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...]
Shock Therapy from Islamic History
The following article/review of Sword and Scimitar was originally written in the Czech language by Benjamin Kuras, a journalist and author (original here). Titled "Shock Therapy from Islamic History," it was published on Nov. 25, 2019: Here and there a book appears that has the effect of a therapeutic shock. In today's confused world, crowded with ever-gathering … [Read more...]
American Thinker: “Raymond Ibrahim and the History the Army Refuses to Heed”
On November 13, 2019, American Thinker published a review by John Dale Dunn, titled "Raymond Ibrahim and the History the Army Refuses to Heed." A shortened version follow: In the book Sword and Scimitar Raymond Ibrahim, an Egyptian Christian, tells the story of the millennium-plus of conflict between Islam and Western (Christian) Nations, structured on 8 landmark battles. … [Read more...]