Archive for December, 2006

The 24 hour news channels, daytime talk shows, and the blogosphere have a way of feeding controversies and polarizing people. Every couple of weeks some issue becomes very hot and everyone is talking about exactly the same thing and it isn’t the national deficit, the budget crisis, our failing schools, our lack of national health [...]

Revisiting Turkey

Posted: December 19, 2006 in Muslim Issues

I came away from Turkey in 1999 with mixed feelings. At that time I don’t think I was mentally ready as a Muslim to see so many people with Muslim backgrounds drinking, clubbing and in open disdain for religion and I was horrified and when I went to the masjid and saw strange practices I [...]