Some Muslims are highly participative in their religion, while others are not. Some people grow up as Muslims but are lukewarm in their belief systems, while their neighbors down the street become virulent jihadis. Some people believe in one way to achieve goals, and other people believe in different directions to achieve similar goals. While you will find these degrees of intensity in any organization or institution, I refer to these different levels of belief and participat

I teach a course called International Business, and one of the lessons I urge my students to study is how culture affects the values of a country. One of the most comprehensive studies on national values was done by a former IBM engineer, Professor Geert Hofstede from the Netherlands. Dr. Hofstede and his team developed a model of national culture consisting of six dimensions. These six dimensions can be measured and scored, allowing observers and scholars to compare differen

The picture that accompanies this article is a billboard put up by the United American Committee. An internet search for that organization was not successful so the sponsors of the billboard might have wanted to remain anonymous. Thanks and a hat tip to Matt57, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. As I mention in my manuscript, Muslim Mechanics, the sole purpose of the Muslim religion is to establish Sharia or Islamic law. In Part 1, I showed that while only ten percent of t

What you are witnessing in the picture is a street protest calling for Sharia in the Maldives, an Indian Ocean nation in September 5, 2014. It is not uncommon for Muslim minorities, when ruled by democratic majorities, to call for an end to democracy. The photographers name is Dying Regime. Fortunately, he posted his picture under Wikimedia Commons (Dying Regime from Maldives, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Last week, we ackno