In Things That Matter, Charles Krauthammer compiles a collection of written works spanning the course of his career. Each essay addresses some of Krauthammer’s core principles, from politics and history to religion and personal life. In a more recent essay titled “Decline is a Choice” (2009), Krauthammer discusses the decline of the United States as an influential nation and the results of such a decline. He claims that the nation’s loss of hegemony in the world is voluntary and can be linked to
term as ‘simplistic or demeaning’. It is important to note that religious fundamentalism is not an exclusively Islamic development, with movements across all major religions; including Christianity and Judaism (Macridis, 1992; Heywood, 2012). This essay aims to clarify this misconception and discuss various forms of religious fundamentalism: those prone to violence and totalitarianism
protected. The negative stereotypes of Muslim women probably arise from this varying treatment of women. This comes handy for the Western media, whose favorite pastime is to latch on to a few examples of illogical and aberrant behaviour and brand Islam as an “orthodox” religion, especially in its treatment of