The above video gives a good overview of how the sands of the Middle East have changed since the death of the Prophet Mohammed in 632 AD.  Conquering powers come and go as can be seen (This happens in other places in the world as well of course).  Is ISIS the latest conqueror?  It now […]

Much was made of the 70th anniversary of D-Day last week which was the beginning of the end for Hitler’s Third Reich (along with Stalingrad in the east for the Soviets).  Much less talked about in the US is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I coming up this summer.  The beginning […]

  The Bible has been a big ratings bonanza for the History Channel and the Lifetime Network.  Over and over it relies on the main characters such as Saul, David, Solomon and Nebuchadnezzar being guided by the prophets like Samuel, Nathan, Isaiah, and Daniel.  Prophets are like fortune tellers in that they are messengers from […]

Hans Rosling (Host of the BBC documentary The Joy of Stats) tweeted “In 2009 Saudi Arabia had a lower Democracy score than Tunisia, Egypt & Libya http://www.bit.ly/12T624m, In fact the lowest in the world!”  In the original link he shows for the year 2009 these three countries where recent uprisings have occurred or are occurring […]

In the last few weeks we’ve all seen the images of violent protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen. Some pundits in the US have focused on fears that these uprisings are being driven by Islamic extremists somehow connected to the Islamic Brotherhood and by Al Qaeda’s #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri (an Egyptian) or fears that it […]