Anti-Terrorism Resources

• Christianity, Judaism Share Basic Tenets of Islam

  Christianity, Judaism Share Basic Tenets of Islam; Relationship between Muslims and Non-Muslims Must Be Based on 'Mutual Recognition'

• Proposal for ending the Palestinian/Israeli conflict

  Road map for creating a united federation of Israel/Palestine. This plan allows Israelis and Palestinians to pursue a shared future based on a bi-national identity with a democracy that ensure security, equality and self-determination regardless of religion, gender, race or ethnicity.

• Chasing a Mirage: The tragic illusion of an Islamic state

  This book is an appeal to those [Muslims] who are chasing the mirage of an Islamic State. I hope they can reflect on the futility of their endeavour and instead focus on achieving the state of Islam. Islamists working for the establishment of an Islamic State are headed in the wrong
  direction.

• The Conventional Military Balance in the Gulf

   The Persian Gulf is currently in the midst of one of the largest arms races it has ever known. The chief motivation for it is Iran’s progress on its nuclear program and the possibility that Arab Gulf states will be in the line of fire in any future conflict

• Turkey: Looking East Without Looking Back

  "Turkey in 2010 is not the same Turkey as a decade ago." It has made vast strides in extending its economic and political weight far beyond its traditional sphere of influence.

• Fighting against the Death Penalty in the Arab World.

  Algeria voted in favor of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty and seven other Arab countries abstained in 2008. Four of them changed their vote from no in 2007.

• Science in the Arab World

  Can the Arab world become a major contributor to the advancement of the sciences, as it once was many centuries ago? Does it need to? If so, how best to go about it?

• The Failure of Modern Islamist Thought

  Syrian philosopher discusses state of religious thought in the Muslim world, democracy in Turkey and in Arab countries, Hizbullah and the 2006 war, and the role of the intellectual in Syria and the Arab world.

• Iran's Attempts to Renew Relations with Egypt

  In recent months, Iran has been making efforts to renew diplomatic relations with Egypt. Relations between the two countries were cut off in 1981 by the founder of Iran's Islamic regime Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in protest against Egypt's peace agreement with Israel, and following Egypt's granting of political asylum to the deposed Shah.

• Platform of the Planned Muslim Brotherhood Party in Egypt

  For the first time in its history, the Muslim Brotherhood movement would publicize its political platform. The following is a draft of the Platform

• "Islamic Government" is Un-Islamic & Sharia Law is Unjust

  The idea of "Islamic government" is a myth created by the power-hungry to subdue Muslims and non-Muslims alike to benefit exclusively those who rule.

• State Department List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations

• The battle is against militant Islam, not "Terror"

  In the here and now, that enemy is militant Islam - a very particular practice and interpretation of a very particular set of religious, political

• Keeping Terror Out

  9/11 was not the only terrorist plot to benefit from lax enforcement of ordinary immigration controls-every major Al-Qaeda attack or conspiracy in

• Islamic Extremists, How Do they Mobilize Support?

  Individuals join extremist groups for a number of reasons, including the desire to promote specific political goals, as well as financial, spiritual

• Islamic Perspectives on Peace and Violence

  When moderate Muslims remain silent, extremists speak for all. It is time that Muslim moderates rescued Islam and Muslim causes from the extremists.

• A Liberal Arab Columnist on the Sources of Arab Antisemitism

  Arab antisemitism is not rooted in legends, such as Jesus' crucifixion, rather in the actual conflict in Palestine.

• How Terrorism Ends

  One of the most effective strategies at governments' disposal may be to split off pragmatists from radical rejectionists.