Opinion

Suppression of activists and NGOs, including foreign groups, is standard operating procedure for authoritarian regimes, as events in Russia, Venezuela, Belarus and China show....

These dividing lines are now being made into battle lines by hardline Salafists, who are emerging as victors of the Arab Spring. They belong...

The attacks, which have received little international attention, raged through northern cities following a sermon last Friday by a local mullah. Video purportedly from...

Over the last 40 or so years, Pakistan has seen military coups led by generals Zia-ul-Haq and Pervez Musharraf. In the Pakistani power equation,...

Knowing it could again be shut down at any moment, the Brotherhood was careful. There were frequent arrests. The Brotherhood leadership declared a strategy...

Earlier, Abu Shadi, another Salafi leader—though not one running for office, and so extra candid—announced that Egypt's Christians must either convert to Islam, pay...