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How Europe's Counterterrorism Laws Differ from America's

In my column, "Which Has More Islamist Terrorism, Europe or America?" I show that "the Muslim per-capita arrest rate on terrorism-related charges in the United States is 2.5 times higher than in Europe." I mentioned there a difference in the legal systems between the two continents that makes that ratio even higher but lacked the space to explain it. In brief, European laws make it much easier to arrest terrorism suspects than do the American ones. Consider two expert views on the topic:

If Not [Arab-Israeli] Peace Now, What?

Barack Obama, Google, and This Website

I pay my first visit to the "Googleplex" in a few days and thought I'd prepare by seeing how this website, www.DanielPipes.org, does in Google's rankings. I started out with the hot name of the moment, "Barack Obama," and was midly stunned to see that I come in #5, following only Obama's campaign site, his Senate site, Wikipedia, and Reuters – and ahead of nearly 61 million other entries.

Richard Silverstein Shoots Himself in the Foot

I count 16 attacks on me penned by one Richard Silverstein during the past four years, or one every three months; is it fair to say that this leftist is obsessed with me? I make a habit of ignoring him, but his latest screed in London's Guardian, "Uninvited Guests," contains not one but two errors, so here follow my corrections.

John Hagee, the Holocaust, and Me: Thinking about Allies

Leonard Fein has noted in the Forward that I am one of those scheduled to speak at John Hagee's Christians United for Israel conference in July. In the light of new information about Pastor Hagee's views on the Holocaust and the news that John McCain repudiated Hagee's endorsement of him for president, Fein wonders, what are the others and I doing about the CUFI conference? Will they cancel their appearances, he asks. "Or will they twist and turn to rationalize their continuing support for this false witness?"

No twisting and no turning here, Mr. Fein. I plan to speak, as scheduled, at the conference.

Bangladeshis Banned by Bahrain

Imagine this scenario in a European country: A Bangladeshi migrant worker, a car mechanic, is charged with a premeditated murder, accused of slitting the throat of a European national with a hacksaw due to a disagreement concerning payment for work done on the victim's car. The murder outrages some local government officials, who claim Bangladeshi immigrants are behind the nation's growing crime problem and demand the deportation of more than 100,000 Bangladeshi laborers. For example, a member of parliament calls on the government to "put a timetable for the deportation of Bangladeshi laborers … after their repeated involvement in murders and other crimes." In response to this outcry, the interior minister announces, just three days after this incident, and as a result of it, that immigration permits will no longer be issued or renewed for Bangladeshis.

Can you imagine the hew and outrage that would result were a European country to take these steps?

Abba Eban Speaks on Israel's 10th Anniversary

On the occasion today of Israel's 60^th anniversary, going back fifty years and watching a television interview on April 12, 1958, with the country's then-ambassador to the United States, Abba Eban, offers both an insight into what has changed and what has not and an opportunity to hear the most eloquent defender, bar none, of the Jewish state. Video and transcript of the interview can both be found on the University of Texas website. Take the very first exchange, in which a flat-toned Mike Wallace notes to Eban that "in its ten years as a nation, Israel has been involved in repeated violence: major border incidents, two open wars with the Arabs" and asks his expectations of what is to come in the next ten years. To which, Eban immediately responds:

Responding to Joshua Muravchik about "Moderate Islamists"

Joshua Muravchik of the American Enterprise Institute began a debate with me on the subject of lawful Islamists in a June 2007 piece titled "Pipes v. Gershman," to which I responded on July 6, 2007 at "When Conservatives Argue about Islam." Muravchik initiated a second round in February 2008 with an article (co-authored with Charles P. Szrom), "In Search of Moderate Muslims."

Here is my reply to the latter, in the form of a letter to the editor of Commentary magazine, published in the May issue. The following version differs in many small ways from the published one; in three places, where the print version differed substantially from my original text, I added square brackets to show the contrast:

Laurie Mylroie's Shoddy, Loopy, Zany Theories – Exposed

Andrew McCarthy, the U.S. prosecutor who successfully put away Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh, has finally written the piece that many of us have long intended to do but never got around to doing – exposing the work of Laurie Mylroie.

Predicting the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election

In March 2004, I took a risk and in a blog titled "Predictions about the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election" stated that "I expect the U.S. presidential election in 2004 will be a Bush blow-out, reminiscent of 1984."

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