[Noumenon]

I’ve read Bostom’s book. It merely confirms in horrific detail what we already know about Islam: that it is most certainly not a “religion of peace”. Mass murder, atrocity upon atrocity, slavery and impoverishment are written into its DNA. This has in fact been the uninterrupted hallmark of its entire history.

Islam cannot ‘reform itself’ - were it to do so it would no longer be Islam.

A perfect compliment to Bostom’s book is Lee Harris’ “The Suicide of Reason.” Harris explains why Islam has bee nso successful, and why the West appears to lack the ‘civilizational will’ to effectively oppose it.

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“Islam cannot ‘reform itself’ - were it to do so it would no longer be Islam.”

Precisely.

[E. Cartman]

I’ve read Bostom’s book. It merely confirms in horrific detail what we already know about Islam: that it is most certainly not a “religion of peace”. Mass murder, atrocity upon atrocity, slavery and impoverishment are written into its DNA. This has in fact been the uninterrupted hallmark of its entire history.

I theorize that Islam was effective in waging war against the West because the rich men in the Islamic world bought up all the women, depriving hot blooded and horny young Arabs of even a single local female for possible wives and forcing them to rape and pillage to find women elsewhere. And, if anyone doubts how desperate a young male can be in search of a bride, one has to only ask, then, why all the concern about rising populations of males without the possibility of a wife in China or India?