In a 2016 presidential election campaign speech, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton described her opponent's supporters, Republican nominee Donald Trump, as a "basket of deplorables", meaning that those who voted for her opponent were the scum of the earth. The Trump campaign repeatedly used the phrase against Clinton during and after the 2016 US presidential election to show people what she thought of them. In her 2017 book What Happened, Clinton admitted that it was one of

The people over at John Hunt Publishing finally shared with me the cover for my forthcoming book, "Muslim Mechanics". This is what my Preface in the book says: This book is not about Muslim mechanics who work on automobiles, although some good ones undoubtedly do. This book is about the study of Islam as a religion, as an organization, as a social institution, and the rules that make it unique. If you look up the term “mechanics,” depending on the source, you will find descr

About three weeks ago, while going through the Citizen’s Free Press website, I came across a YouTube video by David Wood entitled “Ex-Muslims in the Mosque: The Impending Collapse of Islam.” If you are not familiar with Dr. Wood, he is a Christian apologetic whose mission is to critique Islam and present the truth of Christianity to Muslims. A Christian apologetic is a person who studies and researches historical, evidential, and valuable facts to defend Christian theology.

In chapter 10 of my forthcoming book, Muslim Mechanics, I address two business concepts: the Product Life Cycle and the Market-share/Product-growth matrix. The purpose of both business concepts is to examine a product and determine where it stands concerning consumers that use it and competitors that try to take business away. Both ideas together will help us evaluate how different religions react to current trends and what strategies might be employed to make faith more viri

Last week, I came across an interesting news article on feedspot.com, an internet news aggregator. The article's title was "Pakistan: 70,000 Arabic teachers hired for compulsory teaching of Quran." The substance of the article is the capital city of Pakistan, Lahore has approved the appointment of 70,000 Arabic teachers for compulsory teaching of the Qur'an in all schools of the province. With a population of 11 million, Lahore is the capital of the Punjab province and the se

A few weeks ago (December 14, 2021), the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill identified as H.R.5665. The bill, "Combating International Islamophobia Act," is not a law yet, but moving in that direction. In the United States, a proposed regulation must be passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate and then signed by the President. As to H.R.5665, should the Senate vote to pass the bill and the President sign the bill into law, the Department of State would s