We all know that the number of Muslims who explicitly put forward a systematically coherent moderate theology of Islam is very small… Continue reading
When it comes to Muslim persecution of Christians, the mainstream media (MSM) has a long paper trail of obfuscating. Of course, the media’s obfuscation serves a purpose… Continue reading
Traditionally, the Islamic states have had to reach out to Western capital markets to obtain funding for major projects. Islam’s prohibition on the collection of interest made it difficult to… Continue reading
Female workers should “breastfeed” their male co-workers in order to work in each other’s company… 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
Why Islamic religious law prohibits the development of nuclear weapons… Continue reading
It may be useful to examine one of those aspects that are regularly distorted: the Muslim conquests… Continue reading
Invited on “Morning Joe” last Tuesday to discuss Christian persecution, the hosts turned the focus to interrogating Graham on whether he thought President Barack Obama was Christian or not… Continue reading
Nageeb Kashgari is a young man in a lot of trouble… Continue reading
Is the problem Islam or Islamism? Muslims or Islamists?… Continue reading
I wonder how much higher are the number of visa applications from Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey to North America, Europe, and Australia… Continue reading
This fascinating exchange tells us not only about the contemporary state of Islam, Islamism, and the political issues involving them but also about the debates and conflicts shaping Western civilization today… Continue reading
What if a democratically elected government decides to enforce such a system in a law legally passed by a democratically elected government? I guess that’s just democracy in action… Continue reading
A 27-year-old American-Israeli law school student decides he’s going to go to Egypt… Continue reading
In recent years, small groups of Moroccan Berber activists, particularly younger people, have challenged… Continue reading
Tehran police recently launched an operation to shut down illegal photography shops and internet cafés… Continue reading
Aliaa Magda ElMahdy, a blogger and female activist, sparked controversy and attracted both criticism and admiration in Egypt after… Continue reading
What we are seeing is a political Islamist tsunami… Continue reading
Islamism will be the dominant political force in Libya… Continue reading
Three months after the birth of South Sudan, how is the northern neighbor of the world’s newest nation faring… Continue reading
The New York Times and BBC headlines on the Tunisian elections tell us it is a victory for “moderate Islamists”… Continue reading
The shadowy, scattered and underground Islamist forces have become powerful… Continue reading
Far from being absurd aberrations to be dismissed, such accounts… Continue reading
Turkey is aspiring to broaden its horizons to include not just Europe but the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia in its strategic… Continue reading
Former top advisor to President Ahmadinejad said in an interview that the chador (the long veil used in Iran) is inappropriate for Iranian women… Continue reading
In light of ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s ongoing trial, Western readers may be surprised to learn who some of… Continue reading
Few things in Islam are as liable to provoke passion and violence as the issue of conversion… Continue reading
So consider the south Lebanese town of Hula… Continue reading
Where’s the outrage? Where’s the policy shift?… Continue reading
Almost lost in official Washington’s preoccupation with the partisan slug-fest over raising the debt ceiling and reducing the deficit was the… Continue reading
Once one gets beyond the polemics and clichés, there is a huge amount that could be learned from an honest discussion about the mass murders in Norway… Continue reading
Things are looking good for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the grandfather of all Islamist groups… Continue reading
From the 1970s to the late 1990s, militant Islamic groups in Egypt posed the greatest challenge to the regime in terms of internal security… Continue reading
Sheikh Dr. Yusuf Abdallah al-Qaradawi is a central figure affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood… Continue reading
Muslim Brotherhood branches started emerging in the Arab world in the 1930s and 1940s… Continue reading
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