via RUSSIA TODAY, INTERVIEW with AKBAR AHMED on MAY 9, 2013: The new US tool for fighting terrorists, the drones, creates more enemies than killing ‘bad guys’, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University in Washington, D.C., Akbar Ahmed, told RT. Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at [...]
by HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH on MAY 21, 2013: (Kabul) – The Afghan government should take urgent steps to halt an alarming increase in women and girls imprisoned for “moral crimes,” Human Rights Watch said today. Commitments by senior government officials to end such abuses have had little practical impact. Statistics from Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry indicate that [...]
by BRUCE JENTLESON for DEUTSCHE WELLE on MAY 16, 2013: Worse than not learning from history, is drawing the wrong lessons. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars carry lessons for the US and its allies in Syria. We just need to get it right, writes Bruce W. Jentleson. In a nutshell, there are two important lessons to [...]
by JOSHUA LANDIS for MONDOWEISS (FACEBOOK RESPONSE) on MAY 8, 2013: Joshua Landis is a leading opponent of U.S. intervention in Syria. Last week we did a post faulting NPR’s Melissa Block for bringing up Landis’s marriage to an Alawite woman during an interview with him and Andrew Tabler of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. [...]
by DAVID SCHANZER for THE HUFFINGTON POST on MAY 8, 2013: The Department of Defense has requested $170 million to upgrade the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in next year’s budget, but no amount of money will repair the government’s irrational terrorism detention policy that is collapsing even more quickly than the dilapidated facility in which [...]
via PEW FORUM ON RELIGION & PUBLIC LIFE on APRIL 30, 2013: (Executive Summary excerpt) A new Pew Research Center survey of Muslims around the globe finds that most adherents of the world’s second-largest religion are deeply committed to their faith and want its teachings to shape not only their personal lives but also their societies [...]
