"The Save Darfur movement claims to have learned from Rwanda," writes Mahmood Mamdani in his new book, Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror. "But what is the lesson of Rwanda? For many of those mobilized to save Darfur, the lesson is to rescue before it is...

Two months ago, I wrote about The New York Sun's inaccurate attempt to draw ties between Senator Barack Obama and Islamic extremism in Kenya. The chief problem with The Sun's reporting was that while the ties may have been there, the Islamic extremism was definitely not. What The...

When a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the prophet Mohammad with a bomb in his turban in September 2005, the Muslim community around the world erupted in protest. Police fired on crowds, and dozens died. While some Muslim leaders exhorted demonstrators to remain peaceful, others, like Mahmoud al-Zahar of Hamas,...