Op-Eds

The Saudis are bulldozing Islam’s heritage. Why the silence from the Muslim world?

By | 2012-11-05T13:37:57-04:00 November 5th, 2012|Op-Eds|

Imagine that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem – the traditional site of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus – has been taken over by Cromwellian Puritans. The new owners of the shrine plan to send bulldozers in, replacing the old church with a monstrous building resembling a concrete spaceship. This is so

Egyptian Anti-Semitism, Mubarak to Morsi

By | 2012-11-02T00:39:24-04:00 November 2nd, 2012|Op-Eds|

“Anti-Semitism and what might be called anti-Israelism have intermingled in Egypt for many decades. Attacks on Israel often use the most depraved anti-Semitic clichés. Israel and the Jewish people are also attacked separately, even though many Egyptians consider Israel and the Jews as one and the same.   “These hate phenomena continue to flourish now

Living in fear: Coptic Christians in Egypt

By | 2012-10-26T02:03:10-04:00 October 26th, 2012|Op-Eds|

After a long history of persecution as a minority in Egypt, in these days the nonetheless resilient Copts face a dire moment. The ominously Sharia-leaning Muslim Brotherhood government of Egypt, headed by President Mohammed Morsi, has taken over the country from the oppressive - but slightly more tolerant - Mubarak regime. Adding to this crisis

OBAMA’S RING: ‘THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH’

By | 2012-10-10T13:12:22-04:00 October 10th, 2012|Op-Eds|

As a student at Harvard Law School, then-bachelor Barack Obama’s practice of wearing a gold band on his wedding-ring finger puzzled his colleagues.   Now, newly published photographs of Obama from the 1980s show that the ring Obama wore on his wedding-ring finger as an unmarried student is the same ring Michelle Robinson put on

Criminalizing the Defamation of Islam

By | 2012-10-07T21:07:17-04:00 October 7th, 2012|Op-Eds|

Muslim pseudo-populists thrive among the masses of gullible Muslims, but they certainly have no standing among the people who judge them by their deeds rather than by their rhetoric.   Nothing prompts the hundreds of ordinarily feuding and fighting sects of Islam to come together like the slightest disrespect shown to the founder of their