you imagine a book talking about the military campaigns of
Christianity, and tracing these back to the wars fought by
Jesus himself?
These books by Muslims on Islamic military thought,
based on the behaviour of the founder of Islam, were not
just vanity projects. Malik’s book on the Quranic concept
of war was republished in 1992, whilst Hamidullah’s book
The Battlefields of the Prophet Muhammad was published
many times in many different languages throughout the
twentieth century (mostly languages where the majority of
speakers are Muslims). Both of these are clear signs that
there was a ready audience for books on this view of Islam,
long before life in the West was transformed by devout
Muslims murdering 3,000 Americans in September 2001.
Since throughout the twentieth-century both Muslim
experts and Western scholars were openly discussing
Islam as a religion of war, it took an extraordinary act of
determination from our politicians to deceive the public
with the claim “Islam is a religion of peace”, as terrorist
attack after terrorist attack piled the corpses of innocent
members of the public onto the heap of dead victims at the
start of the twenty-first century. And at the time we are
writing, there is still no sign that any member of the elite
is prepared to contest The Grand Lie. Those politicians
who have been prepared to expose The Grand Lie could be
numbered on the fingers of one hand. They live under the
threat of execution from devout Muslims or from the fascist
Left. Those brave, independent academics who speak the
truth about Islam are denigrated by the elite as racists,
fascists or just the vague but offensive term “far right” (even
dana p.
(Dana P.)
#1