On Libya and Syria
Qaddafi’s regime is collapsing. No one knows exactly when and in what state—alive or dead—he will be found. But the game is over. Libya...
Listening to Somalia
How sad the images are! It is as if we were looking at the past, at the Biafra famine of the 1970s. Almost half...
Rioting in the UK: the failure of politics
UK society was taken by surprise, and the whole world looked on in astonishment. The scenes of violence and looting in the streets of...
Lessons from Ramadan
It is always good to ponder the true meaning of our religious practices. The month of Ramadan has started and almost 1.5 billion Muslims...
Lessons from Norway
A young Norwegian has killed dozens of innocent people. Many thought at first—quite naturally these days—that we had witnessed a new Muslim terrorist attack....