This is the ridiculous state of the public discourse today: Colin May has been asked to resign because of a book review he wrote in 2009, because the book in question speaks honestly and accurately about Islam’s jihad imperative and how Muslims have carried out that imperative over the centuries, and such truths are now […]
Historian Efraim Karsh on Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad: “A tour de force…a must-read”
Efraim Karsh, the author of the acclaimed book Islamic Imperialism: A History, read an advance copy of my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS and had this to say: From the first Arab-Islamic empire of the mid-seventh century to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the story of Islam has been the […]
Historian Efraim Karsh on Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad: “A tour de force”
Efraim Karsh, the author of the acclaimed book Islamic Imperialism: A History, read an advance copy of my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS and had this to say: From the first Arab-Islamic empire of the mid-seventh century to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the story of Islam has been […]
The Worst Form of Inequality
The Worst Form of Inequality by Michael Devolin “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” –Aristotle I believe the biggest threat to western democracies today comes not only from Islam’s traditions of intolerance and political violence and anti-Western sentiment, but also from those apologists and pluralists, both religious and […]
The Perpetuity of Jihad
The Perpetuity of Jihad by Michael Devolin “Though tempered and qualified in different places and at different times, the Islamic longing for unfettered suzerainty has never disappeared, and has resurfaced in our own day with a vengeance.” – Efraim Karsh, from Islamic Imperialism, a history Reading about ISIS in the newspapers every day is, […]