Selected Opinion

By Stephen McInerney and Amy Hawthorne – POMED –  Sisi’s supporters praise his religious tolerance. They shouldn’t. Earlier this year, U.S. President Donald Trump’s praise of one of [...]

By Uzay Bulut– Gatestone Institute – “When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, virtually all of the city’s surviving cathedrals and churches were — [...]

By Yasmine El Rashidi – New York Times – The story of one activist is the story of Egypt: What went wrong after the 2011 revolution? We woke to the news last Friday: The 37-year-old [...]

By Judith Bergman – Gatestone Institute – The only comment that keeps being repeated is the right of the ISIS terrorists to return to the West because they happen to be in possession [...]

By Judith Bergman – Gatestone Institute – Qatari Islamic education [is] perhaps even more radical than the most concerned Western critics were assuming. — Based on the “Review [...]

by Raymond Ibrahim –  Gatestone Institute – If convicted, Stephen Masih could face the death penalty. “[I]nstead of protecting the teenager from his attackers, [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – On 10 March, Egypt’s Prime Minister issued decision number 10 for Year 2019, legalising the status of 165 unlicensed churches and church-affiliated [...]

By Tarek Heggy – The tree of terrorism is like any other tree. It is comprised of roots, a trunk and branches. The roots are Salafism, represented in the writings of the Hanbali scholars [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Middle East Quarterly (Winter 2019) – Book review of: Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the Global North, By William R. Polk, [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Middle East Quarterly (Fall 2018) – Review of  “Shariah Law: What Everyone Needs to Know”. By John L. Esposito and Natana J. Delong-Bas. Oxford: [...]