I woke up this morning to the news that Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, had directly accused Pakistan's Inter-Se...
Police in a democracy belong to the people they serve. Yet one would be hard pressed to picture today's police departments even approximating the ideal of a "people's police."
Are those who carry out acts of violence in the name of a religion true followers of that religion, or not?
Ten years later, my thoughts on 9/11 are the same as they were standing in the House of Commons on Sept. 18,2001: "My son put it best: 'We are all just earthlings and we have to learn how to share this rock.'"
Ahmad joined a group of "Jihadis" who emphatically rejected the notion of violence in the name of Islam. Instead they were waging a Jihad of the pen, not sword. They were letter writers, not sword fighters.
Ever since September 11, I've been asking myself: How does a vision of Christ who has embraced all, including Muslims, influence the way I relate to other people today?
This notion that we examine our enemy and ourselves does not mean that the terrorists are right and we are wrong. When working with complex foreign cultures, everything must be on the table, including self reflection.
September 11 removed us further from our liberal traditions, which had once considered undue government surveillance as a violation of civil liberties, while a previously unimaginable concept like torture suddenly became a topic worthy of "debate."
In our new infographic, "Advancing on Al Qaeda," we have highlighted some of the top al Qaeda figures killed or captured by U.S. or allied forces in the decade since the 9/11 attacks.
Ten years on, there are likely just as many questions as there were when the twin towers fell. Our world doesn't feel safer, and turbulent events, bot...
The question is where does our democracy go from here, ten years and counting after the horrible attacks? Once freedoms and civil liberties are given up, they are not easily recaptured.
The easiest reaction is to just pick a side. Either the 9/11 hijackers were normal, or they were insane. Ten years after that day, this false dichotomy continues to distort explanations of why the U.S. was attacked.
It simply beggars belief that there are some in the British media who still take the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, even vaguely seriously.
Ten years later, we need to take stock of how 9/11 shaped history. We also need to ask where the Free World, particularly the U.S., made mistakes that amplified the impact of 9/11 beyond what it should have been.