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Afghanistan: Obama’s Vietnam?

There's a rapidly growing discussion here in the US about "what to do in Afghanistan." Some of it is thoughtful, well-informed, and serious.

How to Trap a President in a Losing War

Why is it that a Democratic candidate needs a war or threat of war to trash-talk about in order to prove his 'strength', when doing so is obviously a sign

Dear America: Letter From a Muslim-American

I write to you, America, as a Muslim-American who is frustrated at seeing both sides of my identity spreading myths about each other. In part one of this two part

Al-Oadah’s message to al-Zawahiri: How long will you persist in this policy of bloodshed?

Sheikh Salman bin Fahad al-Oadah – General Supervisor of IslamToday – during the eighth memorial of the September 11 tragedies, addressed a message to al-Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is

Arabic blogosphere begins to bloom

Within a given country, the make-up of the blogging cluster turned out to be quite varied. The Egyptian cluster, for example, "is characterized by secular reformist bloggers" on one hand,

MB: Obama’s Speech For Improvement of America’s Image, Offers No New To the Islamic World

In their statement on Saturday, the MB emphasized that if the American-led campaign against Muslims didn’t stop tension would continue and rise, resistance would increase and strengthen, and the instability

MB Chair Calls to ICC Rejection

Mr. Mahdi Akef (Leader of Muslim Brotherhood Group) has called all Arab and Islamic states as well as Eastern and Western states members of the Hague International Criminal Court to

MB Invites Taliban Leaders: Free All Korean captives

Dr. Muhammad Habib, 1st MB Deputy-Chairman, has called Taliban to free all the Koreans the movement captivated earlier.

Middle East: Egyptian Democrat Optimistic About Region’s Democratic Prospects

Saad Eddin Ibrahim is one of the Arab world’s most prominent voices on behalf of democracy and human rights. An Egyptian, he was arrested in 2000 and sentenced to seven

Qaradawi, Rafsanjani Urge Unity

In the first high-profile meeting between top Sunni and Shiite scholars, Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the head of Iran’s influential Expediency