Policy Issues

Evidence is mounting that al-Awlaki is perhaps the most dangerous enemy of the U.S. because of his ability to recruit followers and inspire attacks through e-mails and websites, the CIA says. The Arabic satellite network Al Arabiya has dubbed him the "bin Laden of the Internet."

Muslim military personnel bring prayer rugs on weekday afternoons for group worship at the Pentagon Chapel built after the 9-11 tragedy. Its welcoming calm and nondenominational culture are in stark contrast to the emotional debate over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from ground zero.

New York Gov. David Paterson says he'd like to discuss plans for an Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero in Manhattan with its developers to see whether a compromise site can be found.

Initially, President Obama gave an unqualified defense of building the mosque on religious freedom grounds. Then a day later he said he was only backing the "right" to build the mosque, not the wisdom of doing so near such a politically sensitive site. On the latter, he is apparently taking no view.

A Muslim victim of 9-11 speaks out over the Ground Zero Mosque and Community Center debate.

The nation's leading Jewish civil rights group has come out against the planned mosque and Islamic community center near ground zero, saying more information is needed about funding for the project and the location is "counterproductive to the healing process."

A recent BJE course labelled "Islam 101" raises the question of the best approach to teaching Islam in 2010. Dr. Jasser addresses this in a commentary also out in the same issue of the Jewish News.

One of our biggest mistakes in the aftermath of 9/11 was naming our response to the attacks "the war on terror" instead of accurately identifying radical Islamists (and the underlying ideology of radical Islamism) as the target of our campaign.

In the wake of the leak of thousands of classified documents, the U.S. Army has expanded its criminal investigation into a soldier, Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, who was allegedly involved in the earlier leak of a combat video and thousands of military documents, according to the Pentagon.

Two men accused in a terrorist plot wanted to blow up jet fuel tanks at the sprawling airport, causing an explosion "so massive ... that it could be seen from far, far away," Assistant U.S. Attorney Zainab Ahmad said in closing arguments in federal court in Brooklyn.

The background support and financing for the ambitious Ground-Zero mosque and community center undertaking are matters that deserve to be addressed.

The American Civil Liberties Union plans to sue the U.S. government Wednesday on behalf of 10 citizens or legal permanent residents who have been placed on a no-fly list and, in some cases, stranded abroad.

Al Qaeda's media-savvy branch in the Arabian Peninsula has announced this week in an online advertisement that they will publish the group's first English magazine -featuring guest writer Anwar al Awlaki.

As King Abdullah visits Washington, Saudi textbook reform has never been more important for American security. Will President Obama press the King on this issue?

Dozens of Americans have joined terrorist groups and are posing a threat to the United States and its interests abroad, the President's most senior adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security John Brennan said Thursday in an interview with The Washington Times.

Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old Pakistani-American suspect in the failed Times Square bombing case, entered pleas of guilty Monday in federal court to all 10 counts he was facing.

NYC Police Chief Raymond Kelly discusses the homegrown terrorist threat and how NYC has been successful in battling it through vigilence.

The biggest surprise that night unfolded outside the defendants' homes. As the FBI arrived with search warrants and news the men had been arrested, the suspects' fathers greeted agents warmly. Suspect Almonte's father hugged one agent, Suspect Alessa's father shook another's hand.

Two New Jersey men intent on killing American troops were arrested Saturday as they boarded flights to link up with a virulent jihadist group in Somalia, authorities said.

The area around the former World Trade Center is a sacred space. It is a place where thousands of Americans' lives were taken by the purveyors of a hostile ideology based on Islam. The Cordoba House, a 13-story mosque and Islamic cultural center planned for a site near Ground Zero, is at best inappropriate, and at worst an attempt to hijack the memory of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

An email purportedly written by Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad four years ago reveals that he was motivated to attack the U.S. partly by radical Islamist ideology.

The government may add the Pakistani Taliban to a terrorism blacklist that would impose travel and financial sanctions on members of the group, which officials believe is linked to the failed Times Square car bombing.

