In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, a revolutionary state created by animals who chased off a farmer gradually becomes just as oppressive as the oppressors it overthrew. As the animal state grows more and more dictatorial and totalitarian, a good-hearted and simple horse, Boxer, has growing suspicions that things weren’t always this way: in the early days of the revolution, all the animals really were equal, and none were arrogating special powers or privileges for themselves. If he could remember, maybe he could stop the oppressors. But Boxer can’t quite remember how it was, and none of the animals who are busy grabbing power and privilege for themselves are in any mood to remind him. The pigs who rule the farm eventually send Boxer off to the knackers; even his half-memory has become a nuisance.
It is so important to remember what has happened. But just as it was in Animal Farm, and for much the same reasons, today making people forget is a big business. In our schools, our children learn that the United States of America, the most magnanimous and benevolent nation in human history, is a racist, colonialist polity founded by slaveowners. They learn that Judeo-Christian civilization, which gave the world its understanding of human rights and the dignity of every human being, has been nothing more than an instrument of injustice and oppression worldwide. They learn that Islam is peace, that Muslims and Islam are responsible for the great inventions and innovations of the Western world, and that it has been a beacon of light and tolerance throughout the world.
These are lies. Yet they are universally told, and it appears that those who are telling them have an oppressive agenda, just as in Orwell’s parable. That’s why I wrote The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.
One of the least-known areas of history for most Americans, in this age when all history is being obscured by disinformation, is that of the spread of Islam throughout the world, and the record of how Muslims have interacted with non-Muslims since the beginning of Islam. Yet today this is crucial for Americans to know, as Islam and Muslims become an ever larger presence in Europe and North America. This book shows what happened when Muslims arrived in the Middle East, and North Africa, and Spain, and France, and Persia, and India, and Russia, and elsewhere. It reveals the hollowness of the myths we’re being told, and that many take for granted, about Islamic history and the vaunted tolerance of Islam.
To avoid the biases of contemporary historians, I relied almost exclusively upon, and quote extensively from, historians and chroniclers who were eyewitnesses of the events described, or who are writing about them shortly thereafter.
Find out the truth about Islamic Spain, and the jihad in India, and the status of non-Muslims in Islamic history, and the prevalence of jihad activity in that history. Find out the truth about the claim that jihad terror is a recent phenomenon, a reaction to the actions of the United States and Israel. Arm yourself with the most potent weapon of all, the one that the oppressors most urgently want to strip from you: the truth.
Preorder your copy of The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS here.
Andy says
‘Never Again’: From a Holocaust phrase to a universal phrase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN5kcSLsLFg
Andy says
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Never-Again-From-a-Holocaust-phrase-to-a-universal-phrase-544666
gravenimage says
I just wish many people took this cry seriously.
whoisjohngalt says
Excellent video Andy. Thanks for posting.
Many ask how a single nation could turn to this monstrous ideology of Nazism. Many have tried to explain it. Many examples have been given but none have gotten to the root cause.
I will suggest reading The Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff which goes into great detail of the cause of this ideology as well as that of other totalitarian systems. Not an easy read but is the best comprehensive literary work that I have found to date. Would well be worth the time and effort to read
this.
As per the title, it parallels what we are presently seeing here in the US today.
Thanks for your post
Andy says
Thank you whoisjohngalt for your insightful comments.
gravenimage says
You can find that piece here:
http://everything-voluntary.com/the-ominous-parallels?print=pdf
whoisjohngalt says
Thanks for the link GI.
Dr. Imberman brings to light many of the salient points in Ominous Parallels but does not address why the Germans were primed philosophically to accept Nazism.
The Nazis’ crimes were the official legal acts of an educated and previously civilized society-“the land of poets and philosophers”. How could they evolve into Nazism?
Dr Imberman touches on this when he gives the example of giving other people’s money to the poor. This is not primarily a Fascist concept;, it is the morality of Altruism. “Altruism” literally means “other-ism”; it holds that one should live one’s life in selfless service to the needs of others, with sacrifice for their sake as the highest virtue. Emphasis here on “sacrifice”. Altruism is not being kind or benevolent. These are voluntary. Per Auguste Compte, Altruism by definition negates individual rights.
