About my recent silence on this blog

I've been preoccupied with the geopolitical news centering around the new POTUS whose name I avoid stating. My other main focus is the campaign to liberate Mosul and the importance of reconciliation among the competing factions in Iraq. I've turned to Twitter (with automatic cross posting to my Facebook page) to promote important articles.

Oversimplified ideas of Islam

Making bold, general statements about Islam is like making bold general statements about Christianity or Jews or Russians or Americans. What all members of these groups have in common is they breathe air. Islam is not a football team, it's between 1.6 and 2 billion people spread across the globe with a huge range of beliefs and practices. Since shortly after the time of Muhammad, there has never been a unified Islam.