Book Review - Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West

By Rich Kozlovich

Winston Churchill onced served in the British Army in Sudan. This allowed him to observe Islam up close, and was so fascinated by Islam there were some close to him who feared he wished to convert. However, it’s clear he understood what Islam really was. He once stated:

“The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.”

He continued:

“Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralizes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.”

That wasn’t the half of it. This book outlines what a terrible plague Islam has been on humanity.

When I see this horsepucky about Muslim demands for religious sensitivity it makes me gag. All the 1400 years of Islam have been rife with not only a lack of religious sensitivity, but Islam has been a pinnacle of insensitivity, murder, rape and abuse of anyone not a Muslim. The outrages they perpetrated on Christians has been degrading and monstrous.

This book effectively demonstrates the true history of what Islam is; an infectious disease.  That disease may become dormant due to forces aligned against them, but Islam is always looking for an opportunity to spring back into force.  If there ever was a book that demonstrates everything about Islam is antithetical to western thinking and values, this is it. 

When Genghis Khan and his hordes overran nation after nation they were completely tolerant of all religions. In fact, once he realized how corrupt Muslims were, he ordered the end of their slavery and forced taxation of Christians, who he thought well of. As time passed and Mongols converted they became murderous monsters to Christians, tolerance be damned. What was worse, during those 1400 years many "Christian" leaders sided with them causing mass murder, rape and looting of other Christian nations. We see that same kind of disgusting self serving conduct today.

That was, and is, the impact of Islam.

The abuses Christians have suffered from Muslims over the centuries are appalling. It’s their view western women are all whores and sluts and thus deserve to be raped. This was the pattern when Islam was at it’s peak, and the mentality remains today.

The book also shows how corrupt western “Christian” rulers have been through the centuries, actually supporting Islam against other Christian nations. Both England and France can be condemned for such activity.

England stopped Russia from defeating the Ottoman Empire in its effort to regain Constantinople from Islam, and France supported the Ottomans in their siege of Vienna. They allow their petty politics to blind them to the fact the Sultan’s ultimate goal was to “stable his horses in St. Peter’s Basilica. And France would have eventually been next. Both France and England are just as clueless now as they were then.

The last page of this book sums up what it’s all about. Western nations have abandoned Christianity, and have “despised its heritage and religion, causing it to become an unwitting ally of the jihad.”

Islamists haven’t changed. They’re just as committed to destroying the west and Christianity as they ever have been, the tactics are more subtle now, but just as deadly.

This book makes it clear that Islam isn’t a religion. It’s a criminal political movement masquerading as a religion with a moral foundation of lust, greed, hate and violence.

George Bush stood up before the world after 911 and declared Islam is a religion of peace. I don't know what they teach at Yale, but it was clear they don't teach history and he doesn't read history books. That needs to change.

Please read, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West  by Raymond Ibrahim