The US Army War College surrenders to intimidation

Jul 6, 2019 by

by Melanie Phillips:

Raymond Ibrahim is the author of an important new book about Islam, “Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West”.

In this meticulously researched work, he shows how anti-western attitudes have been endemic in Islam throughout its history. He charts how, over the centuries, Muslim armies went on the offensive to “reclaim” areas of the Middle East, north Africa, southern Europe and Asia Minor – which had belonged to the Roman, Hellenistic Greek or Jewish worlds centuries before Islam was even founded. He also shows how these wars against the west were usually religious rather than nationalistic.

As Ibrahim writes, his book

“definitively answers one of the most pressing questions of our time: Are militant Muslims—aka “terrorists,” “radicals,” “extremists”—being true to Islam, as they insist, or are they “hijacking” it for their own agendas, as we are told?”

His answer is emphatically yes – but he makes it not by relying on doctrinal texts that are open to interpretation but by documenting “what Muslims have actually done to and in the west for centuries”, demonstrating “that Muslim hostility to the west is not an aberration but a continuation of Islamic history”.

So the book is a vital contribution to our understanding of the most lethal and far-reaching geopolitical threat of our time.

I think you might be able to guess what’s coming next.

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