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...]
The Battle of Tours: When the West ‘Manfully Resisted’ Islam
Today in history, on October 10, 732, an epic battle saved Western Europe from becoming Islamic. Precisely one hundred years after the death of Islam’s prophet Muhammad in 632 -- a century which had seen the conquest of thousands of square miles of formerly Christian lands, including Syria, Egypt, North Africa, and Spain -- the scimitar of Islam found itself in the heart of … [Read more...]
The Greatest Example of Muslim Deceit (Taqiyya) in Western History
Recently we learned that Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad al-Qasimi, member of the Supreme Council of the UAE and ruler of Sharjah, called for the transformation of the Cathedral of Cordoba back to the Mosque of Cordoba, since Spain’s Christians “don’t deserve it.” What we weren’t told is what occasioned him to say this—the all-important context of his demand—namely, his new … [Read more...]