Wednesday and Thursday mark Egypt’s first post-Mubarak presidential elections. Sadly, what should be a purple-fingered moment brings some hope and much disappointment. Don’t get me wrong – Mubarak was a loathsome stooge, a petty and incompetent rentier tyrant who deserved what he got and more.

It is quite telling that if President Obama had to construct a strategy for defeat, it would not differ from what he and his aides describe as America’s way forward.

If Muslims believe they suffer great pain in the grave but can avoid it if they die as martyrs, then terror masters have an effective argument when they recruit "martyrdom" bombers.

Pro-democracy forces continue their struggle in Egypt.

A jihadist in plain sight in Lahore makes the most-wanted list.

The comfortable way is to blame Trayvon Martin's death on 'the system,' and 'the system' is a white thing.

In this brief volume, an eminent Islamic scholar tries to demonstrate to Westerners how his faith influences the everyday life of its practitioners.

The importance of Iran’s March 2 parliamentary elections was not so much in their function to choose a new Majlis but rather because they were the first nationwide poll since widespread fraud during the 2009 presidential election sparked the largest protests Iran had witnessed since the Islamic Revolution.