No More Swords in the West, Only Scimitars
Even symbolically, the West is too eager to capitulate.
Thu Dec 26, 2019 Raymond Ibrahim
“If Islam is terrorizing the West today, that is not because it can, but because the West allows it to. For no matter how diminished, a still swinging Scimitar will always overcome a strong but sheathed Sword.â€
Those are the very last words of my 352-page book, Sword and Scimitar, which chronicles fourteen centuries of warfare between Islam and the West. They were meant to contrast how premodern Europeans—chief among them the Crusaders—took a manly stand and fought back against a then powerful and expansionary Islam, whereas their more decadent descendants in the modern West are eager to capitulate in any which way possible to a now weakened but still aggressive Islam.
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