John Esposito

The Aus­tri­an au­thor­i­ties’ moves to­wards ban­ning ‘po­lit­i­cal Is­lam’ and crim­i­nal­is­ing the Broth­er­hood are ill-con­ceived.

In just the last two months, near­ly two dozen ac­tivists have been charged un­der Malaysia’s ar­cha­ic.

The mil­i­tary-led re­moval of Mo­hamed Mor­si be­lies free and fair elec­tions, rule of law and hu­man rights.

The US must ac­knowl­edge that the over­throw of an elect­ed gov­ern­ment, re­placed by mil­i­tary-ap­point­ed of­fi­cials, is a coup.

Rom­ney just doesn’t un­der­stand how for­eign pol­i­cy works.

Re­li­gious ex­trem­ists ex­ploit un­der­ly­ing East-West an­i­mos­i­ty, fo­ment­ing mob vi­o­lence for their own po­lit­i­cal ends.

Racist and vit­ri­olic “us and them” lan­guage feeds a cul­ture war that in­creas­ing­ly tar­gets im­mi­grants and non-whites.

Is­rael’s in­tran­si­gence on the flotil­la killings will fur­ther iso­late the coun­try in the in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty.