Juan Cole—an academic who excels at cherry-picking when not completely distorting the Koran—recently published an article that opens by, irony of ironies, accusing jihadists of “cherry picking” Koran verses to justify their terrorism: One of the great tragedies of the early twenty-first century is that the great civilization of Islam, over 1400 years old and with tremendous … [Read more...]
What Catholics Need to Know about Islam
Of the various strands of Christianity, historically, Catholicism was the chief enemy of Islam. It was the popes who called for the crusades; and it was Catholics who took the cross. Times have changed, radically. Today, the Catholic Church’s hierarchy stands among the greatest apologists for Islam. Europe’s top cardinal, Jean-Claude Hollerich, recently said, for … [Read more...]
How a Fiercely Christian Nation Became Fanatically Islamic
One of the benefits of Adel Guindy’s new book, A Sword Over the Nile: A Brief History of the Copts Under Islamic Rule, is that it implicitly answers an important question: how and why did non-Muslim nations become Islamic? In this case, how did Egypt go from being overwhelmingly Christian in the seventh century, to being overwhelmingly Muslim in the twenty-first century? To … [Read more...]
A Sword Over the Nile: New Book Exposes 14 Centuries of Christian Persecution
February 2015 was the first time many in the West heard of the Copts, Egypt’s indigenous, Christian inhabitants. Then, the Islamic State published what subsequently went viral—a gory video of their jihadi members savagely carving off the heads of 20 Copts and one Ghanaian by the shores of Libya because they refused to renounce Christ for Islam. Little known, however, is … [Read more...]
Sword and Scimitar : “Not for the Squeamish”
Note: The following book review appeared on Moonbattery: We might reverse the decline and fall of Western Civilization if only we could get enough people to read Sword and Scimitar, a new book by Raymond Ibrahim. This highly readable military history of the ongoing 1,400-year war between Islam and the West focuses on eight key battles, four of which where won by either … [Read more...]