Center for Strategic Communication

Red Flags over Lhasa

By Patricia Lee Sharpe  Also see two companion pieces:  http://whirledview.typepad.com/whirledview/2014/05/ kanishka-in-kashgar-a-report-from-the-fringes-of-the-chinese-empire.html and...

Judaism, Islam and the death penalty

[ by Charles Cameron — surprising infrequency of capital punishment, though mandated in Sharia and Torah ] . I’m always struck by formal parallelisms, particularly in matters religious — so when I came across this fascinating reference to the...