Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries by Paul Fregosi, Paul Fergosi
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- Pub. Date: October 1998
- 442pp
- Sales Rank: 362,257
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- Pub. Date: October 1998
- Publisher: Prometheus Books
- Format: Hardcover, 442pp
- Sales Rank: 362,257
- ISBN-13: 9781573922470
- ISBN: 1573922471
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Jihad in the West is the engrossing, factual account of the immense and little-known Islamic military invasions of Europe, and the major players who led them. In a bright and brisk narrative, Paul Fregosi's unique and provocative work is one of the few general histories of the Jihad.
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In a bright and brisk narrative, Paul Fregosi's unique and provocative work is the first, and only, general history of the Jihad, the most neglected and disregarded phenomenon in European history.
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Rather frantic conservative polemic in the guise of a history of Muslim "holy wars" against the Christian West. Seeks to root all contemporary political violence by Muslims in the militant doctrines of Islam, and warns of a dire long-term threat from Islamic civilization. Includes b&w photographs of victims of Muslim terrorism and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem raising his arm in Hitlerian salute, in case you hadn't made the connection. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Paul Fregosi (Sydney, Australia), born in Marseilles and educated in Britain, is the author of the widely praised Dreams of Empire: Napoleon and the First World War 1792-1815.
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Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuriesby Anonymous
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February 25, 2006: This well researched, easy to read and perhaps timely book grips the readers attention throughout. A contention is held in the book that the described Muslim military conquests of centuries past, and the terrorist campaigns of the modern day, share much more than just the same name of 'Jihad' but also encompass what the book cites as the Muslim 'distaste for and basic antagonism to' the entire non-Muslim world that is described herein as being seen to be 'blasphemers and infidels'. While some readers may find such comments to be contentious or inflammatory, the book submits these subjects to a meticulous scrutiny with a view to presenting an appropriate context to these assertions. Throughout it is clear that the writer strives to provide an objective analysis wherever possible without attacking the fundamental aspects of the Islamic religion - instead attempting to concentrate on the context of it's implications & relationship to the furtherance of Jihad itself. The writer states that Jihad has possibly been the most unrecorded and disregarded major event of history and introduces his study as perhaps being one of the first pertaining to the subject of Jihad, arguing that history has largely ignored what are described as the Muslim attacks and invasions of Europe from the seventh to the twentieth centuries, instead being content to remain transfixed on the Christian Crusades. Beginning his investigations from the time of Muhammad and the writing of the Islamic Koran in the early 7th century, the text illustrates in commendable detail the origins of Jihad during that period and throughout the wars of some 1,300 years ago in Arabia, during which the study depicts how Muhammad purportedly fought against what he describes as the pagan Arab tribes of the peninsula, allegedly demanding that they acknowledge his suzerainty and convert to Islam itself. Although this work is not written from the platform of any religious persuasion, the reader is confronted with a direct comparison between the Christian Crusades and Islamic Jihad. The study illustrating how Muhammad purportedly cited to his followers that the 'sword' is the key to heaven and hell, but that Christ had said to his followers some six hundred years earlier, that he who lives by the 'sword' shall perish by the sword. The writer drawing attention to what he calls the ethical differences between Islam and Christianity, with Christians who kill being responsible for ignoring the words of Christ, but that Muslims who kill are following the commands given to them. Recognition is also given in the study to how many devout followers of Islam allegedly believe that the Crusades are a prime factor for what is cited as the 'confrontation between Christendom and Islam' and therefore believe that it was the Crusaders who 'forced' Islam to create Jihad as a means of self defence. Due detail is provided to illustrate how Jihad had already been in action against Christendom for nearly five hundred years before the Crusades were launched in 1096. As an aside, the book makes reference to a number of factors/comparisons including how, in Europe today, Muslims can worship in their own mosques but that some Muslim countries forbid Christians to practice their own faith or build churches for their own worship, with even stricter restrictions being placed upon Judaism. Another factor referred to is how Muslims are forbidden to change their religion at the risk...
Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuriesby Anonymous
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July 03, 2002: I think that the author presents the history of muslims that most people are trying hard not to learn. The book is a bit dry - really a hard corp history book. However, one learns of muslim history - one that not many people know - one that if we do not learn could mean loosing a modern war.
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