The ritual decapitation of 800 Christians who refused Islam on August 14, 1480 -- 540 years ago today -- sheds much light on contemporary questions concerning the ongoing conflict between Islam and the West. Background: When he sacked Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman Sultan Muhammad II was only 21-years-old—meaning he still had many good decades of jihading before … [Read more...]
Hoori or Whore? Islam’s ‘72 Virgins’ Yearn for ‘Martyred’ Muslims
According to a July 22, 2020 article on PMW: Since the Palestinian Authority started its terror campaign—the second Intifada—in 2000, it has been promising terrorist Martyrs that as Muslims they will be rewarded in Paradise with 72 Dark-Eyed Virgins. The promises are given in religious lessons, statements by political figures, and poems and music videos, while funeral notices … [Read more...]
Hagia Sophia and Cathedral of Córdoba: The Jihad Factor
What’s ours is ours; and what’s yours is ours, as well. This is one of the primary messages coming from Muslims following the recent decision to transform the Hagia Sophia museum—which was originally built, and for a millennium functioned, as a Christian cathedral—into a trophy mosque again. For starters, consider the recent and deliberate display of the symbols of conquest … [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...]
A Response to “Dead Wrong: The Anti-Muslim Myth”
An especially stark example of how Leftists thrive on distorting history—a tactic pivotal to their very being—recently appeared. In a video titled “Dead Wrong: The Anti-Muslim Myth,” Johan Norberg, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute who holds an MA in “the History of Ideas” from the University of Stockholm, begins as follows: The Nativist right likes to tell the story of … [Read more...]