Their loyalties, if this is true, were with Islam, not with the United States. That should not be surprising: it is a staple of Islamic thought that loyalty to one’s fellow Muslims trumps all other loyalties. “Another spying scandal at Gitmo,” by Paul Sperry for the New York Post, December…
Thereby significantly increasing the attractiveness of getting arrested, as far as jihadis are concerned. This is also one of the dividends Khaled Sheikh Mohammed will enjoy from his civilian trial in New York. Absurd Britannia Alert: “Al-Qaeda ‘terrorists’ win right to hear secret evidence,” by Duncan Gardham for the Telegraph,…
For the entire Harold Koh profile, click here. Selected highlights from the Harold Koh profile: Born in Boston, Massachusetts in December 1954, Harold Hongju Koh is an attorney of Korean-American heritage…. In 2009 President Barack Obama nominated him to be the Legal Advisor to the U.S. State Department. Koh is an advocate of transnationalism, a concept that argues in [...]
While the world waxes indignant over the Swiss minaret ban, it is useful to put things into perspective. In Egypt, Christians are persecuted. In Pakistan, construction of new churches is severely restricted. In Saudi Arabia, it isn’t allowed at all. So why is a ban on minarets — not on…
