{"id":10556,"date":"2018-06-13T14:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T18:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=10556"},"modified":"2018-06-13T14:02:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T18:02:30","slug":"the-history-of-jihad-from-muhammad-to-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/the-history-of-jihad-from-muhammad-to-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Spencer\u2019s magnum opus is the first and only book to tell the whole story of fourteen centuries of jihad devastation worldwide.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

FrontPage Mag<\/strong>
\nby Jamie Glazov
\n6\/11\/2018<\/h3>\n

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FP:\u00a0<\/strong>This book is a history, but it is also clearly relevant for the contemporary debate. Isn\u2019t that true?<\/em><\/p>\n

Spencer<\/strong>: Oh, yes, Jamie. I think of this book as the literary equivalent of the Brexit vote and the election of President Trump. It is a shot against the ongoing efforts by the political and media elites to rewrite history: the myth of a tolerant, pluralistic Islamic Spain is just one example among many. George Orwell said: \u201cHe who controls the past controls the future,\u201d and there are concerted efforts today, of which few people are aware, to rewrite history to fit the contemporary\u2019s Left\u2019s globalist, socialist agenda. For example, the false claim that the Vikings had the name \u201cAllah\u201d stitched on their burial clothes recently made international headlines \u2013 it was all part of the attempt to get Swedes, and all Europeans, to accept mass Muslim migration without complaint.<\/em><\/p>\n

Also, this book is intended to be a blow against the foreign policy establishment that has made so many errors based on its improper assessment of global conflicts, and keeps on making those same errors again and again because it never stops to reexamine its premises. The war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and so much more have been predicated on the assumption that Islam is a religion of peace that is perfectly compatible with Western notions of secular, democratic rule, and perfectly comfortable with the idea of non-Muslim governments existing on land once governed by Islamic law.<\/em><\/p>\n

There are also the bedrock assumptions of the foreign policy establishment that we are all post-modern individuals now, and that there is no conflict that cannot be ironed out by negotiations, and that religious imperatives can always be negotiated away with the proper mix of concessions. These false assumptions and many others are exploded by the reality of history as I delineate in the book. This doesn\u2019t mean that there are no solutions to contemporary global problems, but that the solutions being applied today are all based on false premises. In the book I trace a phenomenon that has been consistent and implacable for fourteen hundred years. Why do we in the U.S. today think that our encounter with it will be different? My fondest hope is that American policymakers will read and study this book, and that it will do nothing less than transform our entire foreign policy approach, moving it to more realistic foundations.<\/em><\/p>\n

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