just war versus just plain old jihad

Or consider the words of Islam scholar Clement Huart (b.1854), writing back at the height of Western power and Muslim weakness:  “The [Western] international conventions that have limited the exercise of the right to wage war [to purposes of defense] have no influence over the Muslim..

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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