Erdogan is not an Islamist? Google the terms Erdogan and Islamist.

If the Indian Navy were willing to take on the problem I would be very pleased. I have reason to believe that India would decline the assignment, though.

Ibrahim,

You are wrong on all counts.

Since my essay appeared, many of its key points have been substantiated in the mainstream press.

The New York Times July 16 reported in detail the close ...

Christopher, rejecting the presence of G_d through the Son, tries to access G_d directly and finds him incomprehensible and insane. Therefore he describes G_d as "Hell". Makes sense, actua ...

It is hard to sort all of this out.
What happens when the US leaves Iraq? The Sunnis are already blowing up Shi'ites, again. Presumably the Iraqi Awakening, funded and armed by Gen. Petraeus, will fi ...

In the August-September issue of First Things, just mailed to subscribers, I try to come to terms with Platonism in an essay entitled "The God of the Mathematicians" (and also in a letter ex ...

Let us not be naive.

Israel sent in the wrong sort of commando team because Turkish military intelligence deliberately misinformed the Mossad, which relied on its longstanding friendly ties with th ...

Terrible act in that column. Otherwise the usual: Muslim countries stupid/evil (one more than the other, depending on circumstances), Israel the best, most righteous, and always justified in every ac ...

Rumor is that the Kyrgyz vs. Uzbek conflict was sponsored by the makers of Scrabble.

Seriously: my point is that Muslims are being murdered in large numbers by other Muslims throughout Central Asia ...

Both domestic violence and sexual abuse are serious societal problems. However, they are not exclusive to a particular culture or religious group: for example -


The fact that there is domestic ab ...

Are you saying that the success of Christianity confirms the chosen-ness of the Jews? (Since the Jews are one of Christianity's progenitors.) If so, I apologize for misunderstanding you earlier.

Th ...

Michael,

You make a good point about the narcissism of post-Enlightenment efforts to "perfect one's personality." The dreary group at Weimar did little else but. The nadir of this effort ...

I'm waiting for some left-wing professor from Tel Aviv University to write a book proving that today's Jews are not descended from the ancient Hebrew, but are really Neanderthal converts.

This is an adaptation, but those who know the original will agree that it's an improvement.

Two elderly priests are attending a conference at a Washington hotel, and by mistake wander into a semina ...

My robot was telling me the other day that after it became sentient it decided it needed time off to learn Esperanto so that it could realize its dream of becoming a Bahai missionary in Lapland. I tol ...

It's not a question of keeping the Palestinians in poverty and eternal emnity. They can arrange that for themselves quite nicely.
This generation, born to families of five or six children, is full o ...

My longstanding position is that the Islamic world is far less important than the foreign policy of Bush as well as Obama made it out to be. I hope Muslim-majority countries succeed and prosper. Excep ...

Greece really is something of a special case: its economy is officially 50% tourism, which is to say overwhelmingly a cash business, and probably is 80% tourism including all the unreported income. Th ...

It seems to me very strange to argue that Iran isn't a threat to the US, given that it immediately threatens American allies in the Gulf, and has openly threatened to detonate nuclear devices in US ci ...

Rosenzweig argued that fear of death is social: nations like individuals foresee their eventual extinction, with some interesting exceptions. Socrates died for Athens rather than live comfortably in e ...