Missionaries from South Korea travel to remote and dangerous lands, intent on spreading their Christian faith. Christianity contributed to modernization in South Korea, and missionaries often link their beliefs with the country’s miraculous economic growth. In July, the Taliban kidnapped 23 young...
Mission aborted: The Taliban released Christian volunteers to Red Cross workers,
after South Korean pledge to withdraw troops - perhaps, a cash handout
SEOUL: They go anywhere – from African jungles to tribal villages of...
Both Britain and France have endured violence at the hands of their Muslim minorities in recent months: Britain in the July 7 London Underground attacks; France in the wave of nationwide rioting that has now gone on for more than a week. They need not endure such violence in the future. Their...
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Germany’s decision to open its borders to thousands of refugees from Syria has reinvigorated the political party of Pegida, also known as “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident.” Some supporters insist that they are not Nazis, but oppose a system that fails to embrace a...
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The Middle East and Africa offer a full palette of methods for thwarting national interests, undermining international legitimacy and spreading extremism. Rami G. Khouri, writing for the Daily Star in Lebanon, offers a brief outline: US missile strikes in Libya and Yemen target militants; the South...
What is the best way to achieve legitimate political goals that correspond at once to clear national interests, a domestic consensus and international legitimacy?
Several different events in recent days across the Middle East and North Africa...
The civil war in Syria has left more than 210,000 dead and 10 million displaced. “Aid agencies are running refugee camps, clinics and education programmes that reach millions of people,” writes Justin Forsyth, CEO of Save the Children for the New Statesman. “But the ability of the humanitarian...
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In regulating immigration, policy planners anticipate newcomers to assimilate, especially over generations. Most do, but children of immigrant families long settled in France are often intrigued by jihad. Julia Amalia Heyer profiles a French family – the mother atheist and the father Muslim – whose...
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Russia hopes to wield control over bordering states like Ukraine and block them from close ties with the United States and the European Union. The US and EU countered Russia’s military intervention in eastern Ukraine with sanctions and Russia responded by targeting McDonald’s restaurants as...
As the European Union and the United States ramp up their sanctions on Russia, President Vladimir Putin’s plans for retaliation seem to include an attack on McDonald’s. There could not be a more powerful symbol that geopolitics is increasingly...
Unity in Diversity is a motto for both India and Indonesia, and ongoing elections demonstrate that Asia’s two largest democracies have much in common, explains journalist and author Pallavi Aiyar. Election operations are complex and impressive, considering that India has more than 800 million...
Get out the vote: India’s Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Narendra Modi campaigns with the image of a Hindu preacher (top); Indonesia’s Joko "Jokowi" Widodo of PDI-P campaigns with common man
JAKARTA: Although rarely hyphenated in the manner of...
