“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...]
The Gruesome Battle of Sagrajas: Muslims Worship Allah Atop 2,400 Decapitated Christian Heads
Today in history, a battle that radical Muslims of the ISIS variety all but venerate took place between Muslims and Christians in Spain, or al-Andalus. Context: in 1085, Alfonso VI of Leon-Castile captured the Muslim city of Toledo, thereby formally initiating the Reconquista. Great was the lamentation among Muslims and great the rejoicing among Christians. The … [Read more...]
Was America Discovered by an “Islamophobe”?
Christopher Columbus—that “genocidal madman and racist,” as he’s better known among the “woke” crowd, some of whom have vandalized his monuments—is back in the news, this time for his alleged “Islamophobia.” In “Was Columbus’ Voyage to the ‘New World’ Driven by Islamophobia?,” an article published on Columbus Day (yesterday, Oct. 12) by Slate, Rebecca Onion asked author Alan … [Read more...]