by Martin Accad | Nov 12, 2015 | Opinion
Would you believe it? It turns out that more than 12 conferences and consultations have already been organized by international Islamic bodies in order to condemn the behavior of ISIS in the year following the group’s emergence in the summer of 2014. Even though...
by Martin Accad | Oct 19, 2015 | Opinion
I was traveling when the recent popular uprising began in Lebanon. At first, it emerged as an outcry to the trash crisis that has been engulfing Lebanon with its stench for several months now. Lebanon hasn’t had its “Arab Spring.” Some people think...
by Martin Accad | Aug 4, 2015 | Opinion
I collected recently my daughter’s U.S. passport that needed renewal, noting that it was accompanied by a leaflet that read, “With your U.S. passport, the world is yours!” Nothing shocking on first glance; just a sense of pride and patriotism that...
by Martin Accad | May 12, 2015 | Opinion
Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Geert Wilders and others are inadvertently the spearheads of Islamism in the U.S. and Europe. This may sound like a bit of a radical statement, but perhaps it isn’t. Through the widely reported Texas event, the “Muhammad Art...
by Martin Accad | Mar 5, 2015 | Opinion
The origins of ISIS date to 2004, but it wasn’t until April 2013 that they gained the world’s attention through efforts to establish a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. In my previous column, I shared three takeaways from Graeme Wood’s article about ISIS...
