Recently, the Grand Imam of Al Azhar University, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, claimed that the seventh century Muslim conquests of the mostly Christian majority Middle East and North Africa “were not conquests of colonization that rely on the methods of plunder, oppression, control, and the policies of domination and dependency.” Rather, they were about bringing “knowledge, justice, … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2022
Video: Defenders of the West in Stephen Bannon’s War Room
The other day I discussed my new book, Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam, with Stephen Bannon, in the War Room, below: … [Read more...]
Zakaria Botros: 87 and Still Boldly Challenging Islam
What a world of difference there is between anti-Islamic polemics emanating from the secular West and those emanating from the religiously charged Arab world itself. This is the thought I have whenever I watch Arabic language programs and debates, which tend to have an unrestrained and animated quality. Fr. Zakaria Botros, first introduced to non-Arabic speakers in my 2008 … [Read more...]
Today in History: Dracula Terrorizes Muslim Terrorists
Today—or rather, tonight—in history, Vlad the Impaler launched a midnight raid against Muslim invaders that would cause his name to live on forever as Dracula, the terror of the night. The year was 1462. Ottoman sultan Muhammad II (or “Mehmet”) had demanded tribute, by way of gold and Romanian boys to serve as his slave soldiers (janissaries). Vlad III Dracula—better known as … [Read more...]
When the Cid Shattered the Teeth of the Jihad
Today in history witnessed one of the most remarkable feats in the long war between Islam and Christianity: the capitulation of the great kingdom of Valencia, which had been under Muslim control since the eighth century Islamic invasion of Spain, to the warlord Roderick (or Rodrigo) Díaz of Vivar — better known to posterity as "the Cid" (from the Arabic honorific al-sayyid, … [Read more...]