Author: Shahid Bolsen

Everyone knows that the government lies to us; yet we act like we believe them Everyone knows that the media lies to us; yet we act like we believe them. Everyone knows that advertisements lie to us; yet we act like we believe them. I can’t see an explanation for any of this except that…

In the last message of Shaykh Anwar al-Awlaki to the American people before his assassination (may Allah have mercy on him, and accept him as a martyr) , he gave an accurate assessment of the relationship between foreign policy and the domestic population; and inadvertently exposed the futility of our conventional methods of confrontation: “your…