Muslims have at times allied with Europeans, sometimes even against fellow Muslims; as such, why see any Muslim attacks on Europe as ideologically driven—as jihads (“holy wars”) against the infidel? Why not see them all as generic wars? Such is the academic world’s main apologia against the notion that Islam’s military expansion throughout history was driven by a theological … [Read more...]
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Army Times Defends Terrorist-Linked CAIR
FrontPage Magazine Prior to my February 26 US Army War College talk, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”), Islamist activist Linda Sarsour, and their leftist allies began another round of press releases and petitions, referring to me as an “infamous Islamophobe” and urging the War College to cancel my lecture on Sword and Scimitar, which CAIR insisted would be … [Read more...]
Islam and the West: Motives behind the False Narrative
Any honest and objective appraisal of Islam’s historic jihad on the Christian world must be eye-opening, to say the very least. In the first century of its existence (between 632-732) Islam permanently conquered, Arabized, and Islamized nearly three-quarters of the Christian world, thereby permanently severing it. Europe came to be known as “the West” because it was literally … [Read more...]
American Thinker: “Raymond Ibrahim and the History the Army Refuses to Heed”
On November 13, 2019, American Thinker published a review by John Dale Dunn, titled "Raymond Ibrahim and the History the Army Refuses to Heed." A shortened version follow: In the book Sword and Scimitar Raymond Ibrahim, an Egyptian Christian, tells the story of the millennium-plus of conflict between Islam and Western (Christian) Nations, structured on 8 landmark battles. … [Read more...]
Ilhan Omar’s Anti-American, Pro-Islamic Polemic on the Armenian Genocide
Earlier this week the House voted overwhelmingly (405-11) in favor of formally recognizing the Armenian Genocide, which was perpetrated by Ottoman Turks. Among those miniscule few to vote “present,” thereby abstaining from voting, was Minnesotan Democrat, Ilhan Omar. Her logic was expressed in a tweet: A true acknowledgement of historical crimes against humanity must … [Read more...]
Sword and Scimitar: “Both a Treasure of Detailed Scholarship and Page-Turning Storytelling”
The following book review of my Sword and Scimitar was written by Mark Tapson for FrontPage Magazine, Oct. 9, 2019: On the 18th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 jihadist attacks on United States soil, as on every anniversary, the cry “Never forget!” went out across social media as Americans somberly vowed to keep the memory of 3,000 murdered innocents alive. But the … [Read more...]
The Battle of Lepanto: A Military and “Moral Victory” over Islam
Today in history witnessed one of the most cataclysmic clashes between Islam and the West—one where the latter for once crushed and humiliated the former. In 1570, Muslim Turks—in the guise of the Ottoman Empire—invaded the island of Cyprus, prompting Pope Pius V to call for and form a “Holy League” of maritime Catholic nation-states, spearheaded by the Spanish Empire, in … [Read more...]
“Kiss My Feet!” Islam’s Demand of Jews and Christians
FrontPage Magazine Few things are as reliably consistent as Muslim behavior—particularly the sort we are regularly assured has “nothing to do with Islam.” Otherwise, why does one find the same “disquieting” behavior in regions that widely differ in both time and space? Consider this new report from Australia: A 12-year-old Jewish student was forced to kneel down and … [Read more...]
The Many Faces of Jihad
FrontPage Magazine One of the longest standing apologias for Islam is that the Arabic word jihad does not mean “holy war,” as earlier scholars (mostly Orientalists) often translated it. Rather, we are repeatedly reminded—especially by those notorious for whitewashing Islam—that jihad simply means to “strive” for something, with no necessary connotation of violence. … [Read more...]
The Battle of Yarmuk: ISIS’s Blueprint for Terror
Today in history, on August 20, 636, one of the most consequential battles between Islam and the West took place, that of Yarmuk. Not only did it decide whether the Arabian creed thrives or dies; it became a chief source of inspiration and instruction for jihadis throughout the centuries, right down to the Islamic State, or “ISIS.” And yet, very few in the West … [Read more...]