Few things in Islam are as liable to provoke passion and violence as the issue of conversion… Continue reading
In his manifesto, Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of the Norway massacre, in which 80 people were killed and many wounded… Continue reading
There is far more violence in the Bible than in the Qur’an; the idea that Islam imposed itself by the sword is a Western fiction… Continue reading
In light of the Norway terrorist attack, and as expected, the hail of religious relativism has begun… Continue reading
Earlier this month I participated in Coptic Solidarity’s Second Annual Conference in Washington D.C… Continue reading
The Mediterranean islands, particularly Cyprus, proved invaluable to the expansion for the Ottoman Empire… Continue reading
Amidst news of Turkey’s political turmoil — a parliamentary boycott led by the main opposition party has overshadowed… Continue reading
When I was getting a great education they made us read Shakespeare and Dickens; Wordsworth and Keats; Hemmingway and Faulkner… Continue reading
In the West, moderate democracy — somewhere between social democrats and conservatives — trumps militant nationalism and religion… Continue reading
My time in Pakistan was glorious. I taught bright, beautiful and hopeful students who saw the world not as a series of… Continue reading
How the Jihadis vandalized this ancient land and wiped out Christianity as well as the ancient culture of Egypt… Continue reading
Wael Aboul Magd told the delegation that “societal violence” between Muslims and Copts is a regular occurrence, but Naga Hamadi had forced Egyptian society to… Continue reading
Once the revolution began, Egypt’s Christians knew precisely what to expect. It isn’t that the regime of Husni Mubarak protected them so well from… Continue reading
Holy See Undersecretary for Relations with States Monsignor Pietro Parolin told Ambassador that Pope Benedict would not receive Iranian President Ahmadinejad… Continue reading
Egypt’s bloggers are playing an increasingly important role in broadening the scope of acceptable political and social discourse, and self-expression… Continue reading
In 2004 Cardinal Ratzinger, the future pope, spoke out against letting a Muslim state join, although at the time the Vatican was formally neutral on the question… Continue reading
The U.S. State Department’s 2010 International Religious Freedom Report that was released last week, actually toned down the unjustified criticism that for years was the norm in the document authored by… Continue reading
The distortion of history, ancient and modern, basic to the Arab-British resistance to Jewish restoration, had been fully articulated by 1948. After 1948, the Arabs added greater depth and vehemence in presentation and with it a theme of hatred of the Jews, comparable only to the demonology of medieval Christianity or the excesses of German Nazi propaganda in our own age… Continue reading
Promoted by two such powerful forces as Soviet assertions and Arab propaganda, the claim of Arab historical rights has become a central element in the international debate. By sheer weight of noise, it has impressed many otherwise knowledgeable and well meaning people. The facts of history are… Continue reading
There is only one country in the Middle East that recognizes Feminists, Christians, Professors for Academic Freedom and Gays as having human rights. There is only one nation in the entire Middle East which respects their right to live openly as… Continue reading
Jerusalem and the Jewish people are so intertwined that telling the history of one is telling the history of the other. For more than 3,000 years, Jerusalem has played a central role in the history of the Jews, culturally, politically, and spiritually… Continue reading
Al-Qaeda represents Wahhabism in its purest form – a violent fundamentalist doctrine that rejects all non-Wahhabi Islam, especially the spiritual forms of Islam. Wahhabism is an expansionist sect intolerant of… Continue reading
Mus’ab Hassan Yousuf, Son of Hamas Leader in the West Bank: “The God of Islam Suffers from Split Personality; Muhammad – a False Prophet.”… Continue reading
In the days after Sept. 11, 2001, many people anticipated a quick and satisfying American victory over Al Qaeda. The terrorist army was thought to be no bigger than a pirate ship… Continue reading
In the fourth century of the Christian era, Emperor Constantine converted the Roman Empire to Christianity. But Constantine, in Qutb’s interpretation, did this in a spirit of pagan hypocrisy… Continue reading
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