(Photo credit: Wikipedia) From the Weekly Standard: In the wake of the Arab Spring, the Obama administration is grappling with how to handle Islamists, radical adherents to Islam. Particularly, the issue has come to the fore in regards to Egypt, which, as Reuel Marc Gerecht notes, "is now certain" to elect "an Islamist" as [...]

         (Image by French P M’s Office via Flickr) Col. Gaddafi is gone, now we will see if all of the efforts in the West to seal his doom were worth it. The first thing the new transitional leader, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, chose to do was to proclaim that Islamic Sharia law would be the basis [...]

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that growing religious intolerance was an overlooked downside to the ‘Arab Spring.’ While the popular revolts against longtime dictators in the Middle East and North Africa brought hope to millions of Arabs, Religious minorities in those countries, particularly Christians have seen an increase in persecution in the [...]

                                            (Image via Wikipedia) Our role in stopping Gadhafi in Libya is being presented to us as a ‘moral act’ in saving thousands of civilians. But is it really? Fact is, Gadhafi had his military ready to attack everything that moved including men women and children in the rebel cities opposing him. Secretary of State [...]

In an interview, Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader admits that some of his fighters have links with al Qaeda and some are jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq and Afghanistan including himself. Al-Hasidi insisted his fighters “are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists,” and that the “members of al-Qaeda are also good [...]

  (Image by BlatantNews.com via Flickr)   For over 3 weeks President Obama has condemned the Libyan dictator with nothing more than strong rhetoric but was incredibly indecisive when it came to any kind of real action. He dithered away the time on the golf course and working on his ‘Final Four’ basketball picks while [...]

For those who doubt that ‘religion’ is a major driving force behind the turmoil and strife in the Middle East and North Africa here is more evidence.  On Monday, A major Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi issued a fatwa against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and ordered all faithful Muslims to kill him on sight: "Whoever in [...]