The shudder that relatively minor bad news from China sent through world markets last week was a warning that the halcyon days of Beijing’s economy are over. Indeed, reluctantly because of self-interest and wishful thinking, a universal consensus … [Read more...] about The [Chinese] emperor has no clothes
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Crimean Tatars and Jihad
Left: Crimean Tatars hold flags during rallies near the Crimean parliament building in Simferopol this week. (Baz Ratner/Reuters) In seizing Crimea, Vladimir Putin may well have bitten off more than he can chew. This, not because he lacks the power … [Read more...] about Crimean Tatars and Jihad
The Drone Mystique and Turkey
The recent positioning of US unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, at bases created in the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant and Afghanistan is a geopolitical event that demands greater consideration. That it does not receive more … [Read more...] about The Drone Mystique and Turkey
Why Da‘wah Before Jihad? (Da‘wah Qablal-Jihad)
David Bukay shows that the Da'wah is as fundamental as Jihad to conquering Western societies. Through exploiting the West's openness and its weaknesses, the Da'wah aims to Islamize and achieve demographic victories. Practitioners of the Da'wah … [Read more...] about Why Da‘wah Before Jihad? (Da‘wah Qablal-Jihad)
China’s Jihadists
On March 2, 2014, a train station in Kunming, in western China's Yunnan province, witnessed a horrific slashing attack by black-clad Uighurs wielding large knives and machetes. The attack left 29 dead and 143 wounded.At least 9 Uighurs,members of … [Read more...] about China’s Jihadists
The Real “Red Line”*
Recorded history is generally a straight-line narrative, often written with prejudice, and as the cliché has it, by the victors. Only those involved in writing it, or more importantly, living through it, know the many cross-currents that, because … [Read more...] about The Real “Red Line”*
Quantum Cryptography: Has the White House Heard of It?
At long last there's good news on the cybersecurity front. As cyber attack has continued to mount exponentially over the past five years, government has been glacially slow at even organizing itself to combat it, or to initiate or adopt proper … [Read more...] about Quantum Cryptography: Has the White House Heard of It?
Islamic Da’wah for Dummies
Part One: The Importance of Da’wah From its very beginning, Islam was spread politically and occupied territories by two arms: Jihad, the violent arms of occupation, violence and war-mongering, and Da'wah, the diplomatic and propaganda arm with the … [Read more...] about Islamic Da’wah for Dummies
Obama-Putin Kool-Aid
Media coverage regarding America's response to Putin's takeover of Crimea demonstrates the success of the Obama administration's propaganda maxim blaming successive American administrations for atrocities at home and abroad. Some of our pundits … [Read more...] about Obama-Putin Kool-Aid
The Saudi Dilemma*
These are perilous times for the desert kingdom, which sees itself as the very center of Sunni Islam, which for Sunnis is the only true Islam. It is facing a highly complex and dangerous confluence of circumstances that would have seemed most … [Read more...] about The Saudi Dilemma*