAMPLES OF HOW ISLAMISTS WHO INFILTRATE THE U.S.A. & THE WEST PROCEED -- THE GREAT DAMAGE THAT WELL-PLACED ISLAMIST INFILTRATORS CAN DO TO THE SECURITY OF THE U.S.A. & THAT OF ITS ALLIES -- THE NEED FOR EACH WESTERN GOVERNMENT TO KEEP UNDER CLOSE SURVEILLANCE ITS EMPLOYEES WHO ADHERE TO ISLAM & WORK IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, THE MILITARY, & THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS -- THE NEED FOR SUCH GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES TO BE WATCHED FOR CONNECTIONS TO TERRORISM
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Volume X, Issue # 202, August 15, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE WEST'S ISLAMIST INFILTRATORS

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



TURKEY, ISLAMISM, & THE RULING JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY:  WARDING OFF CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES TO THE ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME IN TURKEY -- INVESTIGATION OF THE SOCALLED "ERGENEKON CONSPIRACY" -- RETALIATION AGAINST PROMINENT SECULARISTS, CRITICS OF THE AKP GOVERNMENT, & THOSE WHO DEMAND CONSTITUTIONALISM & THE RULE OF LAW IN TURKEY -- THE ENDEAVOR TO PRESERVE & PERPETUATE THE ISLAMIST DICTATORSHIP IN TURKEY
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Volume X, Issue # 196, August 8, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ERDOGAN, ERGENEKON, & THE STRUGGLE FOR TURKEY

By Dr. Michael Rubin



WHAT IS AMISS ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT?  THE MYOPIC PERSPECTIVE OF EUROPEANS, AS REGARDS INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, THE ISLAMIST JIHAD AGAINST THE WEST, INTERNAL SUBVERSION OF EUROPEAN SOCIETIES & THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, JR.:  NAIVE INDIFFERENCE TO THE BURGEONING ISLAMIC SUBCULTURE WITHIN EUROPEAN NATION-STATES, MUCH OF EUROPE HOPING IN VAIN THAT IT CAN INDEFINITELY IGNORE THE PROBLEM, & DO SO WITHOUT ANY REPERCUSSIONS -- DISREGARDING THE ENCROACHMENTS OF THE ISLAMISTS, INCLUDING THE PARISIAN RIOTS OF 2005 & 2006 -- MUCH OF THE EUROPEAN POPULACE PRETENDING THAT NO DANGER TO EUROPE & WESTERN CIVILIZATION EXISTS -- EUROPE'S DESIRE FOR A LEFTIST PRESIDENCY IN THE U.S.A., A PRESIDENCY STRONGLY INCLINED TOWARD COLLECTIVISM, ECONOMIC & MILITARY WEAKNESS, APPEASEMENT, & "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" -- THE EROSION & VIRTUAL COLLAPSE OF EUROPE'S TRADITIONAL CULTURAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSES
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Volume X, Issue # 194, August 7, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

OBAMA IS EUROPE'S "VISION" FOR AMERICA

By Christopher G. Adamo



ISLAMIC LAW & ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY VERSUS RELIGIOUS LIBERTY:  THE PERILS FACED BY THOSE WHO LEAVE ISLAM & CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY -- SHARI'A-SANCTIONED OPPRESSION OF & VIOLENCE AGAINST MUSLIM APOSTATES IN THE WEST, AS WELL AS THOSE IN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES -- THE FAILURE OF PROMINENT MUSLIMS IN THE WEST TO CONDEMN THE OPPRESSION & VIOLENCE & AFFIRM THE RIGHT OF EVERY PERSON TO CHANGE HIS OR HER FAITH
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Volume X, Issue # 192, August 5, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

FEAR STALKS MUSLIM APOSTATES IN THE WEST

By Dr. David J. Rusin



THE UNITED KINGDOM -- SOCIETAL COHESION, INTERNAL SECURITY POLICY, & THE ISLAMIST THREAT:  THE PROFOUND CONCEPTUAL FLAWS AT THE HEART OF BRITAIN'S STRATEGY FOR COMBATTING THE THREATS FACING THE COUNTRY -- THE INCONGRUITY BETWEEN CURRENT DEFENSE DISCOURSE & THE THREAT POSED BY MILITANT ISLAM -- THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S MISGUIDED APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM, PURSUING A STRATEGY OF MULTICULTURALISM INVOLVING CULTURAL APPEASEMENT OF ISLAMISM -- THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT SEEKING TO BUY OFF THE WORST PROSPECT OF TERRORISM & URBAN VIOLENCE, BUT ENABLING THE ISLAMISTS WITHIN BRITAIN TO ACHIEVE THEIR SUBVERSIVE GOALS
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Volume X, Issue # 188, July 31, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ENDING LONDONISTAN

By Melanie Phillips



THE U.S.A. & THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE MIDDLE EAST, AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS, & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY -- ISRAEL'S SAFETY & SECURITY AS A FUNDAMENTAL AMERICAN INTEREST -- ISLAMIC TERRORISM, ITS CAUSES & CONSEQUENCES, & THE THREAT IT POSES TO AMERICA & THE WEST -- THE AMERICAN MILITARY PRESENCE IN IRAQ -- THE BUSH DOCTRINE -- SERIOUS FLAWS IN KENNETH POLLACK'S ANALYSIS: UNDERPLAYING THE IMPORTANCE OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY AS A CAUSE OF TERRORISM & POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- FAILURE TO ADDRESS HOW TO REFORM THE BLOATED & INEFFECTIVE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT BUREAUCRACY & ITS COUNTERPARTS IN THE UNITED NATIONS & OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, BUREAUCRACIES WHICH IMPEDED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BUSH DOCTRINE IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM
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Volume X, Issue # 180, July 22, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

A GRAND STRATEGY FOR AMERICA IN THE MIDDLE EAST:
A REVIEW OF POLLACK'S BOOK

By Dr. Michael Rubin



U.S. FOREIGN & MILITARY POLICY FORMULATION DURING THE INITIAL STAGES OF THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:   SOME OF THE THOUGHTS DEVELOPED BY U.S. POLICYMAKERS IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACK ON THE U.S.A. -- DEVELOPMENT OF A DEFENSIVE & OFFENSIVE STRATEGY FOR THE WAR ON ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE WAR AGAINST THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORK & THE STATES SUPPORTING THE NETWORK -- THE AL-QA'IDA-IRAQ CONNECTION & THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE & THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY -- HOW THE CIA & THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLITICIZED INTELLIGENCE, LEAKED INFORMATION, SHAPED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC'S CONCEPTION OF THE IRAQ WAR, & UNDERMINED POPULAR SUPPORT FOR THE WAR -- A VERY COSTLY ERROR IN IRAQ -- THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM IN IRAQ
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Volume X, Issue # 179, July 21, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MY PENTAGON YEARS:  BRIEFING BY DOUGLAS J. FEITH
A SUMMARY ACCOUNT

By Mimi Stillman



FACTIONAL DIVISION WITHIN THE CHECHEN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT:  IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT BETWEEN CHECHEN NATIONALISTS & ISLAMISTS -- WHAT THE OBJECTIVE OF THE CHECHEN RESISTANCE SHOULD BE:  ACHIEVEMENT OF AN INDEPENDENT & POLITICALLY STABLE CHECHEN STATE MODELED AFTER WESTERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES & INTEGRATED INTO A FREE & PEACEFUL WORLD, OR TOTAL VICTORY IN A GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD TO DESTROY THE WEST & ACHIEVE ISLAMIST WORLD DOMINATION IN A WORLDWIDE ISLAMIC CALIPHATE -- A COMPARISON BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY JIHADISTS & THE BOLSHEVIKS OF AN EARTIER ERA
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Volume X, Issue # 171, July 15, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE RISE OF THE CHECHEN EMIRATE?

By Dr. Dimitry Shlapentokh



THE FACTORS THAT CAUSE ISLAMISM TO DECLINE OR FLOURISH:  FACTORS THAT HAVE MORE TO DO WITH IDEOLOGY & ISSUES OF IDENTITY THAN WITH ECONOMICS & SOCIO-ECONOMIC STANDING -- VERY LITTLE OR NO RELATION BETWEEN ECONOMIC STRESS & THE PROBLEM OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM
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Volume X, Issue # 163, July 3, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHICH HAS MORE ISLAMIST TERRORISM,
EUROPE OR AMERICA?

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE BALANCE & OBJECTIVITY IN THE EXAMINATION & ANALYSIS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD:   SEEKING LESS POLITICIZATION, GREATER DIVERSITY OF PERSPECTIVE, MORE ATTENTION TO THE THREAT OF MILITANT ISLAM, & AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE POST-COLONIALIST & ANTI-WESTERN BIASES CHARACTERISTIC OF THE PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP & SOCALLED "SCHOLARSHIP" LONG DOMINANT IN THE FIELD OF MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES -- THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA:  FORMED TO PROVIDE A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION THAT WOULD BE MORE INDEPENDENT & REFLECT THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY MORE THAN POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES & SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

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Volume X, Issue # 161, July 2, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM IN ACADEMIA

By Cinnamon Stillwell



EUROPEAN ISLAMISTS:  THE SECURITY RISK POSED BY NATIVE EUROPEANS WHO CONVERT TO ISLAM & EMBRACE A RADICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE RELIGION -- THE INVOLVEMENT OF MUSLIM CONVERTS IN ISLAMIST TERRORIST ATTACKS ON EUROPEAN SOIL -- THE GROWING THREAT TO EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES & THE CHALLENGE IT IS PRESENTING TO EUROPEAN SECURITY AGENCIES & POLITICIANS -- WHAT ROLE SHOULD THE EUROPEAN UNION PLAY IN MEETING THE CHALLENGE?
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Volume X, Issue # 160, July 2, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

EUROPEAN CONVERTS TO TERRORISM

By Milena Uhlmann



THE RAPIDLY GROWING ALLIANCE BETWEEN ISLAMISTS & WESTERN LEFTISTS:  THE BURGEONING ALLIANCE AS ONE OF TODAY'S MOST DISTURBING POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS, ONE THAT IMPEDES THE WEST'S EFFORTS TO PROTECT ITSELF, ONE THAT MUST BE EXPOSED, REJECTED, RESISTED, & DEFEATED
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Volume X, Issue # 159, July 1, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ISLAMIST-LEFTIST ALLIED MENACE

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE TRUE MEANING OF THE OF THE ARABIC WORD "HUDNA" & ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN THE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  THE NEED FOR WESTERNERS TO UNDERSTAND THE WORD'S NUANCE & HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT -- ISLAMIC MILITARY HISTORY AS PRECEDENT FOR THE ISLAMISTS' USE OF THE CEASE-FIRE, OR TRUCE, AS A MILITARY TACTIC IN THEIR GLOBAL WAR AGAINST ISRAEL & THE WEST -- THE HUDNA AS A TACTICAL CEASE-FIRE PERMITTING THE AGGRESSOR FORCES TO RETREAT & THEN REGROUP, REARM, & REBUILD THEIR MILITARY INFRASTRUCTURE IN ORDER TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE WHEN THEY CALL OFF THE CEASE-FIRE & ATTACK THE TERRITORY THEY PREVIOUSLY LEFT BEHIND -- THE ARABS' USE OF THE HUDNA IN THEIR CONFLICT WITH THE STATE OF ISRAEL
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Volume X, Issue # 155, June 25, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TACTICAL HUDNA & ISLAMIST INTOLERANCE

By Dr. Denis MacEoin



THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCURATELY IDENTIFYING THE ENEMY WE CONFRONT, NAMELY, ISLAMISM -- NAMING THE ENEMY AS ESSENTIAL TO DEFINING WAR GOALS, DEFEATING THE ENEMY, & WINNING THE WAR --ISLAMISM AS A RADICAL UTOPIAN VERSION OF ISLAM, A WELL-FUNDED, WIDESPREAD TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGY, & A MOVEMENT THAT IS ENDEAVORING TO DESTROY WESTERN CIVILIZATION & IMPOSE A GLOBAL ISLAMIC ORDER WHICH FULLY APPLIES ISLAMIC LAW -- THE APPROPRIATE U.S. & WESTERN RESPONSE TO THE ISLAMIST THREAT:   VANQUISH ISLAMISM & HELP MUSLIMS DEVELOP AN ALTERNATIVE FORM OF ISLAM
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Volume X, Issue # 151, June 19, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ENEMY HAS A NAME

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



MILITANT ISLAM'S IDEOLOGICAL ASSAULT AGAINST THE U.S.A.:  ISLAMIST INDOCTRINATION IN AMERICAN PUBLIC, CHARTER, & VOUCHER-FUNDED PRIVATE SCHOOLS -- WAGING THE "SOFT JIHAD" IN AMERICA'S CLASSROOMS, TARGETING THE MINDS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN & YOUTH -- USE OF TEXTBOOKS, CURRICULA, CLASSROOM EXERCISES, FILM SCREENINGS, SPEAKERS, & TEACHER TRAINING TO POISON AMERICAN CULTURE & UNDERMINE LOYALTY TO AMERICAN SOCIETY, ITS BASIC JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES, & ITS CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT -- CITIZENS' POLITICAL ACTION & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AS POTENT WEAPONS IN THE FIGHT TO STOP MISUSE OF OUR SCHOOLS BY AMERICA'S ISLAMIST ENEMIES & THEIR FELLOW TRAVELERS
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Volume X, Issue # 146, June 12, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISLAM IN AMERICA'S PUBLIC & OTHER TAXPAYER-FUNDED SCHOOLS:
EDUCATION, OR INDOCTRINATION?

By Cinnamon Stillwell



THE HADITH PROJECT:  THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT'S ATTEMPT TO EFFECT A BOLD RE-INTERPRETATION OF ISLAM & SEPARATE ITS ORIGINAL THEOLOGY FROM THE ACCRETIONS OF FOURTEEN CENTURIES -- THE DANGER THAT THE PROJECT MAY, BY LIMITING ITS SUBJECT MATTER & AVOIDING SUCH IMPORTANT ISSUES AS THE HEADSCARF, FEMALE LEGAL RIGHTS, MUSLIM WOMEN MARRYING NON-MUSLIM MEN, RIBBA, JIHAD, THE RIGHTS OF NON-MUSLIMS & THE CREATION OF AN ISLAMIC POLITICAL & SOCIAL ORDER, PROMOTE ISLAMISM MORE THAN MODERNIZE ISLAM
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Volume X, Issue # 128, May 21, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IS TURKEY'S GOVERNMENT STARTING A MUSLIM REFORMATION?

