Why couldn't Egypt's deposed President Morsi admit mistakes? Why couldn't he "compromise" with the military and stay in power? And what...

Turkey, although nominally part of the West, is in most ways culturally closer to the Middle East. Turks live with pent-up grievances --...

Many secular Muslims seem to hate the U.S., Israel, and even Christians living among them, just as passionately as their religious...

You might think that what the United States should be doing in the Sunni-Shi'ite conflict -- in which it has no theological stake -- is...

The Chinese, at behind-the-scenes conferences and discussions during the past few months, kept saying they were perplexed about the...

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...