It was breezy Chicago day, the third week of an Egyptian-American cultural exchange, when two members of an Egyptian disabled delegation, emerged from a Sears store with wide smiles and holding T-shirts reading: "God Bless America!"

The delegation of eleven visiting Egyptians, many of whom were Muslim, was sponsored with...

It was George Washington who reminded his fellow Americans that, "The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such."

Republican commentators like Newt Gingrich have been esteeming Muslims such for years now.

Gingrich hit a new low Monday morning when...

President Obama's stern defense of a Muslim group's right to build a community center and a mosque near Ground Zero has brought more than the expected morning after cries of "insensitivity."

The President, embattled in the polls, is already being accused of pandering to the 1.2 billion Muslims in...

Reuel Marc Gerecht, a Middle East expert and storied former CIA operative, has called, along with Fox News' Glenn Beck, for a litmus test to be given to Muslims anxious to build a mosque near Ground Zero.

In a classic conspiracy-riddled "chalk talk" this week, Beck reversed his...

Don't look now but the mosque at Ground Zero is the Trojan horse that Osama bin Laden has been dreaming of in his cave somewhere in the Hindu Kush. Gary Berntsen, the tough-as-nails former CIA operative running to unseat Senator Chuck Schumer in New York, tells me al Qaeda and...

A New York City commission's courageous decision to think past indignant cries to stop the building of a new community center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero reminded me of a bizarre tale I came across while researching a book on a remote island chain in Asia.

It is...

Please join me on this kaleidoscopic tour behind the frontlines of the battle of ideas in the Islamic world. For five years since my first book, Al Qaeda's Great Escape: the Military and the Media on Terror's Trail, I've traveled through the Holy Land, Sahelian Africa, Afghanistan-Pakistan and...

When Christiane Amanpour held up the cover of Time magazine on ABC News' This Week, Nancy Pelosi averted her eyes at the sight of an otherwise beautiful Afghan girl missing her nose and ears.

The iconic photograph is an excellent starting point for any discussion of America's exit strategy...

The bluntly-named group "Stop Islamization in America" has posted signs on the sides of metro buses across the country this summer, reading: "Fatwa on your head?" and "Leaving Islam?" Pamela Geller, who heads the organization, says she just wants to help out Muslims endangered by their own religion.

Washington, D.C. -- As the Pentagon attempts to manage the damage from a massive leak of raw intelligence from the battlefields of Afghanistan, it is time for senior Obama administration officials to examine the quality of information streaming into remote U.S. bases there. In one far-fetched story, a source in...