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“Moderate” Muslim professor Akbar Ahmed calls for “New Andalusia” in Europe

Feb 28, 2018 2:32 pm By Robert Spencer

Akbar Ahmed, the Pakistani high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland and the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, is thrilled about Todd Green’s “generous and brilliantly insightful” review of his book Journey into Europe:

In it, Green, a longtime propagator of the “Islamophobia” myth and open foe of the freedom of speech, says that Ahmed calls for a “pluralist identity” in Europe and “uses the Spanish term la convivencia to capture this strand of European identity and lifts up Jewish, Muslim, and Christian co-existence and cooperation in historic Andalusia as an example of this pluralist model.” He praises Journey into Europe because “it does not censor perspectives on Muslims that might give the reader pause concerning the realization of a New Andalusia,” but this just turns out to be another spurious claim to Muslim victimhood, highlighting “the anger Europe’s Muslim youth sometimes feels toward the majority population, particularly in light of policies that contribute to their marginalization and alienation in countries like Britain.” Yes, of course, it’s all Britain’s fault, as it is always the fault of the Infidel.

A New Andalusia. In the old Andalusia, as I show in my forthcoming book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, the Muslims ruled, and the place was hardly a paradise for non-Muslims. Even Maria Rosa Menocal, in her extended whitewash of Muslim Spain called The Ornament of the World, admits that the laws of dhimmitude were very much in force in the great Al-Andalus:

The dhimmi, as these covenanted peoples were called, were granted religious freedom, not forced to convert to Islam. They could continue to be Jews and Christians, and, as it turned out, they could share in much of Muslim social and economic life. In return for this freedom of religious conscience the Peoples of the Book (pagans had no such privilege) were required to pay a special tax — no Muslims paid taxes — and to observe a number of restrictive regulations: Christians and Jews were prohibited from attempting to proselytize Muslims, from building new places of worship, from displaying crosses or ringing bells. In sum, they were forbidden most public displays of their religious rituals.

So much for a “pluralistic identity.” Also, historian Kenneth Baxter Wolf observes that “much of this new legislation aimed at limiting those aspects of the Christian cult which seemed to compromise the dominant position of Islam.” After enumerating a list of laws much like Menocal’s, he adds: “Aside from such cultic restrictions most of the laws were simply designed to underscore the position of the dhimmis as second-class citizens.”

If Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived together peaceably and productively only with Christians and Jews relegated by law to second-class status, then al-Andalus has absolutely no reason to be lionized in our age, and it is revealing that Akbar Ahmed and Todd Green are lionizing it anyway. Whatever the Christians and Jews of al-Andalus accomplished, they were still dhimmis. They enjoyed whatever rights and privileges they had not out of any sense of the dignity of all people before God, or the equality of all before the law, but at the sufferance of their Muslim overlords.

Is that the New Andalusia that Akbar Ahmed and Todd Green want?

Note also that the book is published by the pro-Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar-funded Brookings Institution.

“Journey into Europe, by Akbar Ahmed,” a review by Todd Green, Reading Religion, February 26, 2018:

Writing any type of survey book on Islam in Europe is not a task for the faint of heart. Islam’s long-term presence in Europe, combined with its myriad expressions and trajectories across the continent in modern history, makes such a project a daunting one. Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, the Pakistani high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland and the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, takes up this challenge and produces a masterpiece in Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity (Brookings Institution Press, 2018). The book is a magisterial examination of Islam’s place in Europe’s historical, cultural, and political landscape….

Journey into Europe is both descriptive and prescriptive. What Ahmed describes is a continent at a crossroads as it struggles to determine how, or whether, Islam factors into its own identity formation. Ahmed illuminates this struggle by arguing Europe is best characterized by three competing identities. The first is its primordial identity, a type of tribalism in which Europeans come to value their own unique culture and traditions. The second is its predator identity, an aggressive, exclusivist, and even militaristic form of expression that defines what it means to be European in narrow religious, ethnic, or racial terms. The third is its pluralist identity. This identity moves away from tribe and blood by drawing on the shared history of diverse peoples in Europe. Ahmed uses the Spanish term la convivencia to capture this strand of European identity and lifts up Jewish, Muslim, and Christian co-existence and cooperation in historic Andalusia as an example of this pluralist model….

One of the greatest strengths of Journey into Europe is that it does not censor perspectives on Muslims that might give the reader pause concerning the realization of a New Andalusia. In addition to presenting stories of Muslims collaborating and cooperating with the non-Muslim majority for the common good, Ahmed also tackles sensitive topics pertaining to Europe’s Muslims, including instances of anti-Semitism, cases of foreign fighters joining ISIS, and expressions of anger or resentment toward the majority population.

In one notable account, he describes how three researchers on his team, while parked outside a mosque in Bradford, England, as they were preparing to film a documentary, were verbally harassed by large numbers of British-Pakistani students coming out of a nearby school. At one point, some students pounded on the vehicle in an act of physical intimidation. The proximity of the researchers to the mosque was seen as an act of provocation, and the students responded accordingly. It was an ugly scene and a most unfortunate experience given the purpose of the research project.

Ahmed could have kept this story to himself since the incident was an exception to the overall hospitable welcome his team received from Muslims throughout Europe. He didn’t. He puts it out there as something readers must come to terms with in trying to make sense of the anger Europe’s Muslim youth sometimes feels toward the majority population, particularly in light of policies that contribute to their marginalization and alienation in countries like Britain….

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  1. Esperanza says

    Feb 28, 2018 at 2:37 pm

    Santiago, protect us from moors!!!!!

    • Andy says

      Feb 28, 2018 at 8:36 pm

      “I can tell you now, we will never surrender”

      • Andy says

        Feb 28, 2018 at 10:11 pm

        SOROS trying to stop right wing party win in Italy

        • Lydia Church says

          Feb 28, 2018 at 10:36 pm

          And it is not some Andalusian journey leading to paradise, it is a Trojan horse leading to hell on earth!

        • Andy says

          Feb 28, 2018 at 10:58 pm

          Meanwhile in Canada …………………

          “White” Antifa Lefties call Asians “racist”

        • bonnie louise loranger says

          Mar 1, 2018 at 9:53 am

          Soros is a MONSTER

      • martin says

        Mar 1, 2018 at 4:30 am

        NAZI BNP FRONT GROUP THAT ALSO LIES IN CLAIMING TO BE CHRISTIAN

        • Andy says

          Mar 1, 2018 at 3:15 pm

          Purge the right from existence!

      • CRUSADER says

        Mar 1, 2018 at 8:33 pm

        Gracias!

        • Andy says

          Mar 1, 2018 at 8:38 pm

          My pleasure, CRUSADER.

          also, check out:

    • Lydia Church says

      Feb 28, 2018 at 10:34 pm

      Some never seem to get it. Others choose not to. Some get it at the top but pretend not to.

      Reality: What do they think we already have now? A world full of all kinds of people. Europe has all types including LOTS of muslims. And… how is that plan working out? Is it some utopic paradise??? Then what makes them think it ever will be? Oh, wait, I forgot. It’s just because they haven’t told them yet to try to ‘live peacefully with their neighbors’! They just needed to be told to be tolerant and respectful. They just need someone to tell them to be ‘nice’. That’s all! After that, everything should work fine! Oh, wait. Nevermind. They did that already. So tell me again, oh wise experts, why is it not working? Where is the paradise utopia that they claim is possible? Not in reality land!

      It is the same with those who advocate for world peace. Just… “Give peace a chance,” they say. Uh, yeah, we did that. We tried it many times. We gave it a chance. The problem is, others did not. And it takes all to agree for that to work, which will never happen.

      This is all leading to the false paradise and ‘tolerant’ utopia, fake world ‘peace’, one world religion, government, and economy that is on the way.

