Jamie Glazov, Editor of FrontPageMagazine has an important interview with Andy Bostom that is timely given the events of last week's Hamas Palestine Legislative Council elections that have thrown the world into a quandry.
Andy has done a magnificent job in presenting the historical documenation of Islamic Jihad from its origins in the 7th Century C.E. to the present.
Read this FrontPageMagazine interview of Bostom by Glazov and then go to Andy's website and watch an hour long interview that we produced for "Rabbi Rock"-a local cable access program hosted by Rabbi Shaul Praver here in Connecticut.
We are grateful that Andy as an eyewitness to the Islamist terror of 9/11 in Manhattan took time out to educate himself and in the process produced this acclaimed "gotha" The Legacy of Jihad.
Witness this Bostom interview excerpt with Glazov:
"FP: There are scholars and critics amongst us who argue that the terrorists have exploited and hijacked Islam to serve their own violent ends. In their view, Islamist terror is a perversion of the true Islam. What do you think?"
"Bostom: This is ahistorical prattle, which unfortunately appears to have been accepted by President Bush and his key advisers. But Mr. Bush is our President, not our theologian-in-chief. Neither he nor any of those you alluded to have made informed comments about Islam, least of all the utterance that Islam is a “religion of peace”. Ironically, the renowned 20th century Muslim ideologue Sayyid Qutb, perhaps the most brilliant Muslim scholar of the 20th century, who is demonized as a fomenter of “radical” Islam, has also referred to Islam as a “religion of peace”. But Qutb’s context is unapologetic and clear—he is referring to the Pax Islamica that would prevail when the entire world was submitted to Islamic domination, and the rule of Islamic law (i.e., the Shari’a), by jihad war."
"Furthermore, in a recent speech President Bush insisted that the "ideology" of the most notable Muslim terrorists, who he maintained "distort the idea of jihad," is "very different from the religion of Islam" and indeed "exploits Islam to serve a violent, political vision.” The President’s even more specific and assertive comments regarding jihad were a profound disappointment. Indeed, such words could have been written and uttered by the most uninformed, or deliberately disingenuous apologists for this devastating, and uniquely Islamic institution, well over a millennium old, and still wreaking havoc today."
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The Legacy of Jihad; an interview with Andrew M Bostom MD
by Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine
Andrew M. Bostom, MD, an epidemiologist and medical educator at Brown University Medical School, is a buddy and colleague in the anti-Jihadist "front." He's the author of the acclaimed new book, The Legacy of Jihad.
See for example Dean Barnett's review in The Weekly Standard, just out, entitled "All Jihad/All the Time."
Jamie Glazov, Editor of FrontPageMagazine has an important interview with Andy Bostom that is timely given the events of last week's Hamas Palestine Legislative Council elections that have thrown the world into a quandry.
Andy has done a magnificent job in presenting the historical documenation of Islamic Jihad from its origins in the 7th Century C.E. to the present.
Read this FrontPageMagazine interview of Bostom by Glazov and then go to Andy's website and watch an hour long interview that we produced for "Rabbi Rock"-a local cable access program hosted by Rabbi Shaul Praver here in Connecticut.
We are grateful that Andy as an eyewitness to the Islamist terror of 9/11 in Manhattan took time out to educate himself and in the process produced this acclaimed "gotha" The Legacy of Jihad.
Witness this Bostom interview excerpt with Glazov:
"FP: There are scholars and critics amongst us who argue that the terrorists have exploited and hijacked Islam to serve their own violent ends. In their view, Islamist terror is a perversion of the true Islam. What do you think?"
"Bostom: This is ahistorical prattle, which unfortunately appears to have been accepted by President Bush and his key advisers. But Mr. Bush is our President, not our theologian-in-chief. Neither he nor any of those you alluded to have made informed comments about Islam, least of all the utterance that Islam is a “religion of peace”. Ironically, the renowned 20th century Muslim ideologue Sayyid Qutb, perhaps the most brilliant Muslim scholar of the 20th century, who is demonized as a fomenter of “radical” Islam, has also referred to Islam as a “religion of peace”. But Qutb’s context is unapologetic and clear—he is referring to the Pax Islamica that would prevail when the entire world was submitted to Islamic domination, and the rule of Islamic law (i.e., the Shari’a), by jihad war."
"Furthermore, in a recent speech President Bush insisted that the "ideology" of the most notable Muslim terrorists, who he maintained "distort the idea of jihad," is "very different from the religion of Islam" and indeed "exploits Islam to serve a violent, political vision.” The President’s even more specific and assertive comments regarding jihad were a profound disappointment. Indeed, such words could have been written and uttered by the most uninformed, or deliberately disingenuous apologists for this devastating, and uniquely Islamic institution, well over a millennium old, and still wreaking havoc today."
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Posted by Jerry Gordon at January 30, 2006 07:13 AM