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The Curious Case of Jamil al-Amin by Daniel Pipes The American Spectator November/December 2001 The man once known as H. Rap Brown, whose antics in the 1960s earned him a reputation as the violent left's least-thoughtful firebrand, is now in the dock for murdering a policeman, with a trial scheduled to begin in January. It promises to be one the year's most spectacular court cases. The defendant is one of the leading figures of the American Muslim community, a group newly in the national spotlight. His trial and the events leading up to it offer some insights into that community. ...

A Christmas Birthday Party ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WIFE TO HUSBAND: Darling! I have decided to have a big birthday party for you! HUSBAND: Wonderful! WIFE: On December 25th. HUSBAND: That's not my birthday. WIFE: I know, I know, but we'll just SAY it's your birthday. HUSBAND: That's your ex-boyfriend's birthday! WIFE: That's okay, I have decided to call it your birthday. HUSBAND: No, its not okay. Why don't you just pick any day that is NOT your ex-boy friend's birthday? Aren't you interested in what is true? In what is pleasing to me? Even enough to find out my real birth date? ...

In declaring his own war on terrorism last week, Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made a surprising claim. He said that Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, "is responsible for everything that is happening here," a reference to the onslaught of four suicide operations that had just left 26 Israelis dead and some 200 wounded. To which one might reasonably ask: Why blame Arafat? No one blames President Bush for the catastrophe on Sept. 11 or other politicians for the terrorism that occurs on their watch. Why should it be different with Arafat? Isn't Sharon unfair? Let's look at the evidence. ...

NBC did a short film piece tonight showing Graham stating that Islam called for killing of Christians and Jews and was evil. Brokaw stated that Graham apparently "stands alone," in this and that Falwell and other prominent clergy are silent about the matter. The usual Moslem tizzy, yada yada.

How many Muslims live in the United States? Until now, basically, no one has had any idea. By law, the U.S. Census cannot ask questions about religion. There are also plenty of other difficulties in coming up with a number, starting with the problem of defining who is a Muslim: Does one include non-standard believers like Louis Farrakhan and the Druze? Uncertainty has generated some wildly divergent numbers. A large 1990 demographic survey counted 1.3 million Muslims. In 1998, a Pakistani newspaper put the number at 12 million. Even the usually authoritative Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches found 527,000 ...

Between 100 and 200 US Army Rangers are conducting a raid against Taiban targets in S. Afghanistan...more to follo as it comes in.

THE revelations that terrorists who struck the World Trade Center and Pentagon received training at flight schools in the United States and attended a university in Germany have reignited a long-simmering debate over unrestricted access by foreign students to sensitive courses at American universities. Just before last Tuesday's terror attack, members of the national Defense Science Board raised concerns about the access of foreign nationals to research that could be used to make chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, said a former intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity. "One of the major recommendations is, if we can't control foreign nationals ...

Training Neutered Poodles Instinct And The Politics Of Sex The two great social adventures undertaken by the United States in the last century have been first racial and, second, sexual integration. Racial integration hasn't worked well, because the races are simply too different. Blacks have progressed economically, but they remain deeply hostile to whites, and apparently incapable of assimilating. One may wonder: Will sexual integration work better? Or are there intractable sexual differences, whose existence we refuse to admit, that will bollix things? Believing that something ought to work is not the same as establishing that it will. The premise ...

DEMOCRATS .COM IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY By: Phil Brennan There is a website mistakenly called democrats.com (it should be .con)- run by a gaggle of Marxist thugs who could have taught Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels a thing or two about political slander. A visit to their website is something akin to stepping into a cesspool - on emerging one feels soiled and filled with revulsion. I'm not easily shocked - I lived through years of Marxist propaganda emanating from the bowels of 3 Dzerzinski Square, KGB headquarters in Moscow which turned out slanderous lies about the Kremlin's anti-communist foes ...