"If it were in my power, I would require every American to read It’s All About Muhammad." -- Alan Caruba
IN THIS POWERFUL time travel fantasy, an Iranian sickened by the injustices he sees all around him wishes he could experience the true Islam of Muhammad and his cousin Ali, whom Iranians consider the forefather of Shia Islam. Author F.W. Burleigh gives the protagonist his wish and sends him to 7th century Arabia, first as a slave and then as Muhammad’s scribe. After witnessing Islam’s founder commit a series of horrific atrocities, he loses his faith and becomes a warner of what is to come out of Arabia. He is trapped in Mecca at the time of Muhammad's invasion and is about to be beheaded when he returns to present day Iran in such a way that shows he is the Mahdi—the long-awaited Imam of Time. But what he has to say to his contemporaries brings the rage of Iran’s clerical rulers down on him.
IT IS HARDLY A SURPRISE that immediately after news came out that ISIS had burned a captured Jordanian pilot to death that Barack Hussein Obama absolved Islam of the crime.
ISIS released a video on Tuesday of its execution-by-incineration of the pilot, who was captured in December after his plane crashed in ISIS controlled territory. ISIS had been threatening to execute him if their zealots jailed in Jordan were not released. Read more »
About 450 years before the first crusade began, a new religion was born in the Middle East. At the time, the Middle East was mostly made up of Christians and Jews.
Before Islam began, there were five main centers of Christianity: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem.
As Islamic warriors conquered the Middle East and North Africa, three of those centers were lost. Most of what was once “the Christian world” became what is now “the Muslim world.”
Two of the centers of Christianity remained, and one of them was the new Islamic target: Constantinople (now known as Istanbul). Constantinople was a huge walled city, and it was being threatened by the now powerful Islamic empire.
By Dan McLaughlin
Let me put down here some facts that are worth returning to from time to time, as arguments over the history of Islam and Islamism are back in the news with today’s beheading in London. In debates over the history of tension between Muslims and Christians, the Crusades are often cited, out of their historical context, as the original cause of such clashes, as if both sides were peaceably minding their own business before imperialist Westerners decided to go launch a religious war in Muslim lands.
This is not what actually happened, and indeed it is ahistorical to treat the fragmented feudal states of the West in the Eleventh Century as capable of any such thing as imperialism or colonialism (although, as Victor Davis Hanson has noted, even in the centuries after the fall of Rome, Western civilization retained a superior logistical ability to project force overseas due to the scientific, economic and military legacies of ancient Greece and Rome). Moreover, when Islam first arose, much of what we think of today as Islamic ‘territory’ in Anatolia, the Levant and North Africa was Christian until conquered by the heirs of Muhammad, such that speaking of one side’s incursions into the other’s territory requires you to ignore how that territory was seized in the first place. That entire region had been part of the Roman and later Byzantine empires, and was culturally part of the West until it was conquered by Muslim arms – Rome is closer geographically to Tripoli than to London, Madrid is closer to Casablanca than to Berlin, Athens is closer to Damascus than to Paris.
ANYONE WITH KNOWLEDGE OF ISLAMIC literature has to be honest about this: There is nothing in the canonical literature that shows Muhammad recruited children to fight his battles. At the battle of Uhud and on other occasions youngsters ran up to him to volunteer, but he sent them away as too young. He made an exception or two for physically precocious boys, but the rest he sent home to Mama.
Muhammad was a mass murdering thug, an assassin, a plunderer, an enslaver—an evil man by any objective measure, and he unleashed a system of totalitarian evil that has plagued the world for 1,400 years. But ISIS, Boko Haram, and other groups that follow his example have managed to outdo their role model in evil, no small accomplishment: As recent videos show, they are now using mere children to do the dirty deed of slaughter. Read more »
WHY IS IT THAT MUSLIMS AND THEIR DEFENDERS on the Left brand critics of Islam as Islamophobes and any negative reaction to what is typical behavior of Islam as Islamophobia?
Criticize their dress, or the construction of mosques in your community, or the teaching of Islam in your schools, and you are an Islamophobe. Read more »
YOU WOULD THINK THAT ISIS HAD REACHED the limit of its ability to nauseate with its barbaric terror tactics such as beheadings and crucifixions and mass shootings of captured Syrian and Iraqi soldiers and the impaling of severed heads on the spikes of a wrought-iron fence. But it has not reached its limits, and there may never be a limit. The evidence is in a 16-minute video the so-called Islamic State released last November.
This appears to be a recruitment video since it touts the blood-soaked history of ISIS, and the centerpiece is more blood soaking. At the eight-minute mark, it documents the simultaneous beheading of 19 captured Syrian pilots and military officers who have been marched out to the desert in front of 19 executioners and forced to their knees. Read more »
February 6th, 2015 