The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said Monday that Iran is continuing to back Taliban forces, but its supply of training and weapons is insignificant. The general's comments contrast with a recent Pentagon report to Congress that said Iran is seeking to counter U.S. influence by expanding ties to terrorists and insurgents.

Modernity both attracts and unsettles militant jihadists. The West is at once the object of their dreams and the scapegoat onto which they project their deepest malignancies.

The 30-year-old Pakistani-American accused of trying to blow up an SUV in the heart of Times Square may have been poring through the Internet for years to gather information on jihad.

A major Islamic group is denouncing terrorism and calling on Muslims to show loyalty to America, or get out.

The failed effort to blow up Times Square with a homemade bomb Saturday night makes clear that we have entered a new age of terror.

A US Navy Seal was cleared on Thursday of collusion in an assault on an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding a 2004 attack that killed four American security contractors.

The Obama administration's push to address the specter of nuclear terrorism has some proliferation experts fretting that the White House isn't as focused on the more likely scenario of being attacked with chemical or biological weapons.

Small and disparate groups of terrorists and individuals radicalized by militants over the Internet will be major challenges for the U.S. intelligence community in coming years, the nation's top intelligence adviser said Wednesday.

A scathing report from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, states that most of the Defense Department's safeguards were "unclear" or "inadequate" to identify the threat and prevent the mass shooting that killed 13 soldiers at Fort Hood in December.

On American soil, Ramadan endorses attacking American troops in Iraq.

After the hype, the reality of Ramadan's message in the U.S.

Salim Mansur comments on the bizarre reactions of some western intellectuals to the obvious Islamism of Tariq Ramadan.

Federal authorities have arrested a Colorado nursing student, 31-year-old Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, with alleged dreams of joining Al Qaeda as she arrived on U.S. soil Friday afternoon.

The Obama administration will announce Friday a new screening system for flights to the United States under which passengers who fit an intelligence profile of potential terrorists will be searched before boarding their flight, a senior administration official said.

A secretive foreign network of Islamic radicals now operates dozens of charter schools - which receive government money but are not required to adopt a state-approved curriculum - on U.S. soil.

The Obama administration will halt new work on a "virtual fence" on the U.S.-Mexican border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday, diverting $50 million in planned economic stimulus funds for the project to other purposes. This is despite the earlier admission of Sec. Napolitano that the border could be an infiltration point for terrorists.

Colleen LaRose, the Montgomery County woman who calls herself "JihadJane" has confessed to the FBI about her alleged role in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist, according to two people close to the investigation.

American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is calling for jihad against America, claiming "America is evil" in a new audio message obtained by CNN.

A Somali man who allegedly has ties to terrorist groups is accused of smuggling, or trying to smuggle, through Texas several East Africans with similar affiliations.

A petite, blond-haired, blue-eyed high school dropout who allegedly used the nickname JihadJane was identified Tuesday as an alleged terrorist intent on recruiting others to her cause, as federal prosecutors unsealed criminal charges that could send her to prison for life.

A revised assessment by intelligence agencies could help build a case for adding Anwar al-Awlaki to the U.S. target list to kill or capture top militants, though current and former officials said careful review was needed given his status as a U.S. citizen.

Allegations of fear and intimidation to silence criticism arise at TIZA.

The Pentagon report and Homeland Security Reports on terrorism threat ignored the most obvious- the link of theology to the terror threat.

Almost two years before the deadly Fort Hood shooting, the U.S. Army was warned about Islamist extremism.

An Arizona Senate panel voted Monday to give Arizonans - including newspapers - new protections against being sued for libel in other countries.

In protecting Muslims from those who offend them, the West ill-serves Islam and those Muslims who seek its reform.

The U.S. intelligence community policy on killing American citizens who have joined al Qaeda requires first obtaining high-level government approval.

Another attempted terrorist attack on the United States in coming months is "certain," the heads of major U.S intelligence agencies told a Senate committee Tuesday.

Michigan authorities arrested a 47-year-old man with lying to the FBI about his involvement with the former Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation.

Credible intelligence has emerged that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is plotting another attack against the United States and U.S. interests abroad, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official confirmed to Fox News on Thursday.

