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The ‘Intifada’ Comes to New Orleans January 03, 2025

If the New Year’s Day massacre in the Big Easy doesn’t wake us up to the horrors of Islamism, nothing will....

The Most Effective Antidote to ISIS Attacks January 03, 2025

The man who murdered at least 15 people with his truck on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans, last night was flying the black banner of the Islamic State from his truck, according to the FBI. Police shot 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar dead at the s...

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Islamism Ruined Britain. Don’t Let It Ruin America. January 03, 2025

The New Year's Day terror attack in New Orleans is a sign of things to come...

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Peace to Prosperity is America First in the Middle East November 26, 2024

A Fortuitous Confluence of EventsDonald Trump’s foreign policy team is shaping up to be great news for Israel, the West, and the proper definition of America First. The erosion of American interests under the Biden Administration means that Trump wi...

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How Islamists Influence the UK Government November 26, 2024

Last week, the Runnymede Trust published a report, forecasting a ‘bleak and dystopian’ future for Muslims in the UK. Chief executive Shabna Begum told the Guardian that ...

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Western Leaders Must Abandon Cultural Imperialism in Middle East Policy November 18, 2024

Having neutralized key leaders of Iran’s proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, Israel appears to be preparing its long-anticipated retaliation against the Islamic Republic itself. Although currently limiting attacks to military assets, many are still demandi...

Peace Through Strength: How Trump Defeated Daesh November 13, 2024

With a second Trump administration on the horizon, the situation in the Middle East is bound to be taken more seriously as a national security priority for the United States. Indeed, President Trump’s own record in the region reads considerably bette...

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Militant Islam Is Waning but the Root Causes Endure November 13, 2024

Hamas and Hezbollah will continue their 'struggle' despite decreased military capability after Oct. 7 ...

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Iranian Militias in Iraq Could Take Center Stage November 04, 2024

Other groups, such as Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq, are closely aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and have carried out attacks on US troops in Iraq and Jordan. ...

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U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s Brutal Judge Iman Afshari September 27, 2024

The death sentences keep coming from Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. In July, the court’s presiding judge, Iman Afshari, pronounced the dreaded verdict for Pakhshan Azizi, a prominent Iranian women’s rights activist and social worker, who ...

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Islam and Apostasy September 27, 2024

The Islamic world is large, and there is considerable variation in its legal systems. To take one end of the spectrum: In tolerant Tunisia, one can leave Islam without any legal repercussions (though severe social consequences endure). ...

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Iran Plays the Long Game While the U.S. Focuses on Side-Shows September 26, 2024

When mayhem erupts in the Middle East, the Biden Administration reflexively reaches for the band-aid of a ceasefire as if a small strip could staunch a hemorrhage. For months, the U.S. has invested in a hapless Hamas deal. Yet Antony Blinken, the Sec...

Striking Iran: Is Time Running Out for Israel? September 21, 2024

Experts discuss whether attacking the Islamic Republic will lead to regional war that could ruin Israel, or whether now is the time to cut off the octopus’s head – before it is too late ...

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Close Friends, Closer Enemies: The West’s Diplomatic Quagmire With Qatar September 17, 2024

A Wahabi Islamic state which eschews every principle of democracy while actively and openly supporting half a dozen proscribed terrorist organisations, Qatar lies on that fine line which divides America's ‘Axis of evil’ from America’s ‘Major Non-NAT...

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Free Speech Is the West’s Best Weapon Against Extremism September 13, 2024

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Israel’s Assassination Creates Dilemma for Tehran September 12, 2024

The July 31 assassination of Hamas’s head, Ismail Haniyeh, after the inauguration of Iran’s new president in Tehran was a significant victory for Israel, signaling that Jerusalem could eliminate any leader of the Islamic Republic at will....

What Many Westerners Don’t Get about the Gaza War September 11, 2024

By standing up to Iran and its proxies, Israel prevents the Eastern Mediterranean from falling under the control of radical Islam...

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Turkey’s ‘Islamic’ Offensive Against Israel Grows September 10, 2024

Turkey's President Erdogan is using the October 7 attack to rally Muslim countries diplomatically against Israel, seeking regional leadership. ...

Islamist Terrorism Is Staging a Barbaric Comeback September 09, 2024

From Solingen to Moscow to Hartlepool, jihadist attacks risk becoming the new normal....

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How Close Is Iran to the Bomb? September 04, 2024

Documents translated by The Free Press reveal the Islamic Republic could be closer to that day than many experts understand. Jay Solomon reports. ...

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Islamic State’s Remarkable and Terrifying Staying Power September 03, 2024

Adaptable terror group remains a potent global threat despite losing its caliphate to military defeat five years ago ...

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Islamism Puts Israel at Peril July 18, 2024

Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Hezbollah, and other Iranian surrogates think of war, terror, and genocide against Israel as ennobling expressions of religious sacrifice. ...

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Islamic State Attacks on Track to Double in Iraq and Syria July 17, 2024

A Globally Integrated Islamic State July 15, 2024

The Islamic State today looks different than it did five years ago and is far more integrated now as an organization amongst its global network than al-Qaeda ever was....

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Is the End of Iran’s Islamic Republic in Sight? July 08, 2024

In 1978, as I boarded a plane leaving Tehran for San Francisco, it did not occur to me that I might never see my birth country again. ...

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