      Also, the reason why this stuff does not work is as follows. First let me say that there is nothing wrong with ‘peace.’ Peace is a good thing, no argument there. But just don’t bet anything stupid on there ever being true peace until Kingdom Come. I see this all the time with kids at school. People are born with a sin nature, and it shows up right away. But culture makes it worse. So you have kids who are mean, rude, disrespectful, bullies, you name it. But the schools come up with all these little ‘recitations’ for them about how they are going to be ‘good.’ They show movies and read stories about how to be ‘nice.’ They have large scale ‘kindness’ challenges. ‘Peace-builder’ programs, etc. etc. They watch. They recite. They read and talk about it. They may even win an award. But at the end of the day, they are still mean, sassy, selfish bullies. When they have the chance and no one is looking, they really let it all hang out, and it’s not pretty folks. But you don’t have to tell a nice person to be ‘nice’. This brings me to the gospel again. The only way we can be truly changed, and it can’t be an external program, it must be internal, is by God. If we come to Jesus we get the Holy Spirit who changes us from the inside out. WE are able to live peacefully because we have God’s peace in our hearts. But the world as a whole does not and thus cannot live in peace. The 1st arrival dealt with personal sin. The 2nd; with judging the sin of the world and establishing the kingdom and then, and only then, will there be true peace. The rest…. is just a bad joke!

      • Roderick MacUalraig says

        Feb 28, 2018 at 10:49 pm

        I’m not a religious man, as most would evaluate me, I guess.

        I think our culture took care in past generations to curb and direct these energies. I don’t know, really. I know so little I feel, as I get older.

        But I think I understand what you’re saying, Lydia.

        Thank you for taking the time to write that.

        At the end of the day I’m finding peace in the idea that God created the night and day. The Tao is the dark and the light….

        It’s for us to figure it out. To apprehend that peace. And then to try to radiate it as best we can with a warrior’s spirit.

        But it doesn’t hurt at all to walk for awhile with others, fools and saves both.

        Thanks. Again.

      • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

        Mar 1, 2018 at 12:04 pm

        Muslims exported civilisation to mithraist christians through Andalusia, but they rewarded with genocide from evil Bible

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 1, 2018 at 9:12 pm

          By “civilization”, Ibrahim itace muhammed means oppression and murder.

          I suppose he hopes no one notices that Spain and Portugal began flourishing the very year–1492–that the last of the Muslim invaders were ousted. This was hardly a coincidence.

        • Save Europe says

          Mar 2, 2018 at 4:24 am

          You are truly a tedious individual.

      • george says

        Mar 1, 2018 at 6:50 pm

        Thank you, Lydia. I couldn’t agree with you more!

  2. Nige31 says

    Feb 28, 2018 at 2:45 pm

    If they feel alienated then that is excellent.
    Hopefully they will do something about it and take their stinking medieval dogma back to where it came from and stay there with it. They are neither welcome or wanted in the UK.

    • George Joseph says

      Mar 1, 2018 at 11:02 am

      Muslims feeling alienated in European countries!!
      Why? What laws make them feel alienated?
      They have such religious freedom in Europe as they can only dream about in their own countries. Plus opportunities for educational and economic advancement without any restrictions.

      Why are Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jews not feeling alienated in Europe and the U.S.? They are all prospering and getting into top positions in both government and civil life in all those countries.

      When Muslims are governed by the same set of laws as others are, how can laws lead to alienation of anyone?

      In fact, it is non-Muslims in the 56 Muslim majority countries who rightly feel alienated because of the two sets of laws – one for Muslims and the other for non-Muslims. And you have the gall to accuse secular, inclusive, kind and empathetic society of exclusion and causing alienation?

      With such ideas and attitudes, I see no hope for Muslims. Their brains seem to have been either corrupted or have eroded over the centuries.
      Muslims, understand this: Europe and the U.S. are the best countries in the world for you to live. Just look at the countries you left to confirm this.

      If you still feel alienated, there is a good way out. Pack your bags, leave preferably for Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Libya, Sudan or Mali, or Mauritania.
      You are sure to feel included, educated, culturally enriched, economically prospering. Good luck!!