Ft. Hood inquiry recommends strengthening the military's ability to identify radicalized members.

While the Obama Administration remains committed to closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, it has determined that Yemen can not currently handle additional transfers.

The incompetence of political correctness

2009 saw an unprecedented surge in terror "events" on U.S. soil.

The Chicago man charged with helping plot the terror attacks one year ago in Mumbai also photographed and conducted surveillance of a nuclear weapons fuel plant in India.

Reactions to Muslim radicalization in America by Muslim organizations vary.

Anti-terrorism officials and experts see signs of accelerated radicalization among American Muslims, driven by a wave of English-language online propaganda and reflected in aspiring fighters' trips to hot spots such as Pakistan and Somalia.

It is imperative to understand the differences between Islamism and Islam.

A Muslim cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, who communicated with the Army psychiatrist accused in the Fort Hood shootings was charged with passport fraud in Colorado in 2002 but federal prosecutors dismissed the charges as invalid.

Nidal Malik Hasan's murderous rampage at Fort Hood last month that killed 13 require us to quickly launch a thorough investigation and congressional hearings to understand these threats and how to defend our nation from them.

A domestic Islamist threat is real, and the FBI is unprepared to fight it.

In his first interview with a journalist since the Fort Hood rampage, Yemeni American cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi said that he considered himself a confidant of the Army psychiatrist Maj. Hasan.

A fierce debate reveals a more complex picture of a young first-generation American Muslim man (Dr. Nadal Hasan) living a life of dissonance between his identity as an American and his ideology as a Muslim who had accepted a literal, rigid interpretation of Islam, akin to the puritanical Wahhabi and Salafi interpretations of Islam that define the theology of militancy inside the Muslim world today.

The Islamists use the tactic of implying that the 'War Against Terror' is actually a 'War Against Islam' ... as demonstrated by Imam Anwar al-Awlaki and CAIR.

A concern that federal officials, both military and civilian, are getting bad advice about the domestic threat from radical Islam, because many of their Muslim advisers were members of groups that aren't on the right side of the war on terror, or at least they continue to see things through a dangerously misleading lens.

Many questions remain unanswered about Hasan. A circumspect analysis is very much needed.

Fellow doctors have recounted how they were repeatedly harangued by Hasan about religion and that he openly claimed to be a "Muslim first and American second."

The Fort Hood terrorist Hasan is being portrayed as an "anomaly," an "aberration," a "lone wolf." Sadly, he's just one of many examples of jihadist traitors in the ranks of the military.

Noor Faleh Almaleki, the 20-year-old woman from Iraq has died in an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after her father, police say, ran her over with a car because she had become "too Westernized." The father is currently being held in Phoenix, with bail has been set at $5 million.

After disrupting two recent terrorism plots, American intelligence officials are increasingly concerned that extremist groups in Pakistan linked to Al Qaeda are planning smaller operations in the United States that are harder to detect but more likely to succeed than the spectacular attacks they once emphasized.

The leader of a black separatist Detroit mosque was shot and killed Wednesday during a series of FBI raids that resulted in charges against 12 individuals.

A Glendale man is suspected of hitting and injuring two pedestrians, including his own daughter, with a car in a parking lot on Tuesday. Police said the suspect, of Iraqi descent, may have run down his daughter because he believed she was becoming too Westernized.

In Seattle, FBI Director Robert Mueller warned of the dangers posed by outside attempts to recruit and radicalize young American Muslims, but wouldn't discuss an ongoing investigation into reports that a young Somali man from Seattle was involved in a suicide bombing that killed 20 in Mogadishu last month.

Federal investigators have questioned two men whose photographs were shown to a Muslim religious leader along with a picture of an Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a bomb attack in New York City.

Mohammad Zazi has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver for making a false statement in a matter involving international and domestic terrorism.

In a paper for the Assembly of Muslim of Jurists of America Eberle gives reasons why American Muslims should oppose the pledge (AIFD highlights this as an example of Islamist separatism which threatens our nation). [original link at AMJonline was taken down]

Speaker Bass denies affiliation with CAIR.

Moderate Muslims in the world gain momentum to defeat Islamism and its radical views.

