It’s easy to see why al-Qaradawi is the leading Sunni Islamist thinker in the world today… Continue reading
History has shown that backing radical Arabic-speaking states or movements to redo the regional order have all ended badly… Continue reading
Part 1 of Geert Wilders in Australia and the “Islamic Problem”… Continue reading
It’s time, a dozen years after September 11 and following Islamist coups in the Middle East, to rethink completely our view of al-Qaida… Continue reading
We are continually told that Obama’s policy has been supportive of democracy and human rights, but this is not true at all… Continue reading
My main goal of forty years of Middle East analysis has been trying to explain the Middle East as it actually exists, how its politics work, and how its history can be understood… Continue reading
Is U.S. Middle East policy aligned with the ‘Sunni bloc’ in a grand sectarian alliance against the ‘Shi’ite crescent’?… Continue reading
Obama should have to pay for his pro-Islamist behavior in public opinion and the loss of congressional support… Continue reading
2012 will likely be remembered as the year that Islamists made the greatest gains in their quest for a new caliphate in the region… Continue reading
Kerry isn’t just wrong, he’s totally clueless… Continue reading
The Western left were for decades apologists for repression carried out by the USSR, Soviet bloc, and other communist dictatorships, and now they are apologists for Islamist repression carried out against Arab leftists… Continue reading
The Syrian civil war will go on until one side wins and the other loses. And a lot more people are going to die… Continue reading
Western policy is now putting into power yet another anti-Western regime that will oppress its own people and put a high priority on trying to wipe out Israel… Continue reading
What are the next steps for Mursi?… Continue reading
How politics work in the Arabic-speaking world today… Continue reading
Whatever the outcome from the upcoming referendum to begin on Saturday in Egypt for the draft constitution, the superior position of the Islamist factions is unlikely to be overthrown in the near future… Continue reading
The civil war in Syria is moving into the end-game… Continue reading
A critical moment has arrived for Egypt. But what does it mean?… Continue reading
Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi maintains that Muslims must obey the commands of Islam’s prophet Muhammad, even unto murder… Continue reading
Revised and updated version of an interview Barry Rubin gave recently… Continue reading
Egypt’s population will be given two weeks to consider the Constitution, which has 236 articles, that will govern their lives for decades to come… Continue reading
The Turkish presumption to be a “model” for the Middle East will be undermined if the United States were to withdraw from the affairs of the region… Continue reading
What are the early warning signs of an Islamist totalitarian state… Continue reading
What’s been happening in Egypt this week is as important as the revolution that overthrew the old regime almost two years ago… Continue reading
Naturally the question of who won any given war preoccupies people’s minds… Continue reading
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