Obama Chooses a Reliable Dictatorship

By choosing Cairo, Egypt as the platform for his long awaited address to the global Muslim community, President Barack Obama predictably leans on a reliable dictatorship suffocating a country that is teetering toward religious and political irrelevance. ..

Obama Chooses a Reliable Dictatorship

By choosing Cairo, Egypt as the platform for his long awaited address to the global Muslim community, President Barack Obama predictably leans on a reliable dictatorship suffocating a country that is teetering toward religious and political irrelevance. ..

Is political Islam a threat to the west?

To be fair, the side arguing against the motion did not articulate the complex variety of "political Islam" either. Instead, they spent an inordinate amount of time on Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as a model of non-violent Islamism. ..

Towards the enlightened middle

To quell the simmering discontent between the US and Muslims, Obama must embrace diplomacy and foster respectful dialogue..

The Folly of Attacking Iran

According to the White House, Iran and its controversial and opinionated President Ahmadenijad lead the next wave of "The Axis of Evil" in spearheading the nuclear annihilation of The United States...

Who Speaks for a Billion Muslims?

While speaking authoritatively about Islam and the "psychology" of the Muslim mind, the talking heads on television screens, the experts sitting in prestigious think tanks, the policy analysts strategizing in D.C., and the often loud and bombastic voices heard on the airwaves are rarely, if ever, Muslims...

Free Pakistan

It"s Monday, February 18, 2008, and the entire world is anxiously focusing on Pakistan. After nearly a month"s delay due to Benazir Bhutto"s assassination, Pakistan"s contentious and, some say, "historic" parliamentary elections were held amidst a sea of violence, unrest, and political instability...

The Power of the Israel Lobby

Let’s move over here--in the corner. It’ll be better for us to talk in private. Or else some people might get the wrong idea," chuckles John Mearsheimer, a Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and co-author of the incendiary book, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy...