Abigail R. Esman
ARTICLES BY: Abigail R. Esman
Women Are the Real Victims of the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring, with the rising tide of hope for democracy and change it ushered in, has turned to autumn. For women it has become...
Turkey’s ‘Democratic’ Reforms Are Anything But
Over dinner at the newest hot restaurant in Istanbul, my friend exhales his fury. "This is democracy?" he snaps. "What kind of democracy?" It has been...
UK Child Brides Victims of ‘Cultural Sensitivity’
The original tale may be apocryphal, but the story of the silver spoon has saved the lives of hundreds of British Muslim girls being forced...
Islamic Radicalization on the Rise in Canada
The man who calls himself Abu Muslim sits with his fellow fighters, members of the group Katiba al Muhajireen, and raises his rifle for the...
Canadian Muslims Protest ‘Honor Killing’ Label as Racist
Are they willfully misleading? Or are Canadian Muslims who are fighting federal funding to investigate honor violence simply naïve victims of the same propaganda used...
Bombing Into Unintended Consequences in Syria
In the Netherlands these days, politicians discuss revoking the passports of citizens who join the opposition to Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria. In Belgium, the...
France’s Burqa Ban Doesn’t Violate Muslim Faith
For two days, they burned cars. They shouted about racism and attacked police, hurling stones and shattering windows of the local police department. In Trappes,...
‘Stress’ From Phantom Torture Keeps Terror Suspect in Netherlands
In one of the more bizarre interpretations of justice to emerge in a terrorism trial in the West, Dutch courts have blocked the extradition of Dutch-Pakistani...
