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At the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, author Andrew Bostom discussed his new book "The Legacy of Antisemitism". Mr. Bostom draws from scholarly journals and sacred texts to argue that Islamic antisemitism is rooted in Islam's foundational texts.
I got my recorder all set up. thanks for the heads up.
Dr. Bostom was, as always, convincing, direct and unapologetic in presenting the truth, backing it up effectively with quotes, historical anecdotes and citations from Islamic texts.
However, I found that some of his message was (due to no fault of Dr. Bostom) watered down by the moderator (Hillel Fradkin) who, while agreeing with much of what Bostom had to say, gave a long, tedious and poorly delivered explanation of many different viewpoints on Islamic anti-semitism. As someone who reads a lot on this subject, I could understand what Fradkin was saying, but I'm not sure that a general audience would have sat through his speech.
Frankly, I was quite frustrated by Fradkin's unbearable style of speaking and his clouding of the issue at hand with excess over-analysis. I had tuned in to hear Dr. Bostom and felt Fradkin was taking precious time away from someone who has a message that desperately needs to be heard by as many people as possible.
Why did Fradkin feel give his opinions (and in such a long-winded and muddled fashion) on what Dr. Bostom had said? We were tuned in for Dr. Bostom, not a counterpoint to, or restatement of, his thesis.
I am frustrated. Infidels needed to hear Dr. Bostom straight, not watered down by an intruding moderator.
They may post the video to their youtube account.
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The thing that is misleading about the work in question is that there are many examples of Jews, who although 2nd class citizens, did great things and led comfortable lives under Muslim rule and in particular in Spain. In fact some led better lives than the majority Muslim population, in spite of being labeled as Dhimmis and they certainly faired better than living in Christian European, which is why many found their way to Muslim Spain.
When Spain was reconquered by Christians and the Jews thrown out the majority settled in Morocco. More than a quarter of a million were still living there until around 1950. The majority left as a result of the tensions that grew out of the War of 1948.
The other thing is that the book ignores positive statements about Jews even from the time of Muhammed. I think the work is filtered through the eyes of today's polarized issues.
I wish cspan would have Dr. Bostom on a more reasonable hour.
I just got verizon cable and I still don't know how to tape programs with a vhs tape player.
If anyone can enlighten me, I would be very grateful.
Caught the video here and was pleasantly surprised with a couple of unexpected bonuses.
Both Joshua London and Stephen Coughlin (? not sure, introduced himself as Steve Coglin) were in the audience asking Dr. Bostom questions. Good company, to be sure.