Remember that song by REM “Losing my religion”? It was quite a hit in the late 90s, early 2000… Sadly, that’s how I have been feeling for quite some time now about my relation with my religion, Islam. A deep sadness and despair over the decay of the Arab world… since Boabdil, the Emir of Granada, surrendered the last Islamic bastion in Spain to the Catholic monarchs.  The date was 2 January 1492. It marked the final stage of what is widely considered to have been a brilliant 800 year civilization. The Arabs had just lost Al-Andalus. And the Arabs never recovered since.  It’s been downhill since that fateful day.  But who’s to blame? The usual scapegoats? The West? The Jews? The “Apostates”? All of them? I say WE are to blame and no one else… I turn on my TV set every morning to get a glimpse of the daily news. The Arab world – the Islamic world as a matter of fact – maintains a...(Read Full Article)