Bad political ideas come from bad ethical ideas, which are originally spread by the words of bad philosophers. Germany was ideologically ripe for Hitler because of the philosophy of (mainly) 3 philosophers-Kant, Hegel and Plato. As a result, collectivism became primary. For example, Hegel (from his Philosophy of Right) stated:
“A single person….is something subordinate, and as such he must dedicate himself to the ethical whole. Hence if the State claims life, the individual must surrender it.”
Peikoff goes into great detail the influence of “bad philosophy” in this work that makes it somewhat difficult to grasp with only one reading. It is well worth the effort. It will clarify why were are in the state(State) we are in.
Dr. Imberman is certainly correct about his comments/insights to Fascism (and all totalitarian States) but overlooks the root cause.
I enjoy your many comments on JW.
Cheers.
Andy says
Thank you for the link Graveimage and your comments as well thank you whoisjohngalt for your comments on JW
Andy
gravenimage says
Thank you, Andy and whoisjohngalt.
Andy, thanks for the many excellent videos you link to.
And whoisjohngalt, I love your username.
mv says
As per Koran India is earth , geographical area below India is underworld. The countries above India are heaven. left hemisphere of earth that is left side of Iran is heaven, right ie Chinese part is hell. Refer old Islamic map.
mv says
now Indians are working in ME like slaves without salary.
jo says
what is ME?
Patrick says
ME=middle east
gravenimage says
I’m reading the Qur’an for the fifth time now–it says no such thing.
Andy says
I will tell you, Thanks to Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller and Jihad Watch staff and many, many other people who are putting there lives on the line for freedom
I have learnt and become much more educated about the self proclaimed “Religion of Peace”=ISLAM.
Thank you, Everyone who is taking a stand for Truth Justice and freedom and not being politically correct or afraid of being called little names.
Andy says
For if WE DON’T DO IT AND TAKE A STAND AGAINST THE FASCIST IDEOLOGY OF ISLAM.
WHO WILL??????????
We are not going to be led like sheep to the slaughter ever again!
gravenimage says
+1
C says
‘The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth’
1984. George Orwell.
mortimer says
THE HISTORY OF THE ISLAMIC CALIPHATE IS THE HISTORY OF JIHAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIGSNRCTkQI
mortimer says
JIHAD MEANS “PLUNDERING” – Basic Islamic Understanding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq3VDxPQypw
Robert Spencer says
I must say I’m rather amazed that whenever I post about this book, the comments are all about Bulgaria.
epistemology says
But you mentioned the ordeal of the Bulgarian people, in the old times we’ve got the problem all over Europe especially the Balkans. What the Greeks and the Serbs went through is horrific, horrendous jiziya paying and the abduction of their little boys of course there’s a lot more.
I think this book is a must-read especially for us Western Europeans as this part of the world is full of stupid apologists. Even after the latest terror attack in Southern France people still turn a blind eye and say this has nothing to do with true Islam. Einstein was right there are no limits to human stupidity.
Tjhawk says
I’m sorry about that. I just wanted to try to support an ally in the resistance and maybe convince him to write the book that that he thinks is missing.
Andy says
Hello Mr. Spencer
I’m wondering if your new book, “The History of Jihad.” has mentioned Ukraine & Russia and the history of Eastern Europe in regards to Islam and Jihad?
History of Jihad Against The Russians (1444-1918)
http://learntheology.com/history_of_jihad_russians.html
In Midst of War, Ukraine Becomes Gateway for Jihad
https://theintercept.com/2015/02/26/midst-war-ukraine-becomes-gateway-europe-jihad/
Robert Spencer says
Yes, of course.
Andy says
Thank you, Mr. Spencer
I look forward to your new book coming out August 7, 2018.
Lydia Church says
I think it is impossible to squeeze all the accounts in one little book, that is the issue.
For anyone feeling left out, just write your own, or write the history and send it to Robert for the next book, or something like that.
mummymovie says
“(T)oday making people forget is a big business.”
Boy, ain’t that the truth!
Can things get more upside down and backwards than they have been with regard to islam, the global jihad and the hijra / islamic invasion of the West, the coddling of jihad terrorists and the silencing of islam’s critics?
These are some crazy times.
Lydia Church says
Exactly.
They are ‘dumbing down the masses.’
They are more easily controlled and manipulated that way.
What do most people care about now?
