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Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries Hardcover – October 1, 1998

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"Jihad," the Muslim holy war against Christians and others, has raged for 1,300 years with bloody conquests in Europe dating from campaigns to convert the infidels in the 7th century to today's random acts of terrorism in the name of Allah. Yet this huge unrecorded "hole" in European history has been censored and stifled by political and literary authorities who have feared reprisals from angry Muslims trying to hide a legacy of brutality vastly more bloody and six times longer in duration than the atrocities of the crusades.This is the engrossing factual account of the immense and little-known Islamic military invasions of Europe, and the major players who led them, beginning around 650 CE. The Islamic Arabs (and later the Moors) occupied a number of the Mediterranean Islands, and invaded Spain and Portugal in 711 CE, and ruled over much of the Iberian peninsula for the next 800 years. France was attacked and invaded, as was Italy, and the European coasts all the way to Ireland and Iceland. The Muslims swept over the Balkans, besieged Vienna, and were intermittent masters of Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary into the 19th century, destroying the Byzantines and conquering Constantinople (turning it into Istanbul). Ambitious and unrelenting, the Muslims also sought to conquer Austria and Russia.

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October 1, 1998
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Jihad is back, says Paul Fregosi, but this current incarnation has a long history behind it. From the start, Islamic fundamentalism has intended to expand the Muslim religion to encompass the entire world through conversion, or, in many instances, violence. Yet until now it has lacked a general historical narrative: "The jihad has been the most unrecorded and disregarded major event of history," writes Fregosi. Jihad in the West attempts to describe the history of Islamic and European conflict over 1,500 years, including moments such as the climactic battle at Tours (if the Moors had won it in 732, much of Europe might be Muslim today), the sieges of Vienna, and the Barbary Corsairs (the battle U.S. Marines refer to when they sing about "the shores of Tripoli"). Such a sweep necessarily sacrifices detail for breadth, yet it still provides a helpful backdrop to understanding a religious movement that has played a prominent role in late-20th-century terrorism. Many Muslims will quarrel with Fregosi when he compares jihad to a Christian sacrament, and the book would benefit from footnotes. Jihad in the West nevertheless is a good introduction to an often-ignored topic. --John J. Miller

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Although not The Satanic Verses, this book is sure to raise much of the same issues and ire, and come into demand simply because of its notoriety. It is a look at the darker side of the Islamic religion, from its inception with Muhammad up through the first half of this century, lightly touching on recent decades. Fregosi shows that jihad, or holy war, did not come about as a reaction to the Crusades but has been a continually integral part of Islam. While not excusing the barbarities of Christianity, he highlights how Islam has been particularly ruthless in its acquisition of lands and wealth and in dealing with those who have stood in its path. Although most of this history is well documented and factually indisputable, the author will likely generate considerable umbrage with his interpretation of many of Muhammad's actions and suryas (teachings) as manifesting a self-serving nature. This title is a highly recommended, if problematic, historical perspective, suitable for most libraries. Eric Robbins

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prometheus (October 1, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 442 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1573922471
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1573922470
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 16 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches

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Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2024

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Get the unvarnished facts here

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2023

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Can you handle the truth? Then this book is for you. I wish I had this book sooner. It puts to rest the historical distortions and revisionism that has been part and parcel of the antagonism and violence between Islam and Christendom for centuries. If you don’t appreciate graphic detail and unvarnished truth, get some PC apologist’s literary word-swill. But if you’re tired of being gaslighted by the establishment, this is your read and your lucky day! Buy it wherever you can find it!

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A most thorough book

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2021

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This is undoubtedly the most thorough book on jihad that I have ever come across, and believe me, I have read quite some. True, it only deals with jihad in Europe albeit with some unavoidable references to other spheres, but the treatment of jihad in Europe is in truth outstandingly good, succinct and well done. Also the author, although he is in the main dealing with Islamic jihad, does not skirt atrocities committed by its opponents, which is the reason that the reader gets the impression that the subject matter is indeed represented in an unbiased way.
The author presents his story in an easily read and fluent manner which makes it almost pleasant to go through one event after another even though they on most instances are atrocious and very frequently horrifying. Still this is a story of unrelenting, religious warfare and conquest under the banner of Islam, verged by the sword, and in the name of the man called Mohammed, seeking to subdue the whole known world to the yoke of Mohammedanism. It is a story that has to be told, but has not been as well told in its entirety in any other book as it is in this one. Hence it is a useful, indeed a necessary, text for anyone wishing to explore the bloody trail of Islamic fundamentalism.
The only thing I would wish for is that this author would apply his immense abilities using his deep-going knowledge to the task of writing another book, and then on the wars waged by Islam in those parts of ghe world not dealt with in this one - that is to Islamic conquests in Asia and in Africa. They were no less atrocious than the ones fought in Europe and also need to be dealt with in depth.

