Is your faith one between you, your state and maker? Or is it is between you and your maker. One questions the push to Theocracy. Belief in faith is glorious. Do not let none tell you your faith and belief in salvation is vain. Though some do believe that. That is lack of Faith. Nothing wrong with it. The question is there are many faiths of beliefs and those lack thereof faith. How does one navigate the process of faith via state? What is it that is acceptable to you that you feel must be acceptable to all? Applied to all equally under the law. Must one’s faith which each faith believes is superior to all faiths or even lack...

Ever dealt with a bully. Someone strong and arrogant to think they can run over you by sheer strength or might. That’s a Putin of the world. Democracy looks like the has been, old global order. A pushover of old decrepit vision with old worn words of chaos and disorder. A system of governance within it so many openly hostile interests that it looks like it is held together by duct tape. A Putin of the world looks at that system compared to his where he controls everything, decides everything and can cut red tape and do anything. Putin sees the disorder where he can literally buy influence into democratic order. Get surrogates, media personality and campaign finance entire section...

It is human to Err but inhuman to be without empathy. Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya is clarifying comments he made about the ongoing human rights abuses against the Uyghurs in China An elite, a refugee citizen of an awesome Democratic country. A newly minted capitalist billionaire, a person known for being a voice of consciousness. Yet in a podcast, he was asked about Uyghurs of China facing cultural and literal genocide. His answer is he cared least for it. Then to clarify his statement because it sounded without humanity in it. He equated America to China in calling out injustice. All injustice in the world. What a baloney! What is happening to the Uyghurs Muslims in China? A Muslim community...

There is a trend that is manifesting itself in our democracy. The intolerance of dissenting voices. I watched with alarm the January 6th, 2020, attack on our democracy. But what we are also seeing is the claim that any dissent of opinions and ideas is considered a part of that effort. This is dismissive of genuine opinions building up in our country. The main streaming of ideas that those who dissent too loudly must be anti democracy. I watched as decades past those who were anti war were called Un-American. Now those who oppose establishment policies are considered Anti Democracy. This is a sure way and path to authoritarian tendencies. The rights of citizens in our democracy are clear. The...

Back to square one some say. I am no expert in this relationship between Taliban and Afghanistan or with any other terrorist organizations, but we are experts in their messaging appeal. What we worry about you should too. What do we worry about? Our kids leaving our democracies again to join terrorists because Afghanistan is becoming a safe haven. The messages coming out of Afghanistan are equivalent to a seismic event such as the September 11th attacks. It creates a globalized appeal to our youths that their terrorist path is successful and democracies can be defeated. A path that others right now in your cities, states and countries can join in on. In 2014 when we started the Average Mohamed...

The discourse over radicalization in America has taken an ugly turn. This ugly turn we Muslims are very familiar with. When a Muslim extremist wantonly attacks all humanity randomly killing. All fingers, media, politicians, pundits and even the leigh folks blamed all Muslims for it. This not only isolated us Muslims but also led to degradation of our ability to be who we could be in America. One day while watching News my daughter listened and then she asked me. Dad does America hate Islam and all Muslim. I made a note to turn it off and never watch news before my children until they get to age to understand. No, I said as I have said thousands of times...

By Rick Hotchner, Barbara Thomas, and Mohamed Ahmed Political polarization, bitterness and contempt are dividing Americans in ways that threaten our nation’s existence. Although this state of affairs is decades in the making, respect for differences of opinion and compromise have declined sharply in recent years. Worsened by the stresses of COVID-19, as well as political rhetoric, media, social media, misinformation and disinformation designed to divide us, our country currently has a toxic brew of tribal conflict that could destroy our country from within and emboldens our foreign adversaries. Too many of us start sentences with “those people” and tend to see things in stark contrasts. Instead of considering the limitations of ourselves and our own group, we claim the...

A conversation recently asked? After 30 years of civil war we moved to democratic system of secular governance but we are yet in Somalia to come to terms with the civil war. Many said we need a Truth and Reconciliation Plan outreach all across Somalia. Thanks to my uncle being a tribal leader I got to sit in on many tribal meetings in the 90s all the way to today even here in America. There exists a class of people within each tribe, clan, sub clan and sub sub clan called Nabadhon's. It means peace makers. When ever there is conflict within the tribes they act as counselors for reason and make decisions on amendments or resolutions. The first time...

The bad ideas is defund the police or abolish police. Why is it a bad idea because crime exists in our cities and exists in our suburbs. Abolishing and defunding the institution best built to deal with it is just NUTS. What do I do as a citizen when there is a crime then? Who do we call for assistance? Underfunded police or abolished police? Second bad idea is taking away liability from cities to put on directly on the police or their pensions. What did insurance do to health care? Have we not learned a lesson there. Eventually we would be paying police cheaper than security guards because most of their pay goes into buying liability insurance. We get...

Average Mohamed Organization is widely accepted by research done by University of Southern California, Rand Corporation, Institute for Strategic Dialogue and UNDP as effective means to do work against Extremist. Visit www.averagemohamed.com if you wish to confirm it. Awarded National Prestige as 2018 Citizen Diplomat of the Year. Free Press, vanguard of information globally spread our ideas. Al Qaeda, ISIS and Al Shabab have noticed our works sent us multiple death threats. The good news is they could find nothing un-Islamic about our ideas countering them. That is what scared them the most. They don’t fear our bombs, they willingly die. They don’t fear jails they know they will recruit. What they fear is an Average Mohamed who can convince...

Evolution of Minds needed for the Revolution to Hold The Somali government led by President Farmajo has written laws, created a format and accepted a return of elections. The promise of one woman, one man, vote. This is tectonic level shift in Somalia politics as a first in 50 years. We Somalis look to countries whose nascent democratic system came after war be it civil war or still currently engaged in wars against terrorists and extremists as our canary in the mine moment. Afghanistan democracy has currently two camps claiming victory in the last elections. Iraq is facing a massive populist uprising. Both are facing like Somalia an entrenched insurgency led by the terrorist groups. The euphoria of voting for...