Crossing the Crescent

(Asia Pacific Forum, a radio program on WBAI in NYC, interviewed me last Tuesday about the Times Square bomb attempt.)

“For Pakistani Americans, will May 1, 2010 mark a turning point—for the worse? Are we in a post-Faisal Shahzad era? In the wake of the attempted Times Square bombing, already the government has talked → Read More: Radio Interview On Times Square Attack

(First published in FPIF blog)

Shortly after the failed Times Square attack, Gen. David Petreaus characterized the lone suspect, Faisal Shahzad, as a “lone wolf.” A day later, U.S. attorney general Eric Holder offered a sharply divergent view, describing the suspect as “intimately involved” with the Pakistani Taliban.

The competing assertions → Read More: Faisal Shahzad – Man or Pretext?

(Published in Foreign Policy in Focus)

It is hard to overstate just how deeply unpopular the United States is in the Muslim world.

A 2008 poll of six majority Muslim countries found that overwhelmingly large portions of the population, ranging from 71 percent in Morocco to 87 percent in Egypt, held unfavorable opinions of the United → Read More: Muslim Blowback? (Homegrown Extremism)