Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 19 Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9 / Part 10 / Part 11 / Part […]
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Ibn Warraq: Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History (Part 5)
Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 5 Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 Scott’s account, as already remarked upon, is clearly influenced by The Alexiad. Here is Anna Komnene’s assessment of the first crusaders: [The Emperor] […]
Ibn Warraq: Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History (Part 2)
Walter Scott, The Talisman, the Crusades, Richard I of England and Saladin: Myths, Legends and History by Ibn Warraq Part 2 Part 1 Sir Walter Scott, under the influence of the Scottish historian William Robertson, who had perpetuated the Enlightenment myth of the superiority of Islamic civilization, continued the theme of the vain and avaricious […]
Ibn Warraq’s insightful and inspiring defense of Western civilization
In my Crisis column this week I review Ibn Warraq’s extraordinary new book, Why the West Is Best: Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of Liberal Democracy. By Ibn Warraq, Encounter Books, 286 pages, $19. One principal reason why the Islamic jihad is advancing with such confidence around the world today is […]
Israeli president warns a strike on Iran is increasingly likely
Warning against a strike on Iran’s nuclear program, the French foreign minister said “everything must be done to avoid the irreversible.” The same ought to be said, with the same urgency, to avoid awakening some morning to news of an Iranian nuclear test. An update on
Ibn Warraq: Westminster Institute Conference [May 25, 2011]: Fighting the Ideological War. Strategies for Defeating al-Qaeda.
Westminster Institute Conference [May 25, 2011]: Fighting the Ideological War. Strategies for Defeating al-Qaeda. by Ibn Warraq Complete article The overall philosophy or mission of the conference was to educate the public and the government about the ideology of our enemy which is, as the Westminster Institute announced, “well-organized, well-funded, and grounded in the authority […]
Geert Wilders: A Warning to America
A Warning to America Speech of Geert Wilders, Cornerstone Church, Nashville, 12 May 2011 Dear friends from Tennessee. I am very happy to be in your midst today. I am happy and proud to be in this impressive church. My friends, I am here to speak words of truth and freedom. Do you know why […]
Useful idiocy: Andy Warhol Museum to host Islamic supremacist Reza Aslan
The Leftist/Islamic supremacist alliance will be in full flower this weekend as the Andy Warhol Museum hosts the puerile Islamic supremacist and jihad apologist Reza Aslan. Aslan, of course, is the subject of an ongoing Jihad Watch case study in how the media and cultural elites are, out of ignorance, political correctness, multiculturalism, and Western […]
Wilders: “The lights are going out all over Europe”
Speech of Geert Wilders at the resumption of his trial in Amsterdam today: The lights are going out all over Europe. All over the continent where our culture flourished and where man created freedom, prosperity and civilization. Everywhere the foundation of the West is under attack. All over Europe the elites are acting as the […]
U.K.: MI6 warns Britain faces “unstoppable wave of home-grown suicide bombers”
Angry Anglicans? Quarrelsome Quakers? Cantankerous Catholics? Belligerent Buddhists? No, sorry. Islam’s Tiny Minority of Extremists only ever seems to get less tiny. “Britain facing ‘unstoppable wave of home-grown suicide bombers’ warns MI6,” from the Daily Mail, February 4 (thanks to all who sent this in): The terrifying prospect of a wave of suicide bombings by […]