Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz is a frequent commentator on terrorism and related issues in national periodicals and websites. He is also the author of nine books on political history, the most recent being The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa’ud from Tradition to Terror (Doubleday Anchor paperback).
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Articles by Stephen Schwartz
Islamic Extremism on the Rise in Nigeria
Nigeria, a major oil producer, is the most populous African country with around 130 million people, of whom half are Muslim, 40 percent are Christian and 10 percent follow indigenous...
Uzbekistan and the War on Terror: A View from the Field
The republic of Uzbekistan, with a Muslim population of 23 million, is the key state in the Central Asian political landscape. Having survived a significant confrontation with terrorism in the...
Hizb Ut-tahrir in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan: A Comparative Analysis
New bombings at the gates of the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Tashkent on July 30, and an apparently-aborted political trial in the capital of Uzbekistan, have drawn renewed attention...
Wahhabism and al-Qaeda in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Nine years have passed since the imposition of the Dayton Agreement on war torn Bosnia-Herzegovina. While Dayton facilitated the end of fighting between Serb, Croat, and Bosnian republican forces -...
IMU: A Terrorist Movement in Eclipse
The Uzbek regime of Islam Karimov held parliamentary elections in December, simultaneously with the contested second round of voting in Ukraine. As a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States,...
The Struggle Within Islam: Albanian Muslims Reject Extremism
I first heard the term "Wahhabi"--referring to the ultrafundamentalist Islamic sect that is the state dispensation in Saudi Arabia--in a Yugoslav context, in 1989. Specifically, Wahhabism was compared with Stalinist...
IMU: A TERRORIST MOVEMENT IN ECLIPSE
The Uzbek regime of Islam Karimov held parliamentary elections in December, simultaneously with the contested second round of voting in Ukraine. As a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States,...
Wahhabism and al-Qaeda in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Nine years have passed since the imposition of the Dayton Agreement on war torn Bosnia-Herzegovina. While Dayton facilitated the end of fighting between Serb, Croat, and Bosnian republican forces -...
Hizb Ut-tahrir In Uzbekistan And Kazakhstan: A Comparative Analysis
New bombings at the gates of the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Tashkent on July 30, and an apparently-aborted political trial in the capital of Uzbekistan, have drawn renewed attention...
Uzbekistan And The War On Terror: A View From The Field
The republic of Uzbekistan, with a Muslim population of 23 million, is the key state in the Central Asian political landscape. Having survived a significant confrontation with terrorism in the...
The Struggle Within Islam: Albanian Muslims Reject Extremism
I first heard the term "Wahhabi"--referring to the ultrafundamentalist Islamic sect that is the state dispensation in Saudi Arabia--in a Yugoslav context, in 1989. Specifically, Wahhabism was compared with Stalinist...