Will President Trump Stand Up to Iran in Syria?
Mixed messages.
August 29, 2017
Using the U.S.-Saudi Alliance to Keep Radical Islam out of India and Indonesia
Riyadh won’t stop exporting Wahhabism, but it can be pressured to curb its efforts.
Saudi Arabia spends some $4 billion annually to support mosques, imams, and religious schools abroad that uniformly teach the radical, fundamentalist Wahhabi interpretation of Islam. In part thanks to these expenditures, Muslim communities across the globe have grown more stringent in their beliefs and practices. So ingrained is Riyadh’s commitment to Wahhabism, writes Max Singer, that a major reversal cannot be expected. But U.S. pressure can still pay off:
August 29, 2017
Using the U.S.-Saudi Alliance to Keep Radical Islam out of India and Indonesia
Riyadh won’t stop exporting Wahhabism, but it can be pressured to curb its efforts.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Love of Tyrants and Terrorists, and Tolerance for Anti-Semitism, Shouldn’t Get a Pass
The British opposition leader is a threat to his country, his party, and to democracy.
On the Irrelevance of Biblical Criticism
To read the Bible as a great work, one must assume that it’s something more than a hodgepodge of disparate texts.
Ireland’s Unheroic Holocaust History
Closing doors to refugees.