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 1, 2018 at 9:13 pm

        Muslims always feel “alienated” when they are not oppressing others…

      • esther says

        Mar 2, 2018 at 2:27 am

        I will help you understand muslim “alienation” Muslims are taught—from infancy
        that they are the RULERS OF THE WORLD—–and all non-muslims are inferiors—
        It is a kind of CASTE SYSTEM —muslims on top. ——-way way down the totem pole
        are acceptable monotheists—–enslaved to muslims——and then come polytheists—-
        dirt. Muslims feel ALIENATED when they are not the rulers of —–wherever
        they are. Such a situation does not meet the TRUTH OF THE PERFECT KORAN.
        Keep in mind that they also “know” that the imposition of their rule is “best for all
        mankind” —-ie they do it for your benefit

      • Save Europe says

        Mar 2, 2018 at 4:27 am

        Superb post ??

  3. Gjallarhornet says

    Feb 28, 2018 at 2:46 pm

    No hay necesidad de una ‘nueva Andalucia’. Ya tenemos una y es fantástica.

    (there is no need for a ‘new Andalucia’. We got an Anadalucia in place – and its wonderful.)

    • Roderick MacUalraig says

      Feb 28, 2018 at 3:09 pm

      Claro, hombre! My grandmother from that fair land! A dark haired beauty was she. It could be better without the EU and the Muzz!

      Simple seaside days in Rota with my love Rachel. And me mates!!

      If I could tell you.

      ?? ??

      • Gjallarhornet says

        Feb 28, 2018 at 3:36 pm

        !España en el corazón! 🙂

  4. Guy Forester says

    Feb 28, 2018 at 3:13 pm

    So, this guy points out that some “British-Pakistani” students were behaving in an aggressive manner. Were these non-muslim refugees from that Islamic paradise of his? Were they Shia or another muslim group that is “marginalized” by the majority Sunni?

    The reason Andalusia needed dimmi taxpayers is that otherwise the place would go bankrupt. Same this as today.

  5. Phil Copson says

    Feb 28, 2018 at 3:27 pm

    Yadder, yadder, yadder – the only people who are “marginalized and alienated” in any Western countries are those who refuse to integrate, subscribe to an alien ideology and choose to live on the margins.

    Funny how people from India, the West Indies, Uganda, the Philippines, China, Vietnam etc etc and from a whole variety of religions can all fit in ok if they choose to………why, one might almost think that there was something about these “alienated and marginalised” youths that made it their own fault……

    • Shmoovie says

      Feb 28, 2018 at 3:52 pm

      Those who choose to remain “alienated” have never had so many supporters and cheerleaders in media, politics, ‘entertainment’ etc, as they do now.
      Anyone is free to return to their beloved superior homeland. The ‘victims’ find it cheaper, easier and more comfortable to stay on and complain.

  6. Shmoovie says

    Feb 28, 2018 at 3:33 pm

    Great point– if all was well between Christians Jews and muslims why bother to re-state the wonderfulness in a new book?!
    How does Akbar Ahmed regard “The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise”?

  7. mortimer says

    Feb 28, 2018 at 3:35 pm

    THE MYTH OF AN ANDALUSIAN PARADISE IS NOT SUPPORTED BY HISTORICAL FACTS. IT WAS AN ANDALUSIAN PURGATORY and CHAMBER OF EXTERMINATION INSTEAD.

    Spain was a jihadist country par-excellence (mass public execution for blasphemy, pogroms of Jews, intolerant laws, expulsions of Christians …).

    In 851, took place a mass execution of 48 Christian monks who refused to accept Mohammed or publicly announced their Christian faith.

    In 1066, there took place the first big pogrom against Jews in Europe, more than 4 000 Jews – including children and women were killed in one day. In Islamic Spain the Jewish population had to wear clothes which clearly separated them from a Muslim population.

    The Caliph Hisham I of Córdoba started in 792 an offensive Jihad against France, plundering Bordeaux and killing famous medieval hero Roland was stopped a few kilometres from Paris.

