Dan Perkins is a master storyteller and author of the Brotherhood of the Red Nile trilogy, which centers on Islamic nuclear terrorism against the USA. He has written a terrific new review of The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can get here.
“With jihad, we’re betting our future on wishful thinking,” by Dan Perkins, American Thinker, December 2, 2018:
Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS makes it clearer with every page: there are numerous core elements of the U.S. and Western European approach to Islam, the jihad threat, and much more based on ignorance history and blindness to present-day reality – an ignorance that could be catastrophic if the lessons of this seminal book are not heeded.
Take, for example, the Muslim presence in Western countries, which has increased dramatically since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. It is taken for granted by Western European leaders, as well as by the media on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as the left and much of the right in the United States, that the new Muslim communities are overwhelmingly made up of moderates who reject terrorism and the elements of sharia (Islamic religious and political law) that render Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other states that implement Islamic law so toxic for defenders of human rights. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison thus got in hot water recently when he declared that Muslim leaders in Australia have to be much more aggressive in combating terrorism within the Muslim community. Those leaders and the media responded as if Morrison had committed an unpardonable gaffe in questioning their commitment to Islam’s allegedly peaceful teachings.
Spencer, relying almost exclusively on Islamic sources that celebrate the jihad violence he chronicles, shows in The History of Jihad that violence against unbelievers, and their bloody subjugation under sharia, has been a constant of Islamic history, without any respite, reformation, or reconsideration. From the beginning of jihad violence in the seventh century through the conquest of the Middle East, Persia, North Africa, and Spain to the shockingly ruthless and bloody centuries-long jihad in India, Spencer soberly sets out the record, and the record is undeniable: we are today betting the futures of our nations on the proposition that for the first time in history, after 1,400 years of bloodshed and conquest, Muslims will give up their quest for Islam to “dominate, and not be dominated” and live in peace with their non-Muslim neighbors without trying to impose sharia discrimination upon them.
The History of Jihad shows that this bet is a long shot at best. Certainly, many Muslims have been peaceful throughout Islamic history, but Spencer here proves definitively that those peaceful Muslims never worked against the jihadis and never effected a reform in Islamic doctrine that would take the teeth out of the jihad imperative.
Nor has interfaith dialogue ever accomplished anything, although it has a pedigree much longer than most people realize. Spencer recounts: “In the 830s, the Byzantine emperor Theophilus asked the Abbasid caliph al-Ma’mun for a peace accord, but al-Ma’mun’s response hewed to the Islamic tripartite choice for the ‘People of the Book,’ that is, conversion to Islam, submission to Islamic hegemony, or death.”
Similarly, Spencer demonstrates throughout the book that there has never been any shortage of non-Muslim collaborators who were willing and even eager to aid the advance of the jihad for their own ends, without realizing, or perhaps without caring, what measure of suffering they were bringing upon their countrymen and coreligionists. He tells the story of Count Julian of Ceuta, who, according to Spanish and Islamic traditions, vented his rage at the Visigoth King Roderick of Spain (who had, it is said, violated his daughter) by helping the jihadis cross the Strait of Gibraltar (which takes its name from the man Julian aided, Tariq ibn Ziyad, the Muslim conqueror of the Iberian Peninsula).
Sweeping in scope, The History of Jihad is the first narrative history of the entirety of the 1,400-year jihad against non-Muslims, not just against Europe, but also against India, which is a horrifying story not known in the West as it should be. Spencer also takes his account right up to the minute, explaining how the partition of India and Pakistan and ongoing tensions on the Indian subcontinent, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the modern-day machinations of Iran and Saudi Arabia fit into the historical jihad imperative. He also shows that while Islamic terror groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS appear to many to be a recent phenomenon, they actually have numerous antecedents within Islamic history, including the prophet of Islam himself, Muhammad, who said on his deathbed, “I have been made victorious with terror.”
The History of Jihad is an extraordinary book. We live in an age in which wishful thinking and a denial of obvious facts are not just widespread, but even, in many cases, required if one is to avoid charges of “racism,” “bigotry,” and the like. If we don’t set them aside in time, our childish fantasies could be the death of us. The History of Jihad is the dose of reality that all of us need, especially those in positions of influence in Washington.
Andy says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SovZ_bD3qYc
Andy says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0v8UsMT2dU
Replacement is and Always Was the Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLX8vbEtwlc
Andy says
The cost of MASS IMMIGRATION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNs3rv40z-I
The White Working Class Are Rising Up To Revolt In Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHVyXN4mqSU
Deborah says
This Stupity/Laziness to Even Read History will be the mass downfall Of Western Civilization. Along with the catastrophic lack of intestinal, and testicular fortitude to Stand Against staged, loud-mouthed, Paid-Off, morons who Shout: Racist, Islamophobe, etc. (not to mention the jihadists who ‘quietly’ wait for their orders.)
