Opinion

Reflections on the Murders in Paris

The Islamic world is currently in the midst of a great historic convulsion. This process is giving birth to political trends and movements of...

Wake Up: This Is a Clash of Civilizations

That’s why the killers, after they had called out the names of their individual victims before they shot them, bragged as they made their...

The Biggest Threat to Free Speech Isn’t Terrorism. It’s the Government.

Within an hour of the massacre at the headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper, thousands of Parisians spontaneously gathered at the Place de la...

Countries, Not Just Terrorists, Kill Over Blasphemy

On Friday, Saudi Arabia flogged a blogger for blasphemy. We may not be able to stop terrorists from killing, but can we pressure states?   As...

Western Civilization Is Under Assault and Bowing Is Not a Solution

Many of us first became aware of the disproportionate extent of rage that the Islamists have over any depiction of their prophet in 1988,...

Our Duty Is to Keep Charlie Hebdo Alive

God, I thought yesterday, how could this possibly happen? Charlie Hebdo is not new to this. They had reprinted the cartoons of Muhammad from 2006. They were under police protection for...

Four Years On: Have We Made Any Progress in Sectarian Issues in Egypt?

Egyptian Christians joined the January revolution to express their rejection of social oppression and corruption and to demand justice, freedom, and equality. This grew...

The Significance of Sisi’s Speech on ‘Islamic Thought’

Watch the video below or click here to read the excerpt:   Sisi made his remarks during a speech celebrating the birth of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad—which...

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