American Thinker: “Raymond Ibrahim and the History the Army Refuses to Heedâ€
11/16/2019 by Raymond Ibrahim 17 Comments
On November 13, 2019, American Thinker published a review by John Dale Dunn, titled “Raymond Ibrahim and the History the Army Refuses to Heed.†A shortened version follow:
In the book Sword and Scimitar Raymond Ibrahim, an Egyptian Christian, tells the story of the millennium-plus of conflict between Islam and Western (Christian) Nations, structured on 8 landmark battles. The first, Yarmuk in 636 AD, was a devastating defeat for the West, and the last in 1683 at Vienna, a defeat for the attacking Islamist army of the Ottoman Empire.
Ibrahim uses contemporaneous sources that provide insight into the cultural and religious mindsets of the opposing parties, essential for understanding the nature of the conflict that was, at that time and since, so long and horrific. […]
Ibrahim shows that Islam is an unrelenting lethal danger for Western Civilization and asserts “Muslim hostility for the West is not an aberration but a continuation of Islamic History.†In the first few centuries of Muslim conquest and depredations of conquered countries, all the main targets were Christian societies, Middle East, North Africa, Sicily and Iberia, all countries that that suffered brutal conquests and a horrific trail of death and bloodshed as well as cruelty, rape, pillage, and genocide. A reader cannot ignore the bellicose acquisitive nature of Islam. […]
https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2019/11/16/american-thinker-raymond-ibrahim-and-the-history-the-army-refuses-to-heed/
