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A Gallup poll tells us what Americans think of Muslims
Dalia Mogahed
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

The American people and their openness to Muslim communities will in many ways determine the success of US President Barack Obama's global engagement initiative, which he launched on his inauguration day a year ago by calling for a "new way forward" with Muslims. Change will depend in large part on how Americans think, and it is therefore crucial to understand American perceptions of Muslims and Islam [...] Full story

Avatar' will show how shallow is America's national mythology
Naomi Wolf
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Do nations have psychological processes - even Freudian processes, such as collective egos that can be injured, and repressed guilt feelings that can well up from the collective unconscious - just as individuals do? I believe that they do [...] Full story

Facing Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb threat
James Badcock
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

They know it in Paris, Rome and Madrid. There is a big security hole to the south of Europe, the existence of which is confirmed by ongoing hostage crises involving citizens from France, Italy and Spain. The hostages are being held by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which has celebrated its third anniversary with a wave of kidnappings [...] Full story

Turkey can save the pompous European has-been
Jean-Pierre Lehmann
Monday, February 08, 2010

The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference was an unmitigated disaster for the European Union. Instead of the EU claiming center stage, as its leaders assumed it would, the key actors were the United States, Brazil, South Africa, India and China. Indeed, when the accord was reached, the EU not even in the room. Copenhagen exposed the demise of Europe not only as a global power, but even as a global arbiter [...] Full story

There is ample space free for Israeli-Palestinian land swaps
David Newman
Monday, February 08, 2010

Just when there seemed to be a consensus inside Israel concerning a two-state solution to the conflict with the Palestinians, we seem to be in danger of losing it altogether. The growing number of settlement-related facts on the ground, the harder it is to make a clean territorial cut, evacuate hundreds of thousands of settlers and demarcate a border of ethnic and national separation [...] Full story

A Palestinian state must be secular
Hussein Ibish
Monday, February 08, 2010

As Palestinians press the international community to live up to its commitment to ensuring the establishment of an independent Palestine alongside Israel, conversation is intensifying about the character of this new state. In their own interest, Palestinians should buck the regional trend toward religious politics and ensure, from the outset, that it is firmly and irrevocably a secular state [...] Full story

Cynicism aside, Ukraine's election is important for the West
Nina Khrushcheva
Saturday, February 06, 2010

"A pox on both your houses" may be an appropriate individual response to frustration with the political candidates on offer in an election. But it is a dangerous sentiment for governments to hold. Choice is the essence of governance, and to abstain from it - for whatever reason - is to shirk responsibility. But that seems to be the stance of the entire West [...] Full story

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