Islamic Fundamentalists in North America
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz and Irfan Al-Alawi In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt and its Wahhabi fundamentalist allies – who use the term “Salafi,” indicating Islamic virtue, to hide their true history and nature as bloodthirsty zealots – face a constitutional and political crisis. But in North America, the allies of More...
Protecting the Children Forced to ‘Walk Among Snakes’: Looking Back From Newtown
Column by Stephen Schwartz - In the United States, mourning and debate over the horror at Newtown, Connecticut, continue. Although the number of victims was fewer, even microscopic by comparison, the massacre More...
Obama, Dobama, And the Price of Ignorance
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz India has hanged Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani citizen, for his involvement in the infamous terror assault on Mumbai in 2008. The Islamabad government, which subsidizes More...
Why Did U.S. Security Fail in Benghazi?
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz On the night of September 11, 2012, the American consulate in Benghazi, a revolutionary focus in liberated Libya, was attacked by terrorists. U.S. Ambassador John Christopher More...
The New York Times and the Incoherence of Tariq Ramadan
Column by Stephen Schwartz - The September 11, 2012 assault on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and murder of Amb. J. Christopher Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith, and security guards More...
“Neo-Salafi” Fallacies And Muslim Reaction to Insults Against Muhammad
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz The majority of the world’s Muslims – especially spiritual Sufis, but also traditional, conservative, moderate, and conventional believers – object to naming as “Salafis” More...
Educated Professionals and Jihadism in South Asia
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz - Tragically, India, proud of its long-lasting democratic institutions and its far-reaching efforts at integration and equality for a population of 1.2 billion, has again been More...
“Educating Girls Globally” in Northern India
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz The status of girls and women is a central problem for the future of many Islamic societies. While a negative image of the condition of women is often associated with Muslim More...
The Wahhabi Invasion of Sri Lanka
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz with Irfan Al-Alawi To many non-Muslims, the existence of an Islamic community on the island of Sri Lanka may be surprising. Sri Lanka has been known for the past three decades More...
Wahhabi Eruption in Troubled Germany
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz with Veli Sirin & Ali Uyanik Germany and Islam have made news lately, none of it good. Germany has a large Muslim minority of around four million, or five percent of the More...
