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Daniel Pipes
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Daniel Pipes's personal blog at danielpipes.org covers politics and history. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-12, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly cite Daniel Pipes's posts on Islam, Islamism, Iran and free speech as supporting references. Some dispute or mock his claims about Zionism, Obama and Iran.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Commentary and Analysis on Radical Islam and the Middle East, by Daniel Pipes
What Hacker News says?
You are wrong on so many levels (and I'm not a jew). When zionism was created in the late 19th century, most jews in the world had NO interest in moving to Palestine or being zionists. Ask yourself the question: why if they believe that the land that is now Israel was theirs on the basis of religion, why were so many jews uninterested in pursuing this? Zionism was a reaction to the hundreds of years of anti-semitism…
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on “Israel to destroy Palestinians' solar panels”while talking about mathematics, please include this as well. Islamic conquest of India bloodiest in the history http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/32812 History may paint a different picture, but essentially its terrorism in its true form.
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on “Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech”Perhaps you mean they are Muslims . Islamism is an ideology -- or arguably a catch-all term for a number of ideologies -- that want to force Islam into the government, law and everything. http://www.danielpipes.org/954/distinguishing-between-islam-... The average Iraqi or Syrian isn't Islamist. E.g. the Alawites in Syria aren't Islamists, and the former Baath party in Iraq wasn't either.
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on “Disappointed with Europe, Thousands of Iraqi Migrants Return Home”It's possible the taxi drivers refused the pickup because of the dog, not because of the disability. There's apparently a view that dogs are unclean by some Muslim sects. So, those drivers may be passing by because of the dog. There is certainly some history: http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/11/muslim-taxi-drivers-...
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on “A guide dog that spies on people who ignore its owner”Clicking through links gave me this gem[1] by a Daniel Pipes: > "If I were a Muslim I would let you know," Barack Obama has said, and I believe him. In fact, he is a practicing Christian, a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is not now a Muslim. > But was he ever a Muslim or seen by others as a Muslim? More precisely, might Muslims consider him a murtadd (apostate), that is, a Muslim who converted to…
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on “Silicon Valley Censorship”> Did Iran really have allies in Arab Sunni ruled countries though Yes. Qatar due to Iran's support of the Thani family during the tumultuous 1990s [0] and the blockade [1], Sudan under Bashir [2] and now under the Army [3], Tunisia [4] due to ties with Ennadha, Algeria until 2025 [5] due to Morocco and Israel's close defense cooperation, and Kuwait due to economic and clan ties [6]. > Pretty much all of them alread…
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on “Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East”Maybe the Islamic Republic shouldn't have attacked civilian assets in portions of the Gulf that are have been pro-Iran such as Qatar's ONG infra (it is QatarEnergy that has been helping Iran productionize the South Pars field since the early 1990s), Kuwait's welfare office, and the ADNOC loading dock in the Emirate of Fujairah. Sentiments have hardened amongst Khaleejis [0] who previously were open to an off-ramp. E…
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on “Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields”> The kind of pro-Iran state that has hosted the biggest US military base in the Middle East for decades... Al Udeid and Exxon's stake in QatarEnergy is Qatar's tribute to the US to not be added onto sanctions lists for conducting business with Iran. Al Udeid Airbase was only established in 1996 after Iran and Qatar began collaborating on LNG extraction in the early 1990s and after Iran helped put down a coup attemp…
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on “The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why”Relevant: http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2015/06/no-terrorism-terrori...
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on “Many Ask, Why Not Call Church Shooting Terrorism?”
