A local Brooklyn mosque with a checkered history and once surveilled by the NYPD continues to promote radical content online. Ali Abdul-Karim Judan, mosque spokesman and head of security for At-Taqwa mosque in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, posted a video on Facebook Live…
The Muslim “Brotherhood [MB] is traditionally a reformist, gradualist movement [which] is working on social change,” stated the Egyptian MB member Amr Darrag at a Georgetown University panel last month. With that, Darrag and his fellow speaker, the British-Iraqi MB…
Yesterday was the fifteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that murdered 2,977 Americans. We have been at war since October of that year when we first struck the Taliban in Afghanistan after President Bush gave them the choice between surrendering…
Last Tuesday young Muslim men with knives burst into a Catholic Church in Western France and cut the throat of the 85 year-old priest conducting services. They yelled “Allahu akbar!” ISIS claimed credit for the dastardly deed. This was just…
The coup attempt in Turkey adds only question marks to question marks in a region already short on answers. For the U.S. specifically and the West in general, its failure also foreshadows far more negative than positive future developments. Turkey is a…
Earlier this evening, I attended a vigil at Boston City Hall Plaza in honor of those who died during the ISIS jihadist attack in Orlando. Given the heinous nature of this act which specifically targeted the LGBT community, it is…
I just watched President Obama’s news conference commenting on the massacre at the hands of a man who pledged allegiance to ISIS which claimed the lives of 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. While Obama said there…