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Byron Fitzgerald

The Muslim Time Line

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Discussions of Islam always require that Muhammad's role as the perfect man be considered. Unlike Jesus, there is significant historical data on Muhammad and relatively reliable information on the man himself. The real problem for the student is that there is a denial on the part of Muslims of the historical facts and an image has been created that bears little resemblance to reality. This book strips away the covering of the mythical Muhammad and shows the man and his followers for the opportunists and religious fanatics that they truly were. The reader is allowed to made his own evaluation as to whether Islam is a religion of peace and exposes the reasons for the progression of the expansion of this political/religious force.

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Difficult to Overstate the Critical Importance of This Book Today

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2017

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It is difficult to overstate the importance of this book, at this point in history. Fergrosi's "Jihad" is an excellent source of education for the vast majority of people in the West today who have never learned the facts about Islam's historic "Jihad" doctrine. The simple, undeniable fact is, Islam has been at war with the non-Islamic world from the first days of it's existence. Europe and the West in particular have been at war almost continuously for 1,400 years. That fact is not well understood because the war has been fought both in secret and on the battlefields of the world. While "JIhad" focuses exclusively on the age-old conflict between Islam and Europe, Islam has also been waging war of various kinds all over the world. Fregrosi wisely chose to limit his tome to the Islam/Europe conflict. The gory result of that conflict throughout history is now well documented, but still largely unknown. For example, most people have no idea that Islam ruled over the Balkan nations for over 400 years, subjugating the non-Muslims as slaves in their own lands. This book will stem the tide of ignorance that has kept the West blissfully insulated from the truth.
Today, this conflict between Europe and Islam is again on the rise. Sadly, this time, it is rising because the governments of the European Continent have no intention of stopping it and are even proactively importing Muslims by the tens of thousands - the vast majority being military aged men- into their countries. The results are disastrous and the disasters are, as any clear-thinking person could have easily predicted, growing in number and intensity. In the past, European nations were able to eventually defeat the Muslim invaders who sought, for over a thousand years, to conquer Europe. It is not clear that they even have the will to do so today. Hence the critical importance of this book. The old adage remains true - those who remain ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.

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Token

An invaluable addition to the history of Islam and the West.

Reviewed in Canada on June 8, 2017

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An excellent history of the conflict between Islam and the West. Unfortunately Fregosi died before the events of 9/11 so w don't get his perspective on that. A follow up on the conflict between Islam and the various civilizations of the Far East and Indian subcontinent would have been welcome too.

M. D Roberts

Correcting popular misconceptions.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2006

