Selected Opinion

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 [...]

By Joyce Karam – Al-Arabiya – For Daniel, one of the new comers to Hamatoura that I met last summer, leaving his monastery in Homs was not a choice. “We didn’t want to [...]

By Burak Bekdil- The Gatestone Institute – Republished by Middle East Forum It is the same old Middle East story: The Shiites accuse Sunnis of passionately following sectarian policies; [...]

By Daniel Henninger – The Wall Street Journal – A Christmas party in disguise? Has it come to this? Aghast state legislators got the directive rescinded, but the Christmas killers [...]