Making and breaking History

Events in the Middle East are infuenced by diferent views of history. Surely only one can be right?

Raymond Ibrahim, author and commentator on Islam’s historical and current war on Christianity, asks, “How can a fundamentally weak Muslim world be a threat to an economically and militarily superior West?” One answer is how the West views Islam today, “compared to its actual historic experiences with Islam.” From its first contact with “Western civilization” and for centuries after, Muslims acted like today’s Islamic State terrorists, convinced “that Islam commands war on, and the enslavement or slaughter of, non-Muslims.”