Two dozen more people may be under scrutiny who may have knowledge of or involvement in a suspected terrorism scheme that led to the arrest of a Denver shuttle driver and two others. Federal and local officials declined comment.

Federal investigators probing an alleged bombing plot with suspected ties to al Qaeda are trying to track purchases of chemicals that could be used to make explosives, as three men charged as a result of the probe appeared in court Monday.

A senior national-security official calls on Congress to renew some counterterrorism measures set to expire later this year, amid a continuing federal probe of an alleged bombing plot with suspected ties to the al Qaeda Islamist network.

This year's Washington iftar events included cabinet members, Christian and Jewish leaders, as well as a long Muslim roster.

An analysis of the Rifqa Bary case and its continuing implications.

According to the producers of The Third Jihad, more than 10,000 concerned Americans have watched the film on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

CAIR seeks to debunk what it describes as "Internet disinformation."

Eight years after September 11, the "war on terror" has gone the way of the dodo. And President Obama talks instead about a war against al Qaeda and its allies.

Conspiracy theories about the tragedy of 9-11 lead to avoiding the harsh realities that come with acceptance of root causes.

Treasury Department officials have yet to say whether they will appeal on Ohio judge's ruling that their 2006 asset freeze against an Islamic charity violated the group's due process rights.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said there is too much emphasis on telling the U.S. story and not enough on building trust and credibility.

Terrorist groups are increasingly tapping the Web to teach Islamist extremists how to be hackers, recruit techies for cyberwarfare and raise money through online fraud.

The NYC synagogues terror plot is one in a long list of foiled domestic terror plots.

The harsh reality of Islamist domestic terror unfolds.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says it doesn't have to release sensitive information for a federal case in Minnesota -- at least not yet.

The remaining two men convicted of plotting to kill members of the U.S. military during an armed attack on a military base were sentenced to federal prison terms.

The third terrorism trial of a group of Miami men accused of collaborating with al Qaeda will enter the final stage with closing arguments Thursday and Friday in federal court.

CEO of so-called moderate "Bridges TV" arrested in beheading of his wife after she filed for divorce and had a protection order against him.

Obama's message to Muslims must recognize certain nuances and help moderate Muslims combat Islamist extremists the world over.

An FBI Chief Intelligence Officer testifies before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs on the FBI's role in investigating terrorist attacks overseas, including our response to the recent tragic attacks in Mumbai, India, citing lessons learned.

Security expert Noor Huda Ismail told the Jakarta Globe that the robbers may have links to radical groups or the military.

A prominent Canadian Muslim group is calling for the condemnation of the doctrine of armed jihad and says there is a "serious problem" with radicalized Canadian youth in light of the recent terror arrests in Ottawa.

As U.S. troops begin to withdraw from Afghanistan in July 2011, an emerging fragile Afghan state under Hamid Karzai appears to be headed for a likely takeover by the Taliban.

The UAE said Sunday it will block key features on BlackBerry smart phones, citing national security concerns because the devices operate beyond the government's ability to monitor their use. Officials in neighboring Saudi Arabia indicated it planned to follow suit.

The offshore storage of data by Research In Motion for its BlackBerry smartphones conflicts with a 2007 law passed in the United Arab Emirates, the country's telecommunications regulator has said.

At a news conference in New Delhi, India, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen told reporters that Lashkar-e-Taiba is expanding its area of operations to Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

Yemen says two security officers have killed and three injured in a shootout with suspected al-Qaida militants in a southern town. An official statement Monday said two suspects were arrested after the clashes in Mukalla, in southern Hadramwat province. It gave no further details.

The extremist cleric Anjum Chouudary said the British public had "failed to learn the lessons" of the 2005 7/7 atrocity that killed 52 innocent people. Unless the British withdraw all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, no doubt we can expect more of the same."

A Somali man from Minneapolis who is wanted on a slew of terrorism charges in the United States is fighting deportation from the Netherlands, and legal sources say the process could continue well into next year.

The newly elected Conservative-led government in England announced that it would not allow Dr. Naik to enter Britain to deliver a series of lectures. According to Home Secretary Theresa May, the televangelist has made "numerous comments" that are evidence of his "unacceptable behavior."

