by Alakananda Mookerjee Digital Library Consigned to the literary graveyard by many European countries, Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" is being widely read by India's young business school students. What is lumped together in the West, in the same category as The Al Qaeda Reader by Raymond Ibrahim—as a treatise of terror—is being regarded in (some of) the East, as "a management … [Read more...]
Το μόνο που κάνουν οι Σομαλοί πειρατές είναι να υλοποιούν τα δόγματα της Τζιχάντ
Translation of the original text: From Barbary Wars to Somali Piracy Κατά τη διάρκεια μιας πρόσφατης πειρατείας στη θάλασσα της Σομαλίας, ο Αμερικανός πλοίαρχος Ρίτσαρντ Φίλιπς, είχε κρατηθεί σαν όμηρος από τους πειρατές. Ο Charles Krauthammer, αναλυτής του δικτύου Fox News, κατέληξε με βεβαιότητα στο συμπέρασμα, ότι «τα καλά νέα είναι ότι αυτοί, (οι πειρατές) δεν είναι οπαδοί … [Read more...]
From Barbary Wars to Somali Piracy
The "Water" Jihad has a Long Lineage Pajamas Media Translations of this item: Greek During the recent Somali pirate standoff with U.S. forces, when American sea captain Richard Phillips was being held hostage, Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer confidently concluded that "the good news is that these [pirates] are not jihadists. If it's a jihadist holding a hostage, … [Read more...]
Jonathan Schanzer, Middle East Quarterly
The Al Qaeda Reader by Raymond Ibrahim New York: Doubleday, 2007. 352 pp. $15.95, paper. Reviewed by Jonathan Schanzer Middle East Quarterly Ibrahim, an Arabic language specialist at the Library of Congress at the time he wrote The Al Qaeda Reader, has compiled a collection of screeds by Al-Qaeda's top figures, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, that reveal in … [Read more...]
The History Channel’s Distortions of the Crusades
Jihad Watch I recently taped and am watching a documentary, "The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross," on the History Channel. While it is more or less historically accurate—names, dates, figures—it suffers from two weaknesses, weaknesses that often take center stage whenever Islam is discussed in the West: 1) biases and apologetics on behalf of Islam, coupled with outright … [Read more...]