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



FICTIONAL WORKS THAT EXPLORE THE INTERSECTION OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES & INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE:   THREE NOVELS AUTHORED BY DANIEL SILVA -- PRINCE OF FIRE -- THE MESSENGER -- THE SECRET SERVANT
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Volume X, Issue # 124, May 16, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES IN FICTION

By Cinnamon Stillwell



THE EFFORTS OF ABDUL RAHMAN AL-LAHIM TO REFORM SAUDI LAW & THE SAUDI JUDICIAL SYSTEM:  HIS BATTLE WITH THE ISLAMIST FORCES THAT CONTROL SAUDI ARABIA'S JUDICIARY -- THE LONG ROAD TO A CONSTITUTIONAL JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN SAUDI ARABIA -- LAHIM'S UNCERTAIN FUTURE AS A SAUDI LAWYER
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Volume X, Issue # 121, May 12, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DISSIDENT WATCH:  ABDUL RAHMAN AL-LAHIM

By Nathaniel Rosenblatt



TWO FUNDAMENTALLY OPPOSED MODELS OF SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION: MULTICULTURALISM, WHICH BESTOWS EQUAL STANDING UPON DIFFERENT CULTURES IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE, & UNIVERSALISM, WHICH BESTOWS EQUAL STANDING UPON INDIVIDUALS WHO WIELD A COMMON SET OF RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES -- BRITAIN'S INCREASING ACCEPTANCE OF MULTICULTURALISM & ACCOMODATION OF THE STRICTURES OF ISLAMIC LAW -- DISCARDING THE PRIMARY ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  A SYSTEM IN WHICH ALL LIVE AS EQUALS BEFORE A SINGLE STANDARD OF LAW -- ENCOURAGING THE CREATION OF HOMEGROWN ISLAMISTS -- THE GROWING INTERNAL ISLAMIST THREAT TO BRITAIN, EUROPE, & THE BROADER WEST
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Volume X, Issue # 120, May 12, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

A SCHISM OVER SHARI'A IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

By Dr. David J, Rusin



WESTERNERS BENDING TO THE DEMANDS & DESIGNS OF POLITICAL ISLAM:  PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS ACCOMODATING ISLAMISTS IN THE WEST -- DENYING SERVICE TO OR CREATING HARDSHIP FOR ONE GROUP IN ORDER TO ACCOMODATE THE WISHES OF ANOTHER GROUP -- CASES IN WHICH GROUP ACCOMODATION RESULTS IN RESTRICTED MOVEMENT, HAMPERED SPEECH, & GREAT INCONVENIENCE TO THE MAJORITY -- CODDLING ISLAMISTS & ABUSE OF INFLUENCE IN THE PRIVATE SPHERE -- THE UNREASONABLE DEGREE TO WHICH ISLAM IS ALLOWED TO DISENGAGE FROM SOCIETY -- FAILURE OF THE REASONABLENESS, FAIRNESS, & LOYALTY TESTS
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Volume X, Issue # 105, April 19, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PRIVATE ACCOMODATIONS FOR ISLAM

By R. John Matthies



RELIGION, POLITICS, & GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS -- ISLAM, AUTHORITARIANISM, & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  CAN ISLAM BE REFORMED IN SUCH MANNER AS TO BE MADE COMPATIBLE WITH CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY?  ISLAM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO EVOLVE IN A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC DIRECTION, BUT MIDDLE EASTERN TRIBALISM & THE EXISTENCE OF A COMPELLING & POWERFUL ISLAMIST MOVEMENT OBSTRUCT MODERNIZATION & THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTITUTIONALISM, THE RULE OF LAW, CITIZENSHIP, CIVIL LIBERTIES, SEPARATION OF GOVERNMENT & RELIGION, EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS, GENDER EQUALITY, & THE OTHER PREQUISITES OF A GENUINELY CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC STATE
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Volume X, Issue # 104, April 18, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

A DEMOCRATIC ISLAM?

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE RULING REGIME & GULEN MOVEMENT IN TURKEY:  THEIR USE OF FABIAN TACTICS TO UNDERMINE TURKISH CONSTITUTIONALISM & SECULARISM & BRING ABOUT AN ISLAMIST REVOLUTION IN TURKEY -- THREAT TO U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- INABILITY OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO EFFECTIVELY PROTECT AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE REGION, DUE TO THE INCOMPETENCE OF POLITICAL APPOINTEES & CAREER BUREAUCRATS IN THE U.S. FOREIGN POLICY APPARATUS
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Volume X, Issue # 101, April 14, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TURKEY'S TURNING POINT:
Could There Be an Islamic Revolution in Turkey?

By Dr. Michael Rubin



THE FUTURE OF EUROPE & ITS CULTURE:  ISLAMIC DOMINATION OF THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT, EUROPE'S REJECTION OF ISLAM & ISLAMIFICATION, OR HARMONIOUS INTEGRATION OF MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS INTO EUROPEAN SOCIETIES -- THE DIFFICULTY OF IMAGINING ANY OTHER FUTURE SCENARIO FOR WESTERN EUROPE THAN ITS BECOMING ISLAMICIZED OR HAVING A CIVIL WAR
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Volume X, Issue # 100, April 14, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

EUROPE OR EURABIA?

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE SOURCE OF RECENT SUCCESSES OF EUROPE'S POLITICAL FAR RIGHT:  RIGHTWING RESISTANCE TO THE GROWING ISLAMIZATION OF EUROPE -- THE OPPOSITION OF RIGHTWING POPULISTS & NATIONALISTS TO IMMIGRATION FROM MUSLIM COUNTRIES & TO CONCESSIONS GRANTED TO MUSLIMS IN EUROPE -- FEAR & LOATHING OF ISLAMIC LAW & ATTEMPTS TO APPLY IT IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES -- FEAR THAT EUROPEAN CHRISTIANS WILL BECOME MINORITIES WITHIN THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES -- FEAR THAT WESTERN-STYLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY WILL BE SUBVERTED BY THE ISLAMISTS AMOMG MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS
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Volume X, Issue # 99, April 14, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISLAM & THE EVOLUTION OF EUROPE'S FAR RIGHT

By R. John Matthies



THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT & STRATEGIC LAWSUITS AGAINST PUBLIC PARTICIPATION (SLAPP):  THE "LEGAL" JIHAD ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST -- ISLAMIST ORGANIZATIONS & INDIVIDUAL ISLAMISTS FILING LITIGATION TO INTIMIDATE, DEMORALIZE, & SILENCE CRITICS OF ISLAM & ISLAMISM -- FILING FRIVOLOUS & MALICIOUS LAWSUITS IN ORDER TO ABOLISH PUBLIC DISCOURSE CRITICAL OF ISLAM AS WELL AS TO ESTABLISH PRINCIPLES OF STRICT ISLAMIC LAW (SHARIA LAW) AS THE POLITICAL & LEGAL GOVERNING AUTHORITY IN THE WEST -- THE ISLAMIST ASSAULT AGAINST WESTERN CULTURE, CONSTITUTIONALISM, & THE RIGHT OF THE CITIZEN TO PARTICIPATE IN CIVIC AFFAIRS & SPEAK FREELY ABOUT PUBLIC ISSUES
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Volume X, Issue # 98, April 14, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WELCOME TO "LAWFARE" -- A NEW TYPE OF JIHAD

By Brooke M. Goldstein



MUSLIM IMMIGRATION INTO EUROPEAN COUNTRIES & ITS THREAT TO WESTERN CULTURE:  MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS & THEIR DRIVE TO IMPOSE THEIR LAWS, CUSTOMS, & TRADITIONS ON EUROPEAN SOCIETIES -- VISIBLE SIGNS OF THE RELUCTANCE OF EUROPEANS TO ACCEPT ISLAMIC WAYS -- GROWING POPULARITY OF ANTI-IMMIGRANT, NATIONALIST PARTIES THROUGHOUT WESTERN EUROPE -- INDICATIONS OF THE LIKELY EMERGENCE OF A CHRISTIAN, CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC, & ENLIGHTENED CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT REASSERTING EUROPEAN & WESTERN VALUES & INTENT ON DEFENDING & PRESERVING EUROPE'S HISTORIC IDENTITY
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Volume X, Issue # 87, April 3, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WILL EUROPE RESIST ISLAMIZATION?

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



AL-QA'IDA -- THE DEBATE OVER THE NATURE OF ITS ORGANIZATION & LEADERSHIP: CENTRALIZED OR DECENTRALIZED -- WHEN IS A TERRORIST NETWORK CENTRALIZED? HOW CENTRALIZED IS AL-QA'IDA?   THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF CENTRALIZATION -- REGROUPING & RELOCATION OF AL-QA'IDA'S SENIOR LEADERSHIP AFTER 9-11 -- HOW THE SENIOR LEADERSHIP REGAINED ITS STRENGTH AFTER LOSING AFGHANISTAN -- AL-QA'IDA AS THE MOST DANGEROUS TERRORIST ADVERSARY THAT AMERICA FACES, A TERRORIST NETWORK POSSESSING A LETHAL COMBINATION CAPABILITY & THE WILL TO CARRY OUT MASS-CASUALTY ATTACKS INSIDE THE U.S.A.
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Volume X, Issue # 84, April 1, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IS AL-QA'IDA'S CENTRAL LEADERSHIP STILL RELEVANT?

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Kyle Dabruzzi



PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM & MILITANT ISLAM:  THE EXTENT TO WHICH PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM NOW INTERTWINES WITH ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY -- FATAH'S FUSION OF PALESTINIAN NATIONAL & ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS IN ORDER TO USE RADICAL ISLAM AS AN INSTRUMENT OF MOBILIZATION -- THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE FOR PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD & THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL
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Volume X, Issue # 78, March 21, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

FATAH'S EMBRACES OF ISLAMISM

By Ido Zelkovitch



THE ISLAMIST THREAT:  THE CLOSE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ISLAMISM & FASCISM -- THE WILL OF THE ISLAMISTS TO EXTERMINATE THE JEWS -- ISLAMIST DETERMINATION TO CONQUER THE WEST, SUBJUGATE CHRISTIANS, & EXTINGUISH POLITICAL OPPONENTS -- ISLAMISM VERSUS MODERATE ISLAM -- IRAN, ISRAEL, & THE WEST -- THE NEED TO FIGHT THE ISLAMISTS POLITICALLY, IDEOLOGICALLY, & MILITARILY
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Volume X, Issue # 70, March 10, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

"I CONSIDER ISLAMISM TO BE FASCISM"

Mohamed Sifaoui Interviewed by Sophie Fernandez Debellemanière



ISLAM, ISLAMIC STATES, ISLAMISM, & THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE:   ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE IN THE CONTEXT OF STRATEGIES WEAK STATES & TERRORIST GROUPS ADOPT TO CONFRONT STRONGER MILITARY POWERS -- THE ISLAMIST WAY OF WAR & THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS -- RELIGIOUS FANATICISM, SUICIDAL IDEOLOGY, & MORAL INSPIRATION FOR THE STRATEGY OF TERRORISM -- PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIPULATION & THE CALL TO JIHAD -- EXPLOITATION OF WESTERN MORAL CODES TO CREATE A TACTICAL ADVANTAGE FOR THE ISLAMIST ENEMY -- HOW TO BALANCE WESTERN MILITARY NEEDS, INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW, & THE REALITY OF FACING AN ENEMY WHOSE TACTICS ARE NOT RESTRAINED BY ACCEPTED CONVENTIONS -- THE ABSOLUTE NEED FOR THE WEST TO WIN THE IDEOLOGICAL WAR AS WELL AS THE MILITARY ONE
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Volume X, Issue # 65, March 3, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASYMMETRY OF ISLAMIST WARFARE

By Irwin J. Mansdorf & Mordechai Kedar



THE EMERGENT PHENOMENON OF ISLAMIC POLYGAMY IN THE WESTERN WORLD:  THE TENDENCY OF WESTERN GOVERNMENTS TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY AS THE CONJUGAL MORES & ATTENDANT PROBLEMS OF SEVENTH-CENTURY ARABIA ARE IMPORTED INTO & ALLOWED TO TAKE ROOT IN THE WEST -- WHY THE INTRODUCTION OF & INCREASING TOLERANCE TOWARD ISLAMIC POLYGAMY SHOULD BE A CAUSE FOR WORRY IN THE WEST -- THE SHARIA VERSUS WESTERN JURISPRUDENCE -- ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW & GENDER DISCRIMINATION -- THE SHARIA, MISOGYNY, & SOCIETAL DISFUNCTION -- UNDERMINING WESTERN LEGAL SYSTEMS & THEIR FOUNDATIONAL VALUES -- YIELDING TO OR ACTIVELY PROMOTING ISLAMIST INFILTRATION & SUBVERSION OF WESTERN SOCIETIES -- WILL WESTERNERS DEFEND A HARD-WON HERITAGE OF FREEDOM & EQUALITY, OR WILL WE CONTINUE SLOUCHING TOWARD SHARIA & ISLAMIST DOMINATION?
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Volume X, Issue # 64, March 2, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TAKE MY WIVES, PLEASE:  POLYGAMY HEADS WEST

By Dr. David J. Rusin



ISLAMIST ATTEMPTS TO SUPPRESS FREE SPEECH IN THE WEST:  THE ISLAMISTS' MIXED SUCCESS IN CURBING WESTERN FREEDOM OF SPEECH ABOUT MUHAMMAD -- PRESSURE BY MUSLIMS ON THE WEST TO CONFORM TO ISLAMIC CUSTOMS -- THE CONTEMPORARY (I.E., ISLAMIST) APPROACH:  HIGH-HANDED DEMANDS BACKED UP BY ANGRY MOBS, RIOTS, & TERRORIST PLOTS
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Volume X, Issue # 58, February 28, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DESTROYING SCULPTURES OF MUHAMMAD

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



MUSLIM PHYSICIANS & THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT:  WHY MANY MUSLISMS TRAINED TO HEAL ILLNESS & RELIEVE HUMAN SUFFERING HAVE CHOSEN TO EMBRACE JIHADIST IDEOLOGY & SUPPORT ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- THE RADICALIZATION OF MUSLIM DOCTORS IN THE WEST AS WELL AS THOSE IN THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL & SOUTH ASIA --WHY ISLAMISTS TARGET MEDICAL STUDENTS & PRACTICING PROFESSIONALS FOR POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION & RADICALIZATION -- THE ACTIVITIES OF ISLAMIST DOCTORS & MEDICAL STUDENTS IN THE WEST & THE CONSEQUENT EROSION OF MEDICAL ETHICS AS WELL OTHER ASPECTS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- HOW GOVERNMENTS & MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS IN THE WEST CAN COUNTER THIS THREAT -- PUTTING PRESSURE ON ISLAMIC POLITICAL REGIMES IN THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL & SOUTH ASIA TO STOP THEIR FINANCIAL SUPPORT & THAT OF THEIR CITIZENS FOR RADICAL IDEOLOGICAL GROUPS
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Volume X, Issue # 55, February 26, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SCIENTIFIC TRAINING & RADICAL ISLAM

By Stephen Schwartz



THE POSITION OF ISLAM IN THE U.S.A.:  THE ISLAMISTS' DEMAND FOR SPECIAL TREATMENT OF & SPECIAL PRIVILEGES FOR AMERICAN MUSLIMS -- MAKING DEMANDS THAT IGNORE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF AMERICAN GOVERNANCE, SUCH AS CONSTITUTIONALISM, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, SEPARATION OF POWERS, CHECKS & BALANCES, FEDERALISM, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW, & SEPARATION OF THE SPHERES OF GOVERNMENT & RELIGION -- THE GOALS OF SUCH DEMANDS:  SMASHING THE BEDROCK FOUNDATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY, DESTROYING THE RULE OF LAW, BREACHING THE AMERICAN SOCIAL CONTRACT, FREEZING THE AMERICAN MELTING POT, & PROMOTING ISLAMIC SEGREGATION, EXCEPTIONALISM, & SEPARATISM WITHIN THE PRESENT BORDERS OF THE U.S.A.
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Volume X, Issue # 54, February 25, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISLAMIST RECOMMENDATIONS OR MANDATES?

