by Mike Kuhn | Jun 30, 2016 | Opinion
A new word keeps showing up in the news describing radical Islamic groups – “takfÄ«r.” It’s the English transliteration of an Arabic word that means “to anathematize” or “to declare someone apostate or an infidel.” The...
by Mike Kuhn | Apr 4, 2016 | Opinion
Too often people divide the entire population of the world (7.4 billion, by the way) into two distinct categories – “There are two kinds of people in the world.” The dividing lines could fall at any number of angles depending on the speaker’s...
by Mike Kuhn | May 7, 2015 | Opinion
Things are not always as they seem. An exclusive investigative report in Spiegel, a leading German news outlet, sheds new light on the inner workings of ISIS. The article is based on documentation discovered in the home of one of the Islamic State’s chief...
by Mike Kuhn | Feb 6, 2015 | Opinion
Unless we’ve had the experience of living outside our culture for some time, we may not be aware of the particularities of our culture and have some difficulty articulating what distinguishes our own culture from any other. Our culture is the air we breathe. It...
