Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism
What the anxious West has failed to recognize in the Arab Spring is that the political transformations of the Middle East are the coming of age of a new Islamism.
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The Drowning of Bin Laden
That nobody wanted bin Laden’s body provides hope that we may finally distinguish between what he and his followers did with what Islam teaches.
Read MoreWill bin Laden’s Killing End the Jihadi Trend?
Many analysts misunderstand the jihadi message.
Read MoreDespite Religious Violence, Egyptian Mosques Calling for Muslim-Christian Unity
Otherwise you might as well send a message to al-Qaeda entitled “You’ve won.”
Read MoreJulian Assange Nativity, Castro’s Hanukkah, & a Burger Blessing
Come donkey, it’s time to pray.
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God Bless Islam with Courageous Leadership
What was the spiritual harvest of the month of fasting, prayer, deep reflection, and discipline?
Read MoreIn Qur’an Burning We’re All Losers
Are we playing right into al Qaeda’s hands?
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Barack Obama: High Priest-in-Chief?
Ironically, the president’s Nobel acceptance speech reestablished many of the (flawed) Bush justifications for war. Are we, or are we not, in a religious war?
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Is the Boson Particle “Hated by God”?
Two eminent physicists have hypothesized that the Higgs boson might be hated by God to such an extent that if one occurred it would go back in time and stop itself from being made.
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Feared Taliban Leader Killed, But Military Strategy is Not the Answer in Afghanistan
A gathering of senior scholars in the field agree that the US presence in South Asia invokes a colonial legacy and undermines peace.
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