A full scale Middle Eastern, Islamic type of war between the Sunnis and Shiites is raging. Officials in Washington are doing their best...
Do Americans understand the Muslim view of war? Throughout the Muslim world, there were celebrations with people singing and dancing and...
The Alawites are a small, historically oppressed people, whose political future will determine whether Syria remains united in some form...
While the news is filled daily with terrible atrocities which the Syrian regime is carrying out, these reports mask another development:...
Events in Turkey indicate that much of the Turkish public increasingly believes that their Prime Minister blundered by unnecessarily...
The exercise of critical thinking and independent judgment – or Ijtihad --was an important way to address questions in the early...
Many parts of the world, such as Korea, China, and India - basically medieval kingdoms fifty or sixty years ago -- are now among the...
The Obama Administration has decided to sell Iraq 36 advanced F-16 Block 52 fighters. On the surface this might seem a good idea, it...
Recently, the American Chairman of the Joint Chief Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey, said that the Iranian Regime is rational. It is...
As the Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic revolution in Iran, said: The Muslim world is engaged in a war with the non-Muslim...
Most Iraqi political leaders of all factions have privately said that they want US troops to stay. In Baghdad, you could hear them time...
With the end of the Cold War, a new enemy emerged, Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, made up of Islamic extremists, terrorists and the...
Most Iraqi political leaders of all factions have privately said they wanted US troops to stay. In Baghdad, you could hear them time and...
Erdogan's recent electoral victory speech puts his true intentions regarding Turkey's foreign policy goals in perspective. He said that...
Shiites have historically been, to use the words of Fouad Ajami, the stepchildren of the Arab world. They constitute only about 12-15%...
The Middle East has its own logic: people there believe that the US is all-powerful, and when it chooses to, enforces order as it sees...
Israel and the Palestinians are once again negotiating their future relationship. One of the most difficult issues they confront is the...
