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Salon.com September 26, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Islam's flawed spokesmen Some of the groups claiming to speak for American Muslims find it impossible to speak out against terrorist groups... |
Salon.com December 12, 2001 Norah Vincent |
It's not just Hamas It's time for America to stop coddling the Palestinians -- they're bloodthirsty bigots who would have exterminated the Jews if they were in charge... |
ifeminists August 18, 2004 Dirk Verhofstadt |
Muslims Need Critical Thinking - Irshad Manji With her book The Trouble with Islam the Canadian journalist and lesbian feminist joins the growing number of female Muslims that condemn the oppression of women in the Muslim world. |
Parameters Spring 2007 Dale C. Eikmeier |
Qutbism: An Ideology of Islamic-Fascism If we are to know our enemy in the war on terrorism we must first recognize that regardless of the vintage or variety of militant Islam it is the "ideology" of the group or sect that serves as its center of gravity. |
Salon.com September 11, 2001 Eric Boehlert, Suzy Hansen & Jeff Stark |
"Our fight is for Jerusalem, not New York" Arab-Americans worry about their loved ones in New York and fear retribution... |
Salon.com October 30, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
A Jew in the mosque A self-described "average Israeli" talks about his daring journey to pray with the Holy Land's Muslims and Christians -- and why Arafat cannot head a Palestinian state... |
Parameters Autumn 2006 Raymond L. Bingham |
Bridging the Religious Divide Academicians, east and west, hotly debate the fundaments of the war on terror. In our nation's capital, decision-makers and renowned scholars meet regularly to posit the pros and cons of U.S. foreign policy. |
Reason June 2006 Cathy Young |
The Jihad Against Muslims Radical Islam poses problems for the West, from within and from without. But if our response turns to bigotry directed at all Muslims, it will leave little reason for hope. |
Salon.com September 11, 2001 Janelle Brown |
"Purge our society," online bigots shout Post-disaster threats and expressions of racism bubble up on the Web... |
Salon.com October 8, 2001 Gary Kamiya |
War and peace Our fight against terrorism gives the U.S. a historic opportunity to become a kinder, gentler force in the world... |
Parameters Spring 2005 Christopher Henzel |
The Origins of al Qaeda's Ideology: Implications for US Strategy If American strategists fail to understand and exploit the divide between the establishments and the revolutionaries within Sunni Islam, the United States will play into the radicals' hands, and turn fence-sitting Sunnis into enemies. |
Parameters Winter 2006/2007 |
Review Essays Joseph C. Myers, The Quranic Concept of War... George H. Quester, Asia's Nuclear Dilemma... Larry M. Wortzel, Resolving China and Taiwan's Differences... |
Salon.com September 25, 2001 David Rieff |
There is no alternative to war Blame-the-U.S. pacifism misses the point. Bin Laden wants to eradicate Western modernity, not liberate Palestine, and the U.S. has no choice but to fight him... |
ifeminists March 25, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
Laying Down 'the White Woman's Burden' The most recent stereotype to bombard the American psyche is of the Muslim woman who lives veiled and in fear of all men who, by virtue of their maleness, are her oppressors. But is it true in general of Arab-Muslim women who have become the focus of world attention? |
BusinessWeek January 15, 2007 |
They're Muslims, And Yankees, Too A book examines the duality of Muslim-American life. |
Salon.com September 24, 2001 Janelle Brown |
Terror's first victims When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer... |
Reason December 2001 Sam MacDonald |
Interview: A Different Sort of Conservative Muslim Abdulwahab Alkebsi is the executive director of the Islamic Institute, a Washington think tank that "facilitates the development of grassroots Muslim political movements that are economically conservative"... |
Salon.com May 13, 2002 Laura Miller |
Death rattle? Sept. 11 may have been the last gasp of militant Islam -- but while it's dying, it could strike again and again... |
Salon.com September 25, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
The media's Islamic blind spot News reports are obsessing on how the terrorist attacks happened, but not why... |
Salon.com October 22, 2001 King Kaufman |
Stand beside her Fearing a post-terrorism backlash, many Muslim and Arab-American women are afraid to leave their homes. Volunteers are helping to make them feel safe... |
Salon.com September 21, 2001 Paul Wachter |
The view from Beirut An American in Lebanon warns that despite Bush's efforts, Arabs will likely view an attack on terrorism as a war on Islam... |
Parameters November 2004 Philip Seib |
The News Media and the "Clash of Civilizations" "For the first time in history, global politics is both multipolar and multicivilizational." As the balance of power among civilizations shifts, the relative influence of the West is declining. |
Salon.com September 11, 2001 Flore de Preneuf |
Rejoicing in the streets of Jenin While many Palestinians celebrate the attack on the U.S., Yasser Arafat denounces it as "unacceptable" and Israelis mourn... |
Military History Quarterly Summer 2007 Richard A. Gabriel |
The Warrior Prophet If Muhammad had not been an innovative and accomplished military leader, Islam might not have survived the seventh century. |
Salon.com November 6, 2001 Gary Kamiya |
It's time for U.S. to broker Mideast peace, says Palestinian leader Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi tells Osama bin Laden he does "not have the right to use" the Palestinian plight "for your ends"... |
