GLOBAL JIHAD
The Future in the Face of Miltant Islam
By Patrick Sookhdeo. Isaac Publishing. 670 pages. £15.99
ISBN 978-0-9787141-2-1
The politically correct view of Islam is that it is a religion of peace. This book tells a very different story, tracing the violent stream of Islam, jihad, through the centuries up to the present time. In a way, this is a somewhat frightening book, but it is a book that we should all read, carefully and prayerfully.
It’s all here: jihad in the Qur’an, jihad in the life and teaching of Muhammad, jihad and how it has operated throughout Muslim history, jihad in today’s world, jihad and the New York catastrophe. Chapter 13 deals with suicide bombers, known in the Islamic world as martyrs, not suicides. The sheer detail of the historical evidence is amazing: on page 158 we have the gruesome details of the decapitation of 700 Spaniards in 807, followed by an account of the Bulgaria decapitation of 3,000 men who had surrendered to the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid.
