Earlier today I appeared on the 700 Club with Pat Robertson. During the segment titled, "Religion of Peace? Historian Documents 14 Centuries of War Between Islam and the West," we discussed my new book, Sword and Scimitar. Although the interview was originally slated for 7 minutes, we ended up talking for 20 minutes. The video follows: … [Read more...]
Asia Bibi and 1,400 Years of Muhammad ‘Blasphemers’
PJ Media “Hang the infidel” is the cry emanating from thousands of Muslim throats in Pakistan. The reason: Asia Bibi, a Christian woman accused of insulting Islam’s prophet Muhammad, has apparently not suffered enough. As the married mother of five wrote in her smuggled memoirs: “I've been locked up, handcuffed and chained, banished from the world and waiting to die” … [Read more...]
Palestinian Authority’s Top Cleric: Jerusalem Is Eternal Jihad’s Greatest Prize
PJ Media The Palestinian Authority has yet again made perfectly clear why achieving peace between Palestinians and Israelis is so difficult. In a speech laden with historical and theological allusions that few in the West -- but many in the Muslim world -- understand, Mahmoud al-Habbash, the Palestinian Authority’s leading Islamic cleric, supreme Sharia judge, and personal … [Read more...]
How Islam Apologists Like John Esposito Dupe Americans About Sharia
PJ Media Does Islam itself promote hostility for and violence against non-Muslims, or are all the difficulties between the West and Islam based on secondary factors—from “radical” interpretations of Islam, to economics and grievances? This is the fundamental question. Obviously, if “anti-infidel” hostility is inherent to Islam itself, then the conflict becomes … [Read more...]
The Folly of Multiculturalism
PJ Media Exactly how beneficial to a society is multiculturalism, this word that is so celebrated in the West? First one must define the word: It is “the view that cultures, races, and ethnicities, particularly those of minority groups, deserve special acknowledgement of their differences within a dominant political culture.” Note the immediate inaccuracies within this … [Read more...]