Selected Opinion

By Paul Marshall – Providence – As many expected and feared, the magnificent church of Justinian I, the Hagia Sophia, will again be converted to a mosque. On July 10, [...]

By Bruce Thornton – FrontPageMagazine – We may think we’re exhibiting high-minded principles, but our enemies know the score. Last week Turkey’s president Recep [...]

By Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – Turkey, apparently wanted to inflict humiliation on the West. By turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Erdogan has been able to embarrass [...]

By Ola Salem – Foreign Policy – The government tried to bury evidence of a national outbreak—until Egyptians forced it to confess. Egypt originally seemed to have evaded a severe [...]

by Giulio Meotti – Gatestone Institute – For the intersectional activists, the US is the world’s biggest oppressor — not China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, or Iran. [...]

By Johnnie Moore and Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir – Newsweek – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated his desire to convert Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque in late May, a [...]

By Hesham Shehab and Benjamin Baird – MEF – Islamists are exploiting the Black Lives Matter movement to bring attention to their anti-Israel agenda. Yet, many of these same [...]

By Kevin Clarke – AmericanMagazine – Are Nigeria’s Christians the target of a genocide? That is the conclusion of a number of religious freedom analysts and Nigerian clergy who joined [...]

by Burak Bekdil – Gatestone Institute – In Turkish jargon, the difference is simple: It is “conquest” when we do it and “invasion” when others do it. In [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute – On May 30, 2020 — two days before President Trump congratulated Copts around the world — Egyptian authorities demolished the village of Koum [...]