    The Caliph Al-Hakam I after a revolt of native Christian population in Cordoba expelled more than 20 000 families out of their native home.

    Thanks to Ibn Rushd, a famous master of Islamic law, who lived in Islamic Spain we know this was according to Islamic law completely legal.

    “(Islamic) scholars agree that all polytheists should be fought. This is founded on [K. 8:39]: “Fight them until there is no persecution and the religion is entirely Allah’s.”

    “All Muslims agree that the aim of warfare against the People of the Book, with the exception of those belonging to the Quraysh-tribe and Arab Christians, is twofold: either conversion to Islam, or payment of poll-tax (djizyah).”

    “Damage inflicted upon the enemy may consist in damage to his property, injury to his person or violation of his personal liberty, i.e., that he is made a slave and is appropriated. This may be done, according to the Consensus (idjma) to all polytheists: men, women, young and old, important and unimportant.”

    Maimonides who lived in Islamic Spain (also in Morocco and Egypt) wrote about life in Spain with Muslims:

    “Never did a nation molest, degrade, debase and hate us as much as they did, although we were dishonored by them beyond human endurance, and had to put up with their fabrications. Similarly our sages instructed us to bear the prevarications and preposterousness of Ishmael in silence. We have acquiesced, both old and young, to inure ourselves to humiliation. All this notwithstanding, we do not escape this continued maltreatment which well nigh curses us. No matter how much we suffer and elect to remain at peace with them, they stir up strife and sedition.”

    Darío Fernández-Morera, an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and of Comparative Literature at Northwestern University has written about myth of tolerant Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain).
    “By any objective standards, then, and in spite of its undeniable artistic, literary, and scientific accomplishments, and of modern wishful “let-us-all-get-along” thinking that tries to gloss over evidence to the contrary, Islamic Spain was not a model of multicultural harmony. Andalusia was beset by religious, political, and racial conflicts controlled in the best of times only by the application of tyrannical force. Its achievements are inseparable from its turmoil.”

    • Tjhawk says

      Feb 28, 2018 at 3:49 pm

      “THE MYTH OF AN ANDALUSION PARADICE IS NOT SUPPORTED BY HISTORICAL FACTS.”

      Yes, that’s why it’s called a myth.?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 28, 2018 at 4:14 pm

      Good post, Mortimer.

    • Westman says

      Feb 28, 2018 at 4:17 pm

      This time around, an attempt to establish a “New Andalusia” will be stopped by the “New Civil Wars”.

      Europe is already unable to stop immigrant common crime and has given up trying, instead concentrating on “islamophobia”; which will also soon overwhelm police apparatus as the Islam-based attrocities expand.

      I’m reasoning that Germany will be the first population to break with its own governing elite, followed by France. Sweden should have been the first but appears to be so engrossed, like ancient Rome, in personal hedonism that it won’t see the loss of freedom coming. The Netherland’s Amsterdam is in a similar state.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Feb 28, 2018 at 4:30 pm

      The Multicultural Lie and the Myth of the Golden Age of Spain –

      An interview with Dario Fernandez-Morera

      • D J says

        Feb 28, 2018 at 4:47 pm

        A wonderful book for exposing the corruption involved in propagating the myth.

      • dragaozao says

        Feb 28, 2018 at 5:28 pm

        Thanks for these post. Precious.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Feb 28, 2018 at 6:52 pm

        Been meaning to read that book.

      • VRWC member77 says

        Mar 1, 2018 at 6:39 pm

        I was just going to post information about that exact book. Thanks Stella.

        It’s good read with a lot of source reference material.

      • CRUSADER says

        Mar 1, 2018 at 8:35 pm

        Gracias por la información!

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 1, 2018 at 10:49 pm

        Thanks for the link, Stella.

    • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

      Feb 28, 2018 at 5:10 pm

      Thank you Mortimer for presenting details to dismiss this myth.

