Dr. Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, is a contributing editor at the Daily Beast (thedailybeast.com). Reza Aslan has a BA in Religions from Santa Clara University, a MA from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from University of California, Santa Barbara. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, where he was named the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He serves on the board of directors for both the Ploughshares Fund, which gives grants for peace and security issues, Abraham’s Vision, an interfaith peace organization, and PEN USA. Aslan’s first book is the international bestseller, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, which has been translated into thirteen languages, short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award in the UK, and nominated for a PEN USA award for research Non-Fiction. His other books include How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror (published in paperback as Beyond Fundamentalism) and Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. Named by the Smithsonian Institute as one of 35 Innovators Under 35, Aslan is CEO of Aslan Media Inc, whose holdings include BoomGen Studios, a mini motion picture studio and media company dedicated to fostering …
ACT for America is debuting its first nationwide TV promotion. It’s simple, direct and to the point. Comments welcomed. As ACT founder Brigitte Gabriel says…’We are creating the “NRA” of national security to protect our country and our way of life.” Today ACT has 80000 members and 375 Chapters nationwide. Go to the ACT website, sign up for our Action Alerts, find a chapter near you or start one yourself!…If not now….when will we stop the spread of Islam from taking over the West and our country? Europe is already lost…..It will be a Muslim continent in 60 to 80 years…..
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Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge claims in a new book that he was pressured by other members of President George W. Bush’s Cabinet to raise the nation’s terror alert level just before the 2004 presidential election. (Aug. 21)
This is another interview with the newest web sensation, British MEP Daniel Hannan who took it straight to PM Gordon Brown, telling him “you’ve run out of our money.” Hannan is no fan of trying to spend your way out of recession, and he’s the talk of the world-wide town after his rant. Glenn gets a better take on it than I think Cavuto did.
An Israel Air Force strike on a home in the Gaza Strip on Thursday killed a senior Hamas political leader, Hamas security sources said.
Nizar Rayyan, the most senior Hamas leader to be killed in a six-day-old Gaza air offensive, was an outspoken advocate of renewing suicide bombings against Israel who resided in the Jabalya refugee camp.
The IAF continued its bombing of Gaza Strip targets before dawn Thursday, hitting three government buildings in Gaza City and a number of houses in the northern Strip it said were being used to store weapons.
Hospital officials said 25 wounded were evacuated from nearby houses after the attack on the Gaza City buildings.
With a shrinking number of targets to hit from the air and top Hamas leaders deep in hiding, an Israel Defense Forces ground operation seemed all the more likely.
In fresh raids on the sixth day of hostilities, Israelo aircraft and naval forces attacked about 20 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, an IDF official said. Palestinian medical officials said three civilians
were killed and 100 people wounded.
Hamas security officials said buildings housing the education and transportation ministries had been virtually destroyed. The Palestinian parliament building was also hit, they said. Gazans who ventured out of their homes walked along rubble-strewn streets to survey the destruction.
The IAF also reported Thursday that it had attacked the rocket launching squad responsible for firing the Grad which scored a direct hit on an eight-floor apartment building in Ashdod minutes before.
The military said aircraft also bombed smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border, part of an ongoing attempt to cut off Hamas’ last lifeline to the world outside the embattled Palestinian territory.
IAF aircrafts also went after Hamas police and their vehicles in the Gaza Strip. Two people were killed when a car was blown up.
One pre-dawn strike targeting the house of a Hamas operative in northern Gaza killed a 35-year-old woman and wounded eight people, a Gaza Health Ministry official said.
On Wednesday, The IAF said it had hit 25 terror-related targets including the offices of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and a mosque in the city of Gaza where Hamas activists were hiding, and which had been used as a weapons storehouse.
Rockets had also been fired at Israel from the mosque.
Shin Bet security service officials said that over the last few days, Palestinian militants have been seen carrying Katyusha and Qassam rockets, as well as a large supply of other weapons, around the vicinity of the mosque. The Shin Bet said that these weapons were destroyed in the IAF strike.
Israeli aircraft pounded smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border earlier Wednesday, setting off a huge explosion in a fuel tunnel, witnesses said, as other aircraft hit Hamas positions in Gaza City.
At least six Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in the Israeli attacks including a Palestinian doctor and medic. More than 400 Palestinians have been killed in Operation Cast Lead and 1,600 have been injured.
In six days of shock-and-awe raids, IAF warplanes have carried out more than 500 sorties against Hamas targets, and helicopters have flown hundreds more combat missions, a senior Israeli military officer said on condition of anonymity in line with military regulations
