A few months back, I stumbled upon an article that mentioned that keeping dogs as pets in Islam is haram. I spent a little time investigating that possibility, and it does have legs. Pardon the pun, but there is some realism that Muslims have restrictions on dogs, not all dogs but some dogs. It's not a cultural phenomenon; it's a religious taboo. To find out how the restrictions are followed globally, I searched for some statistics that would paint the picture more realistica

I recently ran across an old video on dailymotion.com, a website that still has an inventory of videos taken down from YouTube. The video was entitled “How Islam is Taking Over the World: Islamization Explained.” When I saw the title, of course, I was interested. The video was based on an article published in Frontpagemagazine.com on April 21, 2008. The report was adapted from the book “Slavery, Terrorism, and Islam” by Dr. Peter Hammond, initially published in 2005. The cont

Almost four months ago, on November 10, 2021, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a statement that suggested they "welcomed a vote by Virginia's Washington County Board of supervisors to remove several Confederate monuments from outside a local courthouse." A CAIR spokesperson stated, "People who betrayed this nation in order to preserve white supremacy and slavery do not deserve to be honored, especially not on public land." On the surface, it appears CAI

Every religion has rituals, such as celebrating an important religious occasion by attending services conducted in much the same way they have been for hundreds, if not thousands of years. In ancient cultures, rituals are also an integral part of people's lives. Organized religions can use rituals to govern and control the people they serve. For example, it was a big deal when the Catholic Church refused to grant a divorce to the English King, Henry VIII, in 1534. The King ha