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A Flawed Approach Dooms Academic Study of Anti-Terror Lessons

A hallmark of research is that it is neutral and thus open to unanticipated results and findings. Reading " Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-Americans,” a new report by researchers at Duke and the University of North Carolina, it seems like these two NCAA rivals came together to violate this cardinal principle of scholarly research.

 

What brought you here?: 
Terrorist groups have lasted decades and wreaked havoc without having more than a couple dozen members. Pointing out that relatively few people become terrorists is irrelevant.

Which Religion Is Good?

Doubt Everything Find Your Own Light.




A few months ago, in my community center, I picked up a newspaper and read about a new Messiah called John de Ruiter, the hot shot guru from Canada whom some of his followers reckon to be "bigger than Jesus". The article was an interview with Joyce, his wife of 18 years, and the mother of his three children. She was rejecting the claim of her husband to be God (A man worshiped as God may shock a Muslim but not a Christian who accepts the concept of trinity and Jesus as walking God among men).


Western Dhimmitude

Western Dhimmitude

It was natural for Western media to be preoccupied, during the week of June 4, 2006, with the news from Canada and Iraq. Early that week, the Canadian authorities uncovered a plot of Islamist residents who were planning to perpetrate some horrific acts of terrorism. The mainline media kept telling us that some of these terrorists were Canadian citizens, while others were long-time residents, but the “M” word was absent. There was complete silence about the fact that all those arrested were Muslims.


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