Abigail R. Esman
ARTICLES BY: Abigail R. Esman
Dutch Help Victim of Pakistan’s Radical Islamic Blasphemy Law
When courts overturned Asia Bibi's blasphemy conviction in her native Pakistan last week, rioters swarmed the streets calling for her to be hung. Pakistani law demands the...
Belgium Fights Islamic Terror, While the UK Enables It
Of late, most of Europe has focused its counter-terrorism efforts on handling the potential jihadi returnees from Syria and possible radicals hiding among migrants from...
Latest Attack, Travel Warning, Expose Depth of Holland’s Terror Threat
Mention Holland, and most people think of brightly-colored tulips, gently-flowing canals, legal marijuana, and Rembrandt. But there is an underside. The US State Department issued a travel...
French Say ‘Non’ to Radical Islamist Performer at the Bataclan
On November 13, 2015, a series of Islamist terrorist attacks shook the city of Paris. One hundred and thirty people were killed, and hundreds others...
Investigation Finds That Dutch Program Aided Terror-Tied Groups
When "Driss M" left his home in the Netherlands to join the fight in Syria, he was, he said later, heading there to fight against...
Pew Skews Study on Muslim Girls’ Education
When a Taliban gunman shot Malala Yousafzai, then a 15-year-old student activist in Pakistan's Swat Valley, it brought long-needed attention to the struggle for girls'...
New Book Examines the World of Female and Child Palestinian Bombers
The number of Palestinian female suicide bombers are many. There was Muneira, who planned to blow herself up at a hospital near Tel Aviv. There was Jemilla,...
Female Jihadists Are a Growing Problem
Only one person could have written the book Invisible Martyrs: Inside the Secret World of Female Islamic Radicals. And thankfully, she did. Farhana Qazi, a Pakistani-American counter-terrorism...
How Quiet Islamization Threatens Secular States
While all eyes have focused on the obvious problem of Islamist violence in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, the Congo, and Muslim communities in Western European cities,...
Reading, Writing, and Jihad: Child Soldiers and a Lost Generation
The child soldiers in Yemen are many. There is "Saeed," 18, who told a reporter that "brave men become martyrs on the battlefields." As a soldier,...
The Horrors of Honor Violence in the West
She was a 15-year-old student at San Antonio's Taft High School with a soft smile and dark eyes. Like most girls her age in Texas,...
When Mental Illness Becomes an Excuse for Terrorists
It was a warm afternoon in the Netherlands on May 5 as the country celebrated the 73rd anniversary of its liberation from Nazi occupation. Some had...
Cloak and Fashion: When a Museum Becomes a Tool for Islam
Look out, Anna Wintour. It's not you, but the world's Muslim women who now rule as the "arbiters of style within and beyond their communities." That...
Threats to Apostates ‘Most Severe’ in Muslim Countries and Beyond
It was the traditional Milad un Nabi, when Muslims commemorate the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, and the imam in a small Punjabi village had a...
New York Times Travel Section Writes Jerusalem Out of Israel
Toronto Police Launch Hate Crime Investigation as Yeshiva Students Earn Praise for Defending Themselves Against Antisemitic Assailants
International Nuclear Agency Assailed for Ignoring Critical Israeli Intelligence as it Praises Iranian 'Cooperation' With 2015 Nuclear Deal
No 'Both Sides to Blame' Excuse for Hamas Escalation, Israeli Envoy Tells UN as Gaza Ceasefire Takes Hold
UCLA Chancellor Says SJP Conference Will Take Place on Campus, Despite Antisemitism Concerns