“Westerners love this stuff, interfaith summits,” Brookings Institution political Islam scholar Shadi Hamid stated at a January 8 Washington, DC event about the 2018 Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies (FPPMS). While political motivations lead states including the FPPMS-sponsor United Arab Emirates (UAE) to support ever more of these dubious gatherings that sanitize Islam, […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: “Experts”: U.S. Will Never Beat Jihadis Unless They Give Them Money and Power
Failed analysts keep pushing failed policies. My latest in FrontPage: AFP reported Saturday that “experts” say “Western powers fighting Islamist groups around the globe are condemned to a never-ending battle if they only tackle the symptoms and not the underlying causes of jihadist insurgency.” That is true, but these establishment “experts” have no idea of […]
“Experts” warn that US will never defeat jihadis without giving them vast amounts of money and political power
These mainstream counterterror analysts are in agreement: we will never defeat the jihadis if we only “tackle the symptoms and not the underlying causes of jihadist insurgency.” On that they are absolutely correct. They demonstrate here, however, that they haven’t the first foggiest clue as to what those underlying causes really are, and instead are […]
Qatar-funded Brookings Institution recommends for “summer reading” a book calling for Islamization of Europe
The Brookings Institution is a respected and venerable organization, widely reputed in the West to be the repository of the nation’s finest thinkers on foreign policy issues. In reality, it is massively funded by the government of Qatar, and has worked assiduously to legitimize Muslim Brotherhood figures in the West — see here for a […]
Brookings’ Will McCants thrilled that McMaster in denial about jihadis’ motivating ideology
Who is applauding the appointment of H. R. McMaster as national security adviser? Leading the applause are mainstream counterterror analysts whose policy recommendations are based on false premises and have failed time and time again. But even as the world is in flames because of their wrongheadedness, they still keep pushing the same failed analyses […]
Appeals court decision blocking Trump ban doesn’t even mention law empowering President to restrict immigration
The whole controversy turns on this law. It’s hard to see how any Presidential action restricting immigration can be overruled in light of it, as it specifies that “whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of […]
Obama plan to stop “violent ideologies” doesn’t mention Islam, but Qatar-funded Brookings Inst says it still singles out Muslims
“William McCants, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution policy research group in Washington, said the idea of asking ‘the community’ to get involved with stopping violent ideology implies Muslim communities are aware of who may be violent jihadists and have the responsibility to stop them. ‘The community is just a code word for the […]
Brookings touts study claiming that “even a basic knowledge of Islam” can “dampen support for Islamist militant groups”
There are numerous reasons to be suspicious of this study. Here are a few: This precis of the study contradicts itself. It claims to have found that “knowledge about Islam indeed has a statistically significant and negative impact upon support for the Afghan Taliban and SSP.” But then it notes that “those who espoused the […]