Although the recent conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been presented as a “territorial dispute,” something else—namely religious animosity, or that old Islamic hate for infidels—has permeated it. For example, several reports and testimonials, including by an independent French journalist, confirmed that Turkey was funneling jihadi/terrorist groups that had been … [Read more...]
Video: Call to the First Crusade in the War Room with Stephen Bannon
Yesterday was the anniversary of the Council of Clermont, when Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade, on November 27, 1095. I discussed it in the War Room with Stephen Bannon, starting around the 1:52:06 mark: … [Read more...]
Chipped Away into Nonexistence: Armenia Surrounded by Islam
“Peace” was recently achieved between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which had been fighting for nearly two months, after the Christian nation agreed to cede its ancestral lands in Artsakh to its Muslim neighbor. From a temporal and myopic point of view, such a settlement may seem progressive; from a long point of view it is regressive and reflective of the continuum of … [Read more...]
Doomed to Failure: All of France’s Counter Terror Initiatives
PJ Media A critical question arises in light of the recent spate of fatal terror attacks in France and other European nations: How do you once and for all eradicate “extremism” from Muslim communities living in the West? Western leaders usually respond by citing anything and everything from new “initiatives” meant to foster closer relations between Muslim communities and … [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...]