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Islam Archive

  • Building a Mosque in Election Time

    Building a Mosque in Election Time

    Politicians are lining up and taking sides on the Ground Zero mosque issue in the countdown to the midterm elections.
  • America’s Not So Original Islam Backlash

    America’s Not So Original Islam Backlash

    American conservatives are only just discovering what their European counterparts have known for years: that anti-Islamism breeds electoral success.
  • Obama’s Numbers in the Arab World

    Obama’s Numbers in the Arab World

    America’s, and President Obama’s, appealing is declining throughout the Middle East, even in countries typically considered to be US allies.
  • Turkey’s Irrelevant Islamism

    Turkey’s Irrelevant Islamism

    Commentators feared a radical backlash when Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became prime minister but instead, Turkey is prospering.
  • Europe’s Crisis of Confidence

    Europe’s Crisis of Confidence

    Old Europe is in something of an identity crisis. The spectre of European federalism coupled with a widespread unease about Muslim...
  • Right Wing on the Rise in Dutch Elections

    Right Wing on the Rise in Dutch Elections

    Dutch voters went to the polls on Wednesday to elect new city councils in almost four hundred different municipalities. In the...
  • Banning the Burqa

    Banning the Burqa

    A panel of French legislators endorsed banning full facial veils in public last Tuesday, citing the country’s secular tradition and declaring...
  • Geography Matters in Yemen

    Geography Matters in Yemen

    What was, until recently, a quiet war has, according to some commentators, quickly turned into President Obama’s greatest foreign policy challenge...
  • Yemen, Not So Quiet Anymore

    Yemen, Not So Quiet Anymore

    The war in Yemen is suddenly not so quiet anymore after an Islamic terrorist who was trained in the country tried...