Wrong on Rauf
Imam Feisal Rauf, the cleric behind the provocative Ground Zero Mosque (GZM) project, as one critic put it, “is no moderate. He presents himself as a peacemaking Islamic Gandhi, but he is i...
Stephen Schwartz
What Saudis Preach
Nearly four years ago, Saudi dissident Ali al-Ahmed and author Stephen Schwartz conducted a study for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. They examined textbooks and other publications...
Op-eds
The Dysfunctional House of Saud
By Stephen Schwartz THERE COMES A TIME in the history of every oppressive state when the need for change is suddenly and widely understood to be imperative. Inevitably, an incident occur...
Op-eds
In Bed, but Not in Good Faith
By Stephen Schwartz Saudi Arabia and its ultraextreme Wahhabi sect of Islam have come to the forefront of the American consciousness, especially after last month's release of a cong...
Op-eds
Missing Links
The blacking out of 28 pages on Saudi complicity in the 9/11 attacks isn't the only hole in Congress' report on the terrorist atrocity: The rest of the report skirts issues and evidence...
Op-eds
How Shall Freedom be Defended?
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...
Op-eds
Saudi Dupes
By Stephen Schwartz Adherents of the violently uncompromising Wahhabi sect, the state religion of Saudi Arabia, are killing other Muslims overseas, and attacking coalition troops in Iraq...
Op-eds
Portrait of a Wahhabi
By Stephen Schwartz On Thursday, June 26, I testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, chaired by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz). My topic was &...
Op-eds
Wahhabism & Islam in the U.S.
By Stephen Schwartz EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the text of testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security on Thursday, June 26, 2003....
Op-eds
Saudi Mischief in Fallujah
By Stephen Schwartz In recent weeks, most Western media have reported the continuing attacks on U.S. troops in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, as tenacious resistance by defeated Baathists, a...
Op-eds
Perfidious PR Push
By FDD The Saudi regime is desperately trying to convince us that it is fighting terrorism. Over the weekend, it arrested and killed some nonentities in Mecca and announced with great fa...
Op-eds
The Real Roots of Islamic Extremism
By Stephen Schwartz The victimized terrorists are variously thought to be directing their anger against Western-induced poverty; the Western-supported rise of Israel; or the Western impe...
Op-eds
Trouble on Long Island
By Stephen Schwartz On Saturday, May 10, I was welcomed to a memorial in Queens, honoring Shi'a clerics killed by the fascist Saddam regime. Hundreds of Shi'a imams were brutal...
Op-eds
Saudi Spinning
By Stephen Schwartz DENIAL IS A RIVER in Arabia, not Egypt. The proof of this axiom came Friday. In place of a serious assessment of the Saudi kingdom's increasing loss of credibili...
Op-eds
The Two Faces of Fascism
By Stephen Schwartz What is the difference between Dennis "Justin" Raimondo, who publicly encouraged U.S. service personnel to desert, not long before the Iraq operation began, and his a...
Op-eds
Selective Outrage
By Stephen Schwartz I was as disturbed as any student of Near Eastern and Islamic history would be at the destruction of the National Library in Baghdad in the chaos following Iraq'...
Op-eds
Let America Be America the Liberator Again!
By Stephen Schwartz Iraq is free. The dictatorship has fallen. The process that began with the end of Marcos, the fall of the Berlin wall, and other democratic victories has reached the...
Op-eds
U.N. Go Home
By Stephen Schwartz THE WAR FOR IRAQ'S LIBERATION began on March19. The fourth anniversary of the NATO intervention in Kosovo was March24. Kosovar Albanians, a majority of whom are...
Op-eds
Mugged by Surreality
By Stephen Schwartz FRANCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN a country with a divided soul: on one side, a record of humanistic Enlightenment philosophy and modern art unrivalled by any other nation; on t...
Op-eds
Fear Not the Shias
By Stephen Schwartz Sheikh Fadhel Al-Sahlani, an Iraqi American and president of the largest Shia Muslim congregation in North America, speaks perfect English. He sits with quiet dignity...