Abigail R. Esman
ARTICLES BY: Abigail R. Esman
After Paris, a Global Wave of Terror Arrests
On November 27, exactly two weeks after the terrorist attacks that killed 130 people in Paris, FBI agents swarmed into a private home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania....
#ExMuslimBecause Trend Stands Up To Extremists
Is this the real Arab Spring? Shortly after the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, Maryam Namazie, director of the Council of Ex-Muslims in Britain (CEMB), created the hashtag "#ExMuslimBecause"...
Belgian Breeding Ground Fuels New Terror Wave
In previous times, thoughts of Belgium led to thoughts of rich, dark chocolate, of Old Master painters, and of delicate, handmade lace. Now it brings a different...
Why Turkey’s Erdogan Won a Surprise Election Victory
The shouts ricocheted across cyberspace, on Twitter and Facebook, in e-mails and messages and banners: "Turkey votes for Islam!" "Islam wins! America loses!" This is how the...
ISIS Unleashes the Horror of Rape to ‘Convert’ Women to Islam
Women sold as slaves. Women beaten in the streets. Women raped for sport. Girls as young as 8 or 9 years old forced into marriages...
Opportunistic Erdogan Tries to Leverage EU Membership From Refugee Crisis
He has called for a new, religious Muslim generation and is building it. He has said that women are not equal to men, imprisoned dozens of journalists, and has...
Deleted Facebook Posts Jeopardize Major Dutch Terror Trial
It is the largest terror trial in the Netherlands since the murder of Theo van Gogh in 2004, and one of the largest in Europe since the...
Canadian ‘Hate Speech’ Proposal Threatens Free Speech
Thirteen years, thirteen honor killings, all in Muslim families, all of them in Canada. But if you should condemn those murders, you might find yourself the...
Charlie Who? Dutch Islamists Threaten Muslim Actor for Playing Jesus
How well so many of us remember. It wasn't very long ago – barely eight months – when Muslim extremists stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing...
A Call to Formally Label ISIS Attacks on Christians, Yezidis as Genocide
They buy and sell women, using them as slaves. They kidnap children, even infants, and detonate them as bombs. As the Islamic State tightens its grip on Syria...
How ISIS Makes Money From the Art Market
Imagine: you are window-shopping on a quiet street, perhaps in London or Paris or New York. Something remarkable catches your eye: an ancient coin, a...
Can ‘Islamic Reformation’ Work? (REVIEW)
It is cocktail hour on an April afternoon in 2004. The sun is hot on Amsterdam's canals, and I am sitting at Café den Leeuw...
In Turkey, Women Suffer Horribly Under Erdogan
First, there were the beatings in their home in Ankara: her husband's fist crashing hard against her body. Then came the beatings at the shelter,...
Turkey’s Quasi-Dictator Takes on The New York Times and Democracy
For 13 years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has worked to impose his Islamist vision on Turkey's proud secular democracy, reshaping the country into a neo-Ottoman republic....
