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Anti-Jihad Underground

By | 02.19.10 | 10:57 am

As the bulk of CPAC attendees filed into the Marriott Ballroom for speeches by Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.), Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), more than 400 people crowded into an adjacent room to join in the launch of the Freedom Defense Initiative: “Jihad, the Political Third More…

Pakistanis Say Arrested Virginia Men Were Going to Fight in Afghanistan

By | 12.11.09 | 9:10 am

More details are emerging about those five young Virginia men arrested in Pakistan. According to Pakistani authorities, they may have been arrested at a safehouse for an anti-Indian terrorist group. But that was a way station to fighting their countrymen in Afghanistan, The Washington Post and More…

Gary Bauer: Ft. Hood Suspect Was ‘Sleeper’ Agent

By | 11.06.09 | 5:19 pm

Add another conservative activist to the ranks of people blaming the Ft. Hood massacre on Islam. Here’s Gary Bauer, in his end-of-day email sent to supporters, arguing that while some Muslims are all well and good, “there are also ‘sleeper cells’ or ‘sleeper individuals’ who are jihadist ticking time bombs More…

The Purpose-Driven Warmongering

By | 12.04.08 | 2:46 pm

Let’s say a preacher appeared on a massively popular TV show and offered scriptural justification for an unprovoked attack on a foreign country. What would you say? “Oh, there goes Yusuf Qaradawi again”? Or maybe, “I truly hope these people turn away from bin Laden like some of More…

Peter Bergen vs. Bruce Hoffmann FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

By | 10.10.08 | 10:25 am

Here’s Peter Bergen, author of two books on Al Qaeda and the only man in this room who’s met Osama bin Laden. Yet he doesn’t take on Hoffmann.

Instead, he muses on the “underlying causes of Al Qaeda.”