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Facebook Fatwa: Saudi Clerics, Wahhabi Islam and Social Media
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies has released the first-ever study of what radical Saudi Wahhabists are preaching to their followers about the United States and non-Muslims on social media sites.
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How Obama’s Hands-Off Policy Paved the Way for the Assads’ (and Hezbollah’s) Downfall
The good news is that Bashar Assad’s Syrian regime is on its last legs — the other legs having been blown out from under it by a Wednesday bomb attack in Damascus, which killed at least three top regime security officials. more...
The Bulgarian Terror Attack Shows Why We Must Honour the Munich 11 in London
Terrorists who attack civilian targets are cowards at the best of times. But killers such as those who blew up a bus carrying Israeli youth in the Bulgarian resort city of Burgas on Wednesday fall into a special category. more...
How Assad’s Fall Will Lay Ruin to the Alawis’ Once-in-a-Millennium Promised Land
A small, marginalized people, kicked around the Middle East for centuries by Muslim empires, finally carves out an independent home for itself on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. more...
Syed Zabiuddin Ansari, and India’s Role in Prosecuting the Global War on Terrorism
The 10 Islamist terrorists who committed the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks killed 164 innocent people with guns, grenades and bombs. Nine of the killers died during their rampage. more...
A Great Moment for Europe, Soccer, Italy, and Mario Balotelli
Let’s face it: Canada isn’t a soccer country. Yes, our seven-year-olds join leagues and run around chasing a ball for an hour once a week. Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto have teams in the MLS. more...
‘Escape From Camp 14′: A Shocking Exposé of North Korea’s ‘Hidden Gulag’
For six decades running, the North Korean gulag system has comprised one of the greatest crimes against humanity known to history. Yet it remains an obscurity. more...
Assessing the State of Islamophobia in Canada
As noted previously on this blog, last Saturday night I appeared as a panelist at the “Message of Peace: Countering Islamophobia” conference, hosted by the University of Toronto’s Muslim Students’ Association and ICNA Canada. more...
The Long, Hard, Surreal Struggle for Women’s Rights in Pakistan
On Saturday night, I appeared as a panelist at the “Message of Peace: Countering Islamophobia” conference, hosted by the University of Toronto’s Muslim Students’ Association. more...
Canada’s Bigots Flock Back for Another Israel Hate-In
Is it summer in Toronto already? Tell-tale signs of the season are all around us: The temperature is well into the high 20s, the ferries to Toronto Island are getting crowded, and anti-Israeli bigots are noisily preparing to hijack... more...
A Great Time for a Fresh Look at the Armenian Genocide
This week, a Turkish court approved a criminal indictment against four former Israeli military commanders for their alleged role in the deaths of nine Turkish activists who were trying to break Israel’s blockade of Hamas-run Gaza in 2010. more...
Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Aruna Papp, and the Scourge of Misogyny in the Developing World
On Tuesday night, Toronto witnessed the launch of books by two Canadian activists. The authors were born in very different parts of the world. more...
Time to Call Pakistan What It Is — a State Supporter of Terrorism
Here in the West, the killing of Osama Bin Laden was considered a triumph. In Pakistan, where the al-Qaeda leader lived out his final years, attitudes are very different. more...
Egypt’s Presidential Debate was a Historic Triumph for Democracy. So Why Did We Ignore It?
On Thursday night, something historic took place in Egypt: The first televised presidential debate ever held in the Arab world. This was four-and-a-half hours of real cut-and-thrust on sensitive issue... more...
Chen Guangcheng, China’s One-Child Policy, and Abortion’s Slippery Slope
The whole world now knows the name of Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese human-rights activist from Shandong province who briefly took protective shelter in the U.S. embassy — before being released on Wednesday under a deal struck by the American and Chinese governments. more...
A New United Church Report Shows How Israel-Haters Have Lost the Argument
According to a new report from the United Church of Canada, “the deepest meaning of the Holocaust was the denial of human dignity to Jews.” Oh, really? Actually, I’d say that the “deepest meaning of the Holocaust” was the slaughter of six-million human beings. more...
From Sri Lankan Youth, a Model for Reconciliation
Like Israel and Rwanda, Sri Lanka serves, for many world-watchers, as a byword for ethno-religious conflict. For almost three decades, the country’s largely Buddhist Sinhalese majority engaged in an on-and-off civil war against a guerrilla insurgency. more...
From Brampton to Bangladesh, Anti-Hindu Hate is All Too Real
The last week has done much to educate me in the ethnic politics of South Asia. After writing this blog post criticizing those Canadian Sikh activists who expressed support for convicted terrorist Balwant Singh Rajoana... more...
Nothing Alienates Canadians Like the Veneration of ‘Human Bombs’
Are we witnessing a turning point in the Muslim world’s attitude toward terrorism? Self-described “martyrs” who kill in the name of Islam have long been revered figures among Islamists. more...
Why are Some Canadian Sikhs Expressing Solidarity with an Unrepentant Terrorist?
Today, Indian politicians stayed the execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana, an unrepentant Sikh terrorist who masterminded the killing of Punjab Chief minister Beant Singh — and 17 others — in 1995. more...
The ‘Global March to Jerusalem’: Hateful Ignorance on Parade
When Israeli paratroopers entered Jerusalem’s Old City during the Six-Day War of 1967, they had to rely on a passing bystander — an old Arab Jerusalemite — to guide them to the Western Wall of Herod’s long-destroyed Jewish Temple. more...