Andrew Bostom

Here is Daniel Pipes’ most recent pronouncement (published 5/16/13) on the subject, ostensibly,  of “Islamic Antisemitism”: He said the religion of Islam itself is not inherently hostile to Jews, and Muslim anti-Semitism scarcely existed before the establishment of the state of Israel.   This contention by Pipes—which I rejected with copious supportive doctrinal and historical
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                          Said and Pipes: An “Essentialist” Harmonic Convergence? Daniel Pipes’ 5/13/13 essay in The Washington Times derides “those who focus on Islam itself as the problem”—identifying Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan, and Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders by name. Most of his essay re-affirms
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Cross-posted at The American Thinker This past week’s Benghazi hearings re-focused attention on statements made by Libyan leader Muhammad al-Muqaryaf [Magariaf] in the immediate aftermath of the murderous 9/11/2012 attacks on the vulnerable US Benghazi diplomatic mission compound. Al-Muqaryaf, head of Libya’s National Congress, reiterated (and elaborated upon) his contentions to Al-Hayat’s Raghdah Durgham during
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