Proto-Protestantism

Recently Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly al-Julani) met with David Petraeus at the UN General Assembly. It was a unique moment that quite a few ne...

https://www.politico.eu/article/abdullah-ocalan-pkk-recep-tayyip-erdogan-turkey-kurdistan/ https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Turkey-celebrate...

The fall of the Assad regime is by all accounts a monumental development in the history of the modern Middle East, and it came rapidly and u...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/08/how-madeleine-albright-got-the-war-the-u-s-wanted/ Elich speaks of the US wanting war in 1999 and s...

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/12/has-hitler-won-on-the-left Carl Trueman of Grove City College laments the moral decline...

https://issuesetc.org/2022/07/29/2101-christian-crusaders-raymond-ibrahim-7-29-22/ This was but another ridiculous interview I found on Is...

The Central Asian states which were run by former Soviet apparatchiks (turned into authoritarian capitalists) relied upon energy revenue and...

In October 2020, French president Emmanuel Macron proposed new education legislation that was meant to counter the influence of subcultures ...

The panicked reaction to Trump's planned troop withdrawal from both Iraq and Afghanistan has been palpable. The media and the US Establi...

https://evangelicalfocus.com/europe/8340/evangelicals-react-to-frances-plans-to-fight-islamist-separatism I am certain that attitudes have...

I've been writing about Syria and the Kurds for many years as I was fascinated by these topics long before they became part of the nig...

In 1979 a group of Salafis overtook the Grand Mosque at Mecca. This group deliberately associated themselves with the Ikwhan movement from t...

In retrospect it's fascinating to me that while I was growing up as a Dispensationalist during the Cold War one of the great fears was ...

Iran is the hub of the Shiite world and represents the foundation, center, and caretaker role of Greater Persian culture. Shiite Palestini...

The 19 th and 20 th century proved pretty humiliating for much of the world. The West climbed to the top and has, up to now dominated th...

I find this story to be beyond outrageous. It is both shameful and sad, but is also an opportunity. I continually talk about the effects o...

Emmanuel Goldstein. If you don't know what that refers to, then you definitely need to read George Orwell's 1984. Of the two major...

A common historical and geo-political error is to view cultures or movements in monolithic categories or terms. By oversimplifying there is ...