Turkey: Legitimizing Extremist Violence By Burak Bekdil Originally Published by the Gatestone Institute. In its early years (2002-2010), many Western leaders generously hailed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's governance with biased euphemisms such as "post-modern Islamism" or "moderate Islamism." In this view, Turkish Islamism and Erdoğan deserved every support Western…
Terrorism: A Warning from Iran to Europe By Richard Kemp Originally Published by the Gatestone Institute. Last month the trial began in Belgium of Assadolah Assadi and three other Iranians accused of planning a bomb attack in Paris in 2018. Since 2015 Assadi had been the most senior officer of…
Turkey: Erdogan Threatens Europe By Uzay Bulut Originally Published by the Gatestone Institute. Europe has once again been targeted with Islamist terror attacks. On October 16, Samuel Paty, a history teacher, was beheaded in Paris by an 18-year-old Chechen Muslim who acquired refugee status in France this past March. The…
Is Tehran Building a Devil's Kitchen? By Amir Taheri Originally Published by the Gatestone Institute. To hit back, or not to hit back? This is the question that has heated up debate within Tehran's ruling Khomeinist circles for almost a week. The debate was triggered by the assassination of Mohsen…
Arabs: Why Is the EU Mourning This Iranian Scientist? By Khaled Abu Toameh Originally Published by the Gatestone Institute. While the European Union has condemned the killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, widely regarded as the father of Iran's modern nuclear program, many Arabs and Muslims expressed relief over…
Arabs Warn Biden: Do Not Embolden Hezbollah By Khaled Abu Toameh Originally Published by the Gatestone Institute. The Iran-backed Hezbollah terror organization in Lebanon will be the first to celebrate if and when a Biden administration returns to the 2015 nuclear deal between the world superpowers and Iran. Iran's president,…
A Visit to Dubai Shows the Enduring Power of President Trump’s Peacemaking Shillman Fellows open a new front in the fight against terror and BDS on campuses. By Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical…
Can Sanctions Bring Down The Mullahs? Why the Iranian regime's days are numbered. By Michael Ledeen I don’t believe that sanctions against Iran are good enough, although, as I have written before, the Iranian regime is so hollow it could crash at any time. At my advanced age, I still…
The Killing of a Nuclear Scientist May Save Countless Lives By Richard Kemp Originally Published by the Gatestone Institute. With unfailing predictability, EU external affairs spokesman Peter Sano as well as other European Iran-appeasers rushed to condemn the targeted killing on November 27 of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. In…
The Taliban are Betraying Trump's Peace Deal By Con Coughlin Originally Published by the Gatestone Institute. The latest spate of terror attacks carried out by the Taliban in Afghanistan suggests that the terrorist organisation remains determined to seize control of the country through violence rather than by negotiating a peace…