Posted on 07/10/2021 3:08:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Raymond Ibrahim’s 2018 book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, was recently translated into French and published in France. In connection, Arnaud Imatz of the French website La Nef, interviewed him. An abbreviated, English version of that interview follows:
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La Nef: Is the hostility between Islam and Christianity an accident of history or is it part of the continuity of Islamic history?
Ibrahim: It is most certainly part of a continuum. The problem is that modern historians tend to sideline this religious aspect, and focus instead on national identities. For example, we know that for centuries, a great array of “Eastern” people invaded and sometimes conquered portions of Europe. Modern historians give them a variety of names -- including Arabs, Moors, Berbers, Turks, and Tatars; other times they call them Umayyads, Abbasids, Seljuks, and Ottomans. What modern historians fail to do, however, is point out that all these groups relied on the same exact jihadist logic and rhetoric that contemporary terrorist groups such as the Islamic State do today. Whether it was the Arabs (or “Saracens”) who first invaded Christendom in the seventh century, or the Turks and Tatars who terrorized Eastern Europe into the eighteenth century -- all of them justified their invasions by citing Islamic teaching, namely, that it is Islam’s “destiny” to rule the whole world through the means of jihad. They also followed the classical juridical injunctions of, for example, offering the “infidels” three choices before battle -- conversion to Islam, acceptance of dhimmi status and payment of tribute (jizya), or death. And, once they conquered a Christian area, they immediately destroyed or transformed churches into mosques, and sold whichever Christians were not slaughtered into abject, and often sexual, slavery.
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The left loves islam and hates Christianity. Why?
Islam is a totalitarian system, just as Leftism is a totalitarian ideology. The left welcomes anyone who they think can destroy the West.
because mooses hide the reality of their religion.
You nailed it.
Mohammedanism is rotten at its core and at its core is Mohammed.
“The left loves islam and hates Christianity. Why?”
It started on 9/11
Right-and in its final phase, Islam (ALL faith) will be booted under the bus.
THIS is just how ignorant apologists for Islam are!
Surprise! islam is the sworn enemy of Christianity.
The left loves islam and hates Christianity. Why?
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Because they are both totalitarians
“citing Islamic teaching, namely, that it is Islam’s “destiny” to rule the whole world through the means of jihad.”
Just like the Muslims people are electing to political positions in the US now, especially Congress. They don’t intend to assimilate but to conquer.
Islam came along hundreds of years after Christianity & Christian teaching says that we are not to add to or subtract from what it says in the Bible. So Islam’s teaching is bogus according to Christian teaching & it was there first.
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