Although it is fashionable to blame the region’s travails on ancient hatreds or the poor cartography of Mr. Sykes and Monsieur Picot, the real problems began with the modern Arab…
I frequently come across leftists who are more concerned with avoiding accusations of Islamophobia than they are with condemning Islamist zealotry. This is an odd position with relation to the…
There is a glaring omission in this story: left and extreme left wing parties and groups don’t get a mention, while they are unstinting in their support of everything Islamist…
Confronted by the daily avalanche of naïve nonsense or outright mendacity about the Middle East in the Western media, academia, and sometimes governments, I am haunted by something a Syrian…
It pains me to agree with The Telegraph, but this opinion piece is spot on. There is no excuse for criminal behaviour – and certainly not a cultural one. The…
It is time for Muslims to begin a deep self-examination-The Washington Post In the wake of the Paris bloodbath, the attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., and Bamako, Mali, and murders…
Las intenciones del Daesh están son meridianas si por ellos fuera, llevarían a cabo el mayor genocidio de la historia Source: Columna | Soldados sin riesgo; por Javier Marías
This article is an updated version of an article written before the attacks. Objectively speaking, the unprecedented, bloody terrorist attacks in Paris on Source: How to Regain Control of Europe…
NYT: Terror From Europe’s Future Street The dangerous thing about this ISIS territory, the Caliphate’s embryo, is not so much its oil revenue, or its training facilities, or its proximity…
General McChrystal, who led US special forces in Iraq speaks on BBC4 about the nature of the threat posed by ISIS and how we should respond – and how not…