Sports, celebrities, personal appearance, social media, etc.
Not many who care about justice, virtue, not many intellectuals and humanitarians out there anymore, of any variety.
What do most people absorb? Entertainment, the media, the culture. And what is it made up of?
See list above.
And is it just my imagination, or have people in general just dropped several notches in the intelligence range? It seems like everyone just got so totally stupid lately! And totally irritable, irate, tense, hostile, aggressive, and so on! It’s like everyone is angry and stupid and it’s not a good mix.
Anne Smith says
This is something I have also noticed and can only assume that traditional British customs, way of life, dignity, reserve, good manners etc. have become unfashionable in our country as we now have so many people ;who have not been brought up in our way of life, but have brought other, less attractive and less educated views with them.
I also blame the BBC for a huge decline in our public conduct and for introducing a silly, screamy, shouty, way of behaving in public. Probably Common Purpose is in there, too.
Quite a few of my friends are asking where can we go to find more people like ourselves and not the loud mouthed brigade of snowflakes who now appear to rule UK>
Noelene Kuzman says
I have found that most of the people I know just do not want to know any of the bad stuff. They are only interested in the now, not in the future they are going to pass on to their kids and grandkids. I am woefully shocked by their lack of interest, finding that whenever I post anything about islam that some half-brained twit brings their hatred of christianity into the equation. They know absolutely nothing and are not interested in finding out for themselves, only interested in the here and now, what cute things their kids are doing or what they are having for dinner. And there is the old – oh I know some muslims and they are very nice people. I ask them how can they be nice people when they praise their warlord and the “religion” is hell bent on killing non-believers and creating their caliphate. They seem to have the opinion that it “could never happen”, and not learning much history these days in school, fail to see that it is happening now as it has done for 1400 years, only by stealth.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Noelene. Moreover, I don’t think many people in the West even conceive that idology matters, and what life is like under Islam. They think that everybody–save for Trump voters, that is–are completely civilized people.
mummymovie says
“Feminists” wearing hijabs.
Need one say more?
Lydia Church says
Yes, it is the war on truth, part of it.
It’s all part of ‘the script.’
Sons of Liberty says
Well stated Robert Spencer ! Our youth are being put through a kind of re-education camp . American history and American culture is being destroyed . The Marxists are on the move and are seeking now to eliminate our freedoms fought for by our FOUNDERS and guaranteed in our Constitution.
gravenimage says
Why it’s so important to remember
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Excellent and very important piece, Mr. Spencer.
The European says
When the southern parts of Greece gained their independence from turkish-ottoman rule, one of the leading figures, Alexander Ypsilantis, was asked, how many Muslim Turks had been in Greece before the revolution. He said: “About 48000 before the uprising, and none was left in the liberated territories of Greece after 1827.” The Muslims had been driven out of Greece once and forever. That’s the way you deal with Muslims when you finally know that peaceful coexistence with them is impossible.
In 1827, the last year of the greek revolution, things didn’t go well for the Greeks., they were on the verge of being annihilated by the the Ottoman forces, but then western nations like Great Britain, France, Germany and Russia finally came to their aid and crushed the Ottoman fleet at the battle of Navarino and the rule of Muslims in Greece was over. At that time, western nations still remembered that their civilization was founded on Judaism, Christianity, Greece and Rome. They still felt in their hearts that they could not idly stand by while the Greeks were being massacred and slaughtered by barbaric hordes of turkish Muslims who were about to destroy the birthplace of their own civilization. But how much have the times changed since then.
gravenimage says
+1
Naildriver says
One would have thought after 9/11 and that being the second yet different group of devotees to Islam to hit the WTC,, and that whole countries as Afghanistan and Pakistan were aiding abetting, and hiding them. That the people in the USA, if not the politicians, would name Islam culpable. I thought this would be a given.And, besides war with the Taliban, Islam would be marginalized, it’s influx and rise in the USA resisted.
The opposite has occurred, and this should be alarming as the worst sorts of treason instead prevail.
Nation building with zero restraint of Islam ensued. Many thousands killled and wounded and trillions wasted with loss of freedoms and capitulation to Islam to boot. How shameful. Is it the meds? Christ people, put away the Prozac and wake up!
gravenimage says
There is a great deal of willful denial over the the threat of Islam.