Menu
Close

Category: Viewpoints

Judaism admitted Muslim doctrinal notions such as divine unicity: Sabine Schmidtke

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS --By Dr. Haytham Mouzahem -- The German researcher Sabine Schmidtke (born in 1964) is German scholar and Professor for Islamic Studies and Director of the Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World at Freie Universität Berlin. She has a BA (summa cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1986), an […]
Read story

What defines a terror organization?

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS -- By ROBERT SWIFT FOR THE MEDIA LINE -- In the halls of power of both the United States and the United Kingdom, renewed discussions have been taking place over the status of the organization known as the Muslim Brotherhood. In Washington, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a candidate for the Republican nomination […]
Read story

Mike Honda: What My Time in a Japanese Internment Camp Taught Me About Hate

7 years ago
The Levant News - By Congressman Mike Honda -- In 1988, President Ronald Reagan—the president whom Donald Trump and most of the Republican presidential candidates have said they admire the most—signed the Civil Liberties Act into law. This law recognized that the internment of Japanese Americans in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor was “without adequate […]
Read story

Saudi Arabia’s Execution Spree

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS -- By THE EDITORIAL BOARD of The New York Times -- Ali al-Nimr was sentenced to beheading and crucifixion for participating in a protest at age 17. Raif Badawi was to receive a thousand lashes — a punishment sure to kill — for his blog posts. A Sri Lankan maid, whose name […]
Read story

The rise of al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State

7 years ago
From the fall of Saddam and internment in a US prison in Iraq to the Arab Spring, the ISIS leader's influence grew THE LEVANT NEWS -- By JASON BURKE -- A hagiography and former associates have described Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri, better known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, as […]
Read story

This might be the most controversial theory for what’s behind the rise of ISIS

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS -- BY Jim Tankersley  for The Washington Post --  A year after his 700-page opus "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" stormed to the top of America's best-seller lists, Thomas Piketty is out with a new argument about income inequality. It may prove more controversial than his book, which continues to generate debate in […]
Read story

Water, Wars and an Uncertain Future

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS - By Sundeep Waslekar* -- In December 2009, I met Walid Muallem, Foreign Minister of Syria, in his office in Damascus, along with an eminent British politician. He rolled out before us his vision of peace process with Israel in phases. He had two essential conditions. First, secured access to the waters […]
Read story

The Water Wars Waged by ISIS

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS -- By Ambika Vishwanath for STRATFOR-- The Islamic State's use of natural resources to achieve its strategic goals is nothing new. Oil, one of the group's biggest sources of funding, plays an especially important role in its calculations — something the countries fighting the Islamic State are increasingly coming to realize. And […]
Read story

How the United States helped create ISIS

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS -- By Juan Cole  for THE WAHSINGTON POST --  Did the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 lead to our current crisis over the Islamic State? The question has been posed baldly in this campaign season, as when a young woman at a campaign rally said to GOP candidate Jeb Bush […]
Read story

Attacks on American Muslims are growing uglier by the day. It must stop.

7 years ago
  THE LEVANT NEWS -- By Petula Dvorak for THE WASHINGTON POST -- Looks like fear — not turkey — is the main course being served in our country this week. Political opportunists running for president have been cooking up a heaping platter of anti-Muslim sentiment since the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks on Paris. They’ve geared […]
Read story

Israel and the Semantics of Oppression

7 years ago
by Mohamed Mohamed* for Palestine Center-- The Hebrew word “hasbara” translates to “explaining,” but it is a euphemism for the propaganda that endorses the state of Israel and its actions. In its efforts to influence world opinion and promote itself on the international stage, Israel’s hasbara campaign has relied on misdirection, careful selection of words, […]
Read story

Did US “Create” ISIS As A “Tool” in a Proxy War Against Assad?

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS -- By Joshua Cook – for http://truthinmedia.com/ -- Reports have confirmed that US Intelligence knew in 2012 that backing Syrian rebels would result in an ISIS victory. A newly declassified DIA document from 2012 confirms that arming the anti-Assad rebel forces and Islamist groups would lead to the emergence of ISIS. According […]
Read story

Heads of the Hydra: A Jewish view

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS -- by Rabbi Reuven Firestone FOR The Jewish Journal-- This time it’s Paris. It was already Paris earlier this year. It was also Madrid, London, New York and suburban Washington D.C., and it was the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk in 1999, and the infamous Moscow theater disaster in 2002. […]
Read story

ISIS and Palestine: a connection?

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS -- By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz: West Palm Beach-- Currently, the liberation of Palestine is not being exploited as a recruiting tool for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS. The Palestinian struggle is antithetical to the ideology of ISIS. This fifty-year struggle is national, secular and focused on the liberation of […]
Read story

The fight against the Islamic State should unite Muslims and the West

7 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS -- By David Ignatius for THE WASHINGTON POST-- Do Western nations think that Muslim lives matter less? Most of us would resist any such characterization of callousness. But Western outrage about the carnage in Paris, coupled with near-indifference to similar killings in the Arab world, suggests to many Muslims that a double […]
Read story
1 2 3 4 5 … 7

Stay up-to-date

Latest news