Dr. Wafa Sultan was a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist living outside Los Angeles, nursing a deep anger and despair about her fellow Muslims.
Today, thanks to an unusually blunt and provocative interview on Al Jazeera television on Feb. 21, she is an international sensation, hailed as a fresh voice of reason by [...]
In Islam and the West, Bernard Lewis argued: ‘We live in a time when… governments and religious movements are busy rewriting history as they would wish it to have been, as they would like their followers to believe that it was.’ This urge to sanitise unflattering facts is nowhere more obvious than in biographies of [...]
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Monday that Israel was representing the fight against terror and extremism in the Middle East by battling Hamas in Gaza.
Speaking at a press conference alongside European foreign ministers in Jerusalem, Livni vowed that Israel would “change the equation in the region,” saying that the days of “Hamas firing rockets and [...]
