The government of Australia formally banned Hizb ut Tahrir on March 6, designating the Islamist organization as a hate group in a move aimed at curbing extremist ideology and preventing radicalization....
Twenty years ago, President Clinton, with bipartisan support, signed into law the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA). The intention: to enshrine religious freedom as a core component of A...
EAST JERUSALEM – “I think it goes to flames.” Nuha Musleh, a Palestinian who earns her living as a “fixer” – a guide/translator/arranger for foreign reporters...
The transformation of the Syrian Revolution from a nonviolent and inclusive pro-democracy protest movement into a civil war, pitting majority-Sunni and majority-Alawite militias against each othe...
The leader of the supposedly moderate Ennahda political party in Tunisia has been caught on tape strategizing with Salafists to gain control of the country. In the video, he also acknowledged con...
Co-Authored with Alexander Ritzmann Hezbollah arrived in the European Union back in the 1980s, along with refugees from the civil war in Lebanon. Despite its deadly tra...
Authored by Ilya Bourtman The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 changed the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East. Within weeks, six predominantly Muslim countries...
While most media accounts of the "cartoon jihad" focused on the publication of the cartoons, and on the ensuing violent reaction by some Muslims -- who were depicted by the much of the press as v...
Blair’s post 7/7 committees may do more to disarm England than militancy.
By Stephen Schwartz The Poet Archibald Macleish wrote, at the beginning of the Second World War, "How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms; by truth when it is...