Precisely 100 years after the death of Islam’s prophet Muhammad in 632, his Arab followers, after having conquered thousands of miles of lands from Arabia to Spain, found themselves in Gaul, modern day France, facing a hitherto little known people, the Christian Franks. There, around October 10-11, in the year 732, one of history’s most decisive battles took place, demarcating … [Read more...]
Repealing the Edict of Milan: Obama as the Anti-Constantine
by Ralph H. Sidway This year marks the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan in 313 A.D., the historic guarantee of religious liberty to Christians by the Roman Empire. The Edict was of explicitly universal significance in the Empire, as it was agreed upon by both Constantine (who controlled the West) and Licinius (in the East) upon their meeting in Milan in February, … [Read more...]
Surreal and Suicidal: Modern Western Histories of Islam
Spanish Portuguese The full magnitude of the modern West's ignorance of its own past recently struck me while rereading some early history books concerning the centuries-long jihad on Europe. The historical narrative being disseminated today simply bears very little resemblance to reality. Consider some facts for a moment: A mere decade after the birth of Islam in the … [Read more...]
Brotherhood Imposes Jizya Tribute on Egypt’s Christians
Portuguese Spanish Now that the attacks on Egypt's Christian churches have subsided, stage two of the jihad -- profiting from the fear and terror caused by stage one -- is setting in: reports are arriving that the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters are forcing the roughly 15,000 Christian Copts of Dalga village in south Minya province to pay jizya -- the money, or … [Read more...]
Crucified Again: Essential Resource and Persuasive Paradigm Shift
By Ralph H. Sidway Facing Islam Raymond Ibrahim’s new book, Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians, is an essential text — not merely for its thorough and deliberate documentation on the phenomenon of Islamic persecution against Christians from one end of the Muslim world to the other, but primarily for its contribution to our overall understanding of the … [Read more...]