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Nicholas Weeks

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A recent book on Islamic wars over 1000 years.

Sword and Scimitar by R. Ibrahim

"Raymond Ibrahim’s Sword And Scimitar is a much-needed history of landmark battles between Islam and the West. Ibrahim offers eight representative engagements across time and space from France to the Middle East, and over a millennium from 636 to 1683.
The study is first and foremost riveting military history. It offers blow-by-blow concise accounts of the eight battles, and interprets them in the context of the times—or rather, takes seriously what contemporary leaders claimed were their intentions and how they worked out their strategies."

From Foreword by Victor Davis Hanson
 
Nicholas Weeks said:
A recent book on Islamic wars over 1000 years.

Sword and Scimitar by R. Ibrahim

"Raymond Ibrahim’s Sword And Scimitar is a much-needed history of landmark battles between Islam and the West. Ibrahim offers eight representative engagements across time and space from France to the Middle East, and over a millennium from 636 to 1683.
The study is first and foremost riveting military history. It offers blow-by-blow concise accounts of the eight battles, and interprets them in the context of the times—or rather, takes seriously what contemporary leaders claimed were their intentions and how they worked out their strategies."

From Foreword by Victor Davis Hanson
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YouTube him. Found this:


Might watch it later if I have time.
 
Interview of Ibrahim is about 30 minutes and he clarifies a lot about roots of Islam.

Another excellent book from 1998 is:

Jihad in the West: Muslim conquests from the 7th to the 21st centuries
by Paul Fregosi
 
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Muslims and Christians all murdering one another and their own people for God? What's there to understand?

The devil (evil) is the ape of of God (good) and a monkey in silk is a monkey no less. It has nothing to do with God or spirit... imo
 
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Muslims and Christians all murdering one another and their own people for God? What's there to understand?

The devil (evil) is the ape of of God (good) and a monkey in silk is a monkey no less. It has nothing to do with God or spirit... imo
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Opinions that lack understanding are valueless & foolish. The sacred books & the two founders when compared reveal that the Koran & Bible, Jesus & Mahomet oppose each other. So your second sentence is true (devil = Mahomet), your first shows lack of study.
 
Lovely sweet elemental wind and rain -- clean and pure ... no human wisdom
 
The life of the tiniest creature that drifts in a sunbeam as a mote ...
 
Nicholas Weeks said:
Opinions that lack understanding are valueless & foolish. The sacred books & the two founders when compared reveal that the Koran & Bible, Jesus & Mahomet oppose each other. So your second sentence is true (devil = Mahomet), your first shows lack of study.
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Mahomet?? :D
You do not know what you are talking about.

If you have any questions, then please ask.
Otherwise, I request you not to preach your rubbish in the Islam section.
Thanks.
 
https://posthillpress.com/book/defenders-of-the-west-the-christian-heroes-who-stood-against-islam

Christian heroes who fought Islamic armies, also by Raymond Ibrahim.

Victor Hanson mentions some of these Christian heroes in his Foreword:

"In Defenders of the West, Ibrahim revisits these historical themes of West-East adversity. But he focuses on individuals—specifically eight important Christian warriors who fought Islamic armies in various iterations of nearly endless conflict.
Some are familiar names, known from Hollywood epics (El Cid and Richard the Lionheart). A few survive in sensationalized form in popular culture (Vlad the Impaler, now more popularly “Dracula”). Others may be
vaguely recognized by eponymous place names in America and Europe (St. Louis and San Fernando). And yet the most impressive are now mostly unknown to contemporary readers (Godfrey of Bouillon, John Hunyadi, and Skanderbeg).
Even so, for centuries, all were canonized in the West for their largely successful roles in beating back Islamic invasions of Europe or reversing Islamic occupations of lands of the former Roman Empire, in the Iberian
Peninsula, the Balkans, and the Holy Land.
In this and past books, Ibrahim sees the strife between the West and Islam as unending. The tenets of these two religions, he posits, have for centuries been seen as incompatible, given that Western pacifism has no counterpart in the Koran and the Hadith."
 
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Mahomet?? :D
You do not know what you are talking about.

If you have any questions, then please ask.
Otherwise, I request you not to preach your rubbish in the Islam section.
Thanks.
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There are several spellings of the name Mahomet from the Arabic. Check out male baby names list.
There is no rubbish in these works on the warlike Islamist conquests.

If only praise of Islam is permitted in this section, then let a Moderator or Admin tell me so.
 
Nicholas Weeks said:
There are several spellings of the name Mahomet from the Arabic. Check out male baby names list.
There is no rubbish in these works on the warlike Islamist conquests.

If only praise of Islam is permitted in this section, then let a Moderator or Admin tell me so.
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Rule 2 of the Code of Conduct comes to mind, although @RJM and others determine its interpretation.
 
Thread moved from Islamic forum to Abrahamic Religions
 
Ahanu said:
YouTube him. Found this:


Might watch it later if I have time.
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I listened to the first fifteen minutes.

At 5:37 he rehashes the same argument contemporary Christians have been fixated on. The wives of Muhammad are a constant thorny issue for them:

"I have always loved reading Muslim Arabic written sources . . . because they are ultimately trying to present Muhammad in a good way, but it becomes very clear because they'll be explaining how, you know, once he becomes this military captain, he decided, for example, to have tons of wives - more than is even prescribed for his followers [who are] Muslim men - and all the women they can basically enslave, which is also in the Qur'an. They are called 'that which your right hand possesses.' But even his young wife Aisha, ya know . . ."

He interprets Muhammad's reactions to the first revelation as epilepsy or demonic possession, the reason for his initial peaceful message being his political weakness, and on and on . . .
 
It's worth, for the sake of balance, checking out Gatestone here before taking too much onboard ...

As a mod, I think it's only fair to all out a source when there's a strong indication of an 'anti-' bias at play.

The last thing the world needs right now is ill-founded anti-Muslim propaganda.

In fact, we don't need it, or its kind, ever ...
 
Dershowitz on the evil that Hamas & supporters thereof foster - from Gatestone article:
  • The protests are exclusively anti-Israel, anti-American, pro-Hamas, and pro-terrorism.
  • Where are the calls for anything that would actually help the Palestinians or make their lives better: freedom of speech, equal justice under the law, freedom of the press, better job opportunities, and an end to government corruption and abuse?
  • So when you watch an anti-Israel demonstration on television, please understand who is behind it and what are their ultimate goals, because the next target is American democracy -- and you.
 
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