Selected Opinion

By Peter Ahern – AINA – Consider another imaginary scenario. Some 5000 American women and girls are kidnapped by the same Muslim jihadi militia. They are turned into sex slaves, [...]

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi – MEF – The market for extremism has been so disrupted by the self-proclaimed Islamic State (also known as ISIS) and its penchant [...]

By Selwyn Duke – The New American – Perpetrated by Islamic State (IS) jihadists, the above crime occurred near Aleppo, Syria, just last month. But it’s a scene that has been replayed [...]

By David Ignatius – The Washington Post – For the secretive oil kingdom, whose internal debates are usually opaque to outsiders, the recent strife has been unusually open. The tension [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Many are accepting death. Most recently, on August 28 near Aleppo, the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) tortured, mutilated, publicly raped, beheaded and crucified 12 [...]

By Rev. Johnnie Moore – FOX News – A few days ago ISIS executed three Assyrian Christians, and I bet you haven’t heard a thing about it. This is because the world is becoming [...]

By Yaroslav Trofimov – The Wall Street Journal – Despised by some, admired by others, the U.S. has been the Middle East’s principal power for decades, providing its allies with [...]

By Mada Masr – The Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) assumed power following Mubarak’s downfall on February 2011. SCAF was supposed to oversee a peaceful transition of authority, [...]

By Bernard-Henri Lévy- The Wall Street Journal – On a mountainside in Iraq’s Kurdish region, at the end of a road that winds through sparse olive trees, stands the fourth-century Mar Mattai [...]

By Karima Kamal – Egypt Independent – Edited/abridged translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm But the more important question is why do newspapers ignore incidents of sectarian strife? This [...]