Salim Mansur, a professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario and a journalist at the Toronto Sun and elsewhere, has published “Islam’s Predicament: Perspectives of a Dissident Muslim” (Mosaic Press, 2009). The National Post reviewer claims that it is a “far from perfect book” but reveals a most interesting man, a Canadian…
In an interview with Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the new German minister for the interior, Thomas de Maizière, speaks about his stance on Islam in Germany. He affirms the continuous education of imams and religious teachers at German universities. A second area of support will be gender equality and women’s rights. Finally, de Maizière will continue the…
Americans may be split down Democrat and Republican partisan lines over whether Hasan should be considered a killer or a terrorist. Liberals don’t want to the country to jump to conclusions about his motives and risk bad relations with Muslims; conservatives don’t want the country to risk national security by being too politically correct to…
A Guantánamo Bay prisoner who admitted – under torture – to having organised trips to Afghan training camps for aspiring Jihadists including three of those involved in the 9/11 attacks, says he wants to return to Germany if he is released. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 39, who comes from Mauretania but lived and studied in Duisburg…
This op-ed piece by Robert Wright poses that Fort Hood could be evidence that the war on terror can create terrorists while it seeks to dispel them.
