The true and literal meaning of “No compulsion in religion”…
Force and Fanaticism: Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond
A book review.
The Last Supper: The Plight of Christians in Arab Lands
A book review.
Seven Myths of the Crusades
A book review
Christian-Muslim Relations in Egypt: Politics, Society and Interfaith Encounters
A book review.
The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period
A book review…
Mideast Nuclear Holocaust
What would an Iranian-Israeli nuclear exchange be like?…
Persecution Myth? How the Present Explains the Past
Christianity has a long history of “annoying” its supremacist overlords…
The Closing of the Muslim Mind
Jihad Watch October 20, 2011 Note: Raymond Ibrahim reviews Robert Reilly’s book, The Closing of the Muslim Mind How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis Last week, “Saudi Arabia’s religious police arrested an Indonesian housemaid for casting a magic spell on a local family and ‘turning its life upside down.’” The maid “confessed” to using sorcery, and […]
St. Francis of Assisi, Fr. Zakaria Botros, and Islam
Polish While not formally connected, two books I recently finished reading — St. Francis of Assisi and the Conversion of Muslims and Defying Death: Zakaria Botross, Apostle to Islam — complement each other very well, specifically by establishing continuity between medieval and modern Islam, and, in so doing, demonstrating that Islamic intolerance has a long pedigree. For instance, after […]