      As for me, I am sick and tired of having to memorize and regurgitate endless details to change the minds of the willfully ignorant virtue signalers and the self-serving collaborators. I’m beginning to think that maybe we should just cut to the chase and get on with enforcing the border between Dar al Harb and Dar al Islam, come what may.
      Deus Vult

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Feb 28, 2018 at 6:53 pm

        Another thing that makes American great is that your patriots can choose, if they wish, to guard the border, be armed as they do so, and not be instantly arrested for it.

        • Guy Forester says

          Mar 1, 2018 at 12:16 am

          Dear LRC,

          I wish that what you have said is true, but I can assure you that those that have tried to maintain a border watch, armed or not, have not fared well. Direct opposition and threats of prosecution under the GWB and BHO administration have left the borders open until DJT restarted ICE.

          I have followed this closely for years. When unarmed patriots went to the San Diego border years ago, all they did was shine lights on the border area. They were opposed by the usual culprits and eventually forced out by those that were supposed to guard the area.

          All of the websites I followed that covered this over the years (at least 3 that I can think of) are now defunct.

          Homeowners that have tried to hold illegal aliens for arrest have themselves been arrested. Some of them have also suffered worse retribution by the coyotes and cartel soldiers (real soldiers in gear and military vehicles as well). The robberies, burglaries, and murders of US citizens along the border do not get investigated or follow up in many areas.

          I used to listen to at least 6 different radio broadcasters that specifically covered the open borders problem. 2 were fired, never to be heard from again. 3 died from natural causes (not replaced by anyone), and one radio station that carried 2 of them was sold to become a sports only channel. Only one person on the radio in SoCal now dares to bring this up, even on a periodic basis.

          DJT has improved the situation, but believe me, there is a lot of open border and plenty get across every day. But just like the tree falling in a forest, if no one sees them come across, did it really happen?

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 1, 2018 at 12:28 am

          Grimly true, Guy.

        • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

          Mar 1, 2018 at 12:38 am

          FYI

          Headline:
          “Ultranationalism globally prompts Liberals to spend on multiculturalism at home”

          Translation:
          “Growing anti-globalism sentiments worldwide prompts globalist trust-brat rich boy Trudeau to spend taxpayer’s dollars to push nation-killing multiculralism down people’s throats.”

          http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/ultranationalism-around-the-world-prompts-liberals-to-spend-on-multiculturalism

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Mar 1, 2018 at 10:52 am

          hmmm really interesting information there Guy.

          looks like i had grabbed that issue by the wrong end, so thanks for clearing it up for me!

      • CRUSADER says

        Mar 1, 2018 at 8:46 pm

        +++++++++
        DEUS VULT
        +++++++++

    • Guy Forester says

      Mar 1, 2018 at 12:03 am

      Enlightening. Thank you Mortimer.

    • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

      Mar 2, 2018 at 1:35 am

      mortimer, the Satan (holy spirit) has seriously damaged your brain disputing cogent historical evidence without presenting a counter evidence to disprove It. Ignorant fool !!

    • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

      Mar 2, 2018 at 1:45 am

      mortimer, the Muslims turned Andalusia into paradise have been supported by archeological evidence unlike the myths in mithraist Bible inspired by the Satan the futher of lies

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 3, 2018 at 12:48 am

        By “paradise”, Ibrahim itace muhammed means that Muslims had plenty of Jews and Christians to oppress and murder.

        This is what he dreams of in the West.

  8. gravenimage says

    Feb 28, 2018 at 4:05 pm

    “Moderate” Muslim professor Akbar Ahmed calls for “New Andalusia” in Europe
    ………………….

    In other words, he is calling for the reconquest of Spain and other parts of Europe, and the subjugation of non-Muslims under brutal dhimmitude.

    • mariam rove says

      Feb 28, 2018 at 5:12 pm

      That is exactly what he is saying and looking for. But guess what, it aint happening!!! M

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 1, 2018 at 10:56 pm

        I hope not, miriam. And it’s great to see you posting again.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Feb 28, 2018 at 6:54 pm

      That is quite moderate as these people go…..

