Selected Opinion

By Brahma Chellaney – Project Syndicate – That is why the newly announced Saudi-led anti-terror coalition, the Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism, should be viewed with [...]

By Andrew Hosken – The Wall Street Journal – The final planning for the terrorist attack in Paris last month might have taken place in the Molenbeek district of Brussels—but, like the [...]

By The Economist – It is easy to see why the pope is so downhearted. Look no further than Bethlehem, where young Palestinians throw stones at Israeli soldiers manning the wall separating [...]

By Kamel Daoud – The New York Times – Throughout the Muslim world, a harsh campaign was conducted against people who celebrate Christmas. In Algeria, Islamists worked the streets [...]

By Seymour M. Hersh – London Review of Books – The military’s resistance dates back to the summer of 2013, when a highly classified assessment, put together by the Defense [...]

By Aaron David Miller – The Wall Street Journal –  Threats to state authority: The Arab state structure is under enormous stress: There is fragmentation and civil war [...]

By Sarah Helm – The New York Review of Books –  Hams is a Salafist sheikh. “A Salaf means an original ancestor—one of those who lived close to the Prophet and observed his actions [...]

By Daniel Greenfield – Frontpage Magazine – The Muslim Brotherhood is to Islamic terrorism what a virus is to disease. Major terrorist leaders from the Caliph of ISIS to Arafat have [...]

By Tarek Fatah- The Toronto Son  – Republished by Middle East Forum Last year, in the face of growing ISIS-inspired jihadi terrorism, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) along with [...]

By Sohrab Ahmari – The Wall Street Journal – Thursday marks a bitter anniversary in the Arab world. On Dec. 17, 2010, a Tunisian fruit vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on [...]