By R. John Matthies



THE CURRENT SORRY STATE OF DISCOURSE IN THE CORRIDORS OF ACADEMIA:  WEEPING & WAILING OVER THE FIRING OF PRO-ISLAMIST ACADEMICS -- ALLEGATIONS OF "ACADEMIC FREEDOM VIOLATIONS" AGAINST UNIVERSITIES THAT DENY TENURE TO & TERMINATE THE EMPLOYMENT OF POLITICALLY BIASED, EXTREMIST PROFESSORS WHO DISSEMINATE PROPAGANDA JUSTIFYING TERRORISM & DEFENDING AMERICA'S ISLAMIST ENEMIES -- "ACADEMIC FREEDOM" CONFERENCES SEEKING TO GENERATE PUBLIC SYMPATHY FOR PROFESSORS WHO LOST THEIR POSITIONS AS A RESULT OF THEIR OWN UNPROFESSIONAL & CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR -- IGNORING THE REAL THREAT TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM:  ATTEMPTS TO SILENCE & PENALIZE LOYAL AMERICAN ACADEMICS WHO RESIST THE PREVAILING LEFT-LEANING, ANTI-WESTERN POLITICAL ORTHODOXY ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES
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Volume X, Issue # 52, February 24, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NYU HOSTING THE LATEST "ACADEMIC FREEDOM" CONFERENCE

By Cinnamon Stillwell



THE WEST & ISLAMIC LAW:  INCREASING APPLICATION OF THE SHARI'A IN WESTERN SOCIETIES -- WHAT CAN BE DONE TO STOP THE SPREADING APPLICATION OF ISLAMIC LAW, A MEDIEVAL LEGAL SYSTEM DEEPLY AT ODDS WITH MODERN CIVILIZATION, BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS & WESTERN-STYLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, A LEGAL SYSTEM THAT OPPRESSES WOMEN & TURNS NON-MUSLIMS INTO SECOND-CLASS CITIZENS?  AN ESSENTIAL FIRST STEP:  WESTERNERS MOUNTING A UNITED FRONT AGAINST THE SHARI'A
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Volume X, Issue # 49, February 21, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

RESISTING ISLAMIC LAW

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



AMERICA'S DECAYING CULTURE & THE LIBERAL LEFTIST SOCIAL & POLITICAL FORCES THAT HAVE CREATED THE PROBLEM:  LIBERALISM & THE SORRY STATE OF AMERICAN CHILD-REARING, EDUCATIONAL, & POLITICAL SYSTEMS -- A CADRE OF LIBERAL SOCIAL ARCHITECTS & "FAMILY SERVICES EXPERTS" THAT HAS RENDERED AMERICAN PARENTS IMPOTENT TO DEAL EFFECTIVELY WITH BADLY BEHAVING CHILDREN & YOUTH -- SCHOOLS THAT TURN OUT FERAL, UNDISCIPLINED, ARROGANT, VULGAR, BARELY LITERATE, & POLITICALLY INDOCTRINATED GRADUATES & DROP-OUTS WHO ARE SERIOUSLY DILUTING THE QUALITY & WISDOM OF THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE -- AN ELECTORAL SYSTEM IN WHICH BOTH MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES & THEIR RESPECTIVE LEADERSHIP ELITES INTEND AN AGENDA WILL NOT PROVIDE ANY REAL SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF THE NATION'S DECAYING CULTURE, BUT WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE POWER & ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN THE LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN, WHILE STIFLING HIS ABILITY TO SEEK RECOURSE -- LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERS SEEKING TO DISMANTLE THE NATION'S ABILITY TO FORCEFULLY CONFRONT OUR ISLAMIST ENEMIES, SUBORDINATING AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY TO ACHIEVING MOMENTARY POLITICAL GAINS FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
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Volume X, Issue # 48, February 20, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

FROM ELECTIONS TO SHOOTINGS:  AMERICA IS BROKEN

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE "POLITICALLY CORRECT" PHILOSOPHY OF MULTICULTURALISM:  ANOTHER NAME FOR WESTERN DEMORALIZATION & ONE OF THE GREATEST DIFFICULTIES IN THE WEST'S CONFRONTATION WITH ISLAM DURING THE PAST DECADE -- FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE THE TRUE NATURE OF ISLAM & THE VIOLENCE THAT IS INHERENT IN ISLAMIC CULTURE -- FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE THE TRUE NATURE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, & THE GREAT GOOD THAT IS INHERENT IN WESTERN CULTURE -- WESTERN MULTICULTURALISTS' INABILITY OR UNWILLINGNESS TO COMPREHEND THE REAL RELATION OF ISLAM & ISLAMIC CULTURE TO JIHADISM & TERRORISM -- THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DENIAL & BLINDNESS OF WESTERN ELITES REGARDING THE SERIOUS THREAT THAT THE ISLAMIC CHALLENGE POSES TO OUR WAY OF LIFE IN THE WEST
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Volume X, Issue # 47, February 18, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE REALITY OF ISLAM

By S. T. Karnick



JOHN L. ESPOSITO:  UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, SPECIALIST IN ISLAMIC STUDIES, & APOLOGIST FOR ISLAMISM -- DISSEMINATING ISLAMIST PROPAGANDA -- DEFLECTING RESPONSIBILITY FOR ISLAMIC TERRORISM TO THE WEST, WHILE NEGATING THE NEED FOR SELF-REFLECTION AMONG MUSLIMS -- AIDING, ABETTING, & ADHERING TO AMERICA'S ISLAMIST ENEMIES
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Volume X, Issue # 44, February 16, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ESPOSITO AT STANFORD

By Cinnamon Stillwell



AIDING & ABETTING ENEMIES OF THE U.S.A. DURING TIME OF WAR:  THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENTS OF STATE & DEFENSE EMPLOYING ADHERENTS OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY, BILLING THEM AS SPECIALISTS IN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, & ENTRUSTING THEM WITH HUGE SUMS OF MONEY TO BRING SAUDIS AND EGYPTIANS TO AMERICA TO DISSEMINATE ISLAMIST PROPAGANDA -- TWO U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES ENTRUSTED WITH PROTECTING AMERICA FROM ISLAMISTS ARE, IN FACT, HIRING & EMPOWERING THEM
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Volume X, Issue # 41, February 14, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CODDLING ISLAMISTS

By Winfield Myers



ISLAM & ISLAMISM IN EUROPE:  THE SPOILS OF ISLAMIST "LAWFARE" & SUBVERSION IN EUROPEAN SOCIETIES -- LEGAL WRANGLING BY ISLAMISTS IN ORDER TO PUNISH & SUPPRESS OPPOSING OPINION, HINDER EFFORTS TO QUESTION ISLAMIC FAITH & PRACTICES, & ESTABLISH A REGIME WHEREIN NOTHING ISLAMIC IS SUBJECT TO CENSURE -- HOW COMMENDING THE MUSLIM PRACTICE OF STONNING A PERSON TO DEATH FOR ILLICIT PLEASURE CAN MAKE THE FORTUNE OF THE ONE WHO DOES THE COMMENDING -- THE CASE OF HANI RAMADAN & THE CANTON OF GENEVA
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Volume X, Issue # 39, February 13, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

RAMADAN'S STONE LOVE

By R. John Matthies



ISLAM IN GREAT BRITAIN:  THREAT TO BRITISH CULTURE, UNITED KINGDOM SECURITY, & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- BRITISH APPEASEMENT CONCERNING THE WAR ON TERROR, THE NATURE OF THE FAMILY, & THE RULE OF LAW -- CHALLENGING & UNDERMINING THE VERY NATURE OF LIFE IN BRITAIN & THE WEST
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Volume X, Issue # 38, February 12, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BRITAIN'S ENCOUNTER WITH ISLAMIC LAW

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



ISLAMIC APOLOGETICS & INDOCTRINATION CARRIED ON IN AMERICA'S PUBLIC ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY SCHOOLS:  K-12 TEXTBOOKS THAT MISREPRESENT & GLORIFY ISLAMIC BELIEFS & HISTORY, OFTEN AT THE EXPENCE OF OTHER RELIGIONS & CULTURES -- K-12 TEXTBOOKS WRITTEN BY PROFESSORS WHO CONDUCT BIASED & DISTORTED MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROGRAMS IN THE COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES -- ISLAMIST APOLOGISTS & PROPAGANDISTS WAGING THE JIHAD BY SUBJECTING AMERICAN CHILDREN & YOUTH TO PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
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Volume X, Issue # 33, February 6, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PROMOTION OF ISLAM IN OUR SCHOOLS

By Cinnamon Stillwell



ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY VERSUS AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE:  INCOMPATIBILITY BETWEEN THE IDEOLOGY OF MILITANT ISLAM & THE NATURAL RIGHTS PHILOSOPHY ARTICULATED DURING THE EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT & INCORPORATED INTO AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE -- THE ROOTS OF ISLAMIC JIHADISM & ITS OPPOSITION TO THE U.S.A. AS PART OF THE NON-MUSLIM WEST, KEY VARIABLES IN THE LONG HISTORY OF INTERACTION BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & MUSLIM SOCIETIES, DATING BACK TO AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE -- WHY ARAB & OTHER ISLAMIC STATES HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF THEIR POPULATIONS, ESPECIALLY IN CONTRAST TO THE SUCCESS OF THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN SOCIETIES -- DEVISING A GRAND STRATEGY TO REALISTICALLY ADDRESS THE BASIC CONFLICT OF INTEREST BETWEEN THE AMERICAN NATION & THE FORCES OF ISLAMISM
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Volume X, Issue # 22, January 21, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE FALLACY OF GRIEVANCE-BASED TERRORISM

By Melvin E. Lee



AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION & THE PROBLEM OF ARRIVING AT A FAIR & BALANCED DISCUSSION RELATING TO MIDDLE EAST STUDIES:  ARAB DONORS CREATING BASTIONS OF NONCRITICAL, PRO-ISLAMIC "SCHOLARSHIP" INSIDE U.S. UNIVERSITIES -- SAUDI ARABIA & OTHER ARAB NATIONS FUNDING AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ISLAMIC STUDIES PROGRAMS WHICH ENDEAVOR TO INDOCTRINATE STUDENTS IN ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY, PROVIDE JUSTIFICATION FOR ISLAMIST TERRORISM & JIHADISM, & DISSEMINATE ANTI-SEMITIC, ANTI-ISRAELI, PRO-PALESTINIAN PROPAGANDA
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Volume X, Issue # 20, January 18, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHAT INFLUENCE DOES SAUDI MONEY BUY?

By Asaf Romirowsky



ISLAMIST "LAWFARE":  THE CAMPAIGN OF LEGAL ACTIONS DESIGNED TO PUNISH & SILENCE THOSE WHO SPEAK OUT AGAINST ISLAMISM, ISLAMIC TERRORISM, & THE SOURCES OF FINANCING OF MILITANT ISLAM & THE INTERNATIONAL JIHADIST TERROR NETWORK & ITS ACTIVITIES -- USE BY ISLAMISTS OF THE COURTS & LIBEL LAWS OF CANADA, GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, ITALY, SWITZERLAND, & THE U.S.A. TO SUPRESS FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, ABOLISH PUBLIC DISCOURSE CRITICAL OF ISLAM & ISLAMISM, & ESTABLISH PRINCIPLES OF SHARIA LAW IN THOSE COUNTRIES -- ISLAMISTS SUBJECTING TO FRIVOLOUS & COSTLY LAWSUITS LOYAL CITIZENS WHO TALK TO OTHER LOYAL CITIZENS & PROVIDE THEM WITH INFORMATION ABOUT ISSUES OF NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, THE WAR ON TERROR, & THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE WEST
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Volume X, Issue # 16, January 16, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MARK STEYN IS NOT ALONE

By Brooke M. Goldstein



IDEOLOGY, RELIGION, & ISLAMIST TERRORISM:  HOW ISLAMIST AGENDA TERRORISM DIFFERS FROM SECULAR AGENDA TERRORISM -- HOW ISLAMIST TERROR TACTICS DIFFER FROM SECULAR TERROR TACTICS -- SUICIDE BOMBING AS THE MAJOR ISLAMIST TERROR TACTIC -- THE ORIGIN & MOTIVATION OF RELIGIOUSLY JUSTIFIED TERRORISM -- ISLAMISM & ITS DEEP IDEOLOGICAL COMMITMENT TO A NEW WORLD ORDER
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Volume X, Issue # 14, January 15, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CONTRASTING SECULAR & RELIGIOUS TERRORISM

By Jonathan Fine



EUROPE, THE EUROPEAN CREATIVE CLASS, & THE CONTINENT'S RESTIVE, UNCIVILIZED MUSLIM UNDERCLASS:   INROADS OF ISLAMISM IN EUROPE & APPEASEMENT OF ISLAMISTS BY EUROPEAN ARTISTS & MEDIA OUTLETS -- WILL EUROPE ULTIMATELY CHOOSE TO PRESERVE THE FOUNDATIONAL VALUES OF CLASSICAL LIBERALISM, CONSTITUTIONALISM, THE RULE OF LAW, LIBERTY UNDER LAW, INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM, RELIGIOUS TOLERATION, & INTELLECTUAL & ARTISTIC INDEPENDENCE FORGED DURING EUROPE'S RENAISSANCE, ENLIGHTENMENT, & LONG PERIOD OF DEMOCRATIZATION?  OR WILL EUROPE CONTINUE TO YIELD TO THE UNREASONABLE DEMANDS OF MILITANT ISLAM & THEREBY SUFFER A LONG, SLOW DECLINE INTO A DARK AGE OF DHIMMITUDE?
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Volume X, Issue # 11, January 12, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A DHIMMIFIED MAN

By Dr. David J. Rusin



ISLAM, ISLAMISTS, & HOSPITAL POLICY IN THE WEST:  IS A MUSLIM WITHIN HIS RIGHTS TO INSIST A FEMALE PHYSICIAN EXAMINE HIS WIFE, OR REFUSE MALE ASSISTANCE IN THE BIRTH OF HIS CHILD?  ARE HOSPITALS OBLIGED TO ACCOMODATE THE MUSLIM'S WISH WHEN THIS UNFAIRLY BURDENS STAFF, ENTAILS A DELAY THAT JEOPARDIZES PATIENT CARE, OR IF ACCOMODATIONS LIKE THESE CONTRAVENE THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH?   SHOULD ADHERENTS OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY BE ALLOWED TO DICTATE HOSPITAL POLICY RELATING TO MEDICAL CARE OF MUSLIM WOMEN?
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Volume X, Issue # 7, January 7, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DELIVERING OBSTETRICS FROM RADICAL ISLAM

By R. John Matthies



A DISPUTE OVER BARAK OBAMA'S MUSLIM BACKGROUND:  LIBERAL CRITICISM OF DANIEL PIPES' ANALYSIS -- PIPES DEFENDS HIS POSITION & CITES EVIDENCE TO PROVE HIS CLAIM THAT OBAMA, AS A CHILD, PRACTICED ISLAM -- RELEVANCE OF THE MATTER TO THE ELECTION OF THE U.S. PRESIDENT
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Volume X, Issue # 5, January 7, 2008

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CONFIRMED:  BARAK PRACTICED ISLAM

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



HUMAN PROGRESS DURING THE PAST 100 YEARS:  IMPROVEMENT OF THE HUMAN CONDITION THROUGH INVENTIVE GENIUS, TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT, ELECTRICAL POWER, RAPID TRANSPORTATION, GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS, CENTRAL HEATING, AIR CONDITIONING, REFRIGERATION, AN ABUNDANT FOOD SUPPLY, & EXTRAORDINARY MEDICAL TREATMENT -- MAJOR PROBLEMS & CHALLENGES FACING AMERICA DURING 2008 & SUCCEEDING YEARS:  STATISM, THE ENVIRONMENTALIST & NO-GROWTH MOVEMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE, A DISFUNCTIONAL EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, THE UNITED NATIONS & OTHER THREATS TO NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, INTERNATIONAL POLITICS & THREATS TO WORLD PEACE, & POLITICAL ISLAM AS A THREAT TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION
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Volume IX, Issue # 246, December 30, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE CHALLENGE OF 2008 & BEYOND

By Alan Caruba



ISLAMIC CULTURE & THE ISLAMIST THREAT TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  ISLAMIST INROADS INTO GREAT BRITAIN & THE RESULTING TERRORIST ACTIVITY IN THAT COUNTRY -- THE POLITICAL & SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSLIMS RESIDING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM:  SEEING MUSLIMS AS VICTIMS OF PREJUDICE & DISCRIMINATION, DECLINING TO CONDEMN ACTS OF TERRORISM COMMITTED IN THE NAME OF ISLAM, DEFINING THE "WAR ON TERRORISM" AS A TERROR WAR WAGED BY WAR-MONGERING WESTERN INFIDELS AGAINST PEACEFUL MUSLIMS, & ENGAGING IN BEHAVIOR REFLECTING THE INTENTION OF ISLAM TO SUBJUGATE & RULE ABSOLUTELY ANY COUNTRY IN WHICH MUSLIMS GAIN A POPULATION FOOTHOLD -- A WARNING SIGN TO BRITAIN, AMERICA, & ALL OF EUROPE:  THE EXTREME DIFFICULTY OF ASSIMILATING MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS & THEIR DESCENDANTS INTO A WESTERN SOCIETY & ENSURING THEIR LOYALTY TO THEIR NEW HOMELAND
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Volume IX, Issue # 244, December 27, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TERRORISTS?  NOT US, SAY MUSLIMS

By Alan Caruba



BARAK OBAMA, ISLAM, & THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY:  WAS OBAMA EVER A MUSLIM OR SEEN BY OTHERS AS A MUSLIM?  MORE PRECISELY, MIGHT MUSLIMS CONSIDER HIM A MURTADD (APOSTATE), THAT IS, A MUSLIM WHO CONVERTED TO ANOTHER RELIGION &, THEREFORE, SOMEONE WHOSE BLOOD MAY BE SHED?  SHOULD HE BE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, HOW WOULD MORE MAINSTREAM MUSLIMS RESPOND TO OBAMA?   WOULD THEY BE ANGRY AT WHAT THEY WOULD CONSIDER HIS APOSTASY?  HOW WOULD SUCH A REACTION AFFECT THE PRESIDENT'S INITIATIVES TOWARD THE MUSLIM WORLD?
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Volume IX, Issue # 242, December 25, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WAS BARAK OBAMA A MUSLIM?

