Comments from Muslims, analysts and Obama ahead of his speech in Cairo. ...more

June 4, 2009

Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims with "to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect," his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic. ...more

February 2, 2009

On the seventh anniversary of Sept. 11, we will once again mourn; politicians will intone about fighting the war on terrorism. Some will even talk about World War IV. ...more

September 11, 2008

When Hala al-Masaad invited her girlfriends over to celebrate her 18th birthday with cake and juice, the high school student was stepping into an unusual public debate. Is celebrating birthdays un-Islamic? ...more

September 5, 2008

A general whose command of the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from 2004 to 2006 was marked by controversies over the treatment of prisoners is the new chief of staff at U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base. ...more

June 21, 2008

The suicide attack that killed Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Thursday cut short an epic life, one bathed in blood and awash with controversy. ...more

December 28, 2007

For the sake of diversity, the University of Florida threw water on free speech. ...more

December 13, 2007

that a government be democratic or that it be a friend and ally in the war against al-Qaida and Islamic extremism? ...more

November 24, 2007

The escalating and acrimonious debate over the United States' presence in Iraq could mislead us into thinking that the crisis can be fixed with a single decision. ...more

October 11, 2007