On Islamists and Rick Santorum

Crossposted from BJ.com:

On Islamists and Rick Santorum

Yesterday, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Lauren Morgan posted an interesting piece on “Islamism in the Popular Imagination” over at Gunpowder and Lead. It makes two main argument, one poorly and one quite well, but both are important in their own way. The piece is written using a HuffPo [...]

July 18th, 2012 | Category: Ethics, National Security, Women's Rights | 3 comments

Women in the Arab (Muslim) World and American Policy

So this is just a reminder of why I am a crappy blogger. Everyone has already commented on Mona Eltahawy’s compelling read in Foreign Policy, “Why Do They Hate Us?” — about the status of women in the Arab world. And here I am, when everyone has already moved on, writing a post about yesterday’s [...]

April 26th, 2012 | Category: National Security, Women's Rights | Leave a comment