The modern-day Aurangzeb was a Muslim in the Indian military who was murdered by Pakistani jihadis last month. Those who conclude from this that the jihad is over in India, and Muslims there are now loyal members of Indian society, happy to contribute to their nation’s defense, should also bear in mind that those who […]
Robert Spencer: “The History of Jihad is the crown and culmination of all my work”
My new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS is nothing less than the crown and culmination of all my work, the cap to my two decades of public efforts to alert people to the nature and magnitude of the global jihad threat. This new book is in a sense the third of […]
“The river was dyed red with their blood…over one hundred thousand infidels were slain”
Why would a new Pakistani political party be gaining in popularity by calling for blasphemers to be put to death? One reason is because harshness toward unbelievers has always characterized the jihad on the Indian subcontinent, as I show in my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. In the book I […]
Ibn Warraq Reviews The History of Jihad: “A Salutary Shock from Robert Spencer”
The ex-Muslim Ibn Warraq, one of the premier experts on Islam in the world today, reviews my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can preorder here. “A Salutary Shock from Robert Spencer,” by Ibn Warraq, Townhall, July 11, 2018: For those who still think — and, alas, there remain […]
Will “outreach,” “dialogue,” and “hearts and minds” initiatives end the jihad?
Mainstream foreign policy analyst John Hannah wrote in March that “both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama understood that we wouldn’t be able to just kill our way out of the conflict with radical Islamists. Each devoted considerable resources to what’s been called the ‘battle for hearts and minds.’” The idea was to show […]
What do 9/11, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the Armenian Genocide, and the Siege of Vienna all have in common?
What do 9/11, the conquest of Constantinople, Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the Mahdi revolt, the mass destruction of Hindu temples, the Armenian Genocide, and the siege of Vienna all have in common? Find out in my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which ties together the threads of history as few dare to […]
When Islamic jihadis seized slaves in England
In my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I recount how in July 1625, a twenty-ship contingent of jihadi pirates from Morocco arrived in Mount’s Bay in southern England. Bursting into the local parish church during a service, they captured sixty men, women, and children from the terrified congregation and took […]
Keeping up with the Qarmatians
There are some who think that if the Islamic world suffers a catastrophic loss — say, the destruction of Mecca — it would cause widespread disillusionment and even apostasy, and blunt the force of the advancing jihad. There have been incidents in Islamic history, however, that involved such catastrophes, and the jihad went on as […]
What happens after Islamic conquest?
Constantinople fell to the warriors of jihad on May 29, 1453. Usually after reporting that, Western historians turn their attention away. But in my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I detail what happened next. The Byzantine scholar Bessarion wrote to the Doge of Venice two months after the conquest, in […]
July 4 in Islamic history: Muslim leader, “his face joyful,” orders mass execution of Christians
In my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I recount what happened when Saladin’s forces defeated the Crusaders at Hattin on July 4, 1187. Saladin ordered the mass execution of his Christian opponents. According to his secretary, Imad ed-Din, Saladin “ordered that they should be beheaded, choosing to have them dead […]