?s $Economic? Cultural? Socio/Psycho? Education?  The Obama administration has spent millions on research trying to determine why folks become terrorists. All sorts of cultural and economic reasons along with sociological and psychological factors have been put forth as possible causes but each one has ended up being discounted. Here’s a link to a New York […]

             (Flag of ISIS : Wikipedia) President Obama in his address to the nation concerning ISIS claimed that the actions of the so-called ‘Islamic State’ had nothing to do with Islam: Now let’s make two things clear: ISIL is not “Islamic.” No religion condones the killing of innocents. And the vast majority of ISIL’s victims […]

The Western media and members of the American government continue to blame terrorism and Islamic extremism on poverty and ignorance and certainly they may be contributing factors for some. But the 9/11 terrorists were middle class professionals and others like Nidal Hasan and Ayman al-Zawahiri are highly educated doctors. Occasionally I drive by a beautiful […]

               (Flag of ISIS: Wikipedia) Mosul is the second largest city in Iraq and it was home to the largest remaining conclave of Christians in the country. Now nearly all of the tens of thousands of Christians in the city have left everything behind in order to flee the onslaught of the radical ISIS (Islamic […]

                          (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Here’s a news story you probably haven’t heard or read about in the Western press. The Philippine government is signing a peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) which will give autonomous control of the Southern Philippine Bangsamoro region to the Islamic radicals and could result in sharia law […]