Raymond Ibrahim

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1,204 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 9 Apr

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So that's, you know, that's I think we have to start there.
That's the first premise, really.
Sure, Steve.
The first one, like you said, Sword and Scimitar came out in 2018.
And that one was really a continuation of my academic studies back in the day under Victor Davis Hanson, you know, in the early, late 90s.
My master's thesis was actually the first battle between Islam and the West, the Battle of Yarmouk, which formed chapter one of Sword and Scimitar.
But I've always been interested in, you know, we all grow up in the modern era hearing about the great
you know, the advancement of Islam and Andalusia and how backwards the West was and et cetera, et cetera.
So I've always been very much interested in studying the actual military history.
And then you low and behold, you find out that is what dominates the real history between and the interactions between Islam and the West or Christendom at the time.
And so Sword and Scimitar, what I wanted to do is really look at all the decisive battles that have completely changed the face of the globe, especially the old world, east of the Atlantic.
that maybe many people are unaware of due to all the entrenched narratives that academia foists on people, which is why everyone who reads, starting with Sword and Scimitar, the first response is, oh, I thought I was educated.
I thought I had a degree in history and I didn't know any of this.
OK, so you come to learn, for example, that in the seventh century, Islam explodes and conquers essentially three quarters of Christendom.
You know, what we now today glibly refer to as the heart of the Islamic world from the Middle East, you know, from Morocco all the way to Iraq, North Africa in the Middle East, and later Turkey or Anatolia.
All of that, of course, was the heart of the Christian world.
And it was violently annexed in one century after the death of Muhammad.
And until 732, now they're in France at the Battle of Tours.
So I think I showed how persistent Islam was.
I have a nice important quote from Hilaire Bellocq.
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