By Dr. Daniel Pipes



THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY & THE GLOBAL JIHAD BEING WAGED BY THE ISLAMISTS AGAINST AMERICA & WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  WHY MOST PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS IN AMERICA'S TWO MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO AVOID COMMENTING ON THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIC JIHAD, WHILE BLAMING THE U.S.A. & THE WEST FOR THE ACTS OF TERRORISM COMMITTED BY THE ISLAMISTS AGAINST OUR NATION & ITS ALLIES -- WHY "JIHAD" IS THE FORBIDDEN WORD IN THE ONGOING U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN -- THE LACK OF COURAGE & WEAKNESS OF LEADERSHIP ON THE PART OF ASPIRANTS TO THE U.S. PRESIDENCY -- THEIR FAILURE TO NAME OUR DEADLY ISLAMIST ENEMY & DEAL REALISTICALLY WITH THE VITAL ISSUES OF AMERICAN FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY
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Volume IX, Issue # 239, December 20, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

JIHAD & THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES -- AN ASSESSMENT:
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES & THE "FORBIDDEN WORD"
A REPORT ON ROBERT SPENCER'S MEF BRIEFING

By Winfield Myers



THE TRIBAL & CULTURAL ROOTS OF CONFLICT IN THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST: HOW SEVENTH-CENTURY ARAB TRIBAL CULTURE HAS INFLUENCED ISLAM & ITS ADHERENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS NON-MUSLIMS -- FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ARABS' NEARLY ABSOLUTE REJECTION OF ISRAEL -- THE SPECIAL IMPORTANCE OF HONOR & BALANCED OPPOSITION -- THE PROPENSITY OF ARAB STATES & IRAN TO DICTATORSHIP -- RULERS, PEASANTS, & NOMADS
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Volume IX, Issue # 232, December 10, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE MIDDLE EAST'S TRIBAL DNA

By Dr. Philip Carl Salzman



THE INTERNAL WAR BETWEEN ISLAMISTS & MAINSTREAM, PLURALISTIC, LOYAL AMERICAN MUSLIMS -- THE CONFLICT OVER WHO IS TO BE THE VOICE OF AMERICAN ISLAM -- ON ONE SIDE OF THE STRUGGLE:  THE ISLAMISTS, WHO ADVOCATE AN AUTHORITARIAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT, A MUCH GREATER INTERPLAY BETWEEN RELIGION & POLITICS, & THE PRIMACY OF SECTARIAN IDENTITY -- ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STRUGGLE:  MUSLIMS EMBRACING WESTERN SECULAR CONSTITUTIONALISM, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, & CIVIL LIBERTIES GUARANTEES -- A MANIFESTO TO LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR LOYAL AMERICAN MUSLIMS TO WAGE AN EFFECTIVE COUNTER-JIHAD AGAINST ISLAMISM, DECISIVELY DEFEAT THE ISLAMISTS, & ENSURE THE CREATION OF ASSIMILATIONIST, TOLERANT AMERICAN ISLAMIC INSTITUTIONS
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Volume IX, Issue # 230, December 8, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

EXPOSING THE "FLYING IMAMS"

By M. Zuhdi Jasser



THE THREAT OF ISLAMISN IN FRANCE:  HOW THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT DEALS WITH RADICAL ISLAMIC CLERICS RESIDING IN FRANCE & CONSIDERED TO BE A DANGER TO THE STATE -- GOING MUCH FURTHER THAN EXERCISE OF UNOBSTRUCTED AUTHORITY IN POLICING & EXPELLING RADICAL CLERICS:  INITIATING THE PLAN TO ASSIMILATE & ACCULTURATE FRANCE'S NEXT GENERATION OF IMAMS -- THE WILLINGNESS ON THE PART OF FRANCE TO DEFINE STANDARDS OF COMPORTMENT FOR MUSLIMS LIVING & WORKING IN FRANCE & TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT FRENCH-STYLE SECULARISM IS A NECESSARY PRECONDITION FOR THE REFORM OF ISLAM
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Volume IX, Issue # 215, November 15, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IMAM ASSIMILATION A LA FRANCAISE

By R. John Matthies



WESTERN FEMINISM, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, & OTHER ACADEMIC THOUGHT DISORDERS:  THE DOUBLE STANDARD MAINTAINED IN COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WESTERN & ISLAMIST SOCIAL SYSTEMS -- CONDEMNING AS PATRIARCHAL WESTERN INSTITUTIONS OF MONOGAMOUS MARRIAGE, BIOLOGICAL MOTHERHOOD, HETEROSEXUALITY & RELIGION, WHILE VIEWING ISLAMIC VEILING, THE HEAD SCARF, SECLUSION OF WOMEN, ARRANGED MARRIAGE, & POLYGAMY AS SACRED RELIGIOUS RIGHTS -- TOLERATION OF MAJOR MISOGYNY, BARBARISM, & GENOCIDAL VIOLENCE PRACTICED IN OR BY ISLAMIC CULTURES & COUNTRIES -- PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITY PRESSES PUBLISHING NON-SCHOLARLY WORKS, WORKS OF PROPAGANDA WRITTEN BY WESTERN FEMINISTS & LIBERAL LEFTISTS WHO ARE ASSISTING THE ISLAMISTS IN THEIR GLOBAL WAR AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST -- AIDING & ABETTING THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST
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Volume IX, Issue # 204, October 30, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WESTERN FEMINISTS -- AT THE SERVICE OF RADICAL ISLAM:
A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY

By Phyllis Chesler



CONFRONTING THE MIDDLE EAST & THE PROBLEM OF IRAQ:  WHY THE MIDDLE EAST HAS REMAINED A STAGNANT SINKHOLE FOR CENTURIES, RESISTANT TO CHANGE, ARMORED AGAINST RATIONAL BEHAVIOR, & CHAINED TO BARBARISM -- ISLAM AS THE REAL PROBLEM OF IRAQ & THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST -- ISLAMIC FANATICISM & INTOLERANCE AS THE FORCE WHICH DESTROYED IRAQ IN THE WAKE OF THE U.S. MILITARY INVASION & OCCUPATION -- HUMAN NATURE, ISLAMIC CULTURE, & THE POWER OF FIERCELY HELD NOTIONS OF RELIGION, MORALITY, & HONOR
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Volume IX, Issue # 187, October 7, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE IRAQI TAR BABY

By Alan Caruba



THE SOCALLED "MUSLIM NATION" VERSUS WESTERN NATION-STATES:  AMONG MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS RESIDING IN WESTERN SOCIETIES, CAN EXPRESSIONS OF ISLAMIC IDENTITY BE SQUARED WITH WESTERN CONCEPTS OF NATIONHOOD, NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP, & NATIONAL LOYALTY?  ARE POLITICAL EXPRESSIONS OF ISLAMIC IDENTITY COMPATIBLE WITH WESTERN-STYLE NATIONALISM, CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, & MAJORITY RULE LIMITED BY GUARANTEES OF BASIC INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS TO MEMBERS OF MINORITIES, AS WELL AS MEMBERS OF THE MAJORITY?  THE CONFLICT BETWEEN MUSLIM POLITICAL THEORY & WESTERN POLITICAL THEORY -- HOW MUSLIM JURISTS & THEOLOGIANS DEFINE THE IDENTITY & DUTIES OF MUSLIMS LIVING IN NON-MUSLIM SOCIETIES -- CALLING UPON MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS IN THE WEST TO PLACE RELIGIOUS IDENTITY ABOVE NATIONAL & ETHNIC IDENTITIES & TO PROMOTE THE INTERESTS OF A GLOBAL MUSLIM NATION -- INSISTING THAT MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS DEDICATE THEMSELVES TO AN ISLAMIC TEXTURE OF LIFE, AVOID ASSIMILATION INTO THE SOCIAL & POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE COUNTRY IN WHICH THEY ARE RESIDING, & PROSELYTIZE FOR POLITICAL ISLAM -- CREATING AN ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN INSIDE WESTERN NATION-STATES
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Volume IX, Issue # 183, October 2, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SHOULD MUSLIMS INTEGRATE INTO THE WEST?

By Uriya Shavit



ISLAM & ISLAMISM IN DENMARK:  THE ISLAMIST THREAT TO DANISH FREEDOM & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY -- NASER KHADER'S MOVEMENT AMONG MUSLIMS IN DENMARK TO ENCOURAGE MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS TO BE LOYAL TO & IDENTIFY WITH DENMARK, SUPPORT CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, REJECT ISLAMISM & OTHER ANTI-DEMOCRATIC, EXTREMIST IDEOLOGIES, & WILLINGLY ASSIMILATE INTO DANISH SOCIETY -- THE DANISH CARTOON CONTROVERSY & WHY FLEMMING ROSE COMMISSIONED PUBLICATION OF THE MUHAMMAD CARTOONS -- INTIMIDATION & SELF-CENSORSHIP VERSUS FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, & EQUAL TREATMENT OF RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
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Volume IX, Issue # 177, September 23, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

REFLECTIONS ON THE DANISH CARTOON CONTROVERSY:
A MIDDLE EAST QUARTERLY INTERVIEW
OF NASER KHADER & FLEMMING ROSE

By Daniel Pipes



UNDERSTANDING THE CURRENT ISLAMIST REVIVAL & ITS THREAT TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  THE QUR'AN & THE MATTER OF WAR OR PEACE IN THE MUSLIM WORLD -- THE ISSUE OF ABROGATION & HOW THE QUR'AN  IS INTERPRETED AS COMMANDING JIHAD, RATHER THAN TOLERANCE, COMPROMISE, & PEACE -- THE NOTION THAT THE QUR'AN  TEACHES NOT JUST TOLERANCE AMONG RELIGIONS, BUT TOLERANCE AMONG RELIGIONS ON THE TERMS OF ISLAM -- THE TWO FACES OF ISLAMIC DOCTRINE:  THE MEDINAN FACE & THE MECCAN FACE
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Volume IX, Issue # 165, September 6, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PEACE OR JIHAD?  ABROGATION IN ISLAM

By David Buckay



THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2008, PARTISAN POLITICS, & THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST:  THE TERROR WAR, AMERICAN HOMELAND SECURITY, & THE NEED FOR STRONG & EFFECTIVE PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP DURING THIS TIME OF GREAT DANGER TO THE AMERICAN NATION & ITS ALLIES -- WHAT CURRENT JOCKEYING AMONG TOP CONTENDERS FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION REVEALS:  THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS' LACK OF COMPREHENSION OF THE NATURE OF THE ISLAMIST ENEMY & THEIR INABILITY TO LEAD AMERICA IN FACING & DEFEATING THAT DEADLY ENEMY -- THE DISASTEROUS RESULTS THAT WILL OCCUR, SHOULD EITHER HILLARY CLINTON OR BARACK OBAMA BE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
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Volume IX, Issue # 152, August 15, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE MISSING COMPETENCE FACTOR
AMONG DEMOCRATIC HOPEFULS

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE TERROR WAR, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, & FLAWS IN AMERICA'S CONTEMPORARY DOMESTIC CULTURE:   AMERICA'S FOREIGN & INTERNAL ENEMIES EXPLOIT FRAILTIES WITHIN THE FABRIC OF AMERICAN NATIONAL SOCIETY IN THE ENDEAVOR TO UNDERMINE & DESTROY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS A SOVEREIGN NATION-STATE & CONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF FREE MEN & WOMEN -- ISLAMISTS WAGING THE GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST BENEFIT GREATLY FROM THE COLLABORATION OF AMERICAN LIBERALS & ADHERENTS OF OTHER FLAWED POLITICAL & SOCIAL PHILOSOPHIES IN THE U.S.A. -- COLLABORATION FROM THESE SOURCES ALSO BENEFITS THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT, DRUG SMUGGLERS, & OTHER FACILITATORS OF THE MASSIVE & CONTINUING INVASION OF THE U.S.A. BY ILLEGAL ALIENS
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Volume IX, Issue # 141, July 25, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

FOREIGN COLLABORATORS OF THE AMERICAN "INSURGENCY"

By Christopher G. Adamo



INTERNET CYBER-WARFARE WITH AL-QA'IDA:  TERRORISM, COUNTERTERRORISM, CYBER COUNTERTERRORISM, & CYBER-COUNTERINTELLIGENCE -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S. & OTHER WESTERN GOVERNMENTS TO DEVELOP A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE WAYS AL-QA'IDA & ITS AFFILIATES USE THE INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY TO WAGE THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE NEED FOR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES TO BE ALLOWED & ENCOURAGED TO INCORPORATE CREATIVE STRATEGIES ENABLING THEM TO ANTICIPATE WHERE THE TERRORISTS MIGHT NEXT CARVE THEIR PATH ON THE INTERNET
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Volume IX, Issue # 130, July 11, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MY CYBER COUNTER-JIHAD

By Shannen Rossmiller



ISLAMISM, AL-QA'IDA, & RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST:  THE ARRIVAL OF A NEW GENERATION OF JIHADIST LEADERS -- SHEIKH HASSAN DAHIR AWEYS IN SOMALIA, ABU AYYUB AL-MASRI IN IRAQ, MATIUR REHMAN & FAQIR MOHAMMED IN PAKISTAN, ARIS SUMARSONO IN INDONESIA, & THE PROFOUND EFFECT THEIR DECISIONS ALREADY HAVE HAD ON THE COURSE OF THE GLOBAL TERROR WAR -- WHY THESE NEW JIHADIST LEADERS MAY BECOME EVEN MORE LETHAL THAN THEIR PREDECESSORS -- THE TWO GOALS UPON WHICH U.S. & WESTERN OFFICIALS MUST FOCUS IN ORDER TO EFFECTIVELY COUNTER AL-QA'IDA'S NEW GENERATION OF LEADERS
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Volume IX, Issue # 125, July 3, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

