Middle East Forum Campus Watch Fellow. Jihad Watch Contributor. Author of +900 articles. Fletcher School PhD, George Washington U Law School JD.
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Andrew E. Harrod retweeted
🚨FIRE DARREN BEATTIE
@SecRubio & all senior officials need to update their vetting procedures
Here’s a simple start:
NO MULTIPOLAR WORLD ADVOCATES.
None. No Duginites, either.
Looking Back on 9/11 with Lawrence Wright: All in the Bin Laden Family (Part 10)
by Andrew Harrod
“I do not remember him ever doing anything outside of Islamic law,” Osama bin Laden once recalled of his father, as quoted in Lawrence Wright’s 2006 book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. The bin Laden family faith is striking for what it reveals about Islamic orthodoxy, whose mores are often objectively disordered, contrary to politically motivated platitudes about Islam’s virtue that emerged after 9/11 25 years ago.
Read more at the link in the next post.
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Looking Back on 9/11 with Lawrence Wright: Islam and Infidels During the Gulf War (Part 9)
by Andrew Harrod
During the 1990-1991 Gulf War, many “Saudis were mortified by the need to turn to Christians and Jews to defend the holy land of Islam,” observed Lawrence Wright in his 2006 book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. The Gulf War highlighted the contradictions between Saudi Arabia’s Islamic sectarianism and the country’s mutual interests with non-Muslims globally in peace and prosperity, which 9/11 made only clearer 25 years ago.
Read more at the link in the next post.
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Looking Back on 9/11 with Lawrence Wright: Saudi Arabia and the West (Part 8)
by Andrew Harrod
A “tension between the royal family and religious fanatics was a part of the social dynamic of modern Saudi Arabia from the very beginning,” wrote Lawrence Wright in his 2006 book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. As Al Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks a quarter century ago indicated, Saudi Arabia is caught between Islam’s sectarian claims and the practical interests of a state whose wellbeing depends upon cooperation with non-Muslims globally.
Read more at the link in the next post.
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Looking Back on 9/11 with Lawrence Wright: Jihadists as Unfaithful Allies — Egypt (Part 6)
by Andrew Harrod
Jihadists remain ultimately faithful to Islam and not to any alliance, however momentarily beneficial, with anyone who does not share the jihadist vision of establishing an all-encompassing Islamic theocracy. This lesson recurs throughout Egyptian history as Lawrence Wright’s 2006 book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 documents, essential reading for the twenty-fifth anniversary year of Al Qaeda’s 2001 9/11 attacks.
Read more at the link in the next post.
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Looking Back on 9/11 with Lawrence Wright: The Deprived Jihadist Myth (Part 5)
by Andrew Harrod 4 Comments(Edit)
Al Qaeda recruits “who came to train in Afghanistan in the 1990s were not impoverished social failures,” observed Lawrence Wright in his 2006 book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. In the twenty-fifth anniversary year of Al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001, (9/11) attacks, the analysis of Wright and other scholars provides essential analysis in refuting the longstanding myth that socioeconomic deprivation motivates jihadists.
Read more at the link in the next post.
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Looking Back on 9/11 with Lawrence Wright: Osama bin Laden, Out of Islam’s Past (Part 4)
by Andrew Harrod
Osama bin Laden habitually invoked “images that were deeply meaningful to many Muslims and practically invisible to those who were unfamiliar with the faith,” wrote Lawrence Wright in The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. As bin Laden’s Al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001, (9/11) have entered their twenty-fifth anniversary year, Wright’s 2006 book and other works document how this contemporary history fits within wider Islamic history.
Read more at the link in the next post.
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Looking Back on 9/11 with Lawrence Wright: Jihadists as Unfaithful Allies — Egypt (Part 6)
by Andrew Harrod
Jihadists remain ultimately faithful to Islam and not to any alliance, however momentarily beneficial, with anyone who does not share the jihadist vision of establishing an all-encompassing Islamic theocracy. This lesson recurs throughout Egyptian history as Lawrence Wright’s 2006 book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 documents, essential reading for the twenty-fifth anniversary year of Al Qaeda’s 2001 9/11 attacks.
Read more at the link in the next post.
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Andrew E. Harrod retweeted
Andy McCarthy puts it all together. nationalreview.com/2026/11/t…
Andrew E. Harrod retweeted
Trump's second term has been underwater on almost every issue since around April 2025.
It's noteworthy though that his worst-performing issues by a long shot are economic.
Foreign policy (including Iran) are middle of the pack.
Crime and immigration are underwater too, but holding at around 10 points.
Andrew E. Harrod retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, a Green Beret who once performed emergency surgery on his own shattered arm in combat, is telling the Republican Party to treat its midterm losses the same way he treated a battlefield wound.
Collins, whom Gov. Ron DeSantis has called the “Chuck Norris of Florida politics,” says the GOP must stop the bleeding, get up, and fight after what DeSantis described as a near extinction-level midterm cycle. His prescription is the Florida model: hold the line on conservative principles while actively expanding the coalition to include no-party affiliated voters instead of only speaking to the base.
“Hard times happen. Warriors, leaders get up and fight,” Collins said. “That’s what we have to do now.”
The former Special Forces medic has been clear that the path forward is not retreat. It is the same refusal to quit that kept him in the fight after being wounded and later losing a leg.
Andrew E. Harrod retweeted
JD Vance is not, and never has been, “America First.”
He is “IRGC First,” “Qatar First,” and “Pakistan First.”
He must never be allowed to become President.
Andrew E. Harrod retweeted
Tariffs are taxes on Americans.
If Congress repeals the Canada tariffs, that's a tax cut for families and businesses buying lumber, energy, cars, and groceries from one of our largest trading partners.
Republicans should support it. Congress should also take back the tariff power it handed the president.
Just don't use it as cover to raise other taxes. Pair it with spending restraint.
Let people prosper.
Andrew E. Harrod retweeted
~All of the most valuable companies in the entire world are American, based in America, distributing their profits to Americans, employing primarily Americans, but somehow I'm still getting told "we don't make things anymore"
Andrew E. Harrod retweeted
I just bought a $1999 refrigerator.
It would have been about $1649 if not for the federal tariffs tax which I (not “South Korea”) paid.
I also paid $155 in sales tax.
Total cost $2154. Of which 25% is tariff tax and sales tax.
To pay for it, I had to earn $3,420 in gross salary, of which $1266 went to fed and state taxes.
So for $3,420 in labor I got a refrigerator worth $1,649 (48%).
52% went to the government in taxes.
Andrew E. Harrod retweeted
Hating on Indian Americans is extremely low IQ.
They are:
1. Twice as educated as average Americans
2. Household income 2x the average (so they’re producing more and paying more taxes)
3. Married at higher rates than average
4. Half the national poverty rate
5. Commit crimes and use welfare at lower-than-average rates
Oh, and their food SLAPS.
You can have a legitimate perspective opposing H-1 B visas or legal immigration. But if you just hate on Indian Americans in general... that's dumb and weird. They're actually just a disproportionately awesome segment of society.
Andrew E. Harrod retweeted
US tariffs are taxes paid by Americans. That $2000 refrigerator would be $1600 without the tariff, and that extra $400 is paid by the American consumer.
New tariffs made consumer purchases more expensive in an economy which already has unacceptably high inflation.
Zero out the tariffs on trade with any country with a reasonably free market economy. (South Korea, Japan, Germany, Canada, etc)
You’re welcome.
Andrew E. Harrod retweeted
Multiple studies estimate that repealing the tariffs in full would immediately save every American about $100 per month. It should be one of the first things the new Congress does.
