WINTER 2010 • VOLUME 17: NUMBER 1

DEFEATING JIHADIST TERRORISM

Raymond Ibrahim, How Taqiyya Alters Islam’s Rules of War
Islamic deception works in favor of jihad

George Michael, Steven Emerson: Combating Radical Islam
Resisting jihad on U.S. soil

SYRIAN TERRORISM

Michael Rubin, Syria's Path to Islamist Terror
Supporting radical Islam is crucial to Damascus's foreign policy

Matthew Levitt, Syria's Financial Support for Jihad
The economics of backing terror

IRANIAN AMBITIONS

Patrick Knapp, The Gulf States in the Shadow of Iran
Tehran menaces its neighbors

Reza Molavi and K. Luisa Gandolfo, Who Rules Iran?
How the supreme leader overrides parliament

INTERVIEW

Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy: "Islam and Science Have Parted Ways"
A secular intellectual speaks out on Muslim obscurantism

DOCUMENT

British Commander: The IDF Tried to Safeguard Civilians
A British soldier defends Israel

CORRESPONDENCE

NGO Lawsuits and Israel

REVIEWS

A.J. Caschetta, Defending Edward Said?
An author pens a defense of Saidism masquerading as a critique

Martin Sherman, Blaming the Israelis, Again
A biased book offers a slanted history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Brief Reviews
Islamism ... The war in Iraq ... Terrorism ... Turkish migration ... Orientalism

DISSIDENT WATCH

Stephanie Winer, Mohammed Hegazy
A Christian convert in Egypt defies Islamist death threats