JIHAD'S NEW LEADERS

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Kyle Dabruzzi



THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST -- THE JIHAD & WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION -- THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY THAT AL-QA'IDA CAN & WILL ACQUIRE A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF NUCLEAR DEVICES & SMUGGLE THEM INTO THE U.S.A. IN ORDER TO DESTROY AMERICA'S KEY CITIES -- THE DIRE NEED FOR AMERICANS TO BECOME FULLY ALERT TO THE VERY REAL DANGER FACING OUR NATION IN THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR & FOCUS OUR EFFORTS ON DESTROYING AL-QA'IDA & ALL OF ITS AFFILIATES & OTHER COLLABORATING ENTITIES
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Volume IX, Issue # 119, June 24, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE WORST CASE SCENARIO

By Alan Caruba



THE UNITED NATIONS, THE PALESTINIAN AGENDA, & ISLAMIC TERRORISM:  THE UN AS A PROPAGANDA MACHINE FOR DELITIMIZATION OF ISRAEL & FOR PROMOTION & PERPETUATION OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY -- UNRWA AS AN APPARATUS THROUGH WHICH THE U.S.A. & THE WEST HELP FUND THE ACTIVITIES OF THEIR ENEMIES IN THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR
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Volume IX, Issue # 118, June 22, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DUBIOUS REFUGEE RELIEF

By Nicole Brackman & Asaf Romirowsky



TERRORISM, WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE, & U.S. MILITARY PLANNING:  THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY & ASYMMETRY -- U.S. MILITARY HISTORY & ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE -- TERRORISM & PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS -- THE VULNERABILITY OF DEMOCRACIES TO TERRORISM -- THE THEORY THAT THERE HAS BEEN A REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS -- THE THREAT POSED BY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION -- THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE & THE IMPORTANCE OF INFORMATION WARFARE -- PREEMPTION, MULTILATERALISM, & DIPLOMACY -- FLEXIBILITY IN INTERPRETING INTERNATIONAL NORMS & THE LAWS OF WARFARE
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Volume IX, Issue # 101, June 1, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ASYMMETRICAL THREAT CONCEPT & ITS
REFLECTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

By Dr. Michael Rubin



THE MIDDLE EAST, ISLAMISM, & THE TERROR WAR AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST: FACING A DEADLY ENEMY DEDICATED TO THE PROPOSITION THAT AMERICA, ISRAEL, & THE WEST MUST BE DESTROYED -- FIGHTING THE JIHADIST ENEMY AT HOME & ABROAD -- WHY THE AMERICAN HOMELAND IS VULNERABLE TO FURTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS, REGARDLESS OF THE NUMBER OF TROOPS WE HAVE IN IRAQ -- RELEVANCE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION & OPEN BORDERS TO THE CONTINUING VULNERABILITY OF THE U.S.A. TO TERRORIST ATTACKS -- THE FUTILITY OF EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN ORDER IN IRAQ & BRING TO THAT COUNTRY THE RULE OF LAW & A STABLE SYSTEM OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY
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Volume IX, Issue # 91, May 20, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

FIGHT THE ENEMY IN IRAQ, OR HERE?

By Alan Caruba



CENTER-RIGHT CANDIDATE NICHOLAS SARKOZY'S VICTORY IN THE RECENT FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION:   ONLY A FIRST STEP BACK FROM THE BRINK OF SOCIETAL COLLAPSE IN FRANCE & OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES -- FOR EUROPE TO PREVAIL OVER THE INSIDIOUS CULTURAL ONSLAUGHTS THAT PRESENTLY THREATEN IT, WHAT IS REQUIRED?  A MAJOR SHIFT FROM THE NIHILISM OF THE POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT & A RENEWED RESOLVE TO STAND AGAINST THE ENCROACHMENT OF MILITANT ISLAM
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Volume IX, Issue # 81, May 9, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

SARKOZY VICTORY:  TIMELY REPRIEVE, OR DYING GASP?

By Christopher G. Adamo



VIEWING THE U.S. INVASION & OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AS ONE BATTLE IN A LONG WAR: ALAN CARUBA ARGUES THAT IT IS TIME FOR A STRATEGIC WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ, THAT WE NEED TO BRING OUR MILITARY FORCES HOME IN ORDER TO RETRAIN, REBUILD, RE-EQUIP, & EXPAND THEM TO MEET THE CHALLENGES THAT LIE AHEAD IN THE LONG WAR WITH ISLAMISM
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Volume IX, Issue # 75, April 29, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IRAQ:  IS IT A WAR OR A BATTLE?

By Alan Caruba



AMERICA'S FIRST CLASH WITH MILITANT ISLAM:  THE IRANIAN ISLAMISTS' SEIZURE OF THE U.S. EMBASSY IN TEHRAN IN 1979 -- THE POLITICAL FORCES THAT ACTED UPON THE CARTER PRESIDENCY TO CAUSE IT TO FEEL THAT THERE REALLY WAS NOTHING THE U.S.A. COULD DO ABOUT THE SITUATION -- COULD & SHOULD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAVE PUNISHED THE IRANIANS MILITARILY?  DID THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION PLAY INTO THE IRANIANS' HANDS BY PLACING THE WELFARE OF THE HOSTAGES ABOVE ALL OTHER AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS?  IN THIS REGARD, WHAT LESSON SHOULD WE HAVE LEARNED FROM THE MANY ISRAELI EXPERIENCES?
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Volume IX, Issue # 73, April 25 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHEN A REPORTER IS JUST A REPORTER:
A Report on Mark Bowden's Briefing & Address to the
Middle East Forum on his Book, Guests of the Ayatollah

By Patrick Bowden



AMERICA'S INTERNAL SECURITY APPARATUS & THE TERROR WAR:  THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY & THE ISLAMIST THREAT WITHIN THE U.S.A. -- MUSLIM POPULATION CONCENTRATIONS INSIDE U.S. BORDERS & THE ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORK THAT OPERATES WITHIN THOSE LOCALITIES -- HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAUCRACY IN UNCOVERING THE JIHADIST PLANS & CONSPIRACIES OF AMERICA'S DEADLY INTERNAL ENEMIES & PROTECTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM ISLAMIST TERRORISM
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Volume IX, Issue # 67, April 16, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HOMELAND SECURITY IN TEWKSBURY, NEW JERSEY

By Alan Caruba



ISLAM, ISLAMISM, & MODERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  ARE THE WESTERN CONCEPTS OF CONSTITUTIONALISM, REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, & HUMAN RIGHTS COMPATIBLE WITH EITHER ISLAMIST POLITICAL IDEOLOGY OR A STRICT, LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS DOGMA?  CAN MUSLIM SOCIETIES DEVELOP & SUCCESSFULLY OPERATE STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES?  THE THEORY OF JOHN L. ESPOSITO -- EXPOUNDING & AMPLIFYING THE THEORY -- ISLAMIST REJECTION OF THE THEORY -- THE ESPOSITO THEORY VERSUS REALITY -- HOW THE THEORY & ITS APPLICATION ENDANGER AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & THE SURVIVAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
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Volume IX, Issue # 65, April 13, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CAN THERE BE AN ISLAMIC DEMOCRACY?
REVIEW ESSAY

By David Bukay



THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, PARTISAN POLITICS, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY, & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  HOW THE POLITICAL STRATEGY & TACTICS OF PARTISAN DEMOCRATS WEAKEN AMERICA'S DEFENSES IN THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR -- LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, ISLAMISTS, & THE COMMON GROUND THEY SHARE IN THEIR MALEVOLENCE TOWARDS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- THE DEEP-SEATED ALLIANCE THAT HAS EMERGED BETWEEN THE AMERICAN POLITICAL LEFT & MILITANT ISLAM -- HOW LIBERALS AID & ABET ISLAMISTS IN THEIR GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST AMERICA & WESTERN CIVILIZATION
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Volume IX, Issue # 63, April 11, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE LIBERAL/ISLAMIST WAR AGAINST AMERICA

By Christopher G. Adamo



MODERN EGYPT:  ITS HISTORY, POLITICS, POLITICAL REGIME, PUBLIC POLICY, & POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- LIBERALISM, NATIONALISM, & ISLAMISM IN EGYPT -- RELATIONS BETWEEN EGYPT & THE U.S.A. -- A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE
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Volume IX, Issue # 60, April 7, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

EGYPT IN BOOKS:  REVIEW ESSAY

By Jeffrey Azarva



ISLAM IN THE U.S.A.:  THE BATTLE THAT IS GOING ON FOR THE SOUL OF EXTREMISTS & MODERATES WITHIN THE AMERICAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY -- A GROWING SENSE OF "OTHERNESS" IN THE AMERICAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY
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Volume IX, Issue # 49, March 16, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE NATURE OF RADICAL ISLAM:
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross' Personal Take
on the Character of Islamism

By Bryan Schwartzman



THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE ISLAMIST WAR TO CONQUER & DESTROY THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- AN ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT FOR THE WORLD'S FUTURE PEACE & SECURITY:  THAT AMERICA, ISRAEL, & THE WEST CONQUER & ANNIHILATE THE EVIL & DEADLY FORCES OF ISLAMIC BARBARISM -- IF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH DECIDES TO REDUCE LARGE PORTIONS OF BAGHDAD TO RUBBLE & OBLITERATE BIG CHUNKS OF IRAN, HISTORY WILL LIKELY SAY HE WAS RIGHT TO DO SO
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Volume IX, Issue # 28, February 11, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE TROUBLE WITH PEACE

By Alan Caruba



TURKISH POLITICS & THE THREAT OF ISLAMISM:  THE ISLAMIST THREAT TO TURKEY AS A SECULAR STATE -- THE ISLAMIST ROOTS OF TURKEY'S RULING JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY -- PRIME MINISTER RECEP ERDOGAN'S USE OF THE AKP SUPERMAJORITY IN THE GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO ERODE THE INSTITUTIONS & MECHANISMS AT THE HEART OF TURKISH SECULARISM -- ISLAMIZING EDUCATION & THE JUDICIARY -- AKP POLITICAL CORRUPTION -- DECLINING AKP POPULARITY & THE COMING SHOWDOWN -- WILL MILITARY INTERVENTION BE NECESSARY TO PREVENT AN ERDOGAN PRESIDENCY? WHAT SHOULD THE U.S.A. DO ABOUT THE SITUATION IN TURKEY?
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Volume IX, Issue # 22, February 4, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WILL TURKEY HAVE AN ISLAMIST PRESIDENT?

By Dr. Michael Rubin



ISLAMIST TERRORISM & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE VERY HIGH PROBALITY THAT THE U.S.A. WILL, IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SUFFER YET ANOTHER MAJOR ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACK, AN ATTACK DWARFING THE ENORMITY OF THE ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 -- HOW THE AMERICAN POLITICAL LEFT IS UNDERMINING AMERICA'S RESOLVE TO TO APPROPRIATELY RESPOND TO THE ISLAMIST ENEMY -- HOW DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICIANS ARE ENCOURAGING THE ISLAMISTS TO ATTACK OUR NATION AGAIN -- WHAT AMERICA MUST DO IN ORDER TO PREVENT ANOTHER MAJOR TERROR ATTACK & WIN THE GLOBAL WAR AGAINST THE FORCES OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM & BARBARISM
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Volume IX, Issue # 21, January 31, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AMERICA AFTER THE NEXT ATTACK

By Christopher G. Adamo



FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE ARABS & THE JEWS:  A POLICY THAT IS PRO-ARAB & ANTI-ISRAELI -- FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY AT ODDS WITH AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE CHARACTER & LONG HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM IN FRANCE -- THE PRO-MUSLIM ATTITUDES & VIEWS OF THE FRENCH DIPLOMATIC & POLITICAL ELITES -- WHY THE FRENCH, IN INTERNATIONAL CRISES THROUGHOUT THE LAST THREE OR FOUR DECADES, HAVE OBSTRUCTED EVERY WESTERN INITIATIVE & POLICY & THEREBY FACILITATED VIOLENCE, TERRORISM, & WAR -- WHY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED SADDAM HUSSEIN IN IRAQ & YASIR ARAFAT IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- THE ROLE OF FRANCE IN BRINGING ABOUT THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN IRAN -- THE FRENCH PENCHANT FOR HARBORING ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS & APPEASING GENOCIDAL ISLAMIC STATES
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Volume IX, Issue # 19, January 29, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BETRAYAL -- FRANCE, THE ARABS, & THE JEWS:
A BRIEFING BY DAVID PRICE-JONES:
SUMMARY ACCOUNT

By Mimi Stillman



UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY, ISLAMISM & THE ISLAMIC WORLD, & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  WHAT THE U.S.A. MUST DO IN ORDER TO MORE EFFECTIVELY HELP PROTECT WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM THE FORCES OF ISLAMIC BARBARISM -- ALAN CARUBA ARGUES THAT AMERICA NEEDS TO TAKE A BREAK FROM WAGING WAR & STEP BACK TO DETERMINE WHAT THE NEXT CORRECT COURSE OF ACTION SHOULD BE
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Volume IX, Issue # 18, January 28, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

COOLING OFF THE WAR FEVER

By Alan Caruba



THE ENEMY WITHIN:  RADICAL ISLAMIC CLERICS OPERATING IN THE WEST -- ISLAMISTS, ISLAMIC POLITICS, & THE FUROR OVER PUBLICATION OF THE DANISH CARTOONS DEPICTING MUHAMMAD -- THE FUROR AS AN ISLAMIST ASSAULT ON WESTERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION -- ISLAMISTS IN A WESTERN SOCIETY ANALOGOUS TO CANCER CELLS IN A HUMAN BODY -- HIGH TIME FOR WESTERN SOCIETIES TO DISCARD THE CRIPPLING & SELF-DESTRUCTIVE LIMITATIONS, RESTRICTIONS, & TABOOS OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, ESPECIALLY WHEN DEALING WITH THE THREAT TO INTERNAL SECURITY POSED BY THE ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN
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Volume IX, Issue # 2, January 2, 2007

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AFTER THE DANISH CARTOON CONTROVERSY

By Pernille Ammitzboll & Lorenzo Vidino



THE AMERICAN POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT AS THE ISLAMIST ENEMY'S FIFTH COLUMN IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  UNDERMINING AMERICA'S DEFENSE AGAINST THE FORCES OF ISLAMISM -- ADVANCING THE LIBERALS' CONCEPT OF "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" & THEIR TWISTED PERCEPTION OF FOREIGN POLICY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- LEFTIST PROPAGANDA DISSEMINATION, GROWING INDECISIVENESS & SELF-DOUBT IN THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN NATIONS, & THE CLOSING WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY BY WHICH THE DISEASE KNOWN AS ISLAMIST FANATICISM & JIHADISM COULD HAVE BEEN DRIVEN INTO REMISSION -- LIBERAL CONCEPTS OF "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS," "DIVERSITY," & "MULTICULTURALISM" ERODING AMERICAN UNITY & RESOLVE IN THE FACE OF THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD & WREAKING HAVOC ON AMERICA'S COMMON NATIONAL CULTURE
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Volume VIII, Issue # 238, Decenber 6, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

GIVING UP GROUND IN THE TERROR WAR

By Christopher G. Adamo



THE AMERICAN POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT -- THE MESSAGE IT IS TRUMPETING & THE IMPACT THAT THE MESSAGE IS HAVING ON THE WILL OF THE U.S.A. TO PREVAIL IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  ELECTORAL POLITICS, LIBERAL LEFTIST PROPAGANDA, & EROSION OF THE MORAL & SPIRITUAL COMPONENT OF AMERICA'S STRENGTH -- COURAGE & RESOLVE TO PREVAIL AGAINST OUR ENEMIES IN THE TERROR WAR ARE BEING LEACHED FROM THE SOULS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -- AMERICA IS INCREASINGLY ACCEPTING THE NOTION OF A "CUT & RUN" RESPONSE TO ISLAMIC TERRORISM & ITS SPONSORS -- AMERICA'S ENEMIES ARE INCREASINGLY EMBOLDENED TO ACTIVELY UNDERMINE AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
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Volume VIII, Issue # 230, November 30, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AMERICA'S "PLAY STATION" GENERATION
WILL NOT ENDURE

By Christopher G. Adamo



GREAT BRITAIN & THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST THE WEST:  THE BRITISH FRONT IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- HOW MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS SEEK TO COLONIZE BRITAIN & DESTROY BRITISH CULTURE -- HOW LONDON HAS BECOME THE EUROPEAN CENTER FOR THE PROMOTION & FINANCING OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM & ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- HOW ISLAMIC CLERICS RECRUIT & INDOCTRINATE YOUNG BRITISH MUSLIMS, INFECTING THEM WITH HATE & INCITING THEM TO VIOLENCE -- BRITAIN'S WEAKNESS IN DEFENDING ITS TRADITIONAL CULTURE & INSTITUTIONS & THE ISLAMIC TERRORISTS' EXPLOITATION OF THAT WEAKNESS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 227, November 28, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ISLAMIST THREAT TO BRITISH SOCIETY:
IS BRITAIN LOST?

