By Mary Anne Weaver He was a dreamer, with Che Guevara looks — a jet-black beard and eyes — who built a new persona online, as a Muslim warrior riding into battle in the back of an open-bed truck, dressed in black, his long hair blowing in the breeze, with an AK-47 hanging from his shoulder, Continue Reading
Are radical Muslims the result of what’s taught at Islam’s most prestigious school?
BY GERT VAN LANGENDONCK McClatchy Foreign StaffApril 14, 2015 CAIRO — Al Mu’tasim Billah, Sufyan al Omari and Omar al Masri are 21-year-old students at Cairo’s al Azhar University, the oldest and most prestigious institute of Sunni Islamic learning in the world. But none of them is planning to Continue Reading
Retiring Tired Myths about the modern MENA
By Jesse S. Wheeler Thanks to the advent of social media, my access to Western media sources is nearly as good (perhaps even better) than it would be were I not an immigrant living in Beirut, Lebanon, just another sign of the ever shrinking world we inhabit. Yet in my readings I consistently Continue Reading
Is this the end?: The quest for a global Islam and the hope of Christian eschatology
By S. Craig Sanders Led along the edge of a Libyan beach by Islamic State militants, 21 Egyptian Christians wearing the orange jumpsuits of prisoners received the white robes of martyrs. A gruesome video released in mid-February depicted their captors forcing the men to the ground and Continue Reading
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