  9. dragaozao says

    Feb 28, 2018 at 5:04 pm

    I don’t wish to be rude but… it takes and american professor to write all those stupid things. Pure ignorance. The idiot lives in a paralel world, where there is no memory. Regularly, some american academics (and journalists) write about these issues, mocking those countries, like Hungary, who didn’t forget that the borders with islam where always bloody. And why shoud they? They only exist as nations because of their resistance. It’s History, stupid!

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 1, 2018 at 10:59 pm

      Pakistani Akbar Ahmed is not an American professor–he is a devout Muslim spouting Islamic supracism.

  10. livingengine says

    Feb 28, 2018 at 5:32 pm

    This is Akbar Ahmed’s “Journey into America”. It should be entitled Journey into the muslim Brotherhood in America. This man is not your friend.

  11. Benedict says

    Feb 28, 2018 at 5:38 pm

    “When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to [accept] Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them. … If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah’s help and fight them.”
    (Sahih Muslim, Book 19, Number 4294.)

    This was how Islam came to Europe. The ultimate method of spreading Islam in the beginning was war and it still is. This fact disqualifies for ever Islam’s “journey into Europe” and contaminates every expression of Islam in this continent. Islam has no legitimate place in Europe not even as a reformed and moderate religion. The ugly smell of power and violence can never be washed away from this repulsive invention of a demon possessed prophet.

    Contrast Islam’s introduction in Europe with the apostle Paul’s Vision of the Man of Macedonia (Acts 16:6-10) and make up your mind about which way of spreading a religion is divine and gracious and therefore which religion to reject: Islam or Christianity with its root in Judaism and the revelations of OT?

  12. Peter says

    Feb 28, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    New Andalusia
    +
    New Reconquista
    =
    No Islamists

  13. infidel says

    Feb 28, 2018 at 10:22 pm

    There are many stupid leftists in India too who would approve of this book and apply the same thing to India too as to how Hindus and Muslims could live peacefully together and how India Pakistan and Bangladesh MUST REUNITE.. because they were all one country b4 1947. Once again, this is nothing but plain hogwash… India is a democracy today only because it is Hindu majority. The moment, its Muslim population even comes to 40% from its present 20% ( and which is inevitable), all coexistence will go out of the window and Hindus will immediately become pathetic Dhimmis..

    • infidel says

      Feb 28, 2018 at 10:25 pm

      Also, if India, Pak, and Bangla were to hypothetically reunite today, the Hindu majority will fall from its current 80% to a wafer-thin 51% and we all then know too well as to what will happen to this united India…GOD FORBID!! But most Muslims in India, would love for this to happen and re-enslave Hindus again.

  14. brane pilot says

    Feb 28, 2018 at 10:32 pm

    Do not cry for a continent where men wear fingernail polish, and schools have ‘cross-dressing’ days where male and female students and teachers attend school dressed as the opposite sex.
    European civilization has died.
    Religion has been replaced with virtue signaling based upon how enthusiastically this death is celebrated.
    Islam is the flock of vultures descending upon it.
    At this point it is over.
    .

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 1, 2018 at 11:05 pm

      If you think Europe–whatever its current foibles–would be better under Islam you are *much* mistaken.

  15. Sven Oljaski says

    Mar 1, 2018 at 12:41 am

    What a wonderful lie. Muslim Spain was a horrible place. There is a reason they were fought and beaten back behind Gibraltar. I hope the Austrians wake up and finish the job -AGAIN.

  16. Rob says

    Mar 1, 2018 at 12:53 am

    Once a territory has been under Islamic domination, even if taken by force and then lost by force, REMAINS Islamic.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 1, 2018 at 11:11 pm

      Yes–this is what Muslims believe.

  17. MFritz says

    Mar 1, 2018 at 1:30 am

    Basically Never-Neverland. It never was and it never will be.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Mar 2, 2018 at 9:55 pm

      and all the muslims are like peter pan – they never grow older than the seventh century.

