Author Archives: Andrew Bostom

 Link to full slide set in video (below) Comp_LT2_CSP Pres_10.24.19 for video Introductory remarks: Relevance of the 9/11 jihad carnage to my study of Islam The 9/11 attacks were the triggering event which inspired my 18-years of study of … Continue reading →

Notwithstanding any limited “support” Turkey may (or may not) have provided the successful U.S. raid this weekend, which liquidated ISIS’s al-Baghdadi, Turkish President Erdogan made some revealing, indeed pathognomonic remarks, during last Friday’s (10/25/19) prayers in Istanbul’s Great Camlica Mosque. … Continue reading →

Billboards belonging to the traditionalist Muslim Justice and Development Party (AKP) municipality are on public display in Konya, central Turkey, featuring the verbatim text of Koran 5:51 (in accurate Turkish translation). Accompanied by the image of a blood-splattered cross, and … Continue reading →

Amir Taheri, writing for the Gatestone Institute, published (10/20/19) the following Goebbels-like mischaracterization of the combined Turkish-Kurdish Muslim World War I era jihad mass killings of Armenians—ultimately a jihad genocide—specifically in the eastern Turkish regions: During the First World War, … Continue reading →

Former New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind recently (this past May, 2019) gushed that peripatetic Australian Shiite Imam Mohammad Tawhidi,  was “a great friend of the Jewish people.” Adding a testament to Tawhidi’s alleged singular veracity, Hikind further declared the good … Continue reading →

Portrait of Allamah al-Majlisi (d.1699), Safavid Iran’s most important Shi-ite theologian,  and also the political equivalent of Ayatollah Khomeini (d. 1989) Extracts reproduced from my book, “Iran’s Final Solution For Israel—The Legacy of Jihad and Shi-ite Islamic Jew-Hatred in Iran,” … Continue reading →

“Takiya” [Taqiy(y)a], from The Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam, Edited by H.A.R. Gibb and J.H. Kramers, Leiden/New Delhi, 1953/2008, pp. 795-796: Muhammad himself avoided the Passion motive in religion—in dogmatics by docetism (Koran 4:157) [i.e., the heretical early Christian belief that … Continue reading →

Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose? “(T)hey [Jews] had not only to bear the whole cruelty of the Kurds, but were even sold like cattle, and attacked in that which to them is most sacred—their faith. Thus for … Continue reading →

Res Ipsa Loquitur (Or so  one would think) Largely autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan is a Sharia-based society, per its own Constitution, (Articles 6 & 7):  This Constitution confirms and respects the Islamic identity of the majority of the people of Iraqi … Continue reading →

Johny Messo, President of the World Council of Arameans (WCA; indigenous Syriac speaking Middle Eastern Christians), has written thoughtfully and sympathetically about Zionism as a (belated) prototype for “Arameanism,” though he guardedly refrains from “championing” Zionism, outright, today. Mr. Messo, … Continue reading →