Andrew G. Bostom

Andrew G. Bostom

Andrew G. Bostom is the author of The Legacy of Jihad (Prometheus, 2005) and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism (Prometheus, November, 2008). Dr. Bostom is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University Medical School. He is also an author on Islam as well as a regular contributor to FrontPageMag.com and the American Thinker magazine.
Andrew G. Bostom

Ataturk and Andrew McCarthy’s “The Grand Jihad”

Posted by Andrew G. Bostom Feb 9th 2012 at 5:33 am in History, Islam, Islamic extremism, Middle East, Politics, sharia | Comments(16)
Encounter Books has just released a remarkably compendious 4-minute video synopsis of Andrew McCarthy’s “The Grand Jihad”, re-issued in a paperback edition, which features captivating—and humorous—animation. embedded by Embedded Video Please also see a very insightful review of “The Grand Jihad” by Karen Lugo recently published at The American Thinker and a review I had published when [...]
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Gingrich, Gerson, and Sharia

Posted by Andrew G. Bostom Dec 31st 2011 at 2:19 pm in Islam, Islamic extremism, Politics | Comments(27)
Former President George W. Bush’s aide Michael Gerson posted a distressingly ignorant column on 12/13/11 which attacked both former speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, and my colleague Andrew C. McCarthy, for their sober, if frank conceptions of the Sharia. The counterfactual basis for Mr. Gerson’s diatribe is his own thoroughly deficient understanding of [...]
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Romney Versus Gingrich on Jihad and Sharia: A Clear Contrast

Posted by Andrew G. Bostom Nov 25th 2011 at 7:51 am in Featured Story, Homeland Security, Islam, Islamic extremism, Politics, Terrorism, sharia | Comments(80)
Early and volatile, the Republican Presidential nomination race—at least for now—appears to be settling into a contest between consistent front runner Mitt Romney and the latest surging “non-Romney alternative,” former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich. Unfortunately, the CNN/Heritage Foundation/American Enterprise televised debate of 11/22/11 did not highlight the yawning gap between these frontrunning contenders’ views on the [...]
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‘Deficient in Intelligence and Religion’: Egyptian Candidate Provides More Evidence Islam Debases Women

Posted by Andrew G. Bostom Nov 19th 2011 at 12:31 pm in Featured Story, Islamic extremism, Middle East, News, human rights, sharia | Comments(43)
The Face of Islamic Women’s Rights in Post-Mubarak, Arab Spring “Liberated” Egypt My colleague Al-Mutarjim has translated comments made this week to the London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat (via the Gazan publication Donia al-Watan) by a female candidate for the Egyptian Parliament, Muna Salah.  The Islamically-enlightened Ms. Salah maintains, …that women are deficient in intelligence and religion, and it [...]
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Liberated Libya: Al Qaeda Flag Aloft Benghazi’s Courthouse

Posted by Andrew G. Bostom Nov 2nd 2011 at 8:25 am in Foreign Policy, Islam | Comments(25)
The courthouse in Benghazi is the iconic seat of the revolt which toppled Qaddafi. It’s Libya’s “(im)moral equivalent” to Egypt’s Tahrir Square. During the tumultuous months of Libya’s brutal civil war, it was here that rebel forces established a provisional government and propagandistic media center, crowing to foreign journalists about their “heroic” struggle “for freedom.” However, [...]
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A 2006 Taqiyya Warning About Tunisia’s Leading Candidate For Prime Minister

Posted by Andrew G. Bostom Oct 27th 2011 at 10:52 am in Africa, Humanitarian, Islam, Islamic extremism, human rights | Comments(11)
Hamadi Jebali: Another North African Zabibah-stan Leader-in-Waiting? On the heels of their landslide election victory,  Tunisia’s Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Ennahda Party has just announced that Ennahda’s Secretary General and spokesperson, Hamadi Jebali (who, fittingly, sports a prominent Zabibah on his forehead, slightly left of center), will be its candidate for Prime Minister. Career US diplomat, David Ballard, [...]
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Coptic Church Construction And Egyptian Muslim ‘Emasculation’

Posted by Andrew G. Bostom Oct 15th 2011 at 3:08 pm in Africa, Islam, Islamic extremism, human rights | Comments(11)
Because it was excerpted in Bat Ye’or’s pioneering The Dhimmi, I obtained Moshe Perlmann’s (1975) complete translation of a 1739 essay on the Churches of Cairo. Written by Sheikh Damanhuri (1689-1764), a highly esteemed leader of Al Azhar University, the pinnacle of learning in Sunni Islamdom, since 973 A.D.,  the learned jurist’s tract was a [...]
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Educating Charles Krauthammer On The Copts And Egyptian Islam

Posted by Andrew G. Bostom Oct 12th 2011 at 9:16 am in Africa, Humanitarian, Islamic extremism, human rights | Comments(20)
Educating Charles Krauthammer, Part 3 (see parts 1 and 2, here and here) Tuesday evening (10/11/11) on Fox News’s Special Report “panel”, the resident journalistic eminence grise, Charles Krauthammer, attributed the murderous Muslim depredations against the Copts this past weekend to, “…the rise of Islamism throughout the region.” What would the great and wise Krauthammer say about [...]
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See No Jihad And Our Failed Pakistan Policy

Posted by Andrew G. Bostom Oct 8th 2011 at 1:06 pm in Islam, Islamic extremism | Comments(11)
Consistent with the US military’s willful blindness to the Islamic enemy doctrine of jihad, as described elegantly by Major Steven Coughlin (in his 333 pp. 2007/2008 thesis, To Our Great Detriment: Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad), security expert Praveen Swami’s illuminating essay, “God’s soldiers: Pakistan army’s ideology,” reiterates (as I discussed in 2008, here [...]
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Al Azhar Sheikh: Jihad Against The Jews A ‘Duty Incumbent Upon Each And Every One of Us’

Posted by Andrew G. Bostom Oct 7th 2011 at 7:08 pm in Islamic extremism, Middle East | Comments(41)
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA), reporting (October 2, 2011) about the 5th International Conference on the Palestinian Intifada in Tehran, described the conference as “including participation of parliamentary delegations including several speakers, leading political figures and scholars from 50 Islamic and non-Islamic countries as well as leaders of several Palestinian groups.” Sheikh Mahmoud Ashour ABNA noted with [...]
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