[rbg81]

Seeing the Ottoman Empire as pivotal in shaping the Western world, this history casts developments such as the Reconquista, the Inquisition, the Reformation, and exploration of the New World as responses to rising Islamic power. . . . European rulers obsessively feared Muslim expansion; Mikhail traces the influence of this paranoia on the Islamophobia that continues to inform American politics.” —The New Yorker

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What planet does the author live on? He forgets that the Moors occupied Spain for hundreds of years. Further, the Ottomans came very close to conquering all of Europe...and held much of Eastern Europe for centuries. He takes these historical facts and labels them paranoia. Like the Muslims were benevolent rulers of Christians.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

He seems to be tritely calling it irrational “Islamophobia.” Europe had every reason to be afraid of moslem expansion given their staggering conquests over 700 years and their goal of subjugating Europe.. It wasn’t “Islamophobia.”

[Roman_War_Criminal]

The author has a debased insane mind.

You can’t even argue with people that warped.