By Joseph Puder



THE ISLAMIC "REPUBLIC' OF IRAN, ISLAMIST INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM, & THE WAR ON TERRORISM:  SUICIDE TERRORISM AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME'S MILITARY DOCTRINE -- IRAN'S MARTYRDOM BRIGADES AS STRATEGIC ASSETS IN DETERRING OR STRIKING AT THE U.S.A. & THE WEST & AS INSTRUMENTS FOR DERAILMENT OF DOMESTIC ATTEMPTS TO MODERATE THE REVOLUTIONARY, EXTREMIST, & TOTALITARIAN NATURE OF THE IRANIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM & ITS UNDERLYING IDEOLOGY -- SUICIDE BOMBING AS A "NOBLE" EXPRESSION OF ISLAM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 224, November 23, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IRAN'S SUICIDE BRIGADES: TERRORISM RESURGENT

By Dr. Ali Alfoneh



DEMOGRAPHICS, PUBLIC POLICY, & AMERICAN NATIONAL SURVIVAL:  POPULATION, NATURAL RESOURCES, ECONOMIC GROWTH, & THE FAULTY ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS -- THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG NATIVE-BORN POPULATION DECLINE IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD, NATIVE POPULATION GROWTH IN THE MUSLIM WORLD, & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- AMERICA'S DECLINING FERTILITY RATE, THE UNCONTROLLED INFLUX OF ILLEGAL ALIENS INTO THE U.S.A., & THE LIKELY CONSEQUENCES FOR AMERICAN CULTURE & NATIONAL IDENTITY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 221, November 19, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE TYRANNY OF NUMBERS

By Alan Caruba



"REALISM," IDEOLOGY, & THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY:  THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S TURN TO THE "REALISTS" & THEIR WEAK, SHORTSIGHTED APPROACH TO FOREIGN POLICY & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- RESURRECTION OF FOREIGN POLICY "REALISM," WHICH PROMOTES SHORTTERM GAIN, OFTEN AT THE EXPENSE OF LONGTERM SECURITY -- EMBRACING A FOREIGN POLICY THAT DISCOUNTS THE IMPORTANCE OF ADVERSARIES' IDEOLOGIES & THE NEED FOR LONGTERM STRATEGIES -- FAILURE TO CONSIDER THE LESSONS OF HISTORY & THE COST OF ABANDONING PRINCIPLE -- WEAKENING U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ & AMERICA'S DEFENSE IN THE TERROR WAR
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 218, November 13, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

RUMSFELD & THE REALISTS:
Consistency Is Irrelevant to Progressives

By Dr. Michael Rubin



PETROLEUM, AMERICA'S ENERGY NEEDS, & U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE WORLD'S OIL SUPPLY & UNITED STATES POLICY IN IRAQ -- THE RELEVANCE OF OIL TO THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD THAT IS BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THEIR PIPEDREAMS ABOUT ALTERNATIVE MOTOR FUELS, HYBRID CARS, & SHARPLY REDUCING AMERICA'S DEPENDENCE ON MIDDLE EASTERN OIL -- "ENVIRONMENTALLY CORRECT" NOTIONS ABOUT FIGHTING ISLAMIST TERRORISM BY WEAKENING THE ROLE OF OIL IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS & WORLD TRADE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 217, November 12, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

OIL, TERROR, & ENVIRONMENTAL PIPEDREAMS

By Alan Caruba



AMERICAN POLITICS & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY:  PARTISAN POLITICS, THE WAR ON TERRORISM, & THE FUTURE OF U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ -- VICTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE NOVEMBER U.S. CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS SIGNIFIES THE IMPENDING TAKEOVER OF CONTROL OF MAJOR SENATE & HOUSE COMMITTEES BY LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATS WHO ARE OPPOSED TO MANY OF THE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE & COUNTERTERRORISM MEASURES NECESSARY TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN NATION -- LEFTWING LIBERAL DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS CAN BE EXPECTED TO PUSH FOR ADOPTION OF A CUT-&-RUN POLICY IN IRAQ & TO SABOTAGE AMERICA'S DEFENSE AGAINST THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD -- FROM CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS, EXPECT OBSTRUCTION & SUBVERSION, RATHER THAN PATRIOTISM & PROTECTION OF AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS ABROAD
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 216, November 9, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BIDDING IRAQ FAREWELL

By Alan Caruba



THE ISLAMIST STATE OF MIND & THE FAULTY ARGUMENTS OF ISLAMISTS:  THE QUESTIONS & ARGUMENTS EMPLOYED BY ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS TO SUPRESS & SILENCE RATIONAL DISCUSSION REGARDING MILITANT ISLAM, JIHADI TERRORISM, & THE BRUTAL PAST OF MUSLIMS -- THE DOGMATISM, TUNNEL VISION, & COGNITIVE DISTORTION THAT ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE THINKING & ATTITUDES OF MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISTS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 215, November 6, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE MEANING OF JIHAD & ISLAMIC HISTORY:
HOW DO I KNOW?

By Dr. Babu Suseelan



RELIGION, ATHEISM, & THE WORLD WE LIVE IN:  WHY ATHEISM IS MUCH LESS OF A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE, CIVIL ORDER, INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM, & WESTERN CIVILIZATION THAN IS ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM -- THE PROPER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT & RELIGION -- IS CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM A GROWING THREAT TO AMERICA & THE WEST?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 214, November 5, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ATHEISTS!  WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?

By Alan Caruba



ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM, INTERNATIONAL CRISES, & THE GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST CIVILIZATION:  ISLAMIST JIHADISM AS A MAJOR THREAT TO WORLD PEACE & THE EXISTING WORLD ORDER -- ISLAMISTS AS PRISONERS OF THEIR OWN NARROW & PAROCHIAL WORLDVIEW -- INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM & CRISES GENERATED & DRIVEN BY ISLAM'S TWISTED INTERPRETATION OF REALITY, ITS DISTORTED CONCEPTUALIZATION OF EVENTS & ISSUES, & THE MECHANISTIC PROBLEM-SOLVING MODEL FOLLOWED BY MUSLIMS -- THE NEED FOR A REFORMATION OF ISLAM & AN END TO ITS NARROW, RIGID, & CLOSED SYSTEM OF BELIEFS -- THE ANALYSIS OF AN EX-MUSLIM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 213, November 3, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PERILS OF ISLAMIC OBSCURANTISM

By Dr. Babu Suseelan



ISLAMISM & THE GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST CIVILIZATION:  ISLAMIST JIHADISM AS A MAJOR THREAT TO THE EXISTING WORLD ORDER -- JIHADIST IDEOLOGY AS THE MOST DEADLY TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM EVER INVENTED -- WHAT MUST BE DONE TO DEFEND OURSELVES & OUR CIVILIZATION AGAINST JIHADIST FANATICISM & TERRORISM -- THE ANALYSIS OF AN EX-MUSLIM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 212, November 2, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

JIHADI TERRORISM

By Dr. Babu Suseelan



THE ISLAMIC THREAT TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  ISLAMIC PENETRATION, SUBVERSION, & DISRUPTION OF WESTERN SOCIETIES -- MUSLIMS IN AMERICA & THE WEST, ASSISTED BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA, SEEK TO DESTROY JUDEO-CHRISTIAN, WESTERN CULTURE & REPLACE IT WITH ISLAMIC CULTURE -- THE ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN IN THE WEST ENGAGES IN PRESSURE POLITICS & ACTS OF TERROR IN AN ENDEAVOR TO DESTABILIZE & DESTROY THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN STATES -- AMERICAN & EUROPEAN SURRENDER-ADDICTS ARE READY TO CONCEDE THAT THE WEST SHOULD ROLL OVER & GIVE UP IN THE FACE OF THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 209, October 29, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

A MUSLIM MANIFESTO FOR AMERICA?

By Alan Caruba



WOMEN IN THE WAR AGAINST ISLAMISM:  FIGHTING ISLAMIC IGNORANCE & BACKWARDNESS & DEFENDING THE CIVILIZED WORLD AGAINST THE BARBARISM, TERRORISM, & TYRANNY OF MILITANT ISLAM -- THE CONTRIBUTIONS & ULTIMATE SACRIFICE OF TWO WOMEN WARRIORS, SAFIA AMA JAN & MERIDETH HOWARD -- THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED FROM THEIR LIVES & DEATHS:  AMERICA & ITS ALLIES MUST NOT BE PERSUADED BY APPEASERS & COWARDS TO RUN AWAY FROM MURDERERS ON MOTORBIKES & IN BOMB-LADEN CARS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 188, September 29, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TWO WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN

By Alan Caruba



ISSUES RELATING TO THE GENERAL WELFARE & NATIONAL INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:   GETTING DOWN TO THE NITTY-GRITTY REGARDING AMERICAN POLITICS, PUBLIC POLICY, & NATIONAL SECURITY -- A REVIEW OF ALAN CARUBA'S RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOK, RIGHT ANSWERS: SEPARATING FACT FROM FANTASY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 185, September 27, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISSUES THAT AFFECT US ALL:
The Analysis of Alan Caruba
A Book Review

By Chip McLean



THE BARBARISM, TERROR, & TYRANNY OF POLITICAL ISLAM:  THE CONDITIONS OF HUMAN MISERY, DEGRADATION, OPPRESSION, & BACKWARDNESS THAT EXIST WHEN ISLAM HOLDS POLITICAL POWER & CONTROLS & DIRECTS THE OPERATIONS OF A SOVEREIGN STATE OR OTHER POLITICAL COMMUNITY -- EPISODES OF ISLAMIC CARNAGE -- WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN IRAN EVER SINCE THE ISLAMISTS SEIZED POWER IN THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION OF 1979 -- THE URGENCY OF ACHIEVING THE VICTORY OF HUMANITY OVER ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIMES & MOVEMENTS -- THE PRACTICAL STEPS THAT SHOULD BE TAKEN TO ACHIEVE VICTORY OVER POLITICAL ISLAM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 173, September 7, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

POLITICAL ISLAM & THE SILENT HOLOCAUST:
Why Humanity Must Achieve Victory Over Islam

By Azam Kamguian



RELIGION & THE TERROR WAR:  ISLAM, ISLAMIC THEOLOGY, ISLAMISM, & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- ISLAMIC THEOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY & THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST THE U.S.A., THE WEST, ALL OTHER NON-MUSLIN SOCIETIES & CULTURES, & SECULAR POLITICAL REGIMES IN MUSLIM MAJORITY COUNTRIES -- RELIGIOUS JUSTIFICATION OF SUICIDE BOMBINGS & OTHER ACTS OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- VINDICATION OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE AGAINST CIVILIANS AS WELL AS AGAINST MILITARY PERSONNEL
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 172, September 6, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS OF SUICIDE BOMBINGS:
ISLAMIC TERRORISM & ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY

By David Bukay



ISLAMISM, THE TERROR WAR, & PARTISAN POLITICS IN THE U.S.A.:  JAMES EARL CARTER, JR., JOHN FORBES KERRY, & THEIR MALEVOLENTLY DISTORTED ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLITY & THE ROLE OF THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES IN DEFENDING WESTERN CIVILIZATION AGAINST THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD -- SEEKING TO UNDERMINE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY & THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION & HELP THE DEMOCRATS REGAIN CONTROL OF THE U.S. CONGRESS & PRESIDENCY THROUGH A DELIBERATE, CONSISTENT, UNBROKEN PATTERN OF PUBLIC STATEMENTS SAVAGING THE AMERICAN NATION & ITS PROSECUTION OF THE WAR ON ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM -- GIVING AID & COMFORT TO THE ISLAMIST ENEMY -- PUTTING PARTISAN POLITICAL GAIN FOR DEMOCRATS IN FUTURE ELECTIONS OVER VICTORY OF AMERICA & THE WEST IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- CLEAR MANIFESTATIONS OF VERY LOW PRINCIPLE, HYPOCRISY, DISHONESTY, & LACK OF PATRIOTISM AMONG POLITICIANS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 165, August 30, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PATRIOTISM, PARTISAN POLITICS, & THE ISLAMIST JIHAD:
CARTER, KERRY, & OTHER EMBARRASMENTS

By Christopher G. Adamo



ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE & ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY:  THE HISTORICAL, CULTURAL & IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF WIDESPREAD & REGULAR DENIAL OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS & TRUE JUSTICE IN THE MUSLIM WORLD -- THE POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF ISLAMIC TYRANNY & INJUSTICE FOR WESTERN COUNTRIES, THE UNITED NATIONS, & INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 164, August 30, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHY DO MUSLIMS EXECUTE INNOCENT PEOPLE?
The Answer Lies in Islamic History & Islamist Ideology

By Dr. Denis MacEoin



ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM, THE FOURTH WORLD WAR, & THE ISLAMIST ENEMY:  WHERE DID AL-QA'IDA COME FROM?  THE INTELLECTUAL & IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST MOVEMENT & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- THE SAUDI DEBATE REGARDING THE "WESTERN CULTURAL ATTACK" ON ISLAM -- THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN & THE LEGACY OF THE ARMED JIHAD -- RADICALIZING THE ISLAMIC DEFENSE AGAINST THE "WESTERN CULTURAL ATTACK" -- OSAMA BIN LADEN & 'ABDALLAH 'AZZAM -- BIN LADEN'S SYNTHESIS OF IDEOLOGY & PRACTICE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 163, August 29, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AL-QA'IDA'S SAUDI ORIGINS:
THE ROOTS OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY

By Uriya Shavit



AL-MANAR:  MEDIA ORGAN OF ISLAMISM & JIHADISM -- PROPAGANDA & INCITEMENT ARM OF HEZBOLLAH WAGING PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST ISRAEL & SEEKING TO RALLY HEZBOLLAH'S ISLAMIST SUPPORTERS INSIDE LEBANON & THROUGHOUT THE MUSLIM WORLD -- OFFICIAL MOUTHPIECE OF AN ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL -- A LEGITIMATE TARGET OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 155, August 18, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AL-MANAR:  BEACON OF HATE

By Asaf Romirowsky



THE LATEST ISRAELI "CEASE FIRE" IN THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT:  THE "CEASE FIRE" CONSIDERED IN THE BROADER CONTEXTS OF ISLAMIC HISTORY, THE MODERN RESURGENCE OF MILITANT ISLAM, & THE LONGTERM STRATEGY OF THE ISLAMISTS IN THE GLOBAL JIHAD THEY ARE WAGING AGAINST ISRAEL, THE U.S.A., & THE WEST -- WESTERN LEADERS' MISPERCEPTIONS & DELUSIONS THAT ARE VERY LIKELY TO CAUSE THE EVENTUAL DEFEAT & DESTRUCTION OF THE WEST IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- THE ONLY OPTIONS FOR THOSE NATIONS THAT COMPRISE WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  UNITE, CONFRONT, DEFEAT, & TOTALLY DESTROY THE FORCES OF ISLAMISM, OR FACE THE DECLINE, FALL, & EVENTUAL ERADICATION OF THE WEST & ITS CULTURE, INCLUDING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE & BASIC JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES & BELIEFS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 154, August 16, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISLAMISM & THE MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT:
IRAN'S STRATEGY RELIES ON WESTERN COWARDICE

