Israel is bedding down with the American loony-Islamophobe right as Ambassador Ron Dermer will accept the "Freedom Flame" Award next month from Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy (CSP). After starting his political career as a low-level bureaucrat in the Reagan administration, Gaffney has cornered the market in anti-Muslim nativism. As the Carly … [Read more...]
Michael Weiss, Iranian-U.S. Hardliners Led Iranian-American Family to Evin Prison
This is an updated version of the profile originally published at Unz Review. Thanks to Ron Unz for having the courage and moxie to stand behind this piece. How Daily Beast Editor, Michael Weiss Helped Send Siamak Namazi to Evin Torture Chambers It’s a long way from the campus of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire’s Great North Woods in 2003 to … [Read more...]
The Jingoism of Anti-Jihadism
Since 9/11, there has been a rampant and fashionable strain of Islamophobia among western politicians, journalists and analysts. It's a response in part to the militant jihadism of the sort that perpetrated the 9/11 attacks. Bibi Netanyahu is perhaps the master of anti-jihadist rhetoric. Shortly after the Al Qaeda attack, the NY Times quoted him: Asked … [Read more...]
Anti-Jihadi Video, Textbook Case for Destroying Relations with Muslim Nations
While the murder of four U.S. embassy personnel in Libya is a heinous act, the lead-up to the act and what promises to be a grisly response to it offers a textbook example of how NOT to conduct relations between the west and Muslim nations. First, a bunch of lunkhead idiot anti-jihadis (you just gotta believe Pam Geller, David Horowitz and Robert Spencer … [Read more...]