In this new video, I discuss Islamic scholar Akbar Ahmed’s call for a “New Andalusia,” and what a “New Andalusia” would mean for non-Muslims in Spain and all across Europe as a whole. Preorder The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS here.
Hugh Fitzgerald: What Do French Textbooks Teach About Islam? (Part II)
Historian Barbara Lefebvre continues her investigation of how Islam is taught in France: There is much to say about the way that the wars between Christianity and Islam are depicted in the treatment of the Crusades. Most startling, in the Hatier textbook, one finds in the chapter titled “The violence of holy wars” that the […]