http://www.project-syndicate.org/series/islam <p><em>Are terrorist attacks and suicide bombings a betrayal of Islamic teaching? Is the world truly enduring a "clash of civilizations?" Are the world’s one billion Muslims a monolithic community, or is the diversity of Muslim life the key to understanding Islam’s future?</em></p> en 2012-02-10T06:00:49+01:00 webmaster@project-syndicate.org webmaster@project-syndicate.org 1994-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 4 hourly http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/neier22/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/neier22/English>ISLAM: Arab Justice for Arab Violence</a> For months now, it has been clear that no peaceful, even satisfactory, resolution of the conflict in Syria is possible without external intervention. One way to intervene with the aim of securing legitimacy and minimizing further bloodshed would be for the Arab League to establish a tribunal modeled on the International Criminal Court. Aryeh Neier 2012-01-17T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/moaddel5/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/moaddel5/English>ISLAM: What do Arabs Want?</a> What values are driving the movements that have come to be know as the Arab Spring, and what kind of change do their adherents want? A series of surveys in the Arab world last summer highlights some significant shifts in public opinion. Mansoor Moaddel 2012-01-04T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/khalaji9/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/khalaji9/English>ISLAM: Iran’s Rattling Saber</a> As the West ratchets up its economic pressure on Iran to halt its drive to develop nuclear weapons, the Islamic Republic’s rulers are not sitting idly by. Since Iran lacks the soft power and the economic capacity to counter Western pressure, its leaders will resort to threats, and even to force, as the recent attack on the British embassy in Tehran shows. Mehdi Khalaji 2011-11-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ulgen2/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ulgen2/English>ISLAM: Turkey’s “Zero Problems” Problem</a> Until the onset of the Arab Spring, Turkey's “zero problems with neighbors” policy meant zero problems with the established autocratic regimes of the Middle East. But, in an increasingly unpredictable environment, Turkey will have to redefine what it means to be a good neighbor. Sinan Ulgen 2011-11-15T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/khalaji8/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/khalaji8/English>ISLAM: The Domestic Logic of Iran’s Foreign Plots</a> Though Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir is alive and well in Washington, the plot to assassinate him may have succeeded – if its aim was not to kill al-Jubeir, but rather President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s foreign policy. Indeed, the real target may have been Ahmadinejad's efforts to achieve a diplomatic opening with the US. Mehdi Khalaji 2011-11-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/hroub2/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/hroub2/English>ISLAM: Qatar’s Source of Arab Springs</a> Al Jazeera is not a tool of the CIA, Israel, or Al Qaeda. Rather, it is the sophisticated mouthpiece of the state of Qatar and its ambitious Emir, Hamad Al Thani, for whom the station is integral to the national “branding” of Qatar and its foreign-policy aspirations. Khaled Hroub 2011-10-18T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/abusada10/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/abusada10/English>ISLAM: Gaza Shrugs</a> Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas has now personally presented the Palestinian bid for full UN membership to Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. What remains to be seen is whether Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since June 2007, will eventually support this initiative by its bitter rival, Abbas’s Palestinian Authority. Mkhaimar Abusada 2011-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/yamani29/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/yamani29/English>ISLAM: Saudi Arabia’s Decade of Denial</a> Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, Al Qaeda has been marginalized, but not by Saudi Arabia, which nurtured the terrorists, or by the US, which waged wars against Bin Laden and his acolytes. Instead, it has been eviscerated by the courage and dignity of ordinary Arabs from Damascus to Tripoli. Mai Yamani 2011-09-07T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/haykel4/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/haykel4/English>ISLAM: Saudi Arabia vs. the Arab Spring</a> Saudi Arabia is widely perceived as leading the counter-revolution against the Arab Spring uprisings. In reality, the Kingdom’s response is centered, as its foreign and domestic policy has long been, on “stability.” Bernard Haykel 2011-08-16T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/assad2/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/assad2/English>ISLAM: The Struggle for Syria</a> As the violence in Syria mounts, the international community’s paralysis has become increasingly jarring. But the role of external regional forces is almost as important in fueling the domestic bloodshed as what is happening internally. Ribal Al- Assad 2011-08-10T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/yamani28/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/yamani28/English>ISLAM: The Kingdom Betrayed?</a> With the eviction from power of his allies in Egypt and Yemen, and the looming withdrawal of most US troops from Iraq, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is feeling isolated and betrayed. But a key part of his isolation is the Kingdom’s own doing. The refusal to accept a democratic, Shia-dominated Iraq has left the Saudis with no influence in Baghdad, to the delight of Iran. Mai Yamani 2011-07-27T00:00:00+02:00 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/hassan4/English <a href=http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/hassan4/English>ISLAM: The Middle East’s Slow-Motion Revolution</a> The Middle East, a region often depicted as “backward,” is now debating its destiny face-to-face and across social networks every second of every day. But, while communication may be instant, the revolution is proceeding in slow motion, because it lacks a coherent animating ideology. Prince El Hassan bin Talal 2011-06-21T00:00:00+02:00