According to sources in security circles, an 80-page pamphlet entitled "Prisma" ("prism") has recently been circulating in the far-left scene in Germany. The anonymous publication includes tips for carrying out terrorist attacks.

A Massachusetts man taken into custody in a law enforcement sweep after the Times Square bombing attempt has been ordered back to Pakistan by a federal immigration judge, a court spokeswoman said Friday.

Recent on-line postings by Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen and Saudi Arabia are "actively promoting" attacks against targets inside the U.S.

American investigators are probing a possible connection between Faisal Shahzad and Pakistan's powerful military and intelligence establishment.

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah said Friday that financing terrorist acts is "as bad as terrorist deeds."

Extremist religious scholars target naive young Muslims and entice them to join social and religious activities at which militant jihad is preached. Some of these youth are eventually persuaded to carry out jihad operations, at the cost of their lives.

Hassen Chalghoumi, the French Imam who has backed calls for a burqa ban, now faces threats from radicals in his own community.

The previously undisclosed arrest of a senior leader of Al Qaeda in Baghdad last month provided Iraqi and American security forces with a trove of intelligence that led to the killing of the group's two top leaders in an early morning raid this week.

Americans travelling or residing in India are strongly encouraged to maintain a high level of vigilance for terrorist groups.

A Bangladeshi British citizen, wanted in London under the Terrorist Financing Act for collecting money for the Afghan Mujahedeen and for Bangladeshi militants, is arrested.

FBI agents are in the South American country of Guyana seeking evidence in the case against four men accused of plotting to blow up New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

On the eve of Tariq Ramadan's descent upon Montreal, Tarek Fatah points out his deception and ideology.

Militant groups targeted a U.S. consulate and an anti-Taliban political party in a pair of deadly attacks in Pakistan on Monday, serving notice that they remain formidable despite a sustained campaign to wipe them out.

A close look at how much Iranian money has been frozen to date in the U.S. under existing sanctions shows that the total amount is surprisingly small, less than $43 million, or roughly a quarter of what Iran earns in oil revenue in a single day.

London-based Islam Channel is called out for its message of intolerance to the Muslim community in the U.K.

The U.N. Security Council has quietly dropped Youssef Nada, a prominent financial and diplomatic representative of the Muslim Brotherhood, from an international sanctions list directed at curbing the activities of alleged terrorist financiers.

The courts in Australia have delivered another win to former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib, declaring that he was defamed by News Ltd columnist Piers Akerman, paving the way for a hefty payout.

Irish police released without charge an American woman who was among seven people arrested last week in Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist.

The anti-terrorism fatwa by renowned Muslim scholar Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri pulled no punches, declaring that terrorism was "haraam," or forbidden by the Quran, and that suicide bombers would be rewarded not by 72 virgins in heaven, as many terrorist recruiters promise, but with a suite in hell.

Iran and Syria solidify alliances calling for the destruction of Israel.

Iran's move to take nuclear fuel above ground for further enrichment causes concern and confusion.

French imam battles radicalism and ignorance. Sees them as the true enemies of Islam.

Islam's martyr - soldier sacrifices his life in Afghanistan for the sake of his country and his religion - fighting al- Qaeda.

A new Islamic broadcasting network, the Netherlands Muslim Broadcasting Foundation or SMON, has recently been granted permission to broadcast in the Netherlands. There were lots of problems with previous similar Muslim networks, and it may not be very different this time.

Anwar Al-Awlaki endorses the Christmas Day attempt to bring down a Detroit-bound airplane and says American civilians are fair game for jihadist attack.

The treatment of non-Muslims within Muslim majority countries needs to be openly discussed and addressed, free of political correctness.

its time for Pakistan to renounce the last three decades of Islamization and put a more distinct differentiation between politics and religion.

More than at any time in the world since the cold war, liberal democracy needs defending. That warning was issued recently by a veteran American campaigner for civil and political rights around the world.

At least a dozen former Guantánamo Bay inmates have rejoined al-Qaeda to fight in Yemen.

