The depth of the Sunni-Shi’ite schism can be seen in all the major arenas where regional conflicts are being waged… Continue reading
If you want a sense of where the Middle East is going, consider this viewpoint from an unlikely source… Continue reading
Who gets to be the caliph? After all, if you want to have a caliphate , as revolutionary Islamists do with much popular support among Muslims… Continue reading
The first Muslim Brotherhood activists came to Saudi Arabia in the first half of the 1950s… Continue reading
Nageeb Kashgari is a young man in a lot of trouble… Continue reading
To preface, when it comes to global petroleum supplies, a distinction is drawn between… Continue reading
Since its very beginning, the Muslim Brotherhood was based on ideological foundations that first emerged as a result of… Continue reading
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end. Thou art weighed in the balances… Continue reading
Forcing women to wear a Hijab is seen as a far greater virtue in Iran’s Shi’ism and Saudi’s Wahhabism than the freedom of choice, freedom of self-expression and… Continue reading
If you had told experts in the mid-1960s that a half-century later every king and emir then ruling in the Persian Gulf would still be there, most would have been astonished… Continue reading
When will the United States learn that our current behavior and lack of a coordinated existential strategy since 9-11 is obviously not working? As a devout and concerned… Continue reading
Al-Qaeda represents Wahhabism in its purest form – a violent fundamentalist doctrine that rejects all non-Wahhabi Islam, especially the spiritual forms of Islam. Wahhabism is an expansionist sect intolerant of… Continue reading
I am worried about what will happen in the coming decades to the world while Islam is undergoing possible reform and change. Muslims are leaving Islam in large numbers and more will leave. Tyranny cannot last for ever, not even under Sharia Law… Continue reading
Every time I tried to find a solution to all the ills of Muslim society, such as jihad, oppression of women and minorities, I was confronted with an Islamic law that stood in the way of a solution… Continue reading
They criticized me for befriending and marrying an American. They rejected me when I refused to cover my head; something I have never done before. Some even called Americans stupid or naïve for being such an open society… Continue reading
70% of all Muslim schools (Madrasah) and mosques in the west are funded by Saudi Arabia and staffed with Wahhabi clerics. These are the training schools of the Taliban in Pakistan and elsewhere. The Muslim Brotherhood too is widespread among Muslim organizations… Continue reading
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