Andy says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qExthMqSRjk
???EMANUEL MACRON IS TRUDEAU’S TWIN IN EVERY WAY! PLUS A REAL LOOK AT THE “YELLOW VEST” PROTESTS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGfda–UWv8
underbed cat says
Interesting video, also viewed also the Kimberly Strassel video, she was addressing the deep state corruption. In the question and answer period a gentleman stated that there is training about the sedition of sharia laws and he was (thankfully) concerned about the problem that not too many people are aware exist. Kimberly remarked about Wray comment, which missed the point….so I hope she figures out his statement about the purge of words concerning Islamic law is very dangerous and she learns about the Obama administrations replacement of CVE guidelines which is a blindfold against the sedition of our country and U.S. constitution. This problem is very deep state and a threat. So I thank the gentleman who stood up to address this issue She is a very good speaker..but noted this comment.
Partha Sarathi Chandra says
As Israel PM Netanyahu has said religious war in 21st century is inconceivable to vast majority of the world’s people.
Deborah says
Sorry Mr. Prime Minister: You of All People should Know And Understand that these people Are the New (Old), Nazis, the New (old)Russian Czarist troops, the New (old) Spanish Inquisitors! Are you in some sort of ‘brain warp’ with the Rest of the ‘Leaders’ of the Remaining Free Western World?! When You (and the Rest of
The These Leaders), just Refuse to ‘See’ WTF is happening in front of you, that is when The Free Peoples of the Western World Must Do Your Jobs For You! And We will Not be Diplomatic about our Very Survival. With all due respect, I remain D.S. Geyer-American
gravenimage says
Deborah, Netanyahu didn’t say that *he* considered this inconceivable; just that many people do. Netanyahu is actually very savvy about Jihad.
underbed cat says
Israel needs Netanyahu in my opinion and I hope he will stay in office. Good to know he is aware of the warfare doctrine and techniques of the religion of no tolerance and the whopper story of a peaceful one. It is a well-designed delusion.
mortimer says
“we’re betting our future (with Muslims) on wishful thinking” … How very MASTERFULLY put by writer Dan Perkins.
We so need you, Mr. Perkins, and your confreres in the literary community to mobilize the English language and send it into battle against this HEINOUS IDEOLOGY.
We are facing as great a monster as the WORLD faced in 1939, but it is an INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY not only located in one country.
The HUB of this VICIOUS, HATE-FILLED ideology is located in Arabia, Iran and Egypt.
Our great writers can do a great service to HUMANITY by alerting them to the great danger we are facing and which our elites are trying to hide from public view.
el Cid 2 says
Mortimer I thank G*d for you. I know you don’t believe in Him, but you and I are allies in this war against this evil totalitarian system (Islam) that has infected the world and, like a plague, is still spreading fast and unchecked.
b.a. freeman says
i am thrilled every time i stumble across somebody like mr. perkins, who grasps the threat and is working against it, but i fear that the time remaining to awaken our fellow citizens is too short for civilization to survive. this is a problem of education, and the hard-core left has owned the education industry for decades here in the u.s., and has turned it into an indoctrination industry. short of our nation surviving a nuclear attack by iran (and knowing that iran was responsible for the attack), i see no way to wake up enough people in time. i, for one, will be shouting from the rooftops of the internet right up to the bitter end, when i am murdered by a hard-core leftist or a pious muslim, but nobody is listening. this battle is now in God’s hands.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Poll: Majority of French People Say Immigration Is Harmful to the Nation”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/12/03/poll-majority-french-people-say-immigration-is-harmful-nation/
gravenimage says
Good to hear, Flavius.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Breakthrough for Anti-Mass Migration VOX Party in Spanish Regional Election”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/12/02/right-wing-populist-party-enters-spanish-regional-party-first-time/
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“With the jihadists gone, booze is back in Iraq’s Mosul”
https://www.breitbart.com/news/with-the-jihadists-gone-booze-is-back-in-iraqs-mosul-2/
gravenimage says
The History of Jihad shows that “we’re betting our future on wishful thinking”
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So true. Kudos to Dan Perkins!
infidel says
The unparalleled atrocities of Islam on Hindus and India… THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ANCIENT AND DAZZLING CITY OF MATHURA BY GHAZNI is a MUST READ for any historian. I humbly request Robert Spencer too to look into this if he hasn’t already..
http://indiafacts.org/1018-mahmud-ghaznis-invasion-of-mathura/
Benedict says
The History of Jihad shows that “we’re betting our future on wishful thinking” …..
Don’t worry, Trudeau and Macron know how to counter the jihad threat: Make love, not war:
https://youtu.be/Dk6K0GN6EHA
traci94 says
One thing (among many!) things I find frustrating is my church supports a ministry in town that works with refugees. My daughter actually did an internship for them. Also, a couple at my church works heavily with refugees. One day I asked the young woman, “what about the genocide against Christians going on in Nigeria; who’s going to take care of them?” She said something like I guess the UN hasn’t gotten around to prioritizing them yet! (not will they ever, I wanted to add). I don’t know much about Somalia, but is there a war going on over there? I guess some Muslims are killing the others cause they are not Muslim enough.
The hard thing about going to a Christian church is God talks a lot about refugees in the Old Testament, so if you look like you’re NOT for the refugees, the migrant, the Sojourner…you look like you’re not supporting the cause of Christ. But, I in no way believe that we are support what is going on these days…