U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama’s recent condemnation of medieval Christian history to exonerate modern Islam is a reminder of how woefully ignorant (or intentionally deceptive) a good many people in the West are concerning the true history of Christian Europe and Islam. The problem is that those who condemn things like the Crusades—including “mainstream” academics, … [Read more...]
The Truth about the Crusades
Were the Crusades a reflection of the "terrible deeds [done] in the name of Christ" as U.S. President Obama recently warned, or were they a reflection of something else, namely, centuries of Islamic jihad? In the following essay, one of the top historians of the Crusades definitively answers the question. Thomas Madden -- former Chair of the History Department at Saint Louis … [Read more...]
Raymond Ibrahim on Obama: Crusades, Inquisition, and Relativism
Yesterday I was interviewed on In the Market with Janet Parshall. We discussed President Obama's invocation of the Crusades and Inquisition and how apologists often do this to gloss over the daily atrocities being committed by the Islamic State and other Islamic groups and individuals -- in the name of relativism. To listen to the 20-minute-interview, click here and … [Read more...]
Obama: Christianity No Different Than Islamic State
FrontPage Magazine As the world reacts with shock and horror at the increasingly savage deeds of the Islamic State (IS)—most recently the immolation of a captive—U.S. President Obama’s response has been one of nonjudgmental relativism. Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, Obama counseled Americans to get off their “high horse” and remember that … [Read more...]
Surreal and Suicidal: Modern Western Histories of Islam
Spanish Portuguese The full magnitude of the modern West's ignorance of its own past recently struck me while rereading some early history books concerning the centuries-long jihad on Europe. The historical narrative being disseminated today simply bears very little resemblance to reality. Consider some facts for a moment: A mere decade after the birth of Islam in the … [Read more...]