Green Energy
- Oil Jihad
This is from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies: FDD's Walid Phares argues that that while both Washington and Wall Street are culpable for the financial meltdown, there may be a third player in the game: circles inside OPEC who seek to weaken...
- Phares Endorses Romney, Stresses Preparedness
Walid Phares has endorsed Mitt Romney for president in a powerful statement released today on his blog and in Human Events. Phares has been quite proactive in this campaign, sending emails and copies of his books to the candidates of both parties. This...
- Phares Speaks Out On Dod Firing Of Coughlin
If you haven't visited Walid Phares' site recently, take a few minutes to listen to his interview on the Right Balance radio show in which he discusses the connection between the firing of jihadism expert Major Steve Coughlin and the influence...
- The Caliphate And Cair
In January of 2006, I composed a blog article largely based on the Washington Post article "Reunified Islam: Unlikely but Not Entirely Radical: Restoration of Caliphate, Attacked by Bush, Resonates With Mainstream Muslims." According to that Washington...
- Book Review: Future Jihad
In light of the recent arrests of terrorists on both sides of the Atlantic, the book reviewed here has assumed an important immediacy. Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America, footnoted and indexed, is a riveting read. In its “Introduction,”...
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Dr. Phares On OBL's Recent Threat Against Europe
Excerpt from this article in American Thinker, and Dr. Walid Phares makes a point I haven't read elsewhere:
In other words, that tape from OBL represents the overt union of terrorists and political Islam.
Not a comforting thought, huh?
Sometimes, I think that the Salafist threats are a lot of empty air. In fact, I want nothing more than to believe that OBL has little influence. But the essay by Dr. Phares also states the following:
...Bin Laden's school of Jihadism would have smitten first, explained later. So why is this message more peculiar than previous ones? What can we read into it?If Dr. Phares is correct--and I have no reason to doubt his insights--we're seeing a clear connection between the ideology of OBL and Muslim groups recognized both at the OIC summit last week and also by Western governments.
In short, I see in it the imprint of Jihadi "politicians" and strategists in international relations deeply immersed in the diplomatic games across the Mediterranean. Even though it is indeed the voice of al Qaeda's master, one can see the increasing impact of political operatives on the movement's public statements....
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... A simple check of archives shows that it wasn't Bin laden or Zawahiri who have asked Europe to enact laws against "insult to religion" but more "mainstream" Islamist forces and intellectuals....
In other words, that tape from OBL represents the overt union of terrorists and political Islam.
Not a comforting thought, huh?
Sometimes, I think that the Salafist threats are a lot of empty air. In fact, I want nothing more than to believe that OBL has little influence. But the essay by Dr. Phares also states the following:
What I saw in the al Qaeda message and the al Jazeera debate was clear: The Salafist movement worldwide was "talking" to the Europeans and the Euro-Jihadis. It was threatening Governments to retreat from the confrontation on the one hand and unleashing the pools of indoctrinated Jihadis across the continent to "engage" in violence....
- Oil Jihad
This is from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies: FDD's Walid Phares argues that that while both Washington and Wall Street are culpable for the financial meltdown, there may be a third player in the game: circles inside OPEC who seek to weaken...
- Phares Endorses Romney, Stresses Preparedness
Walid Phares has endorsed Mitt Romney for president in a powerful statement released today on his blog and in Human Events. Phares has been quite proactive in this campaign, sending emails and copies of his books to the candidates of both parties. This...
- Phares Speaks Out On Dod Firing Of Coughlin
If you haven't visited Walid Phares' site recently, take a few minutes to listen to his interview on the Right Balance radio show in which he discusses the connection between the firing of jihadism expert Major Steve Coughlin and the influence...
- The Caliphate And Cair
In January of 2006, I composed a blog article largely based on the Washington Post article "Reunified Islam: Unlikely but Not Entirely Radical: Restoration of Caliphate, Attacked by Bush, Resonates With Mainstream Muslims." According to that Washington...
- Book Review: Future Jihad
In light of the recent arrests of terrorists on both sides of the Atlantic, the book reviewed here has assumed an important immediacy. Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America, footnoted and indexed, is a riveting read. In its “Introduction,”...