While most of the major world religions are based on peace, most terrorists are religious fundamentalists — using violence in the name of God, Allah, or Jesus. Terrorism expert Jessica Stern was ...

Stern, who has devoted years of study to her subject, strings together accounts of her many interviews with terrorists and former terrorists in a very readable book that treats mainly Muslims but ...

Appearing on video link from Boston, Ms. Stern discussed terrorism and the fallout from the Iraqi prisoner abuse case, and other issues in the news. She responded to telephone calls, faxes, and ...

I would like to argue in these brief thoughts that the on-going persecution of Baha’is in Iran illustrates what must be faced in our quest for a conversible, multi-religious world.

Some of the best Sonoran-style tortillas in the U.S. are being made far from the border, in a college town forty miles outside Kansas City. The seventy-six-year-old theatre diva, famed and feared ...

Kirsch recounts the abuses of the church, including torture and executions conducted by clergy in the name of God, during its 600 year holy war against heresy.

In fact, the Quran warns Muslim against revenge when they are insulted. It states: ‘We already know that your heart is constrained by what they say, so glorify the praises of your Lord and be ...

Many of us are still reeling from the horrific string of suicide bombings which were carried out by a domestic militant group at churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka that ...

“We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack, if they had knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it.

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TERROR IN THE NAME OF GOD: Why Religious Militants Kill Jessica Stern, . . Ecco, $27.95 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-06-050532-5. Stern, a former fellow on terrorism at the Council on Foreign Relations (and ...