He wants more Muslims in the West, so he whitewashes Muslim Spain. My latest in PJ Media: Akbar Ahmed is 75 years old and laden with honors. An internationally respected academic, he holds the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and is Professor of International Relations at the American University, and is the former Pakistani […]
Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad: “A Priceless Opportunity to See Jihad in Practice”
“If history is to inform, then this is great history.” Chris Salcedo is a nationally recognized radio talk-show host heard on WBAP in Dallas, Texas, and KSEV in Houston, Texas. He is the author of the book “Liberty Rises” and the executive director of the Conservative Hispanic Society. Here he reviews my new book The History of […]
Video: Robert Spencer with Ezra Levant — Violent Messianic movements a running theme in Islam’s history
Ezra Levant of Rebel Media interviewed me on my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which you can preorder here now. This is just one portion of a much longer interview; to see the full interview, go here.
Pirates of the jihad
In my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS I recount America’s first war against Islamic jihadists: its conflict in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the Barbary pirates. Few historians have recognized this as a jihad, but that is what it was: in June 1796, Pasha Hamouda, the bey […]
Robert Spencer: The History of Jihad completes the case I have been making for decades now
My new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS is nothing less than the crown and completion of my two decades of public work trying to alert people to the nature and magnitude of the global jihad threat. I’ve written a guide to the Qur’an – The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran. […]
June 29, 2014: ISIS declares its caliphate
It was just four years ago today, but the situation was so very different. On June 29, 2014, as I detail in my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, the Islamic State (ISIS) declared its caliphate in the territory it controlled in Iraq and Syria, and stated its intentions to spread […]
Islamic scholar Akbar Ahmed claims that brutal Muslim ruler represented “the idea of pluralist society in Europe”
Historical revisionism is designed to influence current policy; Akbar Ahmed’s ongoing whitewashes of Islamic al-Andalus are clearly meant to break down resistance to the mass Muslim migrant influx into Europe today. In this piece, he claims that Abdur Rahman I’s “dynasty more than any other came to represent the idea of pluralist society in Europe.” […]
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 […]
It didn’t start with the Southern Poverty Law Center
Useful Idiots are swarming in record numbers today. There are numerous non-Muslim organizations that are enabling and abetting jihad terror and Sharia oppression by smearing and demonizing those who are calling attention to them: the Southern Poverty Law Center is the most notorious of these, but there are many others, including the Anti-Defamation League, Georgetown […]
Dennis Prager on Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad: “Very troubling and very important”
Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio show host, author of nine books, most recently the number one non-fiction bestseller, The Rational Bible, and the founder of the website Prager University, read an advance copy of my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, and had this to say: Robert Spencer’s book on the history […]