Selected Opinion

By Knox Thames – RNS — Human rights advocates are experiencing a painful purgatory of in-betweenness. The Advent season reminds Christians of the time between a promise and its realization. [...]

by Burak Bekdil – The Gatestone Institute – The world’s “strategic eyes” should have looked closer at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s speech in [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim – The Stream – The more than 1,400 Israelis who were brutally slaughtered by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, got what they deserve—according to the most prestigious [...]

By Ed Husain – The Wall Street Journal – Islamism, incubated in the 1920s, belittles Islam’s sacred text for barbaric ends. Hamas isn’t only a terrorist group, and it isn’t [...]

By MEMRI – A few days ago, Qatari Ambassador to Washington Meshal Aal Thani, the brother of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Aal Thani, published an article in the Wall Street [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan engaged in a bit of wild projection over the weekend.  According to one report, Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted party staged a massive [...]

By Randel Everett – 21Wilberforce – Freedom of religion is both America’s first freedom and a universal human right. Yet many people around the world live in countries where this [...]

By Al-Monitor – On the centennial of the Turkish Republic, its citizens are debating the country’s evolution and how it measures up to the vision of modern Turkey’s deeply [...]

By Lisa Anderson (*) – Foreign Affairs – As Israel readies for a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, much attention has shifted to how Egypt will respond in the coming days and weeks. [...]

by Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – After besieging and starving 120,000 Armenians of the South Caucasus Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) since December 2022, Azerbaijan launched a [...]