Robert Leiken is a scholar and author who has written extensively on immigration, terrorism, and political radicalism. He is a fellow at the Nixon Center (now the Center for the National Interest) and the author of works on Europe's Muslim communities and jihadist networks. His contributions to The Weekly Standard covered topics including the French riots, radical Islam in Europe, and the profile of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
God gave Noah the rainbow sign No more water, the fire next time! --Epigraph to James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time (1963) GALLIC REASON has succumbed to French revolutionary reaction. At length President Jacques Chirac, who withstood U.S. pressure on Iraq, surrendered to marching unions, students,…
A SPECTER stalks Europe--the itinerant foreign imam who preaches holy war to minions in Muslim enclaves. The most immediate jihadi threat to the West comes not from the Middle East but from immigrant imams residing right in Europe. Now, Britain's agreement to extradite the most notorious terrorist…
WHO KILLED NICHOLAS BERG? His grief-stricken family blames the U.S. government for the appalling videotaped beheading of their son in Iraq. A more fitting object of outrage is the executioner. For the terrorist who claims credit for the killing of the Jewish-American civilian is no walk-on, no…