Posted in Islamism, Qaeda, Raymond Ibrahim, Walter Laqueur on Feb 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
From Raymond Ibrahim
Will the recent killing in Pakistan of “senior” Al Qaeda leader, Abu Laith al-Libi, have any tangible effects on the “war on terror”? Considering the headline news coverage, one might assume so. In fact, whenever any major Al Qaeda operative or leader is slain, the media is abuzz with it, implying that we [...]
Posted in Barry Rubin, Culture, Islamism, Walter Laqueur, Walter Reich on Jan 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Walter Laqueur
Detail from Eugène Delacroix, The Fanatics of Tangier, 1837-38.
It is not “the West against the rest.” Throughout human history, civilizations have coexisted and competed, and there is no good reason to assume that this will change in the foreseeable future. True, there is still considerable resistance to accepting such obvious facts as, for [...]
Posted in Geopolitics, Islamism, Josef Joffe on Jan 10th, 2008 No Comments »
From Josef Joffe
Last Sunday’s New York Times Book Review ran an essay by Fouad Ajami, in which he doubts his own 1993 critique of Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations. Prompted by that reflection, we invited MESH member Josef Joffe to revisit Huntington’s thesis.
Civilizational conflicts will supersede ideological conflicts. This is the key idea in Samuel [...]
Posted in Hillel Fradkin, Islamism, Jon Alterman on Dec 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
From Hillel Fradkin
Jon Alterman, in a piece for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (also here), addresses what he sees as a growing number of obituaries for political Islam. Alterman’s judgment about this trend is sober and reasonable: It is far too soon to tell. Although Alterman does not cite by name those who [...]
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