Articles by Abigail R. Esman :

Current column:

• Islamophobia Is the rejection of radical Islam "anti-Muslim"? [27 Jul 10]

Past columns:

• Why The Battle Over South Park Matters [28 Apr 10]
• What Umar Farouk Abdulmuttallab and the Pirates of Somalia Can Tell Us About Osama Bin Laden and Guantanamo Bay [11 Jan 10]

• Texas Jihad: Telling the truth about Fort Hood, for once [10 Nov 09]
• Should Turkey join the European Union? Obama says yes. He's wrong. [30 Apr 09]
• America's Best Counterterror Force: The NYPD
An interview with Christopher Dickey, author of Securing the City [12 Feb 09]

• America's Lost Interest [29 Dec 08]
• Your Money or Your Life [21 Oct 08]
• In Holland, the (Christmas) Party's Over [03 Jul 08]
• Teach Your Children [08 May 08]

• Obama's Questionable Judgment [09 Apr 08]
• Europe's Muslim Radicals: The Next Generation [25 Feb 08]
• Breaking News: Holland on Alert [22 Jan 08]
• The Newest Weapon Against Militant Islam: Name That Tune [09 Jan 08]

• What terrorists? All they're asking for is peace. [04 Dec 07]
• Riots and Radicals Rising in the Netherlands [30 Oct 07]
• The Terrorist Next Door – Part II: Know Thy Neighbor [11 Sep 07]
• Yearning to breathe free [05 Jul 07]

• The Terrorist Next Door – Part One: Profiles No More [18 Jun 07]
• When does it stop? [27 Apr 07]
• Who's Afraid of the Muslim Joke? [06 Mar 07]
• Europe Held Hostage [22 Jan 07]

• Torture vs. Terror in the German Courts [04 Dec 06]
• Five years later – Are we safer? [11 Sep 06]
• Al Qaeda's cyber realm [10 Jul 06]
• War on Words: How Not To Win the War On Terror [23 May 06]

• USArabia, Part II - The Islamization of America [10 Apr 06]
• USArabia, Part I - The Islamization of America [20 Mar 06]
• Cartoon protest hypocrisy [09 Feb 06]
• Less democracy for security's sake? [02 Feb 06]
• Muslim radicalization of European women [19 Dec 05]

• The shifting direction of the war on terror [10 Nov 05]
• Understanding the threat [14 Oct 05]
• 9/11 and America's short memory [08 Sep 05]
• The killing of an arts journalist [04 Aug 05]
• Life worse than death for a terrorist [01 Aug 05]

"Hunt for the Somali Pirates" airs soon on the National Geographic Channel.
When Somali pirates hijack the Maersk Alabama -- and international headlines -- Navy SEALs launch a sneak attack to rescue the ship's American captain. Pirate Hunters recounts the harrowing five days from hijack to final fatal shots, and reveals sophisticated Navy SEAL training methods that prepare the world's most elite reconnaissance teams for daring missions with no second chances.