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This well researched, easy to read and perhaps timely book grips the readers attention throughout.
A contention is held in the book that the described Muslim military conquests of centuries past, and the terrorist campaigns of the modern day, share much more than just the same name of “Jihad” but also encompass what the book cites as the Muslim "distaste for and basic antagonism to" the entire non-Muslim world that is described herein as being seen to be “blasphemers and infidels”.
While some readers may find such comments to be contentious or inflammatory, the book submits these subjects to a meticulous scrutiny with a view to presenting an appropriate context to these assertions.
Throughout it is clear that the writer strives to provide an objective analysis wherever possible without attacking the fundamental aspects of the Islamic religion - instead attempting to concentrate on the context of it’s implications & relationship to the furtherance of Jihad itself.
The writer states that Jihad has possibly been the most unrecorded and disregarded major event of history and introduces his study as perhaps being one of the first pertaining to the subject of Jihad, arguing that history has largely ignored what are described as the Muslim attacks and invasions of Europe from the seventh to the twentieth centuries, instead being content to remain transfixed on the Christian Crusades.
Beginning his investigations from the time of Muhammad and the writing of the Islamic Koran in the early 7th century, the text illustrates in commendable detail the origins of Jihad during that period and throughout the wars of some 1,300 years ago in Arabia, during which the study depicts how Muhammad purportedly fought against what he describes as the pagan Arab tribes of the peninsula, allegedly demanding that they acknowledge his suzerainty and convert to Islam itself.
Although this work is not written from the platform of any religious persuasion, the reader is confronted with a direct comparison between the Christian Crusades and Islamic Jihad. The study illustrating how Muhammad purportedly cited to his followers that the “sword” is the key to heaven and hell, but that Christ had said to his followers some six hundred years earlier, that he who lives by the “sword” shall perish by the sword.
The writer drawing attention to what he calls the ethical differences between Islam and Christianity, with Christians who kill being responsible for ignoring the words of Christ, but that Muslims who kill are following the commands given to them.
Recognition is also given in the study to how many devout followers of Islam allegedly believe that the Crusades are a prime factor for what is cited as the “confrontation between Christendom and Islam” and therefore believe that it was the Crusaders who “forced” Islam to create Jihad as a means of self defence.
Due detail is provided to illustrate how Jihad had already been in action against Christendom for nearly five hundred years before the Crusades were launched in 1096.
As an aside, the book makes reference to a number of factors/comparisons including how, in Europe today, Muslims can worship in their own mosques but that some Muslim countries forbid Christians to practice their own faith or build churches for their own worship, with even stricter restrictions being placed upon Judaism. Another factor referred to is how Muslims are forbidden to change their religion at the risk of their own lives, with apostasy being punishable by death. The book recognises what it describes as the often uncritical devotion of Muslims in regard to their Prophet Muhammad, while citing that any criticism or the Prophet or attack upon Islam is also undertaken under similar risk.
As the investigation into the history and precepts of Jihad progresses, the study declares that the purpose of Jihad became, and allegedly still is, to “expand and extend Islam” until the whole world is under Islamic rule.
Jihad also being further clarified in the text as purportedly being what is cited as the permanent state of hostility maintained by Islam against the rest of the world, with or without hostility, for the purpose of obtaining sovereignty over more territory.
One notable quote mentioned is that of the contemporary Ayatollah Khomeini who allegedly referred to Jihad in the following context; “...the conquest of non-Muslim territory. The domination of Koranic law from one end of the earth to the other..is the final goal...of this war of conquest.”
Another reference is also made to a further statement from he same Islamic leader, who recently died, where he describes eleven unclean things as being urine, excrement, sperm, blood, a dog, a pig, bones, a non-Muslim man and woman, wine, beer and the perspiration of the camel that eats filth. Such reference being made to explicate the mind-set behind the precepts investigated in this work which proceeds to cover nearly one and a half thousand years of European and Islamic military and political confrontation.
Italy, Sicily, Portugal, France, Spain, Austria, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Rumania, Wallachia, Albania, Moldavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Armenia, Georgia, Poland, Ukraine, eastern and southern Russia are all cited as being battlefields where Islam either conquered or was conquered.
The details surrounding some of the ensuing conflicts are at times quite graphic but this is an essential study for anyone interesting in the history of Islam and how many proponents may perceive it’s future. Highly recommended.

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Olecram

Excellent book of history

Reviewed in Canada on March 6, 2018

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History. Excellent book of history. History is shown as it was, scholarly based. The narrative flows nicely. I strongly recommend it. So many events of the past forge our world today. Islamic Jihad is one of them.

Kenneth Brown

Read to counter-balance Western media propaganda about the so called Religion of Peace

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2018

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You have got to read this! It describes the constant warring by and invasions by Islam, specifically warring against Europe. Constant for 1300/1400 years - and it's not over of course. Sometimes the author (or perhaps the translator, as it's translated from the French) seems to be a bit over the top, but read it to help counter-balance the propaganda the Western media and political establishment feeds us with all the time.

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Excellent condition. And I think I am going to ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 31, 2015

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The book arrived as expected. Excellent condition. And I think I am going to have much satisfaction when reading it. I have already read some pages and it doesn't disappoint me at all.

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