Stephen Schwartz es experto en Oriente Medio y director del Centro para el Pluralismo Islámico de Washington, D.C. Comentador frecuente sobre terrorismo y temas derivados en periódicos y websites nacionales. Es también autor de nueve libros sobre historia política, el más reciente The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror.
Last weekend marked the first anniversary of the horrific events at Andijan in Uzbekistan, a market town in the Ferghana Valley near the border with Kyrgyzstan, in Central Asia. There, a year ago, a protest by local folk against the antidemocratic policies of Uzbek ruler Islam Karimov--a classic post-Communist who remains a totalitarian in his methods--was met with bloody repression. The armed forces of the Uzbek state killed hundreds of people, chasing and slaying those who fled from the massacre.
Albert Wohlstetter, better than al-most any other American strategic thinker, understood Slobodan Mil-osevic, the Serbian dictator who died at The Hague where he was on trial for genocide. Writing in the Wall Street Journal in 1995, Wohl-stetter drew a direct line between Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the Balkan butcher: "The successful coalition in the Gulf War . . . left in place a Ba'ath dictatorship . . . .That told Slobodan Milosevic, who is not a slow learner, that the West would be even less likely . . . to stop his own overt use of the Yugoslav Fed-eral Army to create a Greater Serbia purged of non-Serbs."
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The uproar in Europe and some Muslim countries over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper last Septem-ber has once again dramatized sev-eral dismal aspects of the conflict between radical Islam and the cul-ture of the West. In reality, portrayal of Muhammad is not universally banned in Islam.
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