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is in crisis and this particular crisis reveals a great deal about the enduring anti-democratic nature of the group.

Support for an Islamic-led campaign against religious "defamation" has dropped to a new low amid escalating concerns that defamation resolutions endanger non-Muslims in Islamic societies and harm freedom of expression

After the arrest of five young men from Northern Virginia, Pakistani authorities are concerned about a growing network of terrorist recruiters who scour the Internet for radicalized young men.

Taliban insurrection must be correctly understood by the Obama Administration and Pakistan's influence in Afghanistan must be neutralized at least, and turned in a good direction.

Now it's clear that the Twin Cities disappearances of Somalis for Jihad were far from an isolated case. From Sweden to Australia, officials are beginning to grapple with the reality that young Somalis in their countries have been doing the same thing.

Muslim clerics have denied permission to bury the bodies in Mumbai graveyards, saying the actions of the gunmen are "un-Islamic" and have "defamed" their religion.

A UN resolution advanced by Muslim countries that seeks to outlaw criticism of religion has seen a decline in support since last year.

The biggest news on the foreign policy and national security front barely made the news last week. Iran has allegedly been experimenting with a nuclear device.

Two Canadian men wanted by the FBI in connection to a radical mosque in Detroit were arrested by authorities in this country on Saturday.

Pakistan has been hit by a ferocious wave of terrorist attacks, coinciding with the launch of a military offensive in the South Waziristan region, in the tribal area along the Afghan border, the base of the country's Taliban movement that is behind most of the bloodshed.

The spreading use of makeshift bombs beyond the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan to other countries in the region, as well as in East Asia and South America concerns American military officers.

Counter-terrorism officials are concerned that al-Qaida has found alternative accommodation in the troubled nation of Yemen.

One of two suspected al Qaeda collaborators arrested in France this week was a physicist working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland, CERN said on Friday.

A Somalian man from Toronto caught smuggling handguns into Canada pleads guilty to terrorism charges making him the latest of the 'Toronto 18' to admit wrongdoing.

The United States believes Iran's Revolutionary Guards are providing training and weapons to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan to help them fight Western forces.

Ahmadinejad had a hands-on role, starting with a meeting in New York City in 2006, in helping one of his New York party guests commit the felony of violating U.S. sanctions on Iran.

Is the enemy terrorism or radicalization?

A defiant woman decides to take on the Sudanese Islamist regime as she sends out 500 invitations to journalists and activists to watch her challenge the "indecency" charge against her in court.

Discovering Islam within Islam will be a long and turbulent journey.

Three young Britons were declared guilty Monday in a London court of planning to blow up transatlantic planes in a spectacularly scaled Al Qaeda terrorist plot that could have killed thousands of people.

Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan is in the news again following revelations that a newspaper column he penned two weeks ago for Pakistan's The News heavily plagiarized websites of British universities.

Religion must be separated from the state in Islam ... and a Islamic state has no foundation in Islamic thought or law according to a Lebonese religious scholar.

Intelligence suggests al-Qaida operatives are planning to plant multiple explosive devices in several locations and detonate them either in a simultaneous or sequential fashion U.S. and German intelligence sources say.

A dentist whose brother used to be spokesman for the banned radical Muslim group Al Muhajiroun, ordered female patients to wear headscarves and forced men to take off gold jewellery before allowing them into the dentists' chair.

Women’s groups demanding for equality and justice in Islam question those in authority, be it religious, political, or social, who adopt a position that discriminates against women, and then proclaim that their position is the one true Islam.

President Obama hinted Thursday that the United States would for the first time accept the results of Middle East elections won by Islamist parties.

American Muslim groups and mainstream American media outlets often paint Qaradawi as a "moderate" who represents mainstream Islam. This dangerous mischaracterization ignores Qaradawi's speeches and actions.

Geraghty blogs from Turkey..."This strikes me as the fallout of the Tipping Point ™ - my sense that in recent weeks, a large chunk of Americans just decided that they no longer have any faith in the good sense or non-hostile nature of the Muslim world. If subsequent polls find similar results, the port deal is dead."