If I’ve ever seen a single sentence that spells disaster in the Middle East it’s this one… Continue reading
If you want a sense of where the Middle East is going, consider this viewpoint from an unlikely source… Continue reading
Countries may vary, but civilization is one, and for a nation to progress, it must take part in this one civilization… Continue reading
When a delegation of Syrian Kurdish rebels recently visited Washington DC, the State Department met them to ask for a favor. What was it?… Continue reading
It’s once again time for that exciting game of Spin the Polls by the Pew Foundation. Here are the rules… Continue reading
We all know that the number of Muslims who explicitly put forward a systematically coherent moderate theology of Islam is very small… Continue reading
However, unfortunately, we have no voice among the so-called progressive leftists… Continue reading
Michael Hirsh has responded to my critique of his article. Amazingly, yet typical of our era, he didn’t engage with a single—not a single—idea I presented… Continue reading
Suppose you read in the Washington Post about a democratic politician who was a refugee from persecution by a dictatorship. Would you be surprised to learn that he was in fact a vicious antisemite… Continue reading
Since then, America’s enemies have made great progress; the Obama Administration almost none at all… Continue reading
Their plans entail sending terrorists across the Egyptian Sinai border for attacks on Israelis to generate Israeli military incursions into Egyptian territory in hot pursuit of the perpetrators… Continue reading
Alongside the battle of the radical Islamists to murder Jews is the battle to seize and maintain control of the Muslim community… Continue reading
Egypt will hold its presidential election May 23-24 with a possible run-off on June 16-17. It is impossible at this point to predict what’s going to happen but I can make a good guess… Continue reading
The trial of the two surviving members of the junta that seized power on September 12, 1980, in a coup that altered Turkey’s course, is an historic event, but… Continue reading
Who gets to be the caliph? After all, if you want to have a caliphate , as revolutionary Islamists do with much popular support among Muslims… Continue reading
Since there is so much bad policy on the Middle East to critique and since there’s no hope of the Obama Administration listening to alternative strategies… Continue reading
Hussein Solomon is a South African professor who is the leading expert on revolutionary Islamist terrorism in his own country and Africa generally… Continue reading
The passage of the bill that remolds compulsory education in Turkey erases the legacy of the secularist military intervention fifteen years ago… Continue reading
After his release from prison in March 2011, the Deputy Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Khairat Al-Shater was reportedly tasked by the Brotherhood’s Guidance Council to perform a comprehensive review… Continue reading
Iraq is in a mess. Violence continues. Factionalism leads to endless bickering. Corruption is at high levels. Christians live in fear or flee altogether. Islamism is constantly creeping forward… Continue reading
Over the next several decades it gradually established itself in other European countries and became responsible for the spread of radical Islam in the West… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood branch in Tunisia is relatively new. It was established in the 1970s by… Continue reading
The Movement for Unity and Reform (MUR), affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Morocco, was founded in 1996… Continue reading
In Lebanon the Muslim Brotherhood works through Al-Jama’ah al-Islamiyya, an organization established in 1964… Continue reading
Qatar became a Muslim Brotherhood stronghold in 1954, when a group of its activists found refuge there… Continue reading
The first Muslim Brotherhood activists came to Saudi Arabia in the first half of the 1950s… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan has a strong social, organizational and political foundation… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood apparently began its operations in Algeria in the 1940s… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, whose members are both trans-Jordanian and Palestinian in origin, is the main opposition in the country… Continue reading
The Muslim Brotherhood was established in Syria in 1945 by disciples of Hassan al-Banna. At first it focused on educational and societal activities… Continue reading
Following the uprisings in the Arab world and since the overthrow of the Mubarak regime, the status of the Muslim Brotherhood has risen significantly both in Egypt and with the international community… Continue reading
Now the initial euphoria about the Arab revolts has subsided, it’s clear the ‘Arab Spring’ will not bring a liberal, secular, Western (or Islamic) model of democracy to the Arab world… Continue reading
A year ago we were told that Egypt was going to become a moderate democratic state ruled by hip Facebook kids. Now Egypt is going to become a moderate Islamist republic ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood… Continue reading
As Syria sinks deeper and deeper into the throes of civil war, the decade-long honeymoon between Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party and Bashar al-Assad’s regime has all but ended… Continue reading
Claude Guéant, the French interior minister, sparked a firestorm last month when he praised Western values as “superior” to the oppressive ones found elsewhere, namely the Islamic world… Continue reading
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