How to convince people of this? Tell them that what’s happening in Gaza, and Syria, and Afghanistan and elsewhere is not precisely jihad, or that it’s not as bad as it seems. Ignore the entire history of jihad before the dawning of the modern age, and pretend that it is a newly-minted phenomenon. In reality, […]
From Egypt with Jihad
“In the mid-1970s unfolding events in Egypt—the undisputed leader of the Arab world and politics—were also having a major impact on the Saudi educated elite,” wrote Yossef Bodansky in his 1999 book, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America. As the then-House Taskforce on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare director discussed, previously examined […]