Herman Cain Doesn’t Know his Afghan from his Uzbek
The Republican candidate cracks wise about Uzbekistan. What else has he not bothered to learn about?
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Speaking with Palestinian-American Republican Who Confronted GOP at Debate
Half the fight against bigotry might just lie in showing up. When Abraham Hassan stood up at Thursday night’s CNN debate, he introduced himself as a Palestinian-American and a Republican.
Plainly, that’s not what I expected to hear.
Read MoreNewt Gingrich’s Hero, a Religion-Crushing Dictator
South Carolina’s winner has long idolized Turkey’s Kemal Ataturk.
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How to Prevent Ethnic Cleansing in Syria
In the Muslim world, pluralism collides with democracy and sovereignty, which is far more interesting and alarming than the battle lines we’ve imposed on the Middle East—of secularists versus Islamists, of free-thinking liberals versus religious autocrats.
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Muslim Stowaways
on the European
Titanic: “Eurabian” Alarmism 2.0
Christopher Caldwell, like so many Eurabian alarmists, is untroubled by violence or extremism, except if it affects them, their interests, or those considered “like” themselves.
Read MoreSantorum on Election of Muslim Brotherhood Candidate in Egypt…
How dare they pick the Muslim version of me?
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When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be
As I watch the latest news from Egypt, that the country’s parliament has been dissolved by a Mubarak-era court, I wonder: Has the revolution ended before it began?
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What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History
In The Mirage, 9/11 is actually 11/9, the day when Christian fundamentalists from Texas slammed airliners into Baghdad skyscrapers, sparking a war on terror that rages across a nearly unrecognizable North America. Will Americans go for a book where the world power is the United Arab States and the lead characters are almost all Arabs and Muslims?
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Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah
Sadakat Kadri’s Heaven on Earth is the kind of book that can appeal to the curious, as well as the intellectually serious—that strange product which actually leaves you knowing more about Islam than you did before you started.
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But Are They “The Good Muslims”?
The reason we talk about Egypt’s Salafis isn’t because we’re debating theology, at least not primarily—I don’t think we’re actually concerned with the specifics of Islamic thought. We’re more worried about what Salafism and Islamism generally means for our interests, values, and the Muslim world. At bottom, our concerns over Salafis are concerns over what they’ll do when they’re in power.
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