Blog Talk Radio: The Gathering Storm http://raymond.uhurunetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/262.mp3 … [Read more...]

by John McCormack The Weekly Standard President Obama named Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official and Brooking Institution scholar, to head up a review team for overhauling U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan. Via the Christian Science Monitor, a big part of Riedel's grand strategy for winning in Afghanistan is, um, securing a peace deal between the Palestinians and … [Read more...]

The Tovia Singer Show http://raymond.uhurunetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/287.mp3 … [Read more...]

by Mindy Belz World Magazine In July I wrote a column about the widespread use of taqiyya, or the Muslim art of deception, after an Iranian told me, "A Muslim cannot be a real Muslim if he does not use taqiyya." That helped to explain a lot about the perpetual seesaw the West confronts in dealing with, say, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ("I want to wipe Israel off the … [Read more...]

How the Operational Commander must understand Islamic war-fighting doctrine to secure victory in the long war by James M. Vartanian, Lieutenant Colonel, USA Naval War College [Excerpts] Mr. Raymond Ibrahim, a noted historian and writer of the Middle East and Islam, suggests that a thorough study and understanding of Islamic war doctrine is necessary to combat Islamic … [Read more...]