The carnage at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall, the homicide bombers massacre of worshipers at an historic church in Peshawar, deposed Muslim Brotherhood loyalists torch scores of Coptic churches in Egypt, a series of vicious attacks against Nigerian Christians and churches…
Some news items from the Islamic world in the past month.
Zev Yaroslavsky’s latest nation-building assignment wasn’t easy. Dispatched to Nigeria as part of an international corps of election observers, he checked on polling places during elections this month in a nation better known for ethnic violence and corruption than orderly changes in government.
As U.S. officials try to figure out how to improve airport security in the aftermath of the failed Christmas Eve bombing attempt of a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit, many North Americans are looking to Israel as a model.
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