just war versus just plain old jihad

A ninth century letter from Constantinople to the caliphate argues that, “since … the Arab prisoners could pray in a mosque in Constantinople without anyone obliging them to embrace Christianity, the Caliph should also cease to persecute Christians.”[24] . ..

protests in egypt: sisi, the survivor?

The crackdown coincided with failures policy, the decline of Egypt's in the region, dependence on Gulf aid, surrender of its historic right to Nile waters, and the sale to Saudi Arabia of the strategic islands of Tiran and Sanafir in exchange for financial assistance and international support from Saudi and..

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