Reason November 2007 Rogier van Bakel |
'The Trouble Is the West' Best-selling memoirist and former member of the Dutch parliament, Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam, immigration, civil liberties, and the fate of the West. |
Salon.com February 16, 2001 Ben Barber |
Colin Powell rolls up his sleeves On his trip to the Middle East next week, Bush's secretary of state will face an escalating conflict that he never intended to mediate. |
Parameters Autumn 2005 Chris Zambelis |
The Strategic Implications of Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Middle East Promoting democracy in the Middle East will mark a positive shift in American foreign policy if and when Washington decides to back up its rhetoric with action. |
Salon.com September 27, 2001 Steve Kettmann |
Creating "many, many Osamas" Novelist William Vollmann says if the U.S. convinces Afghans of bin Laden's guilt, they'll support the move against him. If not, only "genocide" will defeat them... |
Salon.com October 9, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Suspicious minds Many Arab rulers would like to support the Western war on Osama bin Laden. But their subjects disagree, and have a laundry list of reasons why... |
Salon.com March 5, 2002 Eric Boehlert |
Terrorists under the bed "Terrorism expert" Steven Emerson paints a terrifying picture of lethal Muslim fundamentalists among us in "American Jihad." But he doesn't know the difference between Osama bin Laden and Yasser Arafat... |
Reason December 2002 Cathy Young |
Ecumenical Intolerance The sin of extremism is neither common to all Muslims nor limited to Islam. |
Salon.com September 28, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Friends like these Why did so many of the Sept. 11 hijackers have ties to Saudi Arabia? Why can't the U.S. use Saudi bases to fight the war on terrorism? What Americans don't know about their best Muslim ally... |
Salon.com August 10, 2001 Flore de Preneuf |
"Palestinians are not afraid of death" Just a week before a deadly Jerusalem pizzeria bombing, the spiritual leader for Hamas told Salon how, by "protecting the dignity of his people," a suicide bomber "becomes a martyr"... |
Salon.com May 4, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
Is the honeymoon over? A historian says that American Jews are increasingly disenchanted with Israel and its policies, and more wrapped up in their own concerns... |
Reason December 2001 Charles Paul Freund |
2001 Nights The end of the Orientalist critique... |
Salon.com October 3, 2000 Flore de Preneuf |
Violence erupts in the Holy Land Desperation fuels an ominous round of fighting in the Holy Land. Has the Mideast peace process finally blown apart? |
Salon.com October 22, 2001 Max Garrone |
Fundamental problems Religious writer Karen Armstrong explains why Muslim nations have difficulty with democracy and the qualities that all forms of fundamentalism share... |
Salon.com November 27, 2000 Flore de Preneuf |
Middle East meets Wild West With the crisis simmering and the death toll mounting in Israel, vigilante movements are brewing among Israelis and Palestinians alike... |
Salon.com November 21, 2001 Dalton Conley |
The Afghan handshake Nearly a decade ago in Peshawar, a holy warrior tried to warn me where radical Islam was heading -- then gave me his watch... |
TIME Asia September 20, 2010 |
Inbox Muslims and Mosques... Double Vision... A Difficult Diagnosis... |
Salon.com December 4, 2002 Laura McClure |
What would Mohammed do? Geraldine Brooks, an expert on the role of women in Islam, says the "haters of beauty" behind the Miss World riots misrepresent what is a "pro-sexuality" religion. |
Parameters Autumn 2005 Harvey, Sullivan & Groves |
A Clash of Systems: An Analytical Framework to Demystify the Radical Islamist Threat The United States must understand the implications of its leadership in the global system, and how to use this position to demonstrate to moderates in the Islamic world why they should join us rather than attempt to beat us. |
TIME Asia January 17, 2011 Zoher Abdoolcarim |
The Moment With the assassination of Salman Taseer, the governor of Pakistan's most populous province, Punjab, tolerance and compassion have been struck down too. |
Salon.com September 19, 2001 Laura Miller |
The "enemy" we barely know A writer who has traveled extensively in Afghanistan talks about how little we understand its people, how dangerous it is to underestimate them and why they have cause to resent the U.S.... |
Salon.com June 12, 2002 Suzy Hansen |
Six days that shook the world An Israeli historian talks about the weeklong war that shaped the modern Middle East and still fuels the Arab-Israeli conflict. |
Salon.com October 12, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Why the U.S. is losing the propaganda war Foolish decisions, nervous allies and not enough Arabic speakers mean Muslims around the world aren't getting America's side of the story. |
Salon.com September 22, 2001 Sara Pursley |
It isn't just "freedom" they hate Those who rained terror upon the U.S. may have had real grievances -- and we shouldn't feel guilty about discussing them... |
BusinessWeek July 25, 2005 Stanley Reed |
Arming Britain's Muslim Youth With A Future With a jobless rate twice the country's norm, British Muslims need more than social outreach -- they need positive role models. |
Outside February 2004 Murad Kalam |
If It Doesn't Kill You First Seeking enlightenment and risking death, an American Muslim takes on the pilgrimage to Mecca -- the world's greatest and toughest spiritual adventure. |