Islam

al-Qaeda

Gulf Countries Talk Like Iran, Act Like Israel December 04, 2024

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) held its annual summit in Kuwait on Sunday and issued a statement that sounded like Iran in thrashing Israel, but that aligned with the Jewish state in opposing the Islamic Republic’s troublemaking behavior....

Stabbed by an Islamist, Now Silenced by the State December 04, 2024

A victim of the Mannheim terror attack in Germany has now been convicted of anti-Islam hate speech....

Germany

Maduro: A Danger to Hemispheric Security December 02, 2024

Drug trafficking, Islamic terrorism, and electoral fraud are exports of the Venezuelan regime. ...

Venezuela

How Iran Sees the Path to Peace December 02, 2024

The Islamic Republic Is Open to Negotiations—Including With America...

Cooler Heads Must Prevail Between U.S. & Iran October 11, 2024

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz recently declared, “Israel is trapping Iran and America.”If that is true, perhaps the U.S. and Iran should cooperate to extricate themselves from that trap.In the wake of the most recent exchange of fire between Israel a...

United States

Israel Must Ensure Iran Pays a Price October 11, 2024

Iran’s October 1 ballistic missile attack on Israel – its second in five months – put to rest any question that the Islamic Republic is in all-out war with the Jewish state. While the Middle East has been in a regional conflict since October 7, 2023,...

Poll: How Many U.S. Muslims Deny Hamas’ Crimes on Oct. 7? October 11, 2024

Hamas

Brewing War Is Boosting Iran’s Young Hard-Liners October 11, 2024

As Iran and Israel inch ever closer to a full-scale war, the Islamic Republic’s huge ballistic missile attack on Tel Aviv on October 1 may come to be seen as a decisive turning point. ...

Islamic Sectarianism Is Surging in Europe October 10, 2024

New political parties are pushing a sinister combination of anti-Israel activism and Muslim identity politics....

ISIS Is Back, Says UK Spy Chief October 08, 2024

Rare public appearance from MI5 boss Ken McCallum also includes stark warnings about Russia, Iran — and funding pressures on the intelligence service itself. ...

Isis

The West Must Stand up to Islamism October 07, 2024

New York. London. Paris. Madrid. Over the past three decades, at various times, these cities have been yoked together under a pall of terror that has spread right across the West....

Iran’s Missile Barrage Fails Again October 02, 2024

What should the United States and Israel do? And the answer is straightforward: Hit them hard, take out access to their nuclear sites, take out their allies in Yemen, take out their allies in Iraq, and then take a breath, and ask the leadership of th...

Washington Must Release the Brakes and Defend Israel October 02, 2024

It is time for the leaders of the free world to defend democracy, stop delaying arms shipments to Israel, and prevent future patchwork solutions to the region’s problems. ...

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 ...

United States Senate

Islamism

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). ...

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 ...

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...

Qatar

Middle East

NATO

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

free speech

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...

Gaza

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....

Islamism

Terrorism

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. ...