Protecting
democracy from terrorism: MLI in the National Post
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MLI Fellow Alex Wilner writes in the National Post that while Canada was right to add al Shabaab to its list of
banned terror groups, the case illustrates the serious
need to reform our approach in this area. |
Do We Really Want
to go to the Congo?
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 Noted historian Jack Granatstein, a member of MLI's Research Advisory Board, warns in his monthly column for the Canadian
Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute against the Harper government
signing on for an ill-considered UN mission to the Democratic Republic of the
Congo. Jack Granatstein's column appears with the permission of CDFAI.
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The
U.S. and Canada: Lost in Ask-again-istan
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Christopher Sands, a member of MLI's Research Advisory Board, cautions against believing the simplistic story-line that U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton came to Ottawa to bully Canada into staying in
Afghanistan past 2011. A mature
response would be to put aside childish fears of American arm-twisting, and take
on these important extra responsibilities for which our hard-earned experience
in Afghanistan has suited us. Read more... |
Getting it Wrong on Nuclear
Proliferation
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Alex Wilner takes on the arguments
of four Canadian elder statesmen that abolishing nuclear weapons is
self-evidently a good thing. Read more... |
Muslim cleric condemns
terrorism in the name of Islam
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 MLI Managing Director Brian Lee Crowley writes that the anti-terror fatwa from Islamic scholar
Tahir ul-Qadri is part of an encouraging movement among Muslim intellectuals to
reclaim their religion.
Alex Wilner adds that it's also
encouraging to read a similar
fatwa last year from the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG). |
