Leftist commentators who hate America and who want all immigrants to freely cross into America whitewash jihad terrorism as legitimate warfare against modern states that were birthed from European colonialism. Author Raymond Ibrahim observes: “Even among less ideologically charged historians, the macrocosmic significance of the aforementioned millennium, when “Christian Europe was under constant threat from Islam,” is unintelligible. They talk of “Arab,” “Moorish,” “Ottoman,” or “Tartar” — rarely Islamic — invasions and conquests, even though the selfsame rational — jihad — impelled those otherwise diverse people to assault the West.”
Ibrahim offers “the most timely aspect of this book. It definitively answers one of the most pressing questions of our time: Are militant Muslims — aka “terrorists,” “radicals,” “extremists” — being true to Islam, as they insist, or are they “hijacking” it for their own agendas, as we are told?” The answer is yes they are following their religion and working to destroy the West and replace it with Islam.
Ibrahim contends that this book “unlike most military histories — which no matter how fascinating are ultimately academic — this one offers timely correctives: it sets the much distorted historical record between the two civilizations straight and, in so doing, demonstrates once and for all that Muslim hostility for the West is not an aberration but a continuation of Islamic history” (p. xvii).
Besides discussing the relevance to today of his selected medieval battles, Ibrahim also briefly discusses the Muslim Ottoman attacks in the Balkans during the 1870s.
Ibrahim also opines that the attacks upon Europeans today by Muslim “refugees” fleeing from war-torn Muslim lands are less about fleeing than actually spearheading a new Islamic-jihad invasion of an essentially ignorant European populace to the menace of the Muslims’ “right or straight path” (sirat al-Mustaqim) of wanting to convert Europeans to Islam rather than integrate themselves with the liberal and permissive West.
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