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 DAVID SCHANZER for THE HUFFINGTON POST on APRIL 24, 2013: Discussion of the Boston bombing case is now into full 20-20 hindsight mode trying to figure out why we did not prevent Tamerlan Tsarnaev from executing the attack when the government had been alerted to his potential radicalization two years ago. There are [...]
by SARAH KENDZIOR for AL-JAZEERA ENGLISH on APRIL 21, 2013: Despite the Boston bombers having little to do with Chechnya, the media were quick to demonise an entire ethnicity. In 1901, a 28-year-old American named Leon Czolgosz assassinated US President William McKinley. Czolgosz was born in America, but he was of Polish descent. After McKinley [...]
by MAX FISHER for THE WASHINGTON POST on APRIL 19, 2013: Although information is still emerging about their exact connections to the Russian regions of Chechnya and Dagestan, early reporting suggests that Boston marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev may be of Chechen origin and may have grown up partially in neighboring Dagestan, The [...]
by OMID SAFI for RELIGION NEWS SERVICE on APRIL 20, 2013: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the horrific Boston Marathon explosions has been apprehended. Presumably, we can take a break from round-the-clock coverage of the chase that has consumed the nation. Less than 24 hours ago, no one had heard of the Tsarnaev brothers. [...]
by OMID SAFI for RELIGION NEWS SERVICE on MARCH 24, 2013: The most senior Syrian scholar of Islam, Shaykh Muhammad Sa’id Ramadan al-Bouti, was killed in a large-scale bomb blast in Damascus on March 21, 2013. Shaykh al-Bouti was offering religious instructions inside a mosque when he and dozens were killed, with many more wounded. Al-Bouti was [...]
