Selected Opinion

By Roger Cohen – The New York Times – The family of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of the Paris attacks, lived on Future Street in Brussels. Theirs was a “spacious if shabby [...]

By The Rubin Center – The Islamic State (IS) is a murderous enterprise, based on an insane ideology.  It nevertheless desires its own survival and expansion. In October 2015, prior to the [...]

By Ahmed Fouad – Al-Monitor – Perhaps the term “marginalized groups” does not apply to women and Copts on economic and social levels, but it has been engrained for decades in the [...]

By Richard Butrick – American Thinker – Republished by Raymond Ibrahim There is a reason for that. In a recent article by Raymond Ibrahim in the Middle East Forum, Ibrahim, a renowned [...]

By Patrick Cockburn – Independent – How far is Saudi Arabia complicit in the Isis takeover of much of northern Iraq, and is it stoking an escalating Sunni-Shia conflict across the [...]

By Tom Hoopes – Aleteia – ISIS, the younger brother of Al Qaeda in the dysfunctional family of radical Islam, was once minimized as the “JV team” by President Obama. The JV just [...]

By Tarek Fatah – The Toronto Sun – Republished by Middle East Forum  On Nov. 12 — the day before the Paris terrorist attacks — two ISIS suicide bombers blew themselves up [...]

By Burak Bekdil – The Gatestone Institute – Republished by Middle East Forum – Slight edits were made to the original version of this article. Sadly, the free world feels [...]

By Alex Alexiev – American Thinker – Only a few days have passed since the terrorist bloodbath in Paris, but it is already clear that the conclusions France and the West have drawn [...]

By Judith Miller – City Journal – Germany has confirmed that plots to kill hundreds more were disrupted in the nick of time. France has extended its state of emergency for three [...]