Shahid BolsenBadr’s Lesson: Choosing Your Ground in the Battle of IdeasThere’s a story from the Seerah, the life of the Prophet, about the Battle of Badr. It is just a small footnote to the battle, really; an…Oct 31Oct 31
Shahid BolsenWestern Miconceptions about the WestI was recently invited to participate in a panel discussion on Western misconceptions about Islam. I was promptly disinvited, because…Oct 10Oct 10
Shahid BolsenAmerica’s Election RitualIt’s divide and conquer. If you wonder why American society is so divided, and I mean divided in so many ways. It isn’t just that the…Aug 18Aug 18
Shahid BolsenAfrican liberation would collapse the WestYou know, George Friedman, the geopolitical analyst, wrote a book in the early 2000s called “the Next 100 years” where he tried to forecast…Jul 312Jul 312
Shahid BolsenAmerican ApocalypseI think all those post-apocalyptic movies, the zombie movies, alien invasion movies, all these things. The Quiet Place movies, the End of…Jul 24Jul 24
Shahid BolsenBiden-Trump Debate: The Empire will not recoverThe debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump should give great relief and reassurance to any of America’s global victims who might have…Jul 1Jul 1
Shahid BolsenThe Charade of American Democracy: Exposing the OligarchyAmerica is not a democracy. America is an oligarchy, a plutocracy. It is rule by the rich. Of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.Jun 82Jun 82
Shahid BolsenUnravelling Tapestry of Western CivilizationIt is breathtaking to watch. Gaza has become the thread you pull that unravels the whole fabric of Western so-called civilization. The…May 314May 314
Shahid BolsenShahid Bolsen: Message to the Israeli peopleIn the Muslim and Arab world, we take it as a truism that the United States basically serves Israel. That America is controlled by…Oct 15, 202332Oct 15, 202332