By Christopher G. Adamo



LEBANON, ISRAEL, ISLAMIST TERRORISM, & WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & MIDDLE EASTERN TERRORISM IN THE BROADER CONTEXT OF THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST ISRAEL, AMERICA, & THE WEST -- THE ROLE OF IRAN'S ISLAMIST REGIME IN THE GLOBAL CONFLICT -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES, THROUGH COVERT COUNTERTERRORIST POLITICAL ACTION AS WELL AS OVERT MILITARY ACTION, TO BRING ABOUT THE DEFEAT & TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THEIR DEADLY ENEMIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 153, August 13, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

LEBANON:  THE IMAGINARY NATION

By Alan Caruba



UNITED STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR: HOW THE U.S.A. SHOULD FIGHT THE WAR ON TERRORISM & DEFEND ITSELD IN THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST -- HIGH TIME FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO REVOKE THE BAN ON ASSASSINATING TERRORIST LEADERS, SPONSORS OF TERRORISM, & OTHER DEADLY ENEMIES OF THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 152, August 12, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

AN ARROW IN OUR QUIVER:
Why the United States Government
Should Consider Assassination

By Dr. Michael Rubin



THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  ISLAMISM VERSUS WESTERN CULTURE -- THE WEST'S STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL IN THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE PROGRESSIVE WEAKENING OF THE WEST'S WILL TO SURVIVE -- THE WESTERN TENDENCY TO RESORT TO APPEASEMENT OF A VERY DANGEROUS ENEMY & THEREBY UNDERMINE THE WEST'S DEFENSES AGAINST THAT ENEMY -- ANEMIC REMNANTS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION DAILY EXIBITING LESS & LESS OF A DETERMINATION TO STOP, OR EVEN SLOW DOWN, THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT SPREADING INSIDIOUSLY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, IN PURSUIT OF THE GOALS OF WORLD DOMINATION & DESTRUCTION OF WESTERN CULTURE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 144, August 2, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WESTERN CULTURE'S FLAGGING WILL TO SURVIVE

By Christopher G. Adamo



AMERICAN LIBERALISM DURING TIME OF WAR:  THE LIBERAL TENDENCY TO TRY TO "UNDERSTAND" THE ENEMY & EXCUSE HIS BAD BEHAVIOR -- LIBERALISM & THE ISLAMIST JIHAD -- THE LIBERAL POSITION REGARDING ISLAMISM, THE ISEAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, & THE WORLDWIDE TERROR WAR THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST -- FAULTY LIBERAL ANALYSIS REGARDING THE NATURE & CAUSES OF THE FOURTH WORLD WAR & THE COURSE OF ACTION ISRAEL, AMERICA, & THE WEST SHOULD TAKE IN DEALING WITH THE COMMON ENEMY IN THE CONFLICT
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 142, July 29, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NO LIBERALS IN MY FOXHOLE!

By Alan Caruba



THE ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY:  ELIMINATE IDEOLOGUES, ISOLATE THEM, OR MARGINALIZE THEM TO THE POINT OF IMPOTENCE -- RAISE THE COST OF TERRORISM BEYOND THE ENDURANCE OF TERRORISTS -- EMPLOY FORCEFUL & DISRUPTIVE MEASURES AGAINST TERRORISTS, TERRORIST GROUPS, & STATES THAT SPONSOR & SUPPORT TERRORISM -- CREATE & MAINTAIN AN EXCEEDINGLY HOSTILE & DESTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR TERRORISM & ITS SUPPORTERS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 122, July 12, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

STRATEGIES FOR AN EFFECTIVE COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY
CONFRONTING THE THREAT OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

By Michael Rubin & Suzanne Gershowitz



UNITED STATES FOREIGN & DEFENSE POLICY & THE CONTORTED & DANGEROUSLY SUBVERSIVE WORLDVIEW OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT:  THE ABYSMAL IGNORANCE OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERALS & THEIR MEDIA ALLIES REGARDING THE TRUE NATURE OF & SERIOUS THREAT INHERENT IN AMERICA'S ISLAMIST ENEMY IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM -- MUTATION OF THE LIBERALS' VIRULENT & ANTI-AMERICAN IDEOLOGY INTO A BELIEF THAT, NO MATTER WHAT ENEMY THE U.S.A. FACES, THAT ENEMY MUST BE MORALLY & PHILOSOPHICALLY SUPERIOR TO ANY VESTIGE OF TRADITIONAL AMERICA -- THE LIBERALS' CEASELESS DISSEMINATION OF PROPAGANDA RATIONALIZING & SANITIZING THE BARBARISM & MURDEROUS BRUTALITY OF THE ISLAMISTS & THEIR JIHAD AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 113, June 29, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

CAN LIBERALS EXEMPT THEMSELVES
FROM THE TERROR WAR?

By Christopher G. Adamo



ISLAM, ISLAMISM, THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION, & JIHADISM:  MILITANT ISLAM AS A REVOLT AGAINST THE MODERN WORLD -- A COMBINATION OF RELIGIOUS DOGMA & POLITICAL IDEOLOGY DEDICATED TO ANNIHILATION OF ALL CHRISTIANS, JEWS, & OTHER NON-MUSLIMS & TO TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL, THE U.S.A., & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- SAYYID QUTB AS A MAJOR ARTICULATOR OF THE ISLAMIC EXTREMIST WORLDVIEW, THE WORLDVIEW THAT GAVE US WAHHABISM, ISLAMISM, THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, AL-QA'IDA, THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION, & THE JIHAD AGAINST THE WEST -- RADICAL ISLAM AS THE TOTALITARIAN WORLDVIEW & VIOLENT WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT THAT WE MUST RESIST, DEFEAT, & DESTROY FOR THE SAKE OF ALL MANKIND
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 111, June 25, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISLAM'S LETHAL CERTITUDE

By Alan Caruba



UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY & THE BUSH II PRESIDENCY:  REVERSING THE COURSE OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY -- THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, WHILE STILL SPEAKING ABOUT OPPOSING NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION, SPREADING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & PROSECUTING THE WAR AGAINST ISLAMIST TERRFORISM, INCREASINGLY CHARTS THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE & PAPER COMPROMISE SO DOMINANT DURING THE PRESIDENCY OF WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON -- SEEKING TO PLEASE DIPLOMATS & OTHER INTERNATIONALIST-MINDED BUREAUCRATS, WHILE JEOPARDIZING AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 100, June 11, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BUBBA DUBYA?  A CURIOUSLY CLINTONIAN TURN
IN UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY

By Dr Michael Rubin



ISLAMISM, TERRORISM, & JIHADISM:  USE OF POLITICS, CHARITY, & TERRORISM IN THE SERVICE OF JIHAD AGAINST ISRAEL & THE WEST -- MILITANT ISLAM, HAMAS, SAUDI ARABIA, MILITANT ISLAM, ISLAMIC BANKING, & FUNDING THE GLOBAL WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 87, May 25, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

POPULAR NOTIONS LAID BARE:  A REVIEW
OF THREE BOOKS ON TERRORISM & JIHADISM

By Dr Michael Rubin



ISLAMISM, JIHADISM, & THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEM & THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA:  TO WHAT DEGREE HAVE SAUDI SOURCES PROVIDED FUNDING & SUPPORT FOR MILITANT ISLAM & THE TERROR WAR IT IS WAGING AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST? TO WHAT EXTENT HAVE SAUDI OFFICIALS REALLY COOPERATED WITH U.S. AGENCIES ENGAGED IN EFFORTS TO ASCERTAIN THE SOURCES OF FUNDING & SUPPORT OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM & THE JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION? THE SEPTEMBER 16, 2005, REPORT OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 81, May 16, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DOES SAUDI ARABIA FUND TERRORISM?

By The Editors of Middle East Quarterly



THE FOURTH WORLD WAR & RELATIONS BETWEEN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:  INCREASED SCRUTINY OF U.S.-SAUDI TIES & SAUDI SUPPORT OF ISLAMISM -- ARE U.S.-SAUDI RELATIONS SOLID?  WHO CONTROLS SAUDI ARABIA?  SAUDI FOREIGN POLICY -- HOW HELPFUL IS SAUDI INFLUENCE TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IN SAFEGUARDING & PROMOTING AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, PARTICULARLY AS REGARDS SYRIAN & IRANIAN INTERFERENCE IN LEBANON, THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, & THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR CHALLENGE?  HOW IMPORTANT IS PETROLEUM TO THE BILATERAL U.S.-SAUDI RELATIONSHIP?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 66, April 28, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HAS THE SAUDI KINGDOM REFORMED?
A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Middle East Quarterly



THE SHARI'A VERSUS AMERICAN CIVIL LAW: ISLAMISTS, ISLAMIC ENCLAVES IN AMERICA, & THE U.S. CONSTITUTION -- ISLAMIST ORGANIZATIONS SEEKING TO ESTABLISH IN THE U.S.A. ENCLAVES IN WHICH RESIDENTS WILL BE GOVERNED BY TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS LAW RIGIDLY INTERPRETED & APPLIED, RATHER THAN BY AMERICAN FEDERAL & STATE SECULAR LAW -- THREAT TO AMERICAN NATIONAL IDENTITY & UNITY, CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, CIVIL LIBERTIES, & NATIONAL SECURITY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 57, March 21, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ISLAMIST CHALLENGE TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

By David Kennedy Houck



ARAB CULTURE & MILITANT ISLAM: THE ARAB MUSLIM MENTALITY AS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST AMERICA, WESTERN CIVILIZATION, & JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CULTURE -- WHAT OUR CENTRAL GOAL MUST BE IN FIGHTING THE WAR ON ISLAMIST TERRORISM: OUR TOTAL VICTORY -- THE JIHADIST ENEMY'S TOTAL DEFEAT & ANNIHILATION -- COMPLETE ERADICATION OF THE CULTURE THAT IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE FOURTH WORLD WAR
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 45, March 5, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THINKING LIKE AN ARAB

By Alan Caruba



THE POLITICAL CONTROVERSY OVER ALLOWING A CORPORATION OWNED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES TO MANAGE ELEMENTS OF SIX UNITED STATES PORTS -- CRITICISM OF THE DEAL EMANATING FROM THE POLITICAL LEFT: DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICIANS' HYPOCRISY & POLITICAL GRANDSTANDING -- CRITICISM FROM THE POLITICAL RIGHT: CONSERVATIVES' GENUINE CONCERN FOR U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY, A CONCERN BASED ON RECOGNITION OF THE TRUE NATURE & INTENT OF MILITANT ISLAM, THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION, & THE VERY SERIOUS THREAT TO AMERICAN HOMELAND SECURITY REPRESENTED BY THE ISLAMIST TERRORIST NETWORK
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 44, March 1, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE PORT CONTROVERSY -- DEMOCRATS' POSTURING
& REAL NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS

By Christopher G. Adamo



ISLAMISM & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIC JIHAD:  THE CURRENT THREAT TO WORLD PEACE & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- AWAKENING & FACING UP TO THE GLOBAL TERROR WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST US BY MILITANT ISLAM -- GROWING REALIZATION OF THE NEED FOR THE EUROPEAN NATION-STATES, AS WELL AS THE UNITES STATES OF AMERICA, TO PUT THEMSELVES ON A WAR FOOTING & IMPLEMENT THE MEASURES REQUIRED TO PROTECT THEIR RESPECTIVE HOMELANDS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 13, January 14, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD

By Alan Caruba



LEFTWING RADICALISM & ISLAMIST JIHADISM:  THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE BETWEEN RADICAL ISLAM & THE AMERICAN FAR LEFT -- THE GROWING CONFLUENCE BETWEEN MILITANT ISLAM ON ONE HAND & NON-MUSLIM LEFTIST RADICALS ON THE OTHER -- THE NEED TO COUNTER NOT ONLY TERRORISM, BUT ALSO THE IDEOLOGY OF ISLAMISM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VIII, Issue # 9, January 10, 2006

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

LYNNE STEWART:  JIHADI LAWYER

By Sharon Chadha



HAMAS & OTHER ISLAMIST GROUPS:  THE PROBLEM ISRAEL & AMERICA ARE FACING -- ARE HAMAS & OTHER RADICAL ISLAMIC GROUPS LEGITIMATE PARTICIPANTS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS ABOUT TO UNFOLD IN THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES?  SHOULD ANTI-DEMOCRATIC, ANTI-CONSTITUTIONALIST ORGANIZATIONS BE PERMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS?  SHOULD HAMAS BE ALLOWED TO USE THE DEMOCRACTIC PROCESS AS A TOOL TO PROMOTE ISLAMIST TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGY & PREVENT EMERGENCE OF A STABLE & LASTING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN PALESTINE?
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 271, December 12, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ONE MAN, ONE VOTE -- ONCE

By Asaf Romirowsky



THE GOALS OF UNITED STATES FOREIGN & MILITARY POLICY IN IRAQ:  WINNING THE WAR ON TERRORISM, DEFEATING THE ENEMIES OF FREEDOM, HELPING THE IRAQI PEOPLE BUILD A STABLE & ENDURING CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, SPREADING THE HOPE OF LIBERTY ACROSS THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST, GAINING NEW ALLIES IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM, & LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF PEACE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 270, December 12, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE WAR ON TERROR & THE UPCOMING IRAQI ELECTIONS

By President George Walker Bush



PACIFISM IN TIME OF WAR & GREAT DANGER FOR AMERICA:  THE ANTIWAR PROTESTERS' ASSERTION THAT THE WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST ISLAMIST TERRORISM & MIDDLE EASTERN DESPOTISM IS IMMORAL -- THE PROTESTERS' FAILURE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE ULTIMATE GUARANTEE OF THEIR BASIC RIGHTS UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, INCLUDING THE RIGHT OF DISSENT & PROTEST, IS THE WILLINGNESS OF LOYAL, PATRIOTIC AMERICANS TO FIGHT & RISK DYING IN WARS TO DEFEND & PRESERVE LIBERTY UNDER THE RULE OF LAW
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 269, December 11, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ANTIWAR PROTESTERS:  THEY JUST DON'T GET IT

By Alan Caruba



THE TERROR WAR & THE SITUATION IN IRAQ:  THE GOALS OF UNITED STSTES FOREIGN & MILITARY POLICY -- PROTECTING THE AMERICAN NATION & ITS VITAL INTERESTS ABROAD -- HUNTING DOWN & ELIMINATING THE ISLAMIST TERRORISTS -- HELPING THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ TO BUILD A FREE & STABLE SOCIETY FOR THEMSELVES -- LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM IN IRAQ & THE BROADER MIDDLE EAST -- LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF WORLD PEACE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 263, December 7, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE WAR ON TERROR & THE REBUILDING OF IRAQ

By President George Walker Bush



DEALING EFFECTIVELY WITH HOSTAGE-TAKING AS A TERROR TACTIC:  ESSENTIAL TO DEFEATING THE INSURGENCY IN IRAQ -- THE ONLY WAY TO CONQUER TERROR:  SHARPLY REDUCE THE ADVANTAGE OF EMPLOYING THE TACTIC & SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE ITS COST -- APPLICATION OF THIS PRINCIPLE TO THE SITUATION IN IRAQ:  REFUSE TO RANSOM HOSTAGES, BUT CONFRONT THE HOSTAGE-TAKERS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 258, November 29, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HOW TO DEAL WITH KIDNAPPINGS IN IRAQ

By Michael Rubin & Suzzanne Gershowitz



THE POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT INSIDE THE U.S.A.:  AMERICA'S TROJAN HORSE IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- THE FIFTH COLUMN THAT SEEKS TO ENSURE THE MILITARY & IDEOLOGICAL DEFEAT OF AMERICA & THE WEST IN THE TERROR WAR -- HOW LEFTWING LIBERALS IN THE MEDIA & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY STRIVE TO UNDERMINE AMERICA'S EFFORT TO ACHIEVE VICTORY IN THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 256, November 25, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE BURGEONING ALLIANCE BETWEEN LEFTISTS & ISLAMISTS

By Christopher G. Adamo



AL-QA'IDA & ISLAMISM:  THE INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIST TERRORIST MOVEMENT & THE GLOBAL WAR IT IS WAGING AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION & THE MODERN WORLD -- THE INCREASINGLY SHAKY GROUND ON WHICH THE ISLAMISTS OPERATE & THE FORESEEABLE END OF THEIR MOVEMENT -- WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS TO DO:  GET ON WITH THE JOB OF ELIMINATING AL-QA'IDA, DESTROYING ITS HEAD, STEM, & ROOTS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 253, November 21, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

WHO'S AFRAID OF OSAMA BIN LADEN?

