Opinion

The Struggle to Erase Saudi Extremism

The kingdom faced similar criticism in 2001 after 15 of the 19 hijackers in the 9/11 terrorist attacks were found to be Saudi. As...

More Beheadings, More Denial

Obama might as well have a form ready for the next jihad beheading or mass murder attack: all he will have to do is...

Distinction Between ‘Moderate Islamists’ and ‘Militant Extremists’ Is Misleading for Western Governments

One of the root causes of this is that Western governments are not aware enough that there is no such thing as a clear...

A Dead Caliph vs. the Hydra of Jihad

Better question: does it really matter?   For almost a decade now, every time an Islamic jihadi leader is killed, the Western mainstream media exult, portraying...

The Sunni Arc of Instability

Moreover, it is Sunni communities that produce the transnational jihadists who have become a potent threat to secular, democratic states near and far. What...

The U.S. Strategy Against the Islamic State Must Be Retooled. Here’s How.

If the president is serious about dealing with the Islamic State, he will need to increase America’s commitment well beyond his recent decision to...

Search for Redemption: Crisis of State Legitimacy, Islam and Modernity

Despite the book's title, Searching for Redemption, it doesn't offer any redemption, but instead presents a critique of two narratives -- nationalist and Islamist...

Freud and the Middle East

For instance, the Middle East Media Research Institute, or Memri, recently posted an excerpt from an interview given by Mohammad Sadeq al-Hosseini, a former...

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