Tamil

November 20, 2013 | Sheryl Saperia

Canada, Ban This Organization That Burns Christians and Bombs Churches Now

Co-authored by Danny Eisen After years of vacillating, the United States has finally designat...

September 11, 2012 |

How the Tragedy of 9/11 Made Canada a Better, More Sensible Country

How much has Canada changed in the last eleven years? Consider this: As the World Trade Center rubble was still smoldering, the then-leader of Canada’s left-wing NDP party, Alexa McDonough,...

April 19, 2012 |

From Sri Lankan Youth, a Model for Reconciliation

Like Israel and Rwanda, Sri Lanka serves, for many world-watchers, as a byword for ethno-religious conflict. For almost three decades, the country’s largely Buddhist Sinhalese majority enga...

April 3, 2012 |

From Brampton to Bangladesh, Anti-Hindu Hate is All Too Real

The last week has done much to educate me in the ethnic politics of South Asia. After writing...

March 28, 2012 |

Why are Some Canadian Sikhs Expressing Solidarity with an Unrepentant Terrorist?

Today, Indian politicians stayed the execution...

November 8, 2011 |

Sri Lanka’s (Nearly) Forgotten Massacre

This isn't a column about the Middle East. But to make my point, I'm going to start by asking readers to imagine a scenario from that part of the world. Imagine that, sometime...

May 16, 2011 |

The Immortal Terrorist

Many Sri Lankans understand the sense of relief and elation that Americans are experiencing following the death of Osama bin Laden. On May 18, 2009, Sri Lankan troops cornered and killed the coun...

May 6, 2009 |

Why So Many Tamil “Moderates” Support the Tamil Tigers

Yesterday, I...

May 5, 2009 |

The Tamil Tigers Have Reaped What They’ve Sown

The conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers has deep, tangled roots. But to a rough order of magnitude, the moral stakes can be reduced to a single act of terrorist savage...

September 6, 2005 | Peter Pham National Interest

Killing to Make a Killing

Mia Bloom, Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terrorism (New York: Columbia University, 2005), 280 pp., $24.95. Timothy Naftali, Blind Spot: The Secret History of American...

October 5, 2004 | Wall Street Journal |

America, Just Be Yourself

America addressed the earth: Do you love me as I love you?" - W.H. Auden, "In Time of War"     Auden wrote those lines in 1938, on the eve of World...