Opinion

Genocide in Iraq

  When terrorists attacked America on September 11, 2001, it became a day that most Americans will never forget. June 29, 2014, was that kind...

Egypt’s Long Walk to Despotism

This system is not a clear-cut case of top-down power relations in which an established power asserts itself over its supporters and against its...

Sisi’s Brave New Egypt?

First there was his historic speech where he, leader of the largest Arab nation, and a Muslim, accused Islamic thinking of being the scourge...

Why (Some) States Use Religion to Justify Violence

He was convicted and sentenced to a fine, 10 years in prison and flogging. The first 50 lashes were delivered in front of a...

Turkey’s Proxy War in Libya

Haftar, in previous statements, has made it clear that he intends to rout and outlaw the Muslim Brotherhood, whose Libyan political affiliate, the Justice...

Is Sisi Islam’s Long-Awaited Reformer?

To begin with, no matter how fine Sisi's ideas, no politician – and especially no strongman – has moved modern Islam. Atatürk's reforms in...

A No-Win Situation for the West

But, as a practical matter, they don’t change a thing: The jihadists won last week.    Even if the atrocity in Paris served to imbue the...

Clash of Civilizations, and Islam’s Bloody Borders

"Violence... occurs between Muslims, on the one hand, and Orthodox Serbs in the Balkans, Jews in Israel, Hindus in India, Buddhists in Burma and...

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