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"A Western View on Iran's WMD Goals: Nuclearizing the Eschaton or Pre-Stocking the Mahdi's Arsenal?," INEGMA (Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis), Jan. 2011: http://www.inegma.com/reports/Special_Report12/Special%20Report%2012.pdf 
"Tablighi Jamaat," World Almanac of Islamism, December 2010: http://almanac.afpc.org/tablighi-jamaat
"The Tabligh Challenge," Journal of International Security Affairs, No. 19, Fall/Winter 2010, pp. 115-122.
"The 'Secular Crusader:' Former Air Force JAG Looks to Drive All Christian Symbolism from the Military," PajamasMedia, May 29, 2010: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-secular-crusader-former-air-force-jag-looks-to-drive-all-christian-symbo"lism-from-military/
Symposium: "The World's Most Wanted: A 'Moderate' Islam," FrontpageMag, May 27, 2010: http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/27/symposium-the-worlds-most-wanted-a-%E2%80%9Cmoderate-islam-%E2%80%9D/ 
"Zuhdi Jasser, M.D.: Islam's Luther--or its Don Quixote?," History News Network, April 19, 2010: http://hnn.us/articles/125540.html 
"Divide and Confound--or Divide and Empower? The Opportunities and Dangers of Strategic PSYOP against the Alawi Rulers or Syria," History News Network, Jan. 11, 2010: http://hnn.us/articles/119266.html
"Gathering Clouds Here: Hizb al-Tahrir in AMerica," "The Washington Times," Aug. 2, 2009: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/02/gathering-clouds-here/
"Sectsploitation: How to Win Hearts and Minds in the Islamic World," History News Network, June 1, 2009: http://hnn.us/articles/83742.html
"Dueling Messiahs: Jesus v. the Mahdi in Iran," The Lutheran Witness, February 2009: http://www.lcms.org/pages/wPage.asp?ContentID=471&IssueID=30
"Pontius Palin and Messiah Obama?," Pajamas Media, September 17, 2008: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/pontius-palin-and-messiah-obama/
"The Importance of being Mahdist: Among Iran's Twelvers," The Weekly Standard, September 8, 2008: http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/490jlptz.asp?pg=1
"Indiana Jones for President," History News Network, June 30, 2008:  http://hnn.us/articles/51825.html
"Converting the West to Islam through...Sex?," Pajamas Media, June 28, 2008: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/converting-the-west-to-islam-through-sex/
"Supreme Ignorance: America's Highest Court Disregards the Law of Land Warfare," History News Network,  June 23, 2008: http://hnn.us/articles/51617.html
"Will Iraq Stoke Flames of Islamic Messianism?," Pajamas Media, April 7, 2008: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/will-iraq-stoke-flames-of-islamic-messianism/
"Resurrecting Christendom: A Blueprint," History News Network, March 3, 2008: http://hnn.us/articles/47603.html
"Enter the Mahdi (Review of Trofimov's The Siege of Mecca), The Weekly Standard, February 25, 2008 [no longer available online]
"Everybody's got Something to Hide Except for Me and the Mahdi: Ahmadinezhad Escapes from New York," History News Network, October 1, 2007: http://hnn.us/articles/43298.html
"The Armenian Resolution: Pure Grandstanding," History News Network, October 15, 2007: http://hnn.us/articles/43738.html
"Islamic Unity: Bin Ladin's Version v. Khameini's," History News Network, September 10, 2007: http://hnn.us/articles/42613.html
"Was CNN's 'God's Warriors' Fair?," History News Network, August 27, 2007: http://hnn.us/articles/42197.html
"Colleges Score Perfect Grade in Liberal Bias," Investor's Business Daily, June 28, 2007: http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=267915981622138

"The Doctor Is In (Yet Again): Ayman al-Zawahiri's Latest Communique," Praeger Security International, May 30, 2007: http://psi.praeger.com/doc.aspx?d=/commentary/Furnish20070530.xml 
"A New Empire of the Mahdi? Libyan and Iranian Pan-Islamic Agendas," History News Network, April 30, 2007: http://hnn.us/articles/38164.html
"Anti-Semitism in Islam," History News Network, February 5, 2007: http://hnn.us/articles/34789.html

"Ignorance May Be Bliss, but It Makes for Bad Policy: Analysis of the Iraq Study Group Report," Praeger Security International, Jan. 2, 2007: http://psi.praeger.com/doc.aspx?d=/commentary/Furnish-20070102-Furnish-20070102.xml 
"What Should We Make of Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad's 'Letter to the Noble Americans?,'" History News Network, December 4, 2006: http://hnn.us/articles/32503.html


"Bin Ladin: The Man Who Would Be Mahdi:" http://www.meforum.org/article/159

"Beheading in the Name of Islam:" http://www.meforum.org/article/713

"Was the Pope Wrong?:" http://hnn.us/articles/29989.html

"7 Myths About Islam:" http://hnn.us/articles/16536.html
 
 

"How the Media Misconstrue Jihad and the Crusades:" http://hnn.us/articles/1178.html

"Are Islam and Democracy Incompatible? Some Reflections from Ottoman History:" http://hnn.us/articles/27268.html

"Islamic Fundamentalism," Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism (Routledge, 2001), pp. 235-240 [this has a particularly good bibliography on the topic]

"Islam" [Islamic eschatology], Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements (Routledge, 2000), pp. 187-192