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Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman
Contributing Editor
Lfarhat102@aol.com
Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman is a historian, lecturer, and author. You may contact her at Lfarhat102@aol.com or http://www.globalthink.net/. She also writes for the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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Religious Intolerance Abounds Globally. Can it Be Fixed?
Democracy Can Have a Dark Underbelly
Attacking the British Embassy, an Iranian Rite of Passage
What Happens When People Suddenly Have Choices?
Arab Spring is a Conflict between Religion and Nationalism
Should We Support Stability or Revolution?
Immigrants and Refugees: Is There Room at the Inn?
U.S. Law is Wrestling with Complexities of Antiterrorism
Do We Want Enemy Combatants to "Lawyer Up?"
Was the Israeli and Hamas Prisoner Exchange a Good Deal?
Do We Have an Epidemic of Sexual Abuse?
Power to the People! Round Up the Usual Suspects!
Global Violence Declines - Except in the Middle East.
Have the U.S. Hikers Freed from Iran Learned Anything?
Is Human Violence Really on the Wane?
What are the Best and Worst Countries for Women?
How Goes It With Marriage Around the World?
Community: Is Letting the Penniless Sick Die an Option?
U.N. "Anti-Racism" Conference Attacks "Islamophobia"
Let Us Put the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 in Context
Which "Defamation of Religion" Does the UN Human Rights Commission Dislike?
Does Free Speech Include Hacking and Mayhem?
All the News That's Fit To Print?
We Need Perspective on Norway's Terror Attack
Some People Choose Bad Bedfellows for Their Summer Vacation
More Humans Can Read, But What Are They Reading?
Heavy Lies the Saudi Head That Wears the Crown
How Do We (and Afghanistan) Negotiate with the Taliban?
Some Democracies Are Not Wonderful
Is Turkey Still A Secular Muslim Model?
For Girls, Idealism Can Be Deadly
Sometimes Marriage and Childbirth Customs Have Serious Consequences.
There Are Consequences For Lying
Iranians, Like Some Here, Also Believe In Apocalyptic Myths
Europe Has Immigration Problems on Steroids
What is the Future of Religion Around the World?
Does the Bin Laden Decapitated Snake Still Have Life?
Beware of Robot Hummingbirds and Other Spying Creatures
American Foreign Policies Cannot Always Be Consistent
How Do We Deal With "Sticks and Stones?"
In a Democracy, Some Decisions Are Agonizing
Is Peace Breaking Out in the Middle East?
How Goes Terrorism Around the World?
Why Is There Hysteria Over Radical Islam Hearings?
How Goes It With Women Around the World?
How Goes Democracy Around the World?
Can "Power to the People" Get Egyptians Democracy?
Tunisia Is Not the Model For Other Arab World "Revolutions"
Can National Cultures Really Change?
What's Happening in Afghanistan?
What Is 'American Exceptionalism?'
Being Nice Hasn't Protected Sweden
How Fragile is Civilization and How Thoughtless is Anarchy!
What Can We Do About Fear of Flying?
Time for a National Dialogue on Crime?
Sometimes Important News Hides in the Back Pages.
Let's Round Up The Usual Suspects
Book Review: The Flight of the Intellectuals
Is the West Really Islamophobic - Or Under Attack?
Why Are We No Longer On The Same Page?
Iran's Islamic Justice Is a Message to the World
"The Sky Is Falling" Is Alive and Well - Again
Take Another Look at Tony Blair - Who Maybe Got It Right
What "World Opinion" Are We Talking About?
Did We Have Guns of August Again?
Sticks and Stones Go Big Time.
Religious Toleration Has Never Been Absolute
Women’s Progress in the West, but Not in Muslim Nations
Germany’s Curious Century of Islamic Relations
Ground Zero Mosque: Religious Toleration Has Never Been Absolute
How About a Mosque at Ground Zero?
When is Freedom of Speech Incitement to Kill?
When is IQ a Major Security Issue?
Is Guatemala A Toxic Place for Women?
Why Do Dead Ideas Continue to Haunt Us?
Are We Going to Need More Immigrants?
Legacy of Stalin’s Policies Fuels Pogroms in Kyrgyzstan
What Can These Women Be Thinking?
What Makes President Karzai Tick?
How Was the ‘Christmas Bomber’ Radicalized?
Was There an Original Human Religion?
Greece is in the Grip of Denial
Are Harems Always Religiously Mandated?
Europe is Having an Important Burka Debate
Why Do Businesses Get So Little Respect?
Does Bad Childrearing Produce Terrorists?
Some Iranians are Looking Back at Bad Choices
Yemen Has a Long, Violent, History
In the Middle East, Conspiracy Theories Trump Eyewitnesses
What Happens to Poisonous Ideologies Over Time?
America Isn’t Immune to Homegrown Terrorism
American Privacy Standards Don’t Match the Rhetoric
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Do Latin Americans Want Presidents for Life?
Why Does Violence Always Escalate?
Iran and the Voice of the People
What is the ‘World Community?’
The Terrorist Next Door Goes Global
Is There Any Hope for Afghanistan?
Rape: A Terror Weapon in the Congo, Iran and Elsewhere
Sometimes History Can Poison a Society
How a Culture Sees History Matters
The Iranian Revolution May Be In Phase Two
Can There Be Such a Thing as Too Much Democracy?
Can We Have Universal Justice and Law?
An ‘Other’ Terrorist Group Has Been Crushed
Pakistan’s Future Continues to Hang in the Balance
Anarchists have a Long and Nasty History
Can There Be Peace In Our Time?
Iran is Having an Unhappy New Year
Are Bad Ideas Coming to Your Neighborhood?
Mosques in Europe – Where’s the Reciprocity?
Is Israel Losing the Propoganda War? Maybe Not.
Why is War Always 'Disproportionate?'
Who Appointed Greek Anarchists to Run Greece?
Terrorist Profiling in Europe Being Used to Good Effect
Book Review: ‘Left in Dark Times’
Terrorists in India Go International
We Have the Pirates – Where is Terry?
Terrible Events Sometimes Have Silver Linings
On Populism and Elitism: Don’t Believe the Hype from Either Side
Who Invited Ahmadinejad to Dinner?
Terrorism Is an Escalating Process
The UN Stages another Racism Conference
Injured Pride Plays a Dangerous Role in History
Russia and Georgia – ‘Guns of August’ Again?
‘Man on Wire’: Ode to the Olympics and the World Trade Center
Don’t Romanticize the ‘Good Old Days’
Peaceful Canada Facing Big Challenges
Al Qaeda Is Having a Falling Out of Thieves
Why Are We So Negative about Our Future?
Intolerance Has a Very Long History
Why the ‘World’ Cannot Intervene against Poisonous Governments
Hezbollah Has an Unpleasant Global History
Optimists and Pessimists Have Exchanged Roles
Musical Surprises from around the World