By Alan Caruba



MILITANT ISLAM & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  DEFENDING AMERICA & THE WEST IN THE GLOBAL WAR THAT THE ISLAMIST JIHADISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST US -- ISLAMISM:  THE EVIL, BUT CLEAR & FOCUSED, IDEOLOGY OF THE ENEMY -- THE GOAL OF THE ISLAMIST ENEMY: ESTABLISHMENT, BY TERRORISM, SUBVERSION & INSURGENCY, OF A TOTALITARIAN EMPIRE THAT DENIES ALL POLITICAL & RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- THE CLEAR CHOICE THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS MADE:  "WE WILL CONFRONT THIS MORTAL DANGER TO ALL OF HUMANITY; WE WILL NOT TIRE UNTIL THE WAR ON TERRORISM IS WON."
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 248, November 11, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE WAR ON ISLAMIC TERRORISM

By President George W. Bush



THE POLITICAL BIAS OF THE MAINSTREAM U.S. MEDIA & ITS DISTORTED & DESTRUCTIVE COVERAGE OF THE FOURTH WORLD WAR, THE GLOBAL TERROR WAR BEING WAGED BY THE ISLAMIST JIHADISTS AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST:  WHOSE SIDE IS AMERICA'S MAINSTREAM MEDIA ON?  IS THE MEDIA ON THE SIDE OF AMERICA & WESTERN CIVILIZATION, OR IS IT ON THE SIDE OF THE PERPETRATORS & STATE SPONSORS OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM? -- WHY LEFTWING LIBERAL, ANTIWAR JOURNALISTS' COVERAGE OF AMERICAN CASUALTIES IN IRAQ IS TANTAMOUNT TO GIVING AID & COMFORT TO THE ENEMY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 239, November 1, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

TREACHEROUS JOURNALISM

By Alan Caruba



WORLD WAR IV & THE JIHADIST ENEMY OF AMERICA & THE WEST:  AN APOSTLE OF APPEASEMENT & SURRENDER OFFERING ADVICE ON HOW THE U.S.A. SHOULD DEAL WITH THE ISLAMIST ENEMY -- URGING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO BEGIN OPENING CHANNELS TO AL-QA'IDA FOR THE PURPOSE OF NEGOTIATING A TRUCE -- IGNORING HISTORY, WHICH IS REPLETE WITH LESSONS THAT TEACH THE FUTILITY OF NEGOTIATING WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KILL YOU
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 237, October 28, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

NEGOTIATING WITH OUR MURDERERS

By Alan Caruba



NEWS ABOUT THE ISLAMIST ENEMY IN THE GLOBAL TERROR WAR -- WORD FROM A TOP ENEMY LEADER & SPOKESMAN IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI'S REVELATION OF IMPORTANT TRUTHS ABOUT THE ISLAMIST INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST MOVEMENT -- AL-QA'IDA & THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION ARE IN TROUBLE -- AL-QA'IDA IS ON THE RUN & HAVING PROBLEMS FUNDING ITS OPERATIONS & CONDUCTING THE INSURGENCY IN IRAQ -- THE ENEMY WAR EFFORT IS BEING WEAKENED BY DIVISION & CONFLICT BETWEEN SUNNIS & SHI'ITES
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 227, October 15, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HEARTS & MINDS OF THE UMMA

By Alan Caruba



THE THREAT OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM & THE U.S. RESPONSE TO THE THREAT:  SUCCESSES & FAILURES OF AMERICA'S INTELLIGENCE & LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES -- TIME TO REVIEW THE SUCCESSES & FAILURES & TO EXAMINE THE LESSONS WE HAVE LEARNED, OR SHOULD HAVE LEARNED, FROM THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, ISLAMIST TERRORIST ATTACKS ON THE U.S.A.
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 205, September 14, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISLAMIC TERRORISM -- PAST, PRESENT, & FUTURE:
THE LESSONS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

By Alan Caruba



THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS:  LACK OF INTELLECTUAL HONESTY, EMPIRICAL RIGOR, & TRUE SCHOLARSHIP IN THE COUNCIL'S EXAMINATION & ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST & THE PROBLEMS & CHALLENGES THE SITUATION CREATES FOR THE CONDUCT OF UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY & THE PROTECTION OF AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & SECURITY -- AVOIDANCE OF RESEARCH & DEBATE, WISHFUL THINKING, ADHERENCE TO IDEOLOGY, DISSEMINATION OF PROPAGANDA, & PURSUIT OF A POLITICAL AGENDA -- PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES & REPORTS THAT OPPOSE U.S. UNILATERALISM & MILITARY ACTION, CONDEMN THE STATE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS DEFENSIVE MEASURES AGAINST ISLAMIC TERRORISM, EXONERATE THE PALESTINIAN ARAB LEADERSHIP OF THEIR SPONSORSHIP OF TERRORISM, SUPPORT ENGAGEMENT WITH & APPEASEMENT OF REJECTIONIST STATES & LEADERS, & DOWNPLAY THE THREAT OF RADICAL ISLAM
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 197, September 6, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
& ITS MIDDLE EASTERN PROGRAM

By Daniel Mandel & Asaf Romirowsky



THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD & THE CHECHEN INSURGENCY:  HOW THE ISLAMISTS HAVE CO-OPTED THE CHECHEN CAUSE AS THEIR OWN & ARE USING IT IN THE DEADLY WAR THEY ARE WAGING AGAINST THE WEST -- THE U.S.A. & EUROPE SLOWLY REALIZING THE REPERCUSSIONS OF HUNDREDS OF BATTLE-HARDENED JIHADISTS JUST THREE HOURS BY PLANE FROM WESTERN EUROPE -- DISTANCE NO LONGER A GUARANTEE OF IMMUNITY FROM TERROR -- THE HIGH COST OF LEAVING THE PROBLEM OF CHECHNYA UNADDRESSED
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 183, August 22, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

HOW CHECHNYA BECAME A BREEDING GROUND FOR TERROR

By Lorenzo Vidino



THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH & EUROPEAN ANTI-SEMITISM:  POPES, JEWS, & THE HISTORICAL RECORD -- REFUTING THE ACCUSATION THAT POPE PIUS XII WAS ANTI-SEMITIC & PRO-NAZI:  DOCUMENTATION THAT, DURING THE NAZI OCCUPATION OF ROME, POPE PIUS XII WAS PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR SAVING THE LIVES OF NEARLY FIVE THOUSAND ROMAN JEWS, FOLLOWING A PAPAL TRADITION THAT DATES BACK TO THE SIXTH CENTURY -- IMPLICATIONS FOR CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ISLAMIST JIHAD THAT IS CURRENTLY BEING WAGED AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION & AGAINST ALL NON-MUSLIM PEOPLES & THEIR RESPECTIVE CULTURES
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 176, August 14, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

DEFENDING POPE PIUS XII AGAINST THE CHARGE
OF ANTI-SEMITISM & PRO-NAZISM

By Alan Caruba



LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATS' RECENT CRITICISM OF THE TREATMENT OF ENEMY COMBATANTS HELD IN THE U.S. MILITARY PRISON FACILITY AT GUANTANAMO BAY:  PARTISAN POLITICAL PROPAGANDA THAT WAS INFLAMATORY & DEMEANING, DIMINISHED THE CRITICAL ROLE & GOOD WORK OF THE MEN & WOMEN IN THE U.S. ARMED FORCES, WAS TOTALLY LACKING IN HONESTY, PROPORTIONALITY & CIVILITY, & CONSISTED OF NOTHING MORE THAN A STRING OF LIES & DISTORTIONS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 165, August 2, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

PEOPLE DETAINED AT GUANTANAMO ARE WELL TREATED

By Mel Martinez



ISLAMISM VERSUS THE MODERN WORLD:  AL-QA'IDA & THE DEADLY ISLAMIST JIHAD IT IS CURRENTLY WAGING AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, & JUST ABOUT EVERY OTHER NATION THAT TILTS TOWARD MODERNITY OF ANY KIND -- AMERICA'S VITAL NATIONAL INTERESTS & WHY THE U.S.A. MUST PROVIDE THE SECURITY THAT IS NECESSARY FOR A WORLD SUFFICIENTLY PEACEFUL & STABLE TO CARRY ON NORMAL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS & ENGAGE IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE:  WHY EVERY SOVEREIGN STATE THAT THREATENS WORLD PEACE & STABILITY MUST BE SUBJECTED TO MILITARY INVASION & REGIME CHANGE -- WHY AL-QA'IDA OR ANY OTHER JIHADIST GROUP MUST BE SUBJECTED TO THE RELENTLESS HUNT TO FIND & KILL ITS LEADERS & FOLLOWERS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 164, August 1, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE NEW "ASYMETRICAL" WAR:
ALL WAR ALL THE TIME

By Alan Caruba



THE REAL STORY OF THE RECENT G-8 CONFERENCE IN LONDON:  ITS MASSIVE EXERCISE OF SELF-DELUSION & ITS FAILURE TO ADDRESS THE GREATEST THREAT TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION SINCE GERMANY'S THIRD REICH -- THE G-8 LEADERS' GROSS INCOMPETENCE, THEIR MISDIRECTED & DOWNRIGHT WRONG PRIORITIES & SOLUTIONS, THEIR REFUSAL TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE BIGGEST & MOST DANGEROUS PROBLEM FACING AFRICA & THE REST OF THE WORLD IS POLITICAL ISLAM & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD, & THEIR CONSEQUENT FAILURE TO DEVELOP & ANNOUNCE A BROAD RANGE OF PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO PUNISH ANY NATION THAT HARBORS & SUPPORTS THE JIHADISTS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 153, July 18, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

G-8 FAILURE ON A GLOBAL SCALE

By Alan Caruba



PROSPECTS FOR ACHIEVING POLITICAL REFORM & ESTABLISHING STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD:  TRANSFORMATION OF ISLAMIC CULTURE MUST PRECEDE POLITICAL REFORM & DEMOCRATIZATION -- ATTITUDES, VALUES, & BELIEFS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD MUST BE MODIFIED IN SUCH MANNER THAT ISLAM & MUSLIMS CAN & WILL BE RECONCILED WITH THE MODERN AGE, A PRODUCT OF WESTERN CULTURE & CIVILIZATION -- MUSLIMS MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN HUMAN PROGRESS & CIVILIZATION ON THE ONE HAND & BARBARISM, BACKWARDNESS, & STAGNATION ON THE OTHER
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 149, July 13, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

MUSLIMS, CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY,
& THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

By Salim Mansur



THIS WEEK'S ISLAMIST TERRORIST ATTACK ON LONDON'S TRANSPORT SYSTEM:  A STARK REMINDER OF THE TOP PRIORITY FACING AMERICA, BRITAIN, & THE WEST, NAMELY, WINNING A DECISIVE & TOTAL VICTORY IN THE DEADLY WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST US BY THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST TERRORIST MOVEMENT -- THE NEED FOR WESTERN UNITY & SOLIDARITY IN CONFRONTING THE ISLAMIC JIHAD & IN DETERMINATION TO COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THE JIHADIST ENEMY, ALONG WITH ALL GROUPS & REGIMES AIDING & ABETTING THE ENEMY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 146, July 9, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE ISLAMIST TERRORIST ATTACK IN LONDON:
THE ISLAMIC JIHADISTS SEND US A REMINDER

By Alan Caruba



ISLAMISM & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  WHY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT'S COURTING OF ISLAMIST GROUPS IN THE MUSLIM COUNTRIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST WILL NOT HELP BRING CONSTITUTIONALISM & THE DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL PROCESS TO THOSE COUNTRIES
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 126, June 8, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ISLAMISTS ARE INTRINSICALLY ANTI-DEMOCRATIC

By Michael Rubin



THE DIFFICULTY OF CLEARLY & FULLY UNDERSTANDING THE QUR'AN IN ARABIC & OF ACCURATELY TRANSLATING ISLAM'S MAIN DOCUMENT INTO OTHER LANGUAGES:  A SITUATION WHICH FACILITATES THE EMERGENCE & ENDURANCE OF SUCH MUSLIM EXTREMIST MOVEMENTS AS ISLAMISM (MILITANT ISLAM) -- THE EASE WITH THE QUR'AN IS MISINTERPRETED & MISREPRESENTED BY THE ISLAMISTS & THEIR STATE SUPPORTERS IN ORDER TO INCITE HATRED OF OPPONENTS & TO PROVIDE IDEOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION & SUPPORT FOR ISLAMIC TERRORISM & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 120, May 26, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

ASSESSING ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE QUR'AN

By Khaleed Mohammed



THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE STATE OF ISRAEL, & THE BARBARIC FORCES OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM:  THE U.S.A. & ISRAEL LOCKED IN A LIFE-&-DEATH STRUGGLE WITH RADICAL ISLAM & ITS GLOBAL TERRORIST NETWORK -- THE ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN IN ACADEMIA & ITS CORROSIVE IMPACT ON AMERICAN CULTURE & SOCIETY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 116, May 20, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE JEWISH CANARY

By Asaf Romirowsky



ISLAM AS INTERPRETED & PRACTICED BY THE ISLAMISTS:  A RELIGION OF THE SWORD, WITH THE BLADE FOREVER AT THE THROATS OF NON-MUSLIMS & INSINCERE MUSLIMS -- ISLAM AS THE ONLY MAJOR WORLD RELIGION TODAY THAT IS CITED BY BOTH STATE & NON-STATE ACTORS TO LEGITIMIZE DECAPITATION AS PUNISHMENT FOR INFIDELITY, DISLOYALTY, & OTHER BEHAVIOR & ATTITUDES DEEMED TO BE CRIMINAL
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 112, May 16, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

BEHEADING CAPTIVES IN THE NAME OF ISLAM

By Timothy Furnish



GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CHALLENGES FACING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE YEAR 2005 -- MEETING LONGTERM CHALLENGES WITH A LONGTERM STRATEGY
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 104, May 6, 2005

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CHALLENGES 2005

By Porter J. Goss



RADICAL ISLAM & JIHADISM:  THE ISLAMIST INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST MOVEMENT & THE JIHAD IT IS WAGING AGAINST THE WEST IN GENERAL & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN PARTICULAR -- THE ORIGINS OF THE MOVEMENT, THE NATURE & EFFECTNESS OF ITS METHODS, ITS PERCEPTION OF THE U.S.A. AS THE STRATEGIC ENEMY, & WHY AMERICA & ITS ALLIES MUST REMAIN RESOLUTE & PERSISTENT IN WAGING AN EFFECTIVE COUNTERTERRORIST WAR AGAINST THE JIHADISTS
THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VII, Issue # 103, May 5,