Copyright 2025 Daniel Pipes Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:04:39 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Daniel Pipes :: Writings https://www.danielpipes.org daniel.pipes@gmail.com (Daniel Pipes) webmaster@danielpipes.org en-us https://www.danielpipes.org/22523/democratic-party-not-to-blame-for-republican-chaos Fri, 7 Mar 2025 16:35:43 EST As a lifelong Democrat, I was offended by Daniel Pipes's self-serving history of American politics, "Angry conservatives, explained" (Opinion, March 1). Since the early 20th century, the United States has benefited from the leadership of two political https://www.danielpipes.org/22531/slavery-abolition-and-islam Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:23:45 EST Bashir signals his outlook in the first paragraph: "Let us for a moment imagine a world in which Muslim seminaries are training scholars to actively challenge 'modern slavery' across the globe." Having established that, he poses a first question, one https://www.danielpipes.org/22530/possessed-by-the-right-hand Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:58:25 EST Recalling Muhammad's apocryphal last words about Muslims needing to take care of their slaves, Freamon, a Black American Muslim and professor emeritus at Seton Hall Law School, argues that they "have not lived up to this admonition" either in law or in https://www.danielpipes.org/22529/reform-and-its-perils-in-contemporary-islam Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:50:30 EST In her interesting and significant book, Oweidat, a historian at Kansas State University, focuses for three reasons on the life and work of Egyptian scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010). First, in a case that attracted international attention, a Cairo https://www.danielpipes.org/22528/oman-transformation-after-1970 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:36:21 EST Connoisseurs of improbable history will forever appreciate Oman in 1970. That is when the 59-year-old sultan of the world's most insular and backward-looking government, Sa'id bin Taimur, found himself deposed by his 29-year-old son, Qaboos, who turned https://www.danielpipes.org/22527/nazis-islamic-antisemitism-and-the-middle-east Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:42:54 EST Strangely, as the decades pass since the Nazi regime fell in 1945, historians assess its impact on the Middle East as greater and greater; Küntzel's excellent study adds significantly to that process. Coming out of a far-left background, for the past https://www.danielpipes.org/22501/the-genteel-martyrdom-of-israel-haters Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:29 EST Melbourne-based supporters of Hamas, the Palestinian jihadist organization, have engaged in puzzling acts of aggression since Oct. 7, 2023. Why did they break into the University of Melbourne's main library, cause damage on many floors, and destroy https://www.danielpipes.org/22484/blankets-bombs-or-bribes Wed, 5 Feb 2025 21:19:36 EST After President Donald Trump froze United States Agency for International Development (USAID) grants, its outgoing administrator Samantha Power stumbled for words as she strained to vent her indignation: Programs that we're running, the people we're https://www.danielpipes.org/22477/expel-gazans Sun, 2 Feb 2025 19:32:30 EST Donald Trump forcing Gustavo Petro, Colombia's far-left leader, to back down in the face of the threat of sky-high tariffs was a welcome change after four years of Joe Biden's geriatric passivity. But Trump's broader threat of indiscriminate tariffs – https://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2025/01/further-signs-of-palestinian-defeat Sat, 15 Feb 2025 13:39:32 EST I argue on p. 204 of my 2024 book Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated that Palestinians might appear unanimously to abhor Israel and seek its destruction but that is not the case. In fact, a significant percentage https://www.danielpipes.org/22447/proof-that-covid-19-came-from-the-wuhan-institute Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:46:18 EST To the Editor: Hats off to Michael R. Gordon and Warren P. Strobel for an in-depth analysis of the U.S. intelligence community's wrangling over the origins of COVID-19, whether coming from an animal or the Wuhan Institute of Virology ["Behind Closed https://www.danielpipes.org/22425/facilitate-america-enemies-killing-each-other-in Sat, 7 Dec 2024 19:16:12 EST President-elect Donald Trump wants nothing to do with Syria. On December 7, 2024, he wrote that "THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. LET IT PLAY OUT. DO NOT GET INVOLVED!" (his capital letters). I disagree. In https://www.danielpipes.org/22431/the-only-jew-in-the-room Mon, 9 Dec 2024 19:43:08 EST After 24 years in the Israel Defense Forces, much of it focused on the West Bank and Gaza, Lt. Col. (ret.) Avi Shalev, a Jew, made the unique decision in his late 40s to devote two-day weekends for the next 1½ years to acquiring a graduate-level https://www.danielpipes.org/22430/narrating-the-pilgrimage-to-mecca Mon, 9 Dec 2024 19:36:30 EST "It was magical; more magical than Disneyland!!" Thus does a British Muslim recall her 'umra, while Moroccans recall their pilgrimage experience as "beyond words," requiring that one "personally experience the journey to understand it." In contrast, a https://www.danielpipes.org/22429/the-culture-transplant Mon, 9 Dec 2024 18:02:49 EST Understandably, given the sensitivities involved, the words Islam and Muslim barely come up in this immensely important study of immigration. But The Culture Transplant has obvious and major implications for the movement of Middle Eastern, African, and