Opinion

U.S. Has a Chance to Stop the Islamic State

Obama gave two very good, moral, short-term reasons when he authorized the airstrikes on Thursday: to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe for Yazidis and Christians...

Six Steps the World Must Take Now to Stop the Horror of ISIS

There are plentiful accounts of the massacring of minority men, the kidnapping, rape and selling of minority women and even the murder of innocent...

A Crisis a Century in the Making

Those painful facts are most obvious now in Iraq, where sectarianism has been undoing all of America’s past efforts to forcibly plant a pluralistic...

Why Obama Is Bombing ISIS In Iraq But Didn’t Do It In Syria

For more than two years, Syrian rebels have been begging the White House for major military support — against the regime of Syrian President...

Egypt’s National Plan to Fight Atheism

The statement and the war it announces raise some vital questions: What does the Ministry of Youth have to do with fighting atheism? Is...

Egypt’s Western Security Concerns

MILITANCY TO THE WESTThe 693-mile border with Libya has been a major area of concern for successive Egyptian governments. Following the ouster of longtime...

World Ignores Christian Exodus from Islamic World

It is to the media's shame that those who slaughter, behead, crucify and displace people for no other reason than that they are Christian...

Yes, We Are the Noon (n) People

ISIS later renamed itself as the “Islamic State.” It invaded the Christian areas and took control. Soon after, they attacked the homes of Christians,...

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