Nation-building in Afghanistan, Iraq was never going to work
As usual, after World War I, victors plundered losers, especially the German one. The victors demanded the payment of huge...
Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes is president of the Middle East Forum. His bi-weekly column appears regularly in the Washington Times and in newspapers around the globe, including the Israel Hayom (Israel), La Razón (Spain), Liberal (Italy), National Post (Canada), and the Australian. His special interests include the role of Islam in public life, Turkey, Syria, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and U.S. foreign policy.
German and Austrian media outrage me
Originally published on washingtontimes.com: Europe’s mainstream media has reached a point of distorted frenzy about what it calls the “far-right”...
An Arab prince denounces Islamism
In a remarkable but thus-far unnoticed address on Dec. 5, Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, the crown prince of Bahrain (an...
Hunger growls in Egypt
Egypt, famed for millennia as the "breadbasket of the Mediterranean," now faces alarming food shortages. A startlingly candid report in...
Welcome, Kurdistan
Before welcoming the emerging state of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, I confess to having opposed its independence in the past....
Talking Turkey with an Islamist academician
As Recep Tayyip Erdogan ascends Thursday to the presidency of Turkey, his hand-picked successor, Ahmet Davutoglu, simultaneously assumes Mr. Erdogan's...
Is CAIR Lying about a Rally for Hamas?
A "Stop the Bloodshed in Gaza" rally in downtown Miami on July 20 featured aggressive Islamist chants typical of anti-Israel...
Caliph Ibrahim’s brutal moment
After an absence of 90 years, the ancient institution of the caliphate roared back into existence on the first day...
Don’t Put Terrorists on Trial
The Obama administration has brought an accused Libyan terrorist named Ahmed Abu Khattala to Washington for trial. His saga reveals...
‘Amateur Hour’: The Obama Administration’s Middle East Policy
The last four years have witnessed major upheaval in the Middle East: the ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt...
Erdogan and Assad at War
Why is the Turkish government acting so aggressively against the Assad regime in Syria? Perhaps Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
Romney Channels George W. Bush’s Middle East Policy
Mitt Romney gave a generally fine speech today on the Middle East. Sensibly, he criticized the Obama administration for its Benghazi shenanigans,...
Don’t ignore electoral fraud in Egypt
When Egypt's Lower House convened on Jan. 23, Islamists held 360 out of its 498 seats, or 72 percent. This astounding figure,...
CAIR’s double standard
The mentality of radical Islam includes several main components, of which one is Muslim supremacism – a belief that believers...