“Iran perceives the renewal of its nuclear talks with the 5+1 as a significant victory over the West and over its Arab neighbors,” the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reports this week, “both in terms of the substance of the talks and in terms of enhancing Iran’s geopolitical status – which has suffered considerably …
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I met Irshad Manji, the dynamic Muslim reformer, several years ago in Washington when she passed through in between her jaunts to Europe, Asia, and elsewhere to discuss, per the title of her first book, the “trouble” with Islam today and offer what she considers a more modern, more tolerant, more pluralistic interpretation of her …
A gaunt man of 62, bearded and bespectacled, stares at us through sad eyes that reveal his pain. On the day in late March that Rabbi Arthur Schneier visited him in his Cuban jail, he wore a light blue shirt, a white undershirt, and a tallit over his shoulders as he and Schneier posed for …
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The West has long had a thing for Che Guevara, a doctrinaire Marxist and homicidal maniac of particular note. In the more than four decades since his death, his iconic countenance has adorned tee shirts, caps, and mugs, and companies have used his face to sell their products. This past January, in fact, Mercedes-Benz’s chairman, …
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Did you read about Sheik Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, and his call this month to “destroy all the churches of the region?” You might think that’s big news – big enough to garner some attention from America’s leading media – especially because the Grand Mufti is among the Muslim …
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While the United States and its allies dither over whether to materially support the Syrian opposition and, if so, how, Western leaders should recognize that the bloody conflict raises a larger question: Will the West defend freedom at a potential turning point in global history, or will it cede this and future battles to autocratic …
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The United States faces a cold reality: even stepped-up U.S. and Western sanctions of recent weeks have not persuaded Iran’s radical regime, which is driving ever closer to nuclear weaponry, to shift course. That’s largely because Washington has never mounted a credible threat of military action to derail Tehran’s efforts. While President Barack Obama and …
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