Bostom interviewed on jihad

Andrew Bostom is interviewed today by Paul Cella at RedState.org about his important new book on jihad theory and practice, The Legacy of Jihad. Especially powerful is Dr. Bostom’s connection between the historical accounts of Muhammad’s famous cold-blooded massacre and enslavement of the Jewish tribe of the Koreiza after they had surrendered to him, and a 9th century Muslim scholar who treats the massacre as normative for Muslims. This is the kind of evidence and argument that takes us beyond superficialities into the living heart of Islam, by showing that the violent and terrorist behavior of Muslims toward non-Muslims is not “extreme,” but normative, legalized, and sacralized.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 20, 2005 03:55 PM | Send