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  • Religion and Violence
    Book Review: Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood: Is Religion Inherently Violent?

    All of Armstrong's arguments come back to the same basic point: It's impossible to explain contemporary or historical violence solely through religion. "Muslim fundamentalism ... has often—though again, not always—segued into physical aggression," she writes. "This is not because Islam is constitutionally more prone to violence than Protestant Christianity, but rather because Muslims had a much harsher introduction to modernity." (Here, she dates modernity to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire during World War I.) In other words: Even religious history has to be read through the narrative lens of politics.

  • Saudi-Lebanon
    French-Saudi Arms deal for Lebanon to be inked today

    Saudi Arabia and France will on Tuesday seal a deal to provide Lebanon's army with USD 3 billion worth of French weapons, with Riyadh footing the bill, a Saudi daily and a French source had said yesterday.

  • Saudi-Lebanon
    Lebanon to get Saudi-financed arms soon

    Lebanon's army will soon receive military equipment as part of a $1 billion grant from Saudi Arabia to help it fight Islamist militants encroaching into Lebanon from Syria, former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said on Tuesday.