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E.U. Takes a Step Away from Appeasement

August 2, 2010 – 7:11 pm

Last Monday the European Union passed its toughest set of sanctions yet against the Iranian regime. My understanding is that finally, after many years of talk and attempts to “engage” with Iranian leadership, European leaders are finally recognizing that a brutal regime cannot be appeased with such talk - and that if anything, engagement …

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Lawfare Conference Takes Aim at Terrorists’ Efforts to Wage “Legal Jihad”

March 16, 2010 – 12:45 am

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Last Thursday The Lawfare Project, a non-profit founded by attorney Brooke Goldstein (pictured above) to confront “lawfare” –  which Goldstein defined in her opening remarks as “the use of the law as a weapon of war” — held a conference at the New York County Law Building in …

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Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren Shouted Down at UC Irvine

February 16, 2010 – 11:34 pm

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Last week at UC Irvine, a large group of extremist students repeatedly shouted down Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. You can watch a video of this debacle here.

When appeals to the values of liberal education, free speech, and even threats of expulsion failed to quiet the disruption, Ambassador Oren appealed …

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Independent Bangladeshi Journalist’s House Broken Into, Police Do Nothing

February 10, 2010 – 2:43 am

<!–[endif]–>choudhury-before-after.jpgLate last month, the Dhaka home of Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, publisher and editor of that country’s largest weekly newspaper, The Weekly Blitz, was broken into. Police in Dhaka have done nothing to investigate the incident.

Choudhury, who faces prosecution by his government on charges of “blasphemy, treason, and sedition”– for …

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Anti-Jihadist Muslim Featured in Today’s American Spectator

November 10, 2009 – 4:07 pm

Today The American Spectator features on its front page my piece on anti-jihadist Muslim Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.

Choudhury will appear before a Bangladeshi court tomorrow to defend himself against charges of blasphemy, sedition and treason for holding the line against radical Islamists in his county and …

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U.S. Attorneys, Activists, and Journalists Convene to Defend Free Speech in Washington D.C. Today

May 19, 2009 – 9:24 pm

United in their commitment to defense of free speech against the threat of harassment by radical Islamists, speakers at today’s “Islamist Lawfare” conference, hosted in Washington D.C. by Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum, debated what precisely constitutes the radical Islamist threat in the U.S. and how best to combat it.

In Europe and now in the …

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Cyber Bullies

November 27, 2007 – 5:24 am

Just saw a disturbing story on CNN about a 13-year-old girl, Megan Meier, who killed herself after enduring vicious cyber-harassment. The kicker is, her tormentor was a grown woman - the mother of another girl in her neighborhood.

The premeditated cruelty of this woman’s behavior is astonishing: she posed as a teenage boy and, in …

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