Bat Ye’or, whose groundbreaking historical research on dhimmitude opened my eyes, made sense of a great deal I was seeing in Islamic doctrine and history but which was not explained elsewhere, and inspired me to do the work I am doing now, speaks at the Vienna Forum in Austria.
Her talk was sponsored by the Hudson Institute, the Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe, and Kairos Journal. The Forum topic was “The Future of Europe and the Challenge of Islam.” Bat Ye’or spoke as part of a panel, “Historical Background and Thorny Issues,” with Douglas Murray, Paul Marshall and me.