Author: Shahid Bolsen

In the minds of the vast majority of Westerners, Saudi Arabia is the quintessential Islamic state. Shops close at prayer time, niqab is mandatory, there are strict laws on gender segregation, hands are amputated, and heads are cut off in public punishments, etc, etc. Jihadis and Khilafah-ists, and most of us actually, do not regard…

If you still believe that the Christian Crusades were driven exclusively by religious motives, I think you must not have studied them carefully, nor studied the subsequent history of conquest and colonialism by the West around the world. Religion was certainly a factor, but hardly the overriding factor. The promise of financial gain and access…