The Brookings Institution is a respected and venerable organization, widely reputed in the West to be the repository of the nation’s finest thinkers on foreign policy issues. In reality, it is massively funded by the government of Qatar, and has worked assiduously to legitimize Muslim Brotherhood figures in the West — see here for a detailed exposé of this.
So it comes as no surprise that “Your summer reading list from the Brookings Institution Press” contains this note about a book that Brookings published in February:
Journey into Europe, Akbar Ahmed
In his latest book, Akbar Ahmed, a renowned scholar of Islam, reviews what he learned on a four-year tour across Europe interviewing Muslims and non-Muslims from all walks of life about how their communities are engaging each other. Journey into Europe details how tensions over Islam have increased since 9/11 and why the rise of right-wing, nationalist political parties across the continent is shaking the foundation of the European Union to its core. It also explores several opportunities for Europe and its Muslim communities to promote integration and pluralism in the 21st century.
Notice that it is “the rise of right-wing, nationalist political parties across the continent,” not jihad terror, mass Muslim migration, or Muslim migrant crime, that “is shaking the foundation of the European Union to its core.” The reaction to mass Muslim migration and jihad terror is the problem, not the mass Muslim migration and jihad terror itself.
“Islamophobia” propagandist Todd Green, an open foe of the freedom of speech, in a review of the book that Ahmed praised as “brilliantly insightful,” says that in the book, 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.”
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. Historian Kenneth Baxter Wolf notes that many laws were “aimed at limiting those aspects of the Christian cult which seemed to compromise the dominant position of Islam….Aside from such cultic restrictions most of the laws were simply designed to underscore the position of the dhimmis as second-class citizens.”
This is, apparently, the Europe that the Brookings Institution wants.
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