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September 19, 2025 Some two decades ago, I was invited to be the keynote speaker at a major Islamic conference. Instead of uttering the usual platitudes about Muslim unity, I rebuked the Muslim World for doing nothing to prevent the massacre of Bosnians by Serb forces and the mass rape […]

September 4, 2025 Zia-ul-Haq was a great leader of Pakistan, a tough tank general, and the man who defeated the Soviets in Afghanistan. He was murdered in August 1988 when the C-130 he was flying in was sabotaged and crashed near Bahawalpur, central Pakistan. I spent a good deal of […]

August 14, 2025 The last time I was in Washington DC I came out of my downtown hotel near the White House and asked the doorman which way to walk to a certain restaurant. ‘Turn left you will be fine,’ he said. ‘Turn right and you may be murdered.’ This […]