AMERICAN THINKER
Understanding the Islam/West Narrative
by Raymond Ibrahim
November 26, 2019

Any honest and objective appraisal of Islam’s historic jihad on the Christian world is eye-opening, to say the very least. In the first century of its existence (between 632-732) Islam permanently conquered, Arabized, and Islamized nearly three-quarters of the post-Roman Christian world, thereby permanently severing it. Europe came to be known as “the West” because it was literally the remaining and westernmost appendage of Christendom not to be swallowed up by Islam. For roughly a millennium thereafter, Arabs, Berbers, Turks, and Tatars — all of whom called and saw themselves as Muslims — launched raid after raid, all justified and lauded as jihads, into virtually every corner of Europe. READ MORE