Feb 18 2010

Bosnia Cracks Down on Wahhabism

Early this month, Bosnian police and military forces conducted their first major operation since war ended in the country in 1995.  On February 2, some 400-600 agents raided a major center of radical Islamist activity.  Officers were sent to the notorious “Wahhabi village” of Gornja Maoca from Sarajevo, capital of the Muslim-Croat federation that makes [...]

Feb 11 2010

Dear Leader to force through extremist nominees

Barack Obama sees no reason to continue to be frustrated with such pesky nuisances as the Constitution:
… Obama now says he intends to circumvent the entire Senate confirmation process to railroad through 177 radical left-wing nominees–many of whom are opposed by both parties–while Congress is still in recess.
Hmmm. Contrast this positioning with then Senator Obama’s [...]

Feb 9 2010

The Meaning of Jihad (Updated)

Why is it that so many people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, “struggle” with the meaning of jihad? What does it really mean and why does the Obama administration not only refuse to associate extremist Islam with violence against us and avoids being intellectually honest about the war we are in, but ignores not only the [...]

Jan 30 2010

Former CIA Director: We Didn’t Adequately Interrogate the Christmas Day Bomber

In a hard-hitting, must-read op-ed that will run in tomorrow's Washington Post, former CIA Director Michael Hayden writes that the decision to Mirandize Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a mistake. "We got it wrong in Detroit on Christmas Day."
Hayden, who comes to these issues with the valuable perspective of a man who has known the [...]

Jan 6 2010

Re ‘Obama, the Overmatched President’

In reading Peter Wehner’s piece at Commentary this morning in which he suggests that “No Drama” Obama has been replaced by Barack “Melodrama” Obama and that it would perhaps be beneficial to us all if the president and his staff eased up just a bit on the whining, blame-shifting, and feeling sorry for themselves, and [...]

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