Before the advent of Islam, Somalia was a land of demons and giants. There were no mosques back then, no minarets, no Sufi shrines, just scattered limestone cairns, called taallos, and mysterious caves filled with otherworldly depictions of giraffes and…
As the prospect of great numbers of Afghans fleeing their country — five million have been mentioned — comes into focus, a near-universal assumption exists that the West — meaning here Western and Central Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, and…
