By YOUSEF DRUMMOND DR. MURAD HOFFMAN’S assertion that Islam is an enlightened religion becomes blatantly clear when we witness both the positive and negative poles of European Enlightenment thought throughout the twentieth century. The corporate cable-news media, for example, embellish Ronald Reagan’s relentless crusade for individual freedom vis-à-vis the anti-democratic regime of the former Soviet [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND IN TIME, the American people will understand that Israel’s decision to wage a military campaign within Lebanon’s borders for the sole purpose of crushing Hizb’Allah, along with U.S. complicity in refusing to reign in Israel’s bombs and to order a cease-fire, points to one undeniable observation: the U.S./Israeli alliance is unhealthy at [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND FOR some time now I’ve wondered aloud whether European Enlightenment thinking, as advanced Europe's modern philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries, legitimized a moral bankruptcy within its societies to this day. About a year ago the Virginia Department of Health authorized a massive campaign to dissuade older men from having sex with underage [...]
