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 Educating the Muslims of America By Yvonne Y. Haddad, Farid Senzai, and Jane I. Smith
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 The Many Faces of Political Islam By Mohammed Ayoob
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 Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think By John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed |
 How The American Mainstream Media Reports The Israel-Palestine Conflict By Marda Dunsky
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 New! Iran in the Middle East: Expanding Influence, Accelerating Arms Race: Myth or Reality? Iran’s growing religious and political influence in the Middle East is alarming the United States, Israel and Arab states. As Israel considers launching a military attack, Arab leaders warn of a developing arms race in the region. What are Iran’s objectives and how will fear of Iran affect the future of the Middle East? On June 10th, 2009, The Century Foundation, The Heinrich Böll Stiftung, and The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding hosted a symposium to discuss these issues. Watch the videos online...
Before martial law is declared to be the supreme law
of the land, and your character of free citizens be
changed to that of the subjects of a military king ...
Although a statement of intentions, Obama's speech in Cairo covered critical challenges facing the United States in the Muslim world and offered a new paradigm, a new beginning, for managing relations between the two civilizations.
Is Pakistan collapsing? How far are the Taliban from Islamabad? Can al-Qaeda grab the country’s nuclear weapons? These are the types of questions raised every day by the American media, academia and policy circles. And these are critical issues, given the nature of the evolving crisis in Pakistan. The approximately two dozen suicide bombings in 2009 so far, 66 in 2008, and 61 in 2007, all of which have targeted armed forces personnel, police, politicians, and ordinary people not only in the country’s turbulent northwest but also in its major urban centers, indicate the seriousness of the threat. A major ammunition factory area located close to some very sensitive nuclear installations in Wah (Punjab) was targeted by two suicide bombers in August 2008, an act that sent shudders across the country’s security establishment.
Police & Law Enforcement Reform in Pakistan: Crucial
for Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism Success
It is a globally recognized fact that a state’s police and law enforcement agencies play a critical role as the first line of defense against the threats of terrorism and insurgencies. An informative RAND study titled How Terrorist Groups End provides evidence that effective police and intelligence work, rather than the use of military force, deliver better counterterrorism results.2 Based on this conclusion, the report suggested to U.S. policymakers that they stop using the phrase "war on terrorism," because there is no battlefield solution to defeating terrorists. Another valuable study analyzing the police role in counterinsurgency campaigns in Malaya and Cyprus concluded that nearly all major twentieth-century counterinsurgency campaigns relied heavily on indigenous police as well as military forces.
The Fight for Pakistan’s Soul By Hassan Abbas, ISPU Fellow
As its army confronts, ever more bloodily, the Taliban in the Swat Valley, Pakistan is fighting for its very soul. The army appears to be winning this time around, in marked contrast to its recent half-hearted confrontations with Taliban forces in neighboring tribal areas.
A Paradigm to Jump-Start U.S. - Muslim Relations By John Esposito, ISPU Board of Advisors
In what has the potential to be a transformative historical moment, President Barack Obama called for "a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect." While acknowledging the ups and downs of Muslim-West relations, periods of co-existence and cooperation as well as conflict and religious wars, he challenged both America and Muslims globally not to fixate on differences but on building a new way forward based on our common humanity, shared values and interests.
Obama’s Charisma Ignites Hope in Muslim Hearts By Muqtedar Khan, ISPU Fellow
President Obama’s address to the Muslim World on June 4th from Cairo was truly transformative in intent and effect. It was not a policy speech and did not seek to outline policy initiatives. It was a philosophical attempt to diffuse the mutual distrust and animus that undergirds US relations with the Muslim World.
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