Raymond Ibrahim

This is a book about the conflicts in the Mediterranean basin between Islam and the Christians and thus a litany of much violence. The actual battle descriptions are not very detailed, and the maps are non existent from any viewpoint but the continental. But the primary focus of the book is the amount and nature of the Koran's iterations of the doctrines and practices of Holy War. Ibrahim is very intent on emphasising the licensing of violence in such struggles and is also careful to announce the temporal as well as spiritual rewards of the Jihad. The biographical materials are almost exclusively Islamic. The book does feature bottom of the page footnoting, with the bibliographical notes being lumped at the end. If one is looking for quotes for the violent exhortations on the Islamic side, this is a good source. The text concentrates very heavily on the conflict periods and the periods of peaceful co-existence are almost completely absent from this text.… (meer)

A mass exodus of Christians is currently under way. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other. We are reliving the true history of how the Islamic world ... come into being. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom recently said, The flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and its increasing year by year. Iraq was the earliest indicator of the fate awaiting Christians once Islamic forces are liberated from the grip of dictators. In October 2012 the last Christian in the city of Homs .... was murdered.… (meer)