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brewtoch
Nov 17, 20214 min read
Why Islamic Productivity Lags Behind the West, Part 2
Last week, I explained that the Ottoman Empire’s restricting the printing press also impacted their ability to grow human capital. Even...
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brewtoch
Oct 31, 20213 min read
The Morality Police
The picture shows a woman being dragged into a van by three people; one person is inside the vehicle pulling the woman inside with some...
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brewtoch
Oct 25, 20214 min read
Five Famous Personalities Who Converted to Islam
Last week, in my blog about gender ambiguities, I mentioned the problems that Dave Chappelle encountered when he made a few jokes about...
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brewtoch
Sep 27, 20213 min read
The Sound of Music
There is a widespread perception that music is generally forbidden in Islam. The Qur'an, the first source of legal authority for Muslims,...
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brewtoch
Sep 16, 20214 min read
How do Muslims feel about Idolatry?
The photograph that accompanies this blog is a close-up of a Muhammad sculpture taken by Franz Jantzen of the North Wall Frieze in the...
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brewtoch
Sep 8, 20213 min read
The Islamic fervor for beheading
Last week in a federal courtroom in Alexandria Virginia, a British national admitted he was a key part of the Islamic State’s actions to...
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brewtoch
Sep 1, 20215 min read
Does Islam favor a socialist or capitalist economy?
Before Muhammad became a Prophet at 40 years old, he was a businessman – a trader who worked caravans. The Prophet Muhammad was a...
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brewtoch
Aug 3, 20213 min read
Who Are the Players? The Salafis
According to Lexico.com, a player is a person or group involved and influential in an area or activity. I am covering in this blog who...
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brewtoch
Jul 28, 20213 min read
Who Are the Players? The Islamists
Some Muslims are highly participative in their religion, while others are not. Some people grow up as Muslims but are lukewarm in their...
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brewtoch
Jul 21, 20216 min read
Hofstede's Six Dimensions of Culture
I teach a course called International Business, and one of the lessons I urge my students to study is how culture affects the values of a...
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brewtoch
Jun 23, 20216 min read
The Pulse Nightclub
Just recently, the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, a well-known gay bar, memorialized the five-year shooting tragedy that left the...
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brewtoch
Jun 17, 20216 min read
The U.S. finally condemns Turkey for the Armenian Genocide
The picture that accompanies this article shows the headlines that was in the New York Times newspaper on April 26, 1915. Read the blog...
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brewtoch
Jun 10, 20214 min read
"Son, daughter, and son-in-law all died in honor killings a decade apart."
That was the headline of a story in the Jerusalem Post a few days ago, May 24, 2021, to be exact. To summarize, the son, a 47-year-old...
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brewtoch
May 29, 20213 min read
Was Muhammad a Pedophile?
Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, is often labeled as a pedophile because of the age of his bride, Aisha. Critics allege that when Aisha...
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brewtoch
May 23, 20213 min read
Black Stone of Mecca
Located in the eastern corner of the Kaaba is the Black Stone of Mecca, whose now-broken pieces are surrounded by a ring of stone and...
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brewtoch
May 18, 20214 min read
Corporate Social Values May Be Different Than Your Own
Last week in my posting “Marketing to Muslims, Part 2 of 2”, I mentioned that Muslims would find products to buy that are halal or...
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brewtoch
May 12, 20215 min read
Marketing to Muslims, Part 2 of 2
To sell products to Muslims, vendors must ensure the products are either halal (permissible or lawful) or sharia-compliant. The very...
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brewtoch
May 6, 20214 min read
Marketing to Muslims, Part 1 of 2
Many of my readers are non-Muslim business-people. In the West, marketing is an assumed business function, and many business leaders are...
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brewtoch
Apr 30, 20214 min read
Do Religious Texts Inspire Violence?
Today’s blog may take a few extra minutes to read, but it covers an important scientific study. Let me explain. I was perusing some...
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brewtoch
Apr 24, 20213 min read
The Religion of Peace?
It is common for Muslims when conversing with non-Muslims, to refer to their religion as one of peace. In Western countries, Muslims are...
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