by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPageMagazine.com
Two teenage Coptic girls, cousins, were recently kidnapped and then “sold” in Minya, Egypt — the same region where a Coptic church was recentlyattacked and desecrated. Continue reading “Christian Girls Kidnapped and ‘Sold’”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
Apart from celebratory statements applauding what looks like to us democratic “people’s revolutions” against tyrannous autocrats, the uprisings sweeping across the Muslim Middle East have created great uncertainty for policy-makers as they try to calculate a response. Continue reading “The Fog of Revolution”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Hudson New York
As we ponder the significance of Osama bin Laden’s death, it is well to reflect that Islamists are not the cause of hostilities; they are but symptoms of a much greater cause. Continue reading “Bin Laden and the Eternal Hydra of War”
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPageMagazine.com
Days ago in Egypt, throngs of Muslims (henceforth, “Islamists”), estimated at 3,000, fired guns and rifles and hurled Molotov cocktails at Coptic churches, homes, and businesses in the Imbaba region near Cairo: Continue reading “Muslim ‘Inferiority Complex’ Kills Christians”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Across the Middle East, millions are rebelling against their poverty and lack of freedom, blaming their corrupt leaders, who have ransacked their countries’ treasuries and natural wealth. Continue reading “The Nature of Arab Unrest”
Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPageMagazine.com
Last week an Iraqi Muslim scholar issued a fatwa that, among other barbarities, asserts that “it is permissible to spill the blood of Iraqi Christians.” Continue reading “The Silent Extermination of Iraq’s ‘Christian Dogs’”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Hudson New York
President Obama’s recent explanation for militarily engaging Libya is yetanother example of how US leaders increasingly rationalize their policies via sentimental and idealistic platitudes, rather than reality or the long view — or just plain common sense. Continue reading “Ideals Trump Interests in Obama’s Libya Policy”
Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
The outbreak of protests and rebellion throughout the Middle East have quickly generated an orthodox narrative: When people suffering under brutal autocrats and dictators have finally risen up to satisfy the innate human longing for freedom and democracy, we should support these aspirations on moral grounds. Continue reading “Foreign Policy Charity Should Start at Home”
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPageMagazine.com
The now infamous Koran burning by Florida pastor Terry Jones has created hysteria in the Muslim world. In Afghanistan alone, some twenty people, including UN workers, have been killed and beheaded to screams of “Allahu Akbar!” Western leaders around the globe — including Obama and members of Congress — have unequivocally condemned Jones’ actions (without bothering to point out that freedom of expression is a prized American liberty). Continue reading “Destroying One Koran or Many Christians: Which is Worse?”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
The dubious received wisdom rationalizing our current intervention in Libya was crystallized in Senator John Kerry’s recent essay for The Wall Street Journal. For Kerry, the rebels in Libya are the same as those in Egypt, “peacefully demanding freedom and dignity.” Continue reading “The Secularist Delusion”