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 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...
How the New Revolutions May Have Failed
Column Stephen Suleyman Schwartz At mid-June, the wave of democratic revolutions in “pre-emerging” countries – those that have not yet reached the status of “emerging economies” – had seemingly come More...
An Eid Al-Adha Manifesto: For A Sufi Revolution
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz - Eid Al-Adha has arrived. Known in India as Eid ul-Zuha, to Balkan and Turkish Muslims as Kurban Bairam and to Persian speakers as Eid-e-Ghorban, the four-day festival of More...
The Arab Upsurge and Need for a New Path
Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz – Neil Buckley, writing in the London Financial Times of August 18, compared the wave of insurrectionary upheavals that has shaken the Arab lands with the “color revolutions” More...
Norwegian Demons and the Serbian Connection
Map of Serbia Column by Stephen Suleyman Schwartz - The terrorist attacks in Norway on Thursday, July 22, could not have been less mysterious. The aggressor, an ethnic Norwegian named Anders Behring Breivik, More...








