Egyptian court shows contempt for the truth

 Raymond Ibraham:

According to a Nov. 19, 2021 report, "an Egyptian court sentenced an 80-year-old-intellectual earlier this week to five years in prison over his remarks on the early Islamic conquests."  Ahmed Abdu' Maher, a high-profile lawyer, expert on Islam, and author of fourteen books on Islamic history and jurisprudence, was found guilty of "contempt of Islam, stirring up sectarian strife and posing a threat to the national unity."

One of Maher's chief "crimes" is his view on the seventh- and eighth-century Arab conquests — a view based on a close and correct reading of both Muslim and non-Muslim sources: that Arabs conquerors invaded non-Muslim regions — specifically the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain — and engaged in atrocity after atrocity; that, while "spreading Islam" was the motive Islamic later historiography attributed to the Arabs, their true actions belied a lust for rape and rapine; and that they overthrew and supplanted much more advanced societies, to the region's lasting regret.

Put differently, Maher's views are identical to those presented in Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, particularly its first three chapters, which focus on the early Arab conquests....

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Some Islamists can't handle the truth.  This history of the Islamic conquest is one of brutality on a mass scale that continued for centuries.  As late as the American revolution the Islamists were engaged in kidnapping Europeans and using them for slaves.  The term slave is derived from the Slavs who were Easter Europeans captured by Islamists.  Galley slaves were chained to the oars of Islamist ships and stayed there until they died and were replaced by others.