The 140-Character Fatwa
Despite assurances from the Saudi government that it is cracking down on religious radicalism, the kingdom's top clerics continue calling for attacks on Christians across the Arab world. And...
Wahhabism
Facebook Fatwa: Saudi Clerics, Wahhabi Islam and Social Media
FDD Press
Monographs
FDD Releases Cutting Edge Study of Saudi Social Media
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC (FDD, May 7, 2012) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies has released the first-ever study of what...
Press Releases
Facebook Fatwa: Saudi Clerics, Wahhabi Islam and Social Media
FDD Press
Monographs
March on Syria
The Assad dynasty is not content with slaughtering its own people in great numbers. It is also destroying Syria's rich archaeological past. Writing last month in the US Weekly Standard...
Op-eds
Saudi Women’s Spring
The rise of Islamist movements in the Arab Spring generally bodes poorly for women’s rights. But in Saudi Arabia, a country dominated by fundamentalist Islam, women are quietly driving a re...
Op-eds
“Destroy All the Churches”
Is it not news when Saudi Arabia’s leading religious authority meets with a terrorist group and says that?
Op-eds
How to Stop Putting Gas in the Islamist Tank
Because enriching your enemy may not be a brilliant strategy.
Op-eds
Saudi Arabia Is Arming the Syrian Opposition
What could possibly go wrong?
Op-eds
Taking Damascus, One, Two, Three
Although Bashar al-Assad could still kill off the revolt against his tyranny, it seems increasingly unlikely. The rebellion today is far larger—geographically and numerically—than the...
Op-eds
‘Islam Is Islam, And That’s It’
The Arab Spring was not hijacked
Op-eds
Ron Paul: Wrong on the Taliban
Ron Paul knows even less about the history of our enemies than he does about their proper...
Op-eds
Militant Islamism, Islamism, Islam
A senior U.S. military advisor attempts their “disaggregation” – not entirely successfully.
Op-eds
Egyptian Liberals Against the Revolution
Free societies mean more than just free elections.
Op-eds
Ex-Gitmo Detainee Killed in Afghanistan
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) announced today that...
Op-eds
Disoriented
The state of too many Western leaders ten years after 9/11/01.
Op-eds
Saudi Arabia’s Terror Finance Problem
When al Qaeda attacked the United States on September 11, the response was swift. Saudi Arabia, home of the Wahhabi ideology that inspired 15 of the 19 hijackers, reacted somewhat more slowly....
Op-eds
Long, Hot Arab Summer
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Commentary on the Arab Spring is much like the famous parable of the blind men learning about an elephant by touching it: Most observers glimpse...
Op-eds
Declaring War on the ‘Far Enemy’
On Aug. 23, 1996, Osama bin Laden, within a few months of arriving in Afghanistan, issued a manifesto proclaiming himself at war with the world's only remaining superpower. Bin Laden's...
Op-eds
Get Off Oil
Americans borrow $1 billion a day to import oil. This is a huge share of the U.S. trade deficit and a major factor in weakening the dollar. Hundreds of billions a year go to the Middle East and e...