At the July 4, 2014 service, at the Grand Mosque in Mosul, Iraq, (or Mosul, Islamic State), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the trained clergyman who is leader of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria aka Islamic State) made his first public appearance since his fighting forces seize large swathes of Iraq and declared a Sunni Caliphate comprising of conquered portions of Syria and Iraq. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has declared himself Caliph of the new Caliphate, and technically this was his first public appearance as Caliph. Caliph means “successor” to the Prophet Muhammad as the head of state of the Caliphate, a Sunni State led by a supreme religious cum political leader. It is the title for the ruler of the Ummah, the Islamic social society governed by Sharia Law. . Declaring oneself Caliph of a Caliphate is a major political, religious, social and historical event. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s event is as historically significant as Henry VIII declaring himself head of the Catholic Church in Eng...

Who knew that NED FLANDERS THE CHRISTIAN, on THE SIMPSONS, would be the seminal philosopher of American Fundamentalism in 2013? In the episode, THE FATHER, THE SON and THE HOLY GUEST STAR, NED FLANDERS articulates the rallying cry for American Evangelical Protestants, Traditional Catholics, and Orthodox Christians, bewildered by modernity and Same Sex Marriage,  when he cries out to the brethren, after he unites the warring Christian factions, "Now we can get back to fighting our real enemies: monogamous gays ….” It is obvious, that NED FLANDERS learned his uniting ways at the feet of Indo/American philosopher/writer Dinesh D’Souza. In his tome, THE ENEMY AT HOME, D’Souza suggested that American fundamentalist Protestants, Traditional Catholics, and Orthodox Christians unite with their brethren fundamentalists in the Muslim world to decimate liberals, in particular homosexuals. “D’Souza says that the Islamists “see the dimension of America that in their view corrupts...