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Morocco's Program for Securing Religious Toleration: A Model for the Region?

Since the turn of the 21st century, Arab states and societies have witnessed an increasing debate over Islam. ...

March 18, 2016

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ISIS' War Against the Past

The unrelenting, brutal war that ISIS is conducting in the Middle East confronts us daily with new modes of inhuman behavior. We have been horrified by videos of tortures and beheadings of captured Westerners and locals alike. And not long ago ISI...

September 17, 2015

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For ISIS, the United States' Military Strikes Confirm God's Favor -- Jeffrey Kaplan

NOTE: This article seeks to present readers with the vision of the world as seen through the eyes of Islamic State fighters and their wider Muslim audiences, a perspective redolent with religious symbolism and a genuinely millenarian view of the regi...

September 25, 2014