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Temecula Valley: A Mosque Controversy?

Planned Temecula Valley mosque draws opposition

Beyond Islamists

This nagging issue just will not go away: How do local or foreign governments best deal with leading Islamist groups in the Middle East and South Asia? Do you engage,

It’s obvious, go talk to the Islamists

Since the rise of this generation of Islamists, native and Western governments alike have adopted two major strategies: politically containing movements like the Muslim Brotherhood by allowing them to have

Watching Israel Delegitimize the U.S.

The U.S.-Israeli relationship has long been America's Achilles heel. Our first president warned against "entangled alliances" particularly when, as here, there's a "passionate attachment."

Who is bombing in Iraq?

Christopher King argues that it is likely that the American CIA – or Israel acting on its behalf – is responsible for recent atrocities in Iraq, in order to extend

Academia dances to the tune of politics

Decades ago, Lewis and like-minded scholars preached ‘modernisation' or ‘development' as the answer to the Middle East's woes. In the 1950s and 1960s, basing most of its analysis on Euro-American

America and the Dictators: From Ngo Dinh Diem to Hamid Karzai

The Obama administration’s devolving relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul is also an eerie summary of relations between the Kennedy administration and South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem

Australia asylum suspension could harm world’s most vulnerable

Amnesty International has condemned the Australian Government’s suspension of the processing of new asylum claims by Afghan and Sri Lankan nationals, which is fundamentally inconsistent with Australia’s international obligations under

Confessions of a hijabi

I watched the Bollywood film My Name is Khan the other day. The brilliant depiction of an autistic person by India’s leading actor Shah Rukh Khan and director Karan Johar’s

Making Matters Worse in Afghanistan

Civilian deaths inflicted by American firepower in Afghanistan are generating deep-seated anti-Americanism, with some Afghans saying that even the Russians were less violent, argues Charles Pe?a.