[Cicero]

I once spent a year in a college at Cambridge University, and shared an office with a Professor of Iranian Studies. Basically, what that meant was modern Iran with its Persian roots.

Yes, Islam is a religion for bullies, a religion of conquest, enslavement, dominance—and submission. Impossible to actually read it and continue to argue that it is comparable to Judaism or Christianity.

And those evils all can be traced back to Mohammed himself—an evil man.

[Noumenon]

For one thing, I had a very difficult time following a so-called religion whose founder and followers had butchered my ancestors, raped and sold our women, burned our libraries, and destroyed our magnificent culture...

I'd find that a bit off-putting myself. Congrats to the author for escaping the Pakistani-Peruvian axis. As Quigley stated so eloquently, "Throughout the whole axis, human actions are not motivated by these “Christian virtues,” but by the more ancient Arabic personality traits, which become vices and sins in the Christian outlook: harshness, envy, lust, greed, selfishness, cruelty, and hatred."