Those who make all Islam their enemy succumb to a simplistic and essentialist illusion. What motives lay behind last month’s Boston Marathon bombing and the would-be attack on a VIA Rail Canada train?

IN FEBRUARY, The New York Review of Books’ website hosted a debate in which several prominent feminists criticized Human Rights Watch for issuing a report that whitewashed the record of the Muslim ...

Tulsi Gabbard, the United States National Intelligence Director, has asserted that Islamism threatens American freedom, individual liberty, and democratic values. She also made bombshell remarks on ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. In 1999, back when I still lived in Cairo, I spoke with an U.S. diplomat at a social event about all things Egypt, including my research ...

Tulsi Gabbard warns of "Islamist ideology" threat at conservative gathering, citing canceled Christmas markets in Germany as ...

There is a grave difference in ideology among persons claiming to be Muslims in America. Islamists are dangerous extremists. Muslims following Islam but rejecting Islamism are nether radical nor ...

Paul Berman, who writes regularly and provocatively for us, published on Saturday in the Wall Street Journal another one of his disturbing epistles about Muslims and Fascism, Jews and Liberalism, ...

Books dealing with how the South Asian Muslims responded to their ‘decline’ after the War of Independence give a lot of importance to the last quarter of the 19th century. Reform movements and ...

Everywhere in Turkey, it seems, are signs that the nation is getting more religious. There are more head scarves in Istanbul than there used to be, and you see them at universities, where they used to ...

Flynn: "This is Islamism, it is a vicious cancer inside the body of 1.7 billion people on this planet and it has to be excised." In the same speech, Flynn falsely claimed that Florida Democrats voted ...

The desire to impose religion over society is otherwise known as theocracy. Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with ...

The Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, claimed allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State during a phone call to 911 early Sunday. And that's reignited a debate over how to label the ideology that ...