Selected Opinion

By The American Interest – ISIS demands nothing less than the conversion of all Christians and Yizidis to Islam under penalty of death for men and enslavement for women and children. [...]

By Nick Danforth – Foreign Policy – It seems that no one, including perhaps the government in Ankara, is entirely clear on what Turkey’s endgame in Syria is. Recent reports that the [...]

By Ahram Online – The Muslim Brotherhood has always tried to promulgate three illusions about its history and ideology. The first is that it is a “moderate” group that represents and [...]

By Katie Bentivoglio – Washington Post – Such /images capture the futility of much authoritarian politics. They demonstrate how manipulative such regimes can be and how much they can [...]

By Charles Krauthammer – Washington Post – Elsewhere, it’s much worse. Twenty-one Copts were beheaded  by the Islamic State affiliate in Libya for the crime of being Christian. In [...]

By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin- Ahram Online – This article was published in Arabic in El-Shorouq newspaper on Tuesday, 28 July. Official and media circles are increasingly supportive of the idea that [...]

By Frida Ghitis- World Politics Review – Last Friday, the exiled leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, traveled to Saudi Arabia from his home in Qatar, ending several years of deep chill in the [...]

By Josh Rogin – Bloomberg Opinion – This confusion is a microcosm of the disorganized U.S. approach to the Islamic State threat since last summer. Each incremental escalation into [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Instead of executing Asia Bibi and further advertising to the international community that theirs is a savage and backwards nation — and instead of releasing her and [...]

The New  York Times – Review of two books:  ‘ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror,’ by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan, and ‘ISIS: The State of Terror,’ by Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger. The [...]