terrified into not broaching any subject related to Islam;^343
there have been terrorist attacks at home and massively
expensive wars fought abroad. It cannot be an accident that
even The Times, a newspaper with one of the greatest
reputations for quality journalism in the world, makes not
one attempt in twenty years to seriously discuss the key
ideological division the religion of war has toward Western
civilisation. In The Times there were no reviews of Why I Am
Not A Muslim, and the only article that came even close to a
review of any of the books by the eminent Dr. Sookhdeo
was a snide opinion piece (by a journalist who was expelled
from Oxford University for failing his exams).^344
In his book Global Jihad: the Future in the Face of
Militant Islam Dr. Sookhdeo goes on to point out that in
Islam the attitude of war towards non-Muslims is an
attitude of permanent war: “unconditional jihad against
all non-Muslims in Dar al-Harb is accepted as applicable
today and until the end of time”.^345 Despite The Times
presenting Dr. Sookhdeo as some kind of idiosyncratic
thinker, Sookhdeoʼs arguments were entirely within the
mainstream view among scholars of Islam in the twentieth
century,^346 and even as far back as the nineteenth
century.^347 Thus, whilst devout Muslims were telling
journalists from The Times about Islamʼs fundamental
distinction between the world of Islam and the world of war,
they were being portrayed as fringe lunatics. When
apostates from Islam explained this same distinction at great
length in their modern and scholarly books on Islam
(apostates who have put their lives at risk to warn the rest of