  18. Charles T Lawson says

    Mar 1, 2018 at 5:13 am

    Thats why we can never trust moderate islam ,Because there is NO MODERATE ISLAM . The people were right in their thinking , and the Government WRONG AGAIN .

  19. balam says

    Mar 1, 2018 at 6:11 am

    I like the Andalusia of 1452 when King Ferdinand threw all the Muslims out of SPAIN.Time has come for the WEST to do likewise for its peaceful existence. You can never change the twisted Muslim mind.Akbar Ahmed is a true deceitful Muslim.He is like a SNAKE in the American sleeve.He should be sent back to Pakistan{land of the PURE where only IMPURITY is PURE}.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 3, 2018 at 12:50 am

      1492–but I take your points.

      • balam says

        Mar 3, 2018 at 4:15 am

        Gravenmage:Thank you for correcting me.

  20. Michael Copeland says

    Mar 1, 2018 at 6:55 am

    Akbar Ahmed, from Pakistan, holds the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University.

    Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), a contemporary of Chaucer, is described as “the world’s most renowned Muslim thinker”. Here is what he wrote about Arabs:

    “Arabs …. are, by their savage nature, people of pillage and corruption. They pillage everything that they can take without fighting or taking risks, then flee to their refuge in the wilderness…

    …and do not stand and do battle unless in self-defense. So when they encounter any difficulty or obstacle, they leave it alone and look for easier prey.

    …they will keep despoiling and raiding and conquering with ease until their people are defeated..”

    See more at
    https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/muslim-history-ibn-khaldun-1332-1406-arabs-dominate-only-of-the-plains-because-they-are-by-their-savage-nature-people-of-pillage-and-corruption/

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 1, 2018 at 11:15 pm

      Unfortunately, Ibn Khaldun also said: “in the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.”

      https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/quotes/ibn-khaldun-on-holy-war-as-religious-duty

  21. kuriakose says

    Mar 1, 2018 at 7:12 am

    Coming from the s…hole country known as Pakistan, this muhammadan sure has serious delusions. A country that not just discriminates against its Christian, Hindu, Sikh minorities but murders them. They even kill their own kind from different sects. Hardly a day goes by without some atrocity. Yes, pakistan sure is an islamic paradise, a foretaste of what will happen if you allow these devil possessed muhamaddans to come to your countries. What is sad is that those who would like to challenge him on his claims are not given the opportunity.

  22. ronyvo says

    Mar 1, 2018 at 8:36 am

    Akbar, wake up we are in 21st century. If you want to stay and keep sleeping go back to where you originally came from ‘the Sahara desert’ . Andalusia is not yours any more and never was and never will be. Didn’t you hear the news ISLAM IS ON LIFE SUPPORT..

  23. Jayell says

    Mar 1, 2018 at 4:13 pm

    “…..readers must come to terms with…..trying to make sense of the anger Europe’s Muslim youth sometimes feels toward the majority population, particularly in light of policies that contribute to their marginalization and alienation in countries like Britain….”

    Really? Have we upset them? Do they feel marginalised and alienated? Oh dear! Could that be something to do with the fact that they ARE hideously alien in just about every possible way and have effectively marginalised themselves by deliberately failing to conform to British cultural standards and standards of general civility and misbehaving themselves in such a repulsively disrespectful, loathsome and criminal fashion. In any case, why do they think we should owe them any consideration at all since we never even invited them in the first place?

  24. CRUSADER says

    Mar 1, 2018 at 8:32 pm

    1492 !!!!!!!!!!

    +++++++++
    DEUS VULT
    +++++++++

  25. Owen Morgan says

    Mar 2, 2018 at 4:30 am

    “The proximity of the researchers to the mosque was seen as an act of provocation, and the students responded accordingly.”

    Odd. My English village has an Anglican Church and a Roman Catholic one. After twenty-five years living here, I have still never been assailed for walking past either of them.

    What could possibly be different?

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 